JP2015006240A - Throat guard - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a throat guard that enables the length of a hook belt to be rapidly adjusted with ease.SOLUTION: A throat guard is suspended from a lower end of a face protection mask for a ball game to protect a front surface of a player's throat. A pair of hook belts 3 and 3 is sewn onto an upper end edge of a guard body 1 for throat protection. Male parts 2b and 2b of a planar fastener are formed on the hook belts 3 and 3, and a female part 2a of the planar fastener is formed almost all over the back side of the guard body 1.

Description

  The present invention relates to a throat guard.

In general, in ball games such as baseball and softball, a throat guard that is used by catchers and referees hanging from the lower end of the face protection mask to avoid hitting the ball directly to the throat (See Patent Document 1).
The throat guard described in Patent Document 1 is connected to the lower end of the mask with a band, suspended so that the front surface of the throat is covered with the guard body, and when the ball hits the throat guard, it is attached to the mask and the chest. The guard body bridges between the upper end of the protector and protects the throat from the impact of the ball.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 3-37648

  However, the throat guard described in Patent Document 1 cannot adjust the band length. That is, when the band of the throat guard is connected to the lower end portion of the mask, the band is always hung at the same position, so that it cannot be used at an appropriate hung position according to the change in the user's physique or preference. Depending on the physique of the user, the suspended length of the throat guard may be too short or too long. For example, if the suspended length of the throat guard is too short, the ball hits the guard body. The upper end of the protector is not in a bridged state, and the impact of the ball is received by the throat, and there is a possibility that the user may be fatally damaged. On the other hand, if the suspend guard's suspended length is too long, the lower end of the throat guard hits the chest protector when the user crawls down during play, hindering play. was there.

  Therefore, it has been proposed that a buckle (locking bracket) is provided on the back side of the throat guard to lock the belt steplessly, but when the ball hits, the buckle is pressed against the throat by the impact of the ball There was a risk of damaging the skin, which was dangerous. Further, when replacing the mask, it is necessary to remove and replace the throat guard. However, it is troublesome to insert and lock the band through the buckle, and it takes a lot of time to attach and detach.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a throat guard that can easily and quickly adjust the length of the hooking belt.

The throat guard according to the present invention is a throat guard that is suspended at the lower end of a face mask for ball games and protects the front surface of the throat. A pair of hook belts are sewn on the upper edge of the throat protection guard body. The male part of the planar fastener is formed on the hooking belt, and the female part of the planar fastener is formed on the entire back surface of the guard body.
In addition, the guard body is formed by sequentially laminating a skin, a plate-like foam, and a back fabric having the female part on the back side, and a peripheral edge winding part is sewn on the outer peripheral edge. A hard plate piece is sewn on the surface side.

  According to the throat guard of the present invention, the length of the hook belt can be easily adjusted, the vertical distance between the lower end of the face protection mask and the throat protection guard body can be adjusted, and it can be freely adjusted to the user's physique and preference Correspondingly, the throat can be reliably protected. Detachment is very easy and can be done quickly. Moreover, even if pressed against the throat, the skin is not damaged, and safety is high. When exchanging the mask, the vertical distance between the lower end of the mask and the guard body for protecting the throat can be adjusted.

It is a front view which shows one Embodiment of this invention. It is a rear view which shows one Embodiment of this invention. It is a side view which shows one Embodiment of this invention. It is a front view which shows the use condition of this invention. It is AA sectional drawing of FIG. It is a front view which shows the other use condition of this invention. It is BB sectional drawing of FIG.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings illustrating embodiments.
As shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 6, the throat guard of the present invention is hung (hanging) in a folded shape by inserting the hook belts 3 and 3 into the lower end portion of the face protection mask M for ball games. It protects the front of the throat from balls. That is, the throat guard of the present invention is used for referees and players of sports (ball games) such as baseball and softball, and by wearing the mask M, the front side of the throat is covered and protected.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the throat guard of the present invention has a pair of hooking belts 3, 3 sewn on the upper edge of the throat protection guard body 1. The hooking belts 3 and 3 are formed with male portions 2b and 2b of a planar fastener, and a female portion 2a of the planar fastener is formed on the entire back surface of the guard body 1.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 7, the guard body 1 is formed by sequentially laminating a skin 4, a plate-like foam 6 made of PE, PU, EVA or the like, and a backing fabric 8 having a female part 2 a on the back side. The surrounding edge winding portion 9 is sewn to the outer peripheral edge portion. In other words, the skin 4, the back fabric 8, and the plate-like foam 6 sandwiched between the skin 4 and the back fabric 8 are sewn together by the edge winding 9 and the sewing thread. ing. The guard body 1 is formed in a curved shape so that the surface side is convex. The “back surface” refers to a surface facing the user's throat in a state where the mask M shown in FIG. 4 is worn, and the “representing surface” refers to the opposite surface. In the present invention, “substantially the entire surface” means all parts of the back surface of the guard body 1 except for the edge winding portion 9 on the outer peripheral edge, that is, the back fabric on the back surface side of the guard body 1. 8 is formed with a female portion 2a of a planar fastener at a portion not covered with the edge winding portion 9 (see FIG. 2).
At one end 3a of the hooking belt 3, a belt-like member 20 having a large number of male portions 2b of a surface fastener made of a J-shaped projection is sewn or bonded to the back surface. The other end 3 b of the hook belt 3 is sewn integrally with the outer skin 4, the back fabric 8, the plate-like foam 6, and the edge winding portion 9 with the same sewing thread. It is sewn firmly.

