Device for attached a bell, a beeper, or a signaling whistle to sport hand protector or the like

• US 6,112,330 A
• Filed: 09/25/1997
• Issued: 09/05/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Thomas Bryan
• Original Assignee: Thomas Bryan
• Inventors: Bryan, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Neas, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US08/937,731
• Time in Patent Office: 1,076 Days
• Field of Search: 2/16, 2/159, 2/160, 2/161.1, 2/161.5, 2/163, 116/137 R, 116/171, 116/DIG. 1, 472/133, 434/247, 446/26, 446/397, 446/404, 446/416, 446/204, 446/216
• US Class Current: 2/160
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 19/0031 Whistles or other warning devices

Abstract

The invention concerns a device for attaching a bell or the like to a sport hand protector or a sport glove. The device comprises a fixing part (1) which is removably or irremovably connected with a finger part (8) and on which the bell (30) or the like can be removably or irremovably mounted. The finger part (8) is removably attachable to the sport hand protector, the sport glove or the like. It is the core of the device of the present invention to provide a sportsman such as an in-line-skater with a warning device which can be easily removed from the finger or the sport hand protector so that the latter can be worn with or without said reliably fixed device and that said device can also be worn without the sport hand protector (FIG. 6A).

Claims

1. A device for attaching a sound signalling means to a sport hand protector, said device comprising a finger part which can be secured to a finger of a person wearing said sport hand protector and a fixing part on which said sound signalling means can be mounted by first mounting means, wherein said fixing part comprises a mounting base surrounding a portion of said finger part and a second mounting means for mounting the fixing part on said finger part.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said sport hand protector comprises a finger part and a remaining part excluding said finger part, and wherein said finger part comprises first connection means which can be removeably connected with corresponding second connecting means at the remaining part of said sport hand protector.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein said first mounting means comprises a threaded bolt for fixing the bottom of said sound signalling means to said fixing part.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein said fixing part comprises a circular base plate and a tubular post rectangularly extending from the center of the base plate and wherein the first mounting means comprises a plugging bolt which can be inserted through the center of said sound signalling means and clamped into said tubular post.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein said first mounting means comprises a clamp-type socket attached to a bottom side of said sound signalling means and clamping rails which are attached to an upper surface of said fixing part.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein said first mounting means comprises a clamp-type socket attached to an upper surface of said fixing part of clamping rails attached to a bottom side of said sound signalling means.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein said first mounting means comprises corresponding first and second push-button parts on a bottom side of the sound signalling means and on an upper surface of said fixing part, respectively.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein said first mounting means comprises a glue between a bottom part of said sound signalling means and an upper surface of said fixing part.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein said first mounting means comprises a rivet joint for attaching a bottom side of said sound signalling means to said fixing part.

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein said second mounting means comprises a clicking closure by means of which said mounting base of said fixing part can be clicked on said finger part of said hand protector.

11. The device according to claim 10, wherein said clicking closure is formed by corresponding push-button parts.

12. The device according to claim 10, wherein said clicking closure comprises a hub mounted to said finger part and an open bore in said mounting base of said fixing part, having an outer flexible end portion, said bore and outer flexible end portion of said mounting base are adapted to the dimension of said hub so that the mounting base can be clicked on said hub, and wherein said hub is fixed by means of a plastic part and a screw to a lower part surrounding the forefinger of a person wearing said hand protector, said lower part which surrounds said finger can individually be adapted to the dimension of said finger in that a further part is stitched on said lower part and is provided with an adjustable buckle.

13. The device according to claim 1, wherein said mounting base is formed by separated wall sections of an open flexible tube, and said second mounting means is formed by at least one rivet joint passing through said mounting base of said fixing part and through said finger part.

14. The device according to claim 1, wherein said mounting base if formed by separated wall sections of an open flexible tube, and said finger part comprises one of slits and indentations in parallel to one another, the width of said slits or indentations being adapted to the width of ends of the wall sections of said open flexible tube and the distance of said slits or indentations is corresponding to the distance between said ends of said wall sections of said open flexible tube, so that these ends of the mounting base can be inserted through said slits or indentations of said finger part and stitched in this position by stitching seams forming said second mounting means.

15. The device according to claim 2, wherein said first and second connection means comprises a zipper provided between said finger part and the remaining part of said sport hand protector and wherein a part of fabric is attached to the interior of the remaining part of the sport hand protector, said part of fabric serving for covering said zipper and can be folded over the zipper portion at the remaining part of said sport hand protector and can be fixed to the outside of said sport hand protector by means of push-buttons when said finger part is not connected.

16. The device according to claim 2, wherein said first and second connection means comprises corresponding push-button portions at the remaining part of said hand protector and at said finger part.

17. The device according to claim 2, wherein said first and second connection means comprises corresponding hook and loop fastening means parts at the remaining part of said hand protector and at said finger part.