Helmets including spray on materials
AssigneeGalvion Ltd.
InventorsDavid Redpath, Marie-Pierre Gendron, Curtis Herman
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Abstract
Various embodiments of helmets and methods of their manufacture are disclosed. In some embodiments, the helmet includes a helmet shell having a helmet shell edge and/or a mounting location for mounting an accessory to the helmet shell. A material that is adherent to the helmet shell may be sprayed onto the helmet shell edge of the helmet shell to form a trim. Alternatively, the material may be sprayed onto a portion of the helmet shell associated with either a mounting location for mounting an accessory or a position for a mounted accessory.
Claims23
A method of manufacturing a helmet, the method comprising:
- spraying a material onto a helmet shell edge of a helmet shell to form a trim along the helmet shell edge, wherein the trim formed along the helmet shell edge covers the helmet shell edge and a portion of each of an exterior surface of the helmet shell and an interior surface of the helmet shell adjacent to the helmet shell edge, and wherein an adjacent portion of the interior surface and an adjacent portion of the exterior surface is free of the material.
A method of manufacturing a helmet, the method comprising:
- assembling an inner mask to an interior surface of a helmet shell;
- assembling an outer mask to an exterior surface of the helmet shell;
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- spraying a material onto a helmet shell edge, an unmasked portion of the interior surface, and an unmasked portion of the exterior surface of the helmet shell while the inner mask and the outer mask are assembled with the helmet shell at the same time to form a trim along the helmet shell edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.