Helmet rigid flashlight bracket

A method of using a helmet rigid flashlight bracket being replaceably and securingly attachable to a portion of a brim of a helmet being wearable by a user and replaceably and securingly receiving a flashlight of a variety of different flashlights each of which having a handle portion and a light emitting portion emitting a light beam pointing substantially at eye level in the forward direction of the user, comprising the step of:

• a) loosening a threaded set screw of an elongated, slightly arcuate-shaped, and narrow portion of an elongated and substantially L-shaped forwardmost retainer of said helmet rigid flashlight bracket and a threaded set screw of an elongated, slightly arcuate-shaped, and narrow portion of an elongated and substantially L-shaped rearwardmost retainer;
• b) placing the handle portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights in a flashlight receptacle chamber of said helmet rigid flashlight bracket with the light emitting portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights facing towards said elongated wide portion of said elongated and substantially L-shaped forwardmost retainer;
• c) tightening said threaded set screw of said elongated, slightly arcuate-shaped, and narrow portion of said elongated and substantially L-shaped forwardmost retainer and said threaded set screw of said elongated, slightly arcuate-shaped, and narrow portion of said elongated and substantially L-shaped rearwardmost retainer, so that the handle portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights is replaceably secured in said flashlight receptacle chamber;
• d) orientating said helmet rigid flashlight bracket with the light emitting portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights facing forward;
• e) positioning replaceably said helmet rigid flashlight bracket on the portion of the helmet with a substantially C-shaped channel of face plate clamping means of said helmet rigid flashlight bracket replaceably receiving the portion of the brim of the helmet;
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• f) tightening a pair of thumbscrews of said face plate clamping means until said helmet rigid flashlight bracket is replaceably secured to the portion of the brim of the helmet.

A method of maintaining a light beam emitting by a light emitting portion of a flashlight of a variety of different flashlights facing forward with the light beam emitting from the light emitting portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights being substantially parallel to a portion of a brim of a helmet on which a handle portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights being mounted, comprising the step of attaching the handle portion of the flashlight to the portion of the brim of the helmet by a helmet rigid flashlight bracket which comprises:

• a) a face plate having a lower portion, wherein said face plate has a flat and thin and generally rectangular-shaped upper portion with flat interior surface that has a longitudinal center a flat exterior surface that is substantially parallel to said flat interior surface of said flat, thin and generally rectangular-shaped upper portion of said face plate, a straight top edge with ends, an imaginary bottom line that has ends and is disposed below, and substantially parallel to, said straight top edge of said flat, thin and generally rectangular-shaped upper portion of said face plate, and a pair of opposing, substantially parallel, and straight long sides that extend from said ends of said straight top edge of said flat, thin and generally rectangular-shaped upper portion of said face plate to said ends of said imaginary bottom line of said flat, thin and generally rectangular-shaped upper portion of said face plate;
• b) flashlight maintaining means being disposed on said face plate for replaceably and securingly maintaining the handle portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights to said face plate;
• c) a substantially C-shaped channel being disposed on said lower portion of said face plate in an orientation so as to be parallel to the light beam emitting from the light emitting portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights;
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• d) face plate clamping means associated with said substantially C-shaped channel for replaceably and securingly clamping said face plate to the portion of the brim of the helmet, so that the light beam emitting from the light emitting portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights points substantially at eye level in the forward direction of the user;
• b) flashlight maintaining means being disposed on said face plate for replaceably and securingly maintaining the handle portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights to said face plate;
• c) a substantially C-shaped channel being disposed on said lower portion of said face plate in an orientation so as to be parallel to the light beam emitting from the light emitting portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights;
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• d) face plate clamping means associated with said substantially C-shaped channel for replaceably and securingly clamping said face plate to the portion of the brim of the helmet, so that the light beam emitting from the light emitting portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights points substantially at eye level in the forward direction of the user.