Apparel – Guard or protector – For wearer's head
Patent
1996-07-26
1997-09-02
Neas, Michael A.
Apparel
Guard or protector
For wearer's head
2424, A42B 300
Patent
active
056618492
ABSTRACT:
A protective face guard for use with a baseball helmet to prevent facial injuries during softball activities. The face guard is made of rigid, curved bars interconnected by vertical struts to form a concave shield around a player's face. The guard has a downwardly oriented visual aperture corresponding to a clear tracking field of sight for softball players to visually track a pitched softball approaching from a low pitched ball release point. The visual aperture is bounded by a frontal portion of one bar member positioned near the player's eyebrow ridge, approximately an inch or less below the brim of the helmet, and by a frontal portion of a lower bar member positioned about three inches below that level. In conjunction with this novel bar and aperture configuration, the vertical strut members above and below the visual aperture can be located forward of the strut members that span the visual aperture, and preferably lateral to a frontal midline of the face guard.
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