A hard plate piece 5 is sewn on the surface side of the guard body 1.
The hard plate piece 5 is formed in a dish shape, and a hard resin is used as a material. The hard plate piece 5 has a protruding protruding portion 7 formed on the surface side and a groove 15 formed along the outer peripheral edge. The concave groove portion 15 has a plurality of child holes through which a sewing thread is inserted at the bottom, and the sewing thread is sequentially inserted into the child hole so that the skin 4, the plate-like foam 6, and the back fabric 8 are integrated. Is sewn into a shape. In addition, it is preferable to comprise the hard board piece 5 with the injection-molded thermoplastic elastomer (TPE). Further, a plurality of ribs may be provided inside the ridge 7 (not shown), and according to this configuration, the impact resistance of the hard plate piece 5 can be improved.

The skin 4 is made of synthetic resin such as synthetic leather, artificial leather, polyester, and the like. Although not shown in the drawings, the skin 4 may be integrally molded by injection molding using a hard resin, TPE, or the like that is the same as the hard plate piece 5. good.
The backing fabric 8 is constituted by a pile-like fabric having a female portion 2a of a planar fastener made of loop-shaped protrusions on the entire back surface.
The plate-like foam 6 has cushioning properties and is configured to absorb and soften the impact when the ball collides with the guard body 1.

The use method (action) of the throat guard of the present invention described above will be described.
As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, if the lower end portion of the protective mask M set small vertical spacing dimension d to the upper edge of the guard main body 1, a relatively short suspension length L _1, pull The ends 3a and 3a of the hanging belts 3 and 3 are pulled to the vicinity of the lower end of the guard body 1 to engage the male portions 2b and 2b and the female portion 2a of the surface fastener.

Next, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the vertical distance dimension D from the lower end of the face protection mask M to the upper edge of the guard body 1 is made larger than the vertical distance dimension d, and the suspended length dimension is set. when changing the L ₂ (than the hanging length dimension L ₁₎ long, one end 3a of the hook belts 3,3, the 3a, removed from the back surface of the guard body 1, near the upper end of the guard main body 1 Then, the male portions 2b, 2b and the female portion 2a of the surface fastener are engaged. In this way, the length of the hook belts 3 and 3 is adjusted, and the use of the vertical distance D of an arbitrary size from the use state in which the face protection mask M and the guard body 1 are set to the minimum vertical distance d. The suspension length dimensions L ₁ and L ₂ can be changed according to the user's physique and preference. Further, the male portions 2b, 2b of the surface fastener can be attached to the female portion 2a on the back surface of the guard body 1 over almost the entire surface, the length can be adjusted steplessly, and attachment / detachment is easy.

  In the present invention, the design can be changed. For example, the male part 2b of the planar fastener is formed on the back surface of the guard body 1, and the female part 2a is formed on the one end 3a, 3a of the hooking belt 3, 3. It may be a thing (illustration omitted). The contour shape of the guard body 1 and the shape of the hard plate piece 5 can be changed in design without departing from the gist of the present invention.

  As described above, the throat guard according to the present invention is attached to the upper end edge of the throat protection guard body 1 in the throat guard that is suspended from the lower end portion of the face protection mask M for ball games and protects the front surface of the throat. A pair of hook belts 3 and 3 are sewn, and male portions 2b and 2b of the surface fastener are formed on the hook belts 3 and 3, and a female portion 2a of the surface fastener is formed on the back surface of the guard body 1. Is formed over substantially the entire surface, the length of the hook belts 3 and 3 can be easily adjusted, and the vertical distance between the lower end of the face protection mask M and the throat protection guard body 1 can be adjusted. The throat can be reliably protected according to the physique and preference. Detachment is very easy and can be done quickly. Moreover, even if the female part 2a of the planar fastener formed on the back surface of the guard body 1 is pressed against the throat, the skin is not damaged, and safety can be improved. When exchanging the mask M, the vertical distance between the lower end of the mask M and the guard body 1 can be adjusted.

  The guard body 1 is formed by sequentially laminating a skin 4, a plate-like foam 6, and a back fabric 8 having a female portion 2a (of a surface fastener) on the back side, and surrounding edges on the outer peripheral edge. Since the winding portion 9 is sewn and the hard plate piece 5 is sewn on the surface side, the male fastener of the surface fastener is formed on substantially the entire surface except the edge winding portion 9 on the back surface of the guard body 1. The part 2b can be attached to the female part 2a, and the lengths of the hook belts 3 and 3 can be adjusted steplessly and can be easily attached and detached. The hard plate piece 5 can reliably protect the throat from the impact of the ball. The cushioning property of the plate-like foam 6 can soften the impact of the ball and reliably protect the throat from the impact of the ball.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Guard body 2a Female part of planar fastener 2b Male part of planar fastener 3 Hook belt 4 Epidermis 5 Hard plate piece 6 Plate-like foam 8 Back fabric 9 Edge winding part M Face protection mask

Claims (2)

In the throat guard that is suspended at the lower end of the face protection mask (M) for ball games and protects the front of the throat,
A pair of hook belts (3) and (3) are sewn to the upper edge of the throat protection guard body (1), and a male portion (2b) (2b) of the surface fastener is attached to the hook belts (3) and (3). A throat guard characterized in that a female part (2a) of a planar fastener is formed over substantially the entire surface on the back surface of the guard body (1). The guard body (1) is formed by sequentially laminating a skin (4), a plate-like foam (6), and a back fabric (8) having the female part (2a) on the back side, and on the outer peripheral edge. The throat guard according to claim 1, wherein the surrounding edge winding portion (9) is sewn and a hard plate piece (5) is sewn on the surface side.

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