US 12,329,229 B2
Helmet
Haydn Clive Everitt-Penhale, Camp's Bay (CA)
Appl. No. 18/845,187
Filed by Haydn Clive Everitt-Penhale, Camp's Bay (CA)
PCT Filed Feb. 14, 2023, PCT No. PCT/ZA2023/050009
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 9, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/173146, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 14, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 2022/02685 (ZA), filed on Mar. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0098807 A1, Mar. 27, 2025
Int. Cl. A42B 3/32 (2006.01); A42B 3/08 (2006.01)
CPC A42B 3/08 (2013.01) 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A helmet including:
a shell;
a chin guard;
a runner on the chin guard; and
a connector for pivotally securing the chin guard to the shell, the connector including:
a track that:
is sized to permit the chin guard runner to travel there along; and
is rotatably connected to the shell about an axis of rotation, such that the track is able to rotate relative to the shell through at least 120 degrees between an operative position and a stowed position;
a retainer at or near a first axial end of the track, which retainer is movable between:
an inactive condition, in which the retainer permits a runner that is located at the first axial end of the track to move towards the second axial end of the track; and
an active condition, in which the retainer prevents a runner that is located at the first axial end of the track from moving towards the second axial end of the track; and
a formation that configures the retainer from:
the inactive condition to the active condition when the track is rotated from either the operative position or the stowed position; and
the active condition to the inactive condition when the track is in the operative position or the stowed position.