US 12,478,856 B2 · Personal protection guard

Abstract

A personal protection guard having a guard portion and mounting portion. The guard portion has a hard shell and resilient inner. pad. The inner pad includes, a padding layer and an exterior facing fastening layer having a mass of fastening loops. The mounting strip has an adhesive strip layer and an engaging member having a hook layer that cooperates with the mass of fastening loops for attaching the guard portion to the mounting portion. The adhesive strip layer includes a removable release layer that when removed exposes the adhesive substance upon the adhesiver strip layer, for attaching the mounting strip to a portion of a person use of the personal protection guard. The guard portion may also include elastic mounting straps coupled to the opposite side of the shell.

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Dependent claims

A personal protection guard, comprising:

a rigid shell configured for defining a recess for receiving a protectable portion of a player;
a resilient force-absorbing pad coupled to the rigid shell and positioned within the recess of the rigid shell;
a fastening layer oppositely disposed from the rigid shell;
and
a mounting strip having a first side with an adhesive layer for adhering to the protectable portion of a player and a second side oppositely disposed from the first side having an engaging member releasably couplable to the fastening layer,
characterized in that the mounting strip is sized and shaped so that, when coupled to the fastening layer, a perimeter of the mounting strip lies in register with a perimeter of the rigid shell for detachably receiving the rigid shell by engagement of the engaging member to the fastening layer,
whereby the personal protection guard is detachably attachable to the protectable portion of the player for resisting force impacts during sports play and dislodgement during use.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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