Protective headband
OwnerPaula L. Kellyinventor
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Abstract
A headband sized to wrap around a user's forehead and extend past the user's ears to prevent the dripping of hair treatments into a user's face and eyes. The headband includes a base band, a resilient seal band extending upwardly and inwardly from the base band, and a channel extending therebetween along the base band such that conditioner dripping down toward the user's forehead will flow across the seal band and into the channel whereupon the liquid will exit the channel behind the user's ears.
Claims21
A protective headband adapted to be placed over a user's forehead to prevent dripping of liquid hair treatments from the user's hair into the user's eyes, the headband comprising:
- a semi-rigid, resilient base band formed having a forward generally semi-circular portion for positioning around the user's forehead and two legs extending rearwardly and inwardly therefrom from opposite sides thereof,
- the legs terminating in independent free ends for resiliently opening and positioning against the user's head above and behind the user's ears;
- a sealing band extending along said forward portion of said base band for positioning around the user's forehead therewith,
- the sealing band having a generally semi-circular inwardly facing first sealing surface portion positioned inwardly of said base band and adapted to seal against the user's forehead;
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- an upwardly opening channel extending along the base band outwardly of said first sealing surface portion,
- the channel having independent open terminating ends associated with the ends of the base band for positioning behind the user's ears therewith such that drippage from the user's hair will travel over said sealing surface portion down the sealing band and into the channel for discharging from the open ends of the channel behind the user's ears.
A protective headband adapted to be placed over a user's forehead to prevent dripping of liquid hair treatments from the user's hair into the user's eyes, the headband comprising:
- a molded plastic, generally horseshoe shaped base band defined by a forward generally semi-circular portion and two legs extending rearwardly and inwardly therefrom,
- the legs having independent terminating free ends for resiliently opening and positioning of the forward portion around the user's forehead and the terminating free ends against the user's head above and behind the user's ears,
- a molded rubber sealing band connected along the base band for positioning around the user's forehead therewith,
- the sealing band extending inwardly from the base band and terminating therein in an inwardly facing sealing surface portion adapted to seal against the user's forehead;
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- an upwardly opening channel (i) integrally molded in one of the base band and the sealing band and (ii) extending along the arc-length of base band outwardly of said sealing surface portion,
- the channel having open ends associated with the terminating free ends of the base band such that drippage from the user's hair will travel over said sealing surface portion down the sealing band and into the channel for discharging from the open ends of the channel behind the user's ears.
A protective headband adapted to be placed over a user's forehead to prevent dripping of liquid hair treatments from the user's hair into the user's eyes, the headband comprising:
- a semi-rigid, resilient base band formed having a forward generally semi-circular portion for positioning around the user's forehead and two legs extending rearwardly and inwardly therefrom from opposite sides thereof,
- the legs terminating in independent free ends for resiliently opening and positioning against the user's head above and behind the user's ears;
- a soft, resilient sealing band extending along said base band for positioning around the user's forehead therewith,
- the sealing band having (i) an upper sealing surface portion extending inwardly of said base band and adapted to seal against the user's forehead, and (ii) a lower surface portion extending inwardly of said base band for resting against the user's forehead;
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- an upwardly opening channel extending along the base band outwardly of the sealing surface portion of said sealing band,
- said channel having independent open terminating ends associated with the ends of the base band such that drippage from the user's hair will travel over said sealing surface portion down the sealing band and into the channel for discharging from the open ends of the channel behind the user's ears.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.