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US 10,702,004 B2Granted
Baseball helmet with visor
AssigneeVisor Nation Inc.
InventorsMichael Edmund Gagliardo, Christopher Mark Serritella, Marcus Bosch, Jeffrey Clayton Simonson
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Abstract
A helmet including a hard shell defining an exterior surface and an interior volume of space and including a bill. A visor including an engagement structure that is releasably attached to the bill wherein the visor does not pivot relative to the bill when engaged with the bill.
Claims14
A helmet comprising:
- a hard shell defining an exterior surface and an interior volume of space and comprising a bill;
- a support structure attached to an underside of said bill;
- a visor comprising an engagement structure that is releasably attached to said support structure, wherein said engagement structure and said support structure are configured such that when said engagement structure is relasably attached to said support structure said visor does not pivot relative to said support structure, wherein said engagement structure comprises:
- walls that define a slot into which said support structure is slidingly inserted so that said interior volume of space approaches said slot and said walls engage and hold said support structure in position;
- and
- a magnet that releasably engages said support structure;
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- wherein said support structure comprises a second magnet that releasably engages said magnet of said engagement structure.
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A helmet comprising:
- a hard shell defining an exterior surface and an interior volume of space and comprising a bill;
- a support structure attached to an underside of said bill;
- a visor comprising an engagement structure that is releasably attached to said support structure, wherein said engagement structure and said support structure are configured such that when said engagement structure is releasably attached to said support structure said visor does not pivot relative to said support structure, wherein said engagement structure comprises:
- walls that define a slot into which said support structure is slidingly inserted so that said interior volume of space approaches said slot and said walls engage and hold said support structure in position;
- and
- a magnet that releasably engages said support structure;
- and
- wherein said support structure is supported on a bottom exterior surface of said bill, said support structure comprising a first ramped surface and a second ramped surface that faces away from said first ramped surface;
- wherein said support structure defines an indentation that receives a second magnet.
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A helmet comprising:
- a hard shell defining an exterior surface and an interior volume of space and comprising a bill;
- a support structure attached to an underside of said bill;
- a visor comprising an engagement structure that is releasably attached to said support structure, wherein said engagement structure and said support structure are configured such that when said engagement structure is releasably attached to said support structure said visor does not pivot relative to said support structure, wherein said engagement structure comprises:
- walls that define a slot into which said support structure is slidingly inserted so that said interior volume of space approaches said slot and said walls engage and hold said support structure in position;
- and
- a magnet that releasably engages said support structure;
- wherein said walls of said engagement structure comprise:
- a first side wall that extends from a top of said visor toward a front portion of said bill, wherein said first side wall defines a first groove;
- a second side wall that extends from said top of said visor toward said front portion of said bill, wherein said second side wall defines a second groove that is spaced from and faces said first groove;
- wherein said support structure is supported on a bottom exterior surface of said bill, said support structure comprising a first ramped surface and a second ramped surface that faces away from said first ramped surface and wherein said first ramped surface is received by said first groove and said second ramped surface is received by said second groove.
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