WO2005025350A1

WO2005025350A1 - Self-adhesive sweatband with gutter

Info

Publication number: WO2005025350A1
Application number: PCT/DK2004/000593
Authority: WO
Inventors: Johny Peter Ekwall Lauritzen
Original assignee: Johny Peter Ekwall Lauritzen
Priority date: 2003-09-12
Filing date: 2004-09-10
Publication date: 2005-03-24
Also published as: DK175728B1

Abstract

The self-adhesive sweatband prevents perspiration from head and forehead to run into the eyes, a problem that is quite inconvenient and gives visual disturbances and reduces active sports performances and work carried out at high temperatures or air humidity. What is new about the invention is that the self-adhesive sweatband is glued directly tot he forehead with medical double-coated tape and its gutter trough collecting perspiration and is able to drain lots of perspiration away from the eyes down at the temples in front of the ears. The self-adhesive sweatband has no neck strap, is equipped only with easily accessible medical double-coated adhesive tape to stick onto the skin. The self-adhesive sweatband can be used in all sports and in all work situations where perspiration may run into the eyes. Special sports like running, cycling and rowing where it is not possible to use your hands to remove perspiration from head and forehead. The self-adhesive sweatband is of transparent material and ultraviolet radiation can pass through. The sweatband is cheap and can be cut shorter or narrower as required. The sweatband is disposable after use.

Description

Self-adhesive sweatband with gutter The invention fulfils the preliminary part of requirement no. 1 (sweat band with a drain and two ends) directing the perspiration away from the face and eyes. The perspiration is led away from the head and forehead.

The self-adhesive sweatband directs the perspiration to the sides, away from the eyes by means of a thin plastic strip with a gutter. The sweatband is stuck to the forehead above the eyebrows using the medical double-coated adhesive tape on the inside of the sweatband.

The self-adhesive sweatband can be produced as a one-size band fitting all; can be fitted by using scissors, shorting or narrowing it as required, and can be produced in one operational process, is cheap and disposable after use. There are other products that absorb perspiration from your forehead. But no other products can guarantee no perspiration in the eyes - they all attempt to minimize this unpleasantn- • -s by absorbing or by combining absorption and diversion of perspiration.

Traditional sweatbands are made of cotton or synthetic fabrics having the inconvenience of becoming unpleasantly warm, heavy and being unable to absorb or drain perspiration irin from physical activities.

The available technique described in the US official publication no. 2001/0047536 is the product that comes nearest to this invention. The patent describes a sweatband with a perspiration collector lip made of plastic. The sweatband is equipped with a gutter in front and two ends going round the head and fastened by velcro. In this way the perspiration from the forehead is lead into the gutter and away from the eyes so the eyes are protected from perspiration.

The US patent No. 6108818 describes a sweatband that is glued to the forehead. By using this sweatband, ventilation to the neck is better and the hair in the neck is not flattened.

Referring to US patent Nos. 6,205,590, 5,926,848, 5,745,921, No. 5,692,380, 5,423,091, and 5,146,630, /0041365A1. The latter from March 2003 describes a sweatband made of neopren and which is very complicated to make. It directs perspiration through draining means behind the ears and is fastened with a neck strap.

The self-adhesive sweatband is quite simple to make and has no neck strap or other kinds of fasteners but is stuck directly to the forehead with medical double-coated adhesive tape which is a good sealing and is preventing the perspiration to run between the sweatband and skin. Medical tape is also used to another Danish invention ("Air Plus", US patent No. 6,029,658) a plastic brace glued to the nose bridge to widen the nostrils which improves absorption of oxygen and has been used by athletics e.g. at the Olympics.

Medical double-coated adhesive tape is harmless and different kinds of tape exist suitable for different skin types and can be bought without a prescription. Medical double-coated adhesive tape is better fastened to the forehead than to the nose that produces more fat.

Having washed or dried off the forehead and removed the protective strip, the self-adhesive sweatband can be stuck to the forehead. It is recommendable to stick on the sweatband in front of a mirror as it is difficult to change the position of the sweatband having stuck it onto the forehead if it is placed awry, too high or too low.

What is new about the invention is the characteristic part of requirement No. 1 (that the inside of the sweatband is equipped with a double-coated adhesive tape with a protective strip).

The self-adhesive sweatband can be produced as a one-size sweatband fitting all; can be fitted by using scissors, shorting or narrowing it as required and can be made of a thin transparent plastic material through which ultraviolet radiation can pass.

The special about the invention, the self-adhesive sweatband, is that the sweatband is not fastened with a neck strap or other means but is fastened directly on the forehead by means of medical double-coated adhesive tape which results in a good sealing preventing the perspiration to run down between the forehead and the skin. The self-adhesive sweatband directs the perspiration from the head and forehead by means of gravitation, down into the gutter that is placed at the top of the self-adhesive sweatband and the perspiration runs out at the temples in front of the ears.

After sports activities or work, the cheap self-adhesive sweatband is thrown away. No other invention of sweatbands is capable of draining perspiration away from the eyes and face which arises during hard physical sports activities.

Medical double-coated adhesive tape is easily accessible and is used in other products, e.g. the nose brace mentioned above.

Fig. 1 shows the position and function of the self-adhesive sweatband. Fig. 2 shows the built-up of the sweatband, a cross-sectional view. Fig. 1 shows how the self-adhesive sweatband is glued to the forehead over the eyebrows, horizontally, with a slight downward position of the band on each side of the head ending between the eyes and ears where the perspiration runs out.

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the self-adhesive sweatband (1) made of plastic material with a gutter collecting the perspiration (3) at the top of the sweatband (1) which drains perspiration away from head and forehead, away from the eyes and face by means of gravitation and runs out at the temples in front of the ears. The self-adhesive sweatband is equipped with medical double-coated adhesive tape (2) fastened on the inside of the sweatband. The protection strip (4) is removed immediately before use.

Claims

Claim Sweatband (1) with a gutter (3) and two ends characterized by the double-coated adhesive tape (2) on the inside of the sweatband (1) which probably has a protective strip (4). sweatband (1) according to requirement no. 1 characterized by the transparent material.