Cervical/occipital support
OwnerCharles Pujals, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A support is provided for a user's head and neck which provides varying degrees of support depending on the combination of support members utilized. A posterior shell which supports the occiput can be combined with either ear protectors or an anterior shell, or both and an overlying posterior shell can be utilized to provide increased support. A single posterior shell could include all support features such as the ear protectors formed as an integral port thereof. The anterior shell can have molded contours to increase its rigidity and jaw engaging side walls to reduce lateral movement.
Claims22
A head and neck support comprising a semi-rigid preformed U-shaped anterior chin supporting shell fabricated of a resilient material, said shell having a chin support area with a front opening, a lower front edge engagable against the user's chest and preformed vertical and semi-circular contours to enhance the rigidity of the shell, said vertical contour extends upwardly from a central portion of said chest engaging front edge, and said semi-circular curved contour curves upwardly from opposing lateral sides of said chest engaging front edge.
A cervical and occipital support for use in supporting a user's head and neck, comprising:
- a semi-rigid preformed U-shaped posterior shell fabricated of a solid, resilient material, contoured to fit the occipital bone area of the skull vertically and posterolaterally between attachment locations of the ears, and the neck posterolaterally at least to the base of the neck;
- a semi-rigid preformed U-shaped anterior chin supporting shell fabricated of a resilient material;
- said anterior shell having a chin support area with a front opening, a lower front edge engageable against the user's chest and preformed vertical and semi-circular contours to enhance the rigidity of the shell;
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- a retaining means selectively attachable to said shells to retain said shells against the head and neck of said user.
A head and neck support comprising a first semi-rigid preformed U-shaped shell fabricated of a resilient material contoured to overlie the occipital bone, lower parietal bone and a major part of the temporal bone including the zygoma vertically and posterolaterally and the neck posterolaterally at least to the base of the neck having an integrally formed forward upper edge which extends anterior of and superior to a user's ears and including an adequate opening with generous clearance to allow emergence of the user's ears, borders of said opening having enough material to sufficiently pad for support the engaged areas of the skull thereby limiting lateral bending and rotation of the head and neck as well as flexion and extension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.