Protective helmet assembly with segmental outer shell
AssigneeGentex Corporation
InventorsLeonard P. Frieder, Jr., Jackson A. Aileo
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Abstract
A protective helmet assembly includes a flexible inner helmet designed to fit relatively closely over a wearer's head and fitted with one or more impact-absorbing pads, and a hard rigid ballistic outer shell comprising a frontal portion releasably secured over the forehead area of the inner helmet and a rear portion releasably secured over the crown-to-nape area of the inner helmet, and in which assembly the inner helmet is provided with a pad of relatively flexible ballistic material in the forehead region thereof below the frontal portion of the outer shell.
Claims13
A protective helmet assembly including in combination, a flexible inner helmet adapted to fit relatively closely over the head of a wearer, respective discrete front and rear rigid outer shell members, said front member adapted to cover the forehead region of the wearer's head, said rear member adapted to cover the wearer's head from the forehead region rearwardly over the crown and toward the nape of the wearer's neck, means for securing said rear member to said inner helmet over the portion thereof corresponding to the head region adapted to be covered by said rear member, and means for manually detachably securing said front shell member to the forehead portion of the inner helmet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.