Detachable illuminating costume accessory
AssigneeRubies II, LLC
InventorBrian Kubasco
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Abstract
A detachable illuminating accessory for use in a mask or costume, and the associated mask or costume, in which the detachable illuminating accessory includes a top housing and a base housing, defining a cavity therebetween for one or more lighting elements and power elements providing to the lighting elements whereby the base housing includes a reversible attachment element for securing and releasing the accessory to a mask or costume, the top housing and the base housing reversibly contacting together to permit selective electrical connection between the one or more lighting elements and the one or more power elements and to provide activation of the one or more lighting elements or deactivation.
Claims18
A detachable illuminating accessory for use in a face mask or costume, the detachable illuminating accessory comprising:
- a top housing;
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- a base housing including a reversible attachment element for selective securing the same to said face mask or costume, said base housing mating with said top housing to define a container for one or more lighting elements and one or more power elements;
- said detachable illuminating accessory further comprising a selective switching mechanism for providing and removing electrical connection between said one or more lighting elements and said one or more power elements,
- wherein said selective switching mechanism comprises said top housing being screw threaded to said base housing to reversibly contact the top housing with the base housing at a point sufficient to permit connection between the one or more lighting elements and the one or more power elements and activation of the one or more lighting elements, and a spring configured to connect the one or more lighting elements and the one or more power elements.
A mask comprising:
- one or more reversible attachment receiving elements allowing for securing to and removal from said mask of one or more detachable illuminating accessories, wherein the detachable illuminating accessory comprises:
- a top housing;
- a base housing which, with said top housing, defines a cavity for one or more lighting elements and one or more power elements, said detachable illuminating accessory further comprising a reversible attachment element for securing the same and allowing removal of said detachable illuminating accessory from said mask in cooperation with said one or more reversible attachment receiving elements of said mask;
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- a spring configured to selectively electrically connect the one or more lighting elements and the one or more power elements when said top housing is at a point sufficient to permit electrical connection between the one or more lighting elements,
- wherein the top housing is configured to reversibly contact the base housing at a point sufficient to permit connection between the one or more lighting elements and the one or more power elements and activation of the one or more lighting elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.