Apparel – Guard or protector – For wearer's head
Patent
1999-10-15
2000-12-26
Neas, Michael A.
Apparel
Guard or protector
For wearer's head
2421, 2425, 2468, A42B 304
Patent
active
061638919
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a protection for a player on skates, especially meant to shield the player's neck against wounds caused by the skate blade.
Typically, players on skates use numerous protections of various kinds to shield themselves against the tumults of play, playing gear, hits of the stick and kicks of the skate. Mainly, the protections are shock absorbing pads and hard shields. The main users are ice hockey players, bandy players and ringette players. Most of the protections used today are regulated to be as obligatory in official or so called league matches, as a condition for player's insurance.
Known as shields protecting the player's throat are the goal-keeper's safety mask, if it covers the throat area, further known is a separate pendent shield that protects the goal-keeper's neck hanging loose from the helmet, the safety mask or the throat, for instance, so that it places itself on the neck area. The players are known to have a neck protection, typically like a raised ring-shaped collar. Typically, this is a ring with self-adhesive fastening and made stiff enough in order to retain its posture and stay in place.
Hard shield type protections cannot be positioned to remain in place in every situation in order to protect the throat and, at the same time, allow free motion of the head. The above described ring collar cannot be very high either, it would disturb the head motions too much. Therefore, a part of the throat would be unprotected. As to their design, none of the presented protections is made to protect in the best possible way the player against wounds caused by a sharp skate blade. The above protections are also designed to absorb shocks from playing gear, i.e. sticks and discs.
By means of the neck protection as per this invention the present shortcoming of the neck portion protection is eliminated and the invention is characterized in what is described hereafter.
The advantage of the invention is the woven flexible fabric made of cut-resistant fibre or metal wire used as material in the protection against cuts of the skin by a skate blade, thus avoiding serious injuries in possible tumbling situations, when another player skates over the one on the ice. The protection falls over the whole neck area, because the fabric settles easily down in all situations, the protection allows free turning of the head as well as all neck motions. The protection material does not cause any rash and due to the mesh fabric the protection is more airy than known neck protections made of cloth with filling, and the protection is user friendly, since it is fastened to the helmet or safety mask in a way that makes it easy to put it on about the neck and to take it off the neck.
In the following the invention is disclosed with reference to the enclosed drawing, where
FIG. 1 is a helmet with a protection as per the invention fastened to it.
FIG. 2 is a fastener.
FIG. 3 is a protection as per FIG. 1 viewed from above.
FIGS. 4 and 5 show an alternative protection.
FIG. 1 shows a neck protection as per the invention fixed to the helmet of a player on skates. By means of several fasteners 3 the armour is suspended from the lower helmet edge to settle down fully around the neck. Most suitably the helmet has holes through which, for instance, fasteners 3 as per FIG. 2 are passed, as well as through protection 5, then folded and secured with the press-studs in the fastening means, for instance.
By the player's ear there is a loop (2) in the helmet, which is also used as fixing point for that portion. In the example in FIG. 1 the helmet has a chinstrap 4 which, known as such, can be opened. The armour is suspended from the chinstrap still with fastening means 3. Thus the armour can be suspended from the helmet in the example as a protection fully covering the neck.
The protection has a joint 8 so that the protection can be opened in order to put it on and take it off the neck along with the helmet. The joint has a sufficient number of quick-release fasteners 3, which can be opened and closed like the chinstrap
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