Safety helmet
AssigneeHeadlok Pty Ltd
InventorsLisa Jane Cotton, Mark Matthews-Frederick, Davis Tolley, Mamoru Tanida, Graeme Marshall
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Abstract
A safety helmet includes a wearable helmet body for protecting a wearer's head and an adjustable strap for securing the helmet body to the wearer's head. The helmet further includes a locking arrangement integrated with the helmet body and a locking member including a tether which is extendible and retractable with respect to the locking arrangement, the locking arrangement configured to selectively lock the tether in a closed configuration allowing secure tethering of the safety helmet to an external fixture and the locking arrangement further including a reel around which the tether is wound and unwound during retraction or extension of the tether.
Claims20
A safety helmet comprising:
- a helmet body configured for protecting a wearer's head, the helmet body comprising an outer shell overlying an impact-absorbing material;
- an adjustable strap for securing the helmet body to the wearer's head;
- a locking arrangement integrated with the helmet body and a locking member, the locking member comprising a tether which is extendible and retractable with respect to the locking arrangement, the locking arrangement configured to selectively lock the tether in a closed configuration allowing secure tethering of the safety helmet to an external fixture, and the locking arrangement further including a reel around which the tether is configured to be wound and unwound during retraction or extension of the tether;
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- a self-winding mechanism configured to rotate the reel in a winding direction to induce retraction of the tether;
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- a lock casing containing the locking arrangement within a cavity of the helmet body, the lock casing having an exterior surface that is flush with the outer shell and forms a portion of a rearwardly-facing exterior surface of the safety helmet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.