US1286854A - Trench-helmet. - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT WILLIAM E. WEBB, JR., OF LARCHMON'I MANOR, AND GEORGE L. CLOSE, OF MOUNT- VERNON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS T0 CHURCH, WEBB & CLOSE, INC., 01? NEW YORK,

N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TRENCH-HELMET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1918.

Application filed January 31, 1918. Serial No. 214,766.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. WEBB, Jr., and GEORGE L. Green, citizens of the United States, residing in Larchmont Manor and Mount Vernon, respectively, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trench-Helmets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in wearer and to be secured at the back. Any

suitable fastening means may be used, but we prefer to use tying strings, as shown in the drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the helmet;

Fig. 2 a rear view;

Fig. 3 a side elevation;

Fig. 4 a front elevation showing the helmet in use; and

Fig. 5 a rear View of the tabs in use.

Referring to the various parts by numerals, 1 designates the top or dome part of the helmet, and 2 the neck portion thereof. 3 designates the face opening, and 4 the throat protecting tabs which are formed integral with the neck portion. The helmet is made up of a rear section 5; two side sections 6, and a short front dome part 7. The rear section and side sections extend from the bottom of the neck portion to the top of the dome, and the throat protecting tabs are integral with the lower part of the side sections and extend forwardly therefrom, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 3. The helmet may be made of any suitable material; We have used successfully a warm felted fabric. Secured to the ends of the throat protecting tabs are tying strings 8; and the edges of the helmet are bound by a binding tape 9.

In use the helmet is pulled down over the head of the wearer, as indicated in Fig. 4, and the throat protecting tabs are crossed over the chin and carried around the throat,

the tying strings being secured together in the back, as shown clearly in Fig. 5. The throat tabs 4 are each formed just sufiiciently long to extend'rearwardly and only partly encircle the neck of the wearer in such an manner as to reduce to the minimum the amount and bulk of material about the neck,

thus allowing perfect freedom of movement I of the head and neck of the wearer, which is essent al to the strenuous and active life of a soldier. The helmet is formed of a sufficiently warm material, and the neck portion 2 thereof extends downwardly well over the shoulders of the wearer, so that anumber of wrappings of the tabs 4 about the neck 1s unnecessary to provide the required pro: tectlon. The tying strings 8 eliminate the necessity of tying the ends of-the tabs themselves together, which would produce alarge and uncomfortable, as well as hampering, amount of material about the neck. The tying strings further provide a fastening means which can be easily and quickly maf nipulated by the wearer, even when the connected by buttons or the like, manipulation thereof would be difficult and frequently impossible were the hands of the wearer cold or numb. When in position the helmet is securely fastened, and any superposed headgear, such as a shrapnel helmet or other hat, may be placed over the helmet, and when said outer headgear is removed the trench helmet remains securely in position. It will, of course, be understood that the throat tabs. may be longer or shorter, as desired, and that other forms of fastening means may be substituted for the tying strings; it being desirable, however, that the securing means be at the back of the helmet,

in order that they shall be out of the way of the wearer, and that there will be nothing in front liable to catch in the projecting sufficient to extend downwardly well over '80 hands are numb or cold, while were the tabs the shoulders of the wearer, forwardly extending throat protecting tabs integral with theneckportion and at the lower part of the face opening adapted to be crossed over the -chin'of the wearer and carried rearwardly the-shoulders of the wearer, forwardly extending throat-protecting tabs integral with the neck-portion and at the lower part of the face opening adapted to be crossed over the -1 chin of the wearer and carried rearwardlyaround theneck, each of said tabs being of I a length "sufficient to extend only partially around the neck so as not to overlap at the rear, and a tying stringsecured to the ex- .tremity of each of said tabs; for fastening Copies of this patent may be obtained for the ends of the tabs together at; the rear of the helmet.

3. A trench helmet formed with a face upper ed e of the face opening, forwardly extending throat protecting tabs formed integral with the lower neck portions of the sidesections said throat protecting tabs being adapted to be crossed over the chin and carried around the throat of the wearer, and means connected to the ends of said tabs adapted to be connected together at the back of the wearer.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix our signatures this 26 day of January. 1918.

WILLIAM WEBB, JR. GEORGE. L. CLOSE.

five cents. each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

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