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US 6,058,517 AGranted
Sports neck brace
OwnerByron V. Hartunianinventor
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Abstract
A sports neck brace for use by players in a contact team sport. The brace is made from foam and is adapted to being fastened about a wearer's neck thereby surrounding the wearer's neck with 360.degree. of cushioning. The brace is self-contained and has a generally inverted frustum shape with the portion contacting a wearer's helmet being angled generally upward and outward from the bottom of a wearer's helmet.
Claims5
A sports neck brace worn about a user's neck at a top neck opening of a user's shoulder pads, comprising:
- a resilient brace member having a top, a bottom, a front, a rear, two sides and a wall extending from the bottom to the top and defining a generally inverted frustum-shaped central opening, said wall having an interior surface and exterior surface, said wall terminating in two wall ends at the brace front, said front having a vertical opening defined by said two wall ends;
- a fastener attached to said wall end, each said wall end fastener adapted to engaging an opposite wall end fastener;
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- a strap fixedly attached to a first wall end front portion, said strap having a fastener attached to a strap inside surface;
- a fastener fixedly attached to a second wall end front portion and being adapted to engaging the strap inside surface fastener.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.