Headband with adjustable speaker supporting means
OwnerMichael A. Schultz, Gavin McAuleyinventors
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Abstract
The headband unit includes two enlarged fabric pockets disposed to overlie and cover the ears of the person wearing the unit. Each pocket is formed between two layers of fabric and contains an audio speaker support in the form of a strip of flexible plastic secured around its edges to the layer of fabric that engages the ear of the person wearing the unit, and having therein a plurality of spaced openings or slots each of which is adapted to receive and removably support an audio speaker in any of a plurality of different positions in the associated pocket so as to be registrable selectively with the ear of the person wearing the unit.
Claims8
In a headband unit of the type disposed removably to be mounted on a person's head, and having thereon two enlarged fabric pockets disposed to register with and cover the ears of the person wearing the headband unit, and each of which pockets is formed between two layers of fabric, one of which layers is disposed to engage and cover an ear of the person wearing the headband unit, improved means for adjustably mounting audio speakers in said pockets, comprising
- a pair of flexible speaker supports each of which is mounted in a different one of said pockets, and each of which supports is secured around its marginal edges to said one layer of fabric of a respective pocket, and
- each of said supports having therethrough a plurality of elongate, spaced openings, and each of said openings being shaped to receive and removably to secure on the associated support an audio speaker with the output thereof facing an ear of the person wearing the headband unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.