Safe guard protective equipment for fighting art

• US 4,446,576 A
• Filed: 11/02/1981
• Issued: 05/08/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Masauki Hisataka
• Original Assignee: Masauki Hisataka
• Inventors: Hisataka, Masauki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nerbun, Peter P.
• Application Number:
  US06/317,254
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• Field of Search: 2/425, 2/424, 2/9, 2/10, 2/205, 2/412
• US Class Current: 2/425
• CPC Class Codes: A42B 3/24 with means for avoiding fogging or misting
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/105 Fencing mask
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/02 for fencing , e.g. means for indicating hits
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/10 for the head A63B71/081 takes precedence ; in the form of caps or hats A42B1/08; helmets A42B3/00

Abstract

This invention relates to a safe guard protective equipment for fighting arts which protects the face and head of fighters in various fighting arts, and is constituted from a resilient cover body formed on the front with a viewing window for securing sufficient breathing and field of view for the wearer and covering the periphery of face and the sides of head and a protective mask secured fixedly to the front of the cover body to cover the viewing window, having a spherical viewing portion and formed of transparent anti-shock synthetic resin, and characterized in that the protective mask is individually provided in the lower half and the outer periphery of the viewing portion with vent holes and ventilating windows to exhaust the breathes of the wearer to the outside.

Claims

1. Safe guard protective equipment for protecting a wearer engaged in the fighting arts comprising:

a cover body integrally formed with an upper front portion to cover the brow and a lower front portion to cover the chin of said wearer and side portions extending across the side and rear of said wearers head, said cover body being composed of a tough armored exterior member formed of shock-resistant material of relatively high hardness having bonded thereto a resilient lining member formed of relatively soft material having high foaming magnefication and high adaptability to the face and head;

a spherical shaped protective mask of transparent highly shock-resistant material having a flange shaped peripheral portion conforming to the shape of the front of said cover body and fixedly secured thereto, said protective mask providing a central viewing window and being formed with a thickened portion in the lower half having a plurality of small vent holes therethrough for passage of said wearer'"'"'s breath and with a plurality of ventilating windows positioned in the upper and lower portions of the outer periphery so as not to affect the field of view of said wearer; and

fastening means arranged at the rear ends of said cover body side portions for securing said ends about said wearers head.

2. Safe guard protective equipment as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a coating of resin paint on the entire surface of said cover body.

3. Safe guard protective equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the surface of said cover body is covered with leather.

4. Safe guard protective equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the surface of said cover body is covered with synthetic leather.

5. Safe guard protective equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said protective mask is shaped to provide a ventilating clearance between its lower central portion and the lower front portion of said cover body.

6. Safe guard protective equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said side portions of said cover body are formed with an ear window having disposed along its periphery an ear cover of cushion material.

8. Safe guard protective equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said protective mask is secured to said cover body by means of a string passing through holes in said mask and said body.

7. Safe guard protective equipment as claimed in clim 1, wherein said flange shaped peripheral portion of said protective mask is covered by a resilient cover to avoid injury to an attacker.