Chairs and seats – Headrest – Chin support
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-06
2006-06-06
Barfield, Anthony D. (Department: 3636)
Chairs and seats
Headrest
Chin support
C297S393000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07055908
ABSTRACT:
A head support system for supporting the user's head in an at least generally upright disposition, while the user, for example, naps or sleeps or otherwise rests while traveling sitting in a seat. The head support element (1) interfaces with the underside of and, preferably, up and around the front of the chin, i.e., the mental proturberance with its central clef, and underneath the user's chin and from side-to-side of and along side the chin, i.e., the mandible body, in “face-to-face” surface engagement over a relatively large area, essentially forming a supportive cup for the chin, with a self-supporting but soft, solid block of molded, supportive material having an oblong shape with a reduced sized central portion (10) for hand grasping, with its angled, flat bottom (31) resting centrally on the central upper chest area of the user, preferably over and across the manubrium sterni area, with an anchoring strap (41) positioned, for example, around and about the back of the user's neck. The support element is at least generally “Y” shaped with a laterally enlarged base (30) when viewed from the front (FIG.2). The anchoring strap subsystem (40) includes a “break-away” string-like line (42) attached to the strap with terminal ends (42a/42b) that extend to the front loosely connected to the block and extend through and past a push-button/barrel lock (43).
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Barfield Anthony D.
Pugh C. Emmett
Pugh/Assoc., Patent & TM Attys.
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