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US 2018/0000185 A1Published application
Protective Headgear
AssigneeHarvest Moon Inventions, LLC
InventorsMynor J. Castro, Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Ira Harold Dorfman
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Abstract
A protective device for a head of an individual person. The protective device forms a cap that includes a flexible headpiece and a segmented outer protective shell disposed about the flexible headpiece for distributing an impact load. The device covers and protects the front, top, sides and back of the head from impact injuries and rebound effects of high speed objects as seen for example, a baseball or softball moving at a speed of up to about 125 mph.
Claims21
1-61. (canceled)
A protective cap comprising:
- a deformable headpiece of energy-absorbing, compression set resistant material defining an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface being concave with a variable radius of curvature to define a crown profile and hat size;
- a protective shell disposed about the outer surface of the headpiece, the shell including a plurality of panels, each of the plurality of panels having a durometer hardness greater than that of the headpiece energy absorbing material;
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- an outer baseball-style cap housing the headpiece and the outer protective shell.
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A protective cap comprising:
- a headpiece of energy-absorbing foam material defining a base, an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface being concave with a variable radius of curvature to define a crown profile, the base circumscribing the crown profile to define an expandable circumference covering a plurality of hat sizes;
- a protective shell disposed about the outer surface of the headpiece for distributing the impact load, the shell including a plurality of panels, each of the plurality of panels having a durometer hardness greater than that of the headpiece energy absorbing material;
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- wherein the headpiece and protective shell are configured for housing in an outer baseball-style cap defining a hat size to house the headpiece and the outer protective shell over the plurality of hat sizes of the headpiece.
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A protective cap comprising:
- an outer baseball-style cap;
- an inner headpiece of deformable, energy-absorbing material defining a crown profile and a base circumscribed about the crown profile;
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- a protective shell disposed between the outer baseball-style cap and the inner headpiece to distribute energy over the inner headpiece, the shell including a plurality of panels having a durometer hardness greater than that of the headpiece energy absorbing material, the plurality of panels being joined to one another such that the plurality of panels move with respect to one another.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.