Apparel – Guard or protector – For wearer's head
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-20
2001-07-24
Neas, Michael A. (Department: 3741)
Apparel
Guard or protector
For wearer's head
C002S414000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06263515
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a child play safe hat and more particularly pertains to a new protective headwear for a child for preventing head injuries to babies and toddlers.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a child play safe hat is known in the prior art. More specifically, a child play safe hat heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior are includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,581,773; 5,657,492; 3,696,441; 5,081,717; 3,366,971; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 369,014.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new protective headwear for a child. The inventive device includes a frame including an adjustable and padded band, a visor extending from a front of the band, and four arcuate cover support members each having a pair of ends which are detachably attachable to the band intermediate portions of each of the arcuate cover support members are coupled together; and also includes a cover having a tail-like portion extending downwardly from a back thereof and being padded to protect the back of a child's neck and being securely fitted over and about the frame; and further includes a plurality of hook and loop fasteners being securely attached to the ends of the arcuate cover support members and to the band. As an option, a chin strap having ends with hook and loop fasteners securely attached thereof is detachably attached to the band.
In these respects, the protective headwear for a child according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of preventing head injuries to babies and toddlers.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of child play safe hat now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new protective headwear for a child construction wherein the same can be utilized for preventing head injuries to babies and toddlers.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new protective headwear for a child which has many of the advantages of the child play safe hat mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new protective headwear for a child which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art child play safe hat, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a frame including an adjustable and padded band, a visor extending from a front of the band, and four arcuate cover support members each having a pair of ends which are detachably attachable to the band intermediate portions of each of the arcuate cover support members are coupled together; and also includes a cover having a tail-like portion extending downwardly from a back thereof and being padded to protect the back of a child's neck and being securely fitted over and about the frame; and further includes a plurality of hook and loop fasteners being securely attached to the ends of the arcuate cover support members and to the band. As an option, a chin strap having ends with hook and loop fasteners securely attached thereof is detachably attached to the band.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new protective headwear for a child which has many of the advantages of the child play safe hat mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new protective headwear for a child which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art child play safe hat, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new protective headwear for a child which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new protective headwear for a child which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new protective headwear for a child which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such protective headwear for a child economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new protective headwear for a child which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new protective headwear for a child for preventing head injuries to babies and toddlers.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new protective headwear for a child which includes a frame including an adjustable and padded band, a visor extending from a front of the band, and four arcuate cover support members each having a pair of ends which are detachably attachable to the band intermediate portions of each of the arcuate cover support members are coupled together; and also includes a cover having a tail-like portion extending downwardly from a back thereof and being padded to protect the back of a child's neck and being securely fitted over and about the frame; and further includes a plurality of hook and loop fasteners being securely attached to the ends of the arcuate cover support members and to the band. As an option, a chin strap having ends with hook and loop fasteners securely attached thereof is detachably attached to the band.
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Turner Arnold R.
Turner Donna G.
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