CA1182252A - Face guard mount for helmets - Google Patents
Face guard mount for helmetsInfo
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- CA1182252A CA1182252A CA000398626A CA398626A CA1182252A CA 1182252 A CA1182252 A CA 1182252A CA 000398626 A CA000398626 A CA 000398626A CA 398626 A CA398626 A CA 398626A CA 1182252 A CA1182252 A CA 1182252A
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- Prior art keywords
- helmet
- face guard
- shock absorbing
- mount
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A42—HEADWEAR
- A42B—HATS; HEAD COVERINGS
- A42B3/00—Helmets; Helmet covers ; Other protective head coverings
- A42B3/04—Parts, details or accessories of helmets
- A42B3/18—Face protection devices
- A42B3/20—Face guards, e.g. for ice hockey
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
- A63B71/00—Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00
- A63B71/08—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions
- A63B71/10—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the head
Abstract
FACE GUARD MOUNT FOR HELMETS
Abstract Shock absorbing mounts (22) for the face guard (21) of a helmet (20) having a substantially rigid shell and being connected to the shell allow substantial movements of the face guard relative to the helmet shell in response to forceful blows on the face guard (21). The mount protects the head of the wearer of the helmet from severe shocks and also prevents severe deformation of the helmet shell likely to crack it. The mount (22) can be installed at all points of attachment of the face guard (21) to the helmet (20) to provide a resilient anchorage for the face guard without loss of security.
Abstract Shock absorbing mounts (22) for the face guard (21) of a helmet (20) having a substantially rigid shell and being connected to the shell allow substantial movements of the face guard relative to the helmet shell in response to forceful blows on the face guard (21). The mount protects the head of the wearer of the helmet from severe shocks and also prevents severe deformation of the helmet shell likely to crack it. The mount (22) can be installed at all points of attachment of the face guard (21) to the helmet (20) to provide a resilient anchorage for the face guard without loss of security.
Description
'--1--FACE GUARD MOUNT FOR HELMETS
sackground of The Invention ~ widelyrecognized and urgentneed forsaferathletic helmets, such as football and hockey helmets, exists at the present time and hasnot been satisfied by state of the art developments. Very serious and sometimeslife-threaten-ing injuries continue to occur in games such as football due to shocks transmi~ted direc~ly by the steel face guard to the rigid shell of the player's helmetOBrain concussion and spinal column injuries can result. Similar problems exist with hockeyhelmets, motorcyclehelmets and the like.
Furthermore, when the connections between the face guard and helmetshell are rigid, or nearly rigid, stresses on the face guard are transferred directly to the helmet shell and candeform it, sometimes permanently, and can also crack the helmet shell which again can result in an injury to the athlete wearing the helmet.
It is also possible with state of the art helme-ts for the steel face guard to separate under impact from the helmet shell to which it is anchored by relatively rigid or unyieldingmeans,and such separation createsan obviously dangerous situation.
To a very limited extent, some structures have been devised in tne prior art attempting to deal with the above deficiencies and problems,butas yetnothing even approach-ing an adequate solution has been offered.
For example,in priorU.SOPatent 3,263,236 to Humph-rey, an improved connection or mounting for the face guard of a football helmet is disclosed which lessens to some degree the stress transmitted by the guard to the helmet shell and the shock transmitted to the shell whenthe guard receives a heavy blow. In the structures disclosed in this ~' ~L~82;~
patent, however, the shock absorbing ability of the face guard mounting is derived entirely from the resiliency of the material from which the guard attaching or anchoring elernent is formed, such as a solid elastomer. There is no provision in the patented structure fo~ any substantial displacement of the face guard relative to the helmet shell when the guard received an impact blow. Consequently, the face guard mounting is not very effective in isolating the helmet shell and thehead of the wearer from severe shocks, as is accomplished quiteeffectivelywith the presentinven-tion, in accordance with its main objective.
Additional United StatesPatents to Humphrey,namely, Patents 3,139,624; 31729,74~and 4,086~6641possess a similar lack of shock absorbing capability, even though they do show improved connecting means between the face guard and helmet shell which resist separation of the guard from the shell and render it possible to raise the guard upwardly and awayfrom the face of the wearerin emergency situations.
In contrast to thedevices in the above-noted patents and in any known prior art, the present invention provides a simplified, economical, safe and higly efficient shock absorbing connector or mount between the rigid face guar~
and the rigid shell of an athletic helmet which isolates the shell and therefore the head of the wearer from severe shocks resulting from impact blows delivered to the face guardO Without loss of anchoring ability, the mount of a face guard can yield under impact to allow substantial and sufficient relative movement between the face guard and helmet shell to effectively absorb the shock. The mount is constructed from components which exhibit a controlled plunger-likemovementunder shock forceswhich inturnpermits controlled displacement of the face guard relative to the helmet shell followed by controlled return of the guard to 5~:
its normal position after th~ shock forceshave been dissi-pated and without permanentlydeforming ordamaging the hel-met shell. The components of the mount by their nature can be designed to vary the extent of face guard displacement 5 in accordance with variations in forces against the face guard.
The shock absor~ing face guard mount for helmets according to the invention possesses versatility in that it can be installed in various positions on the helmet shell to absorb shocks transmitted in different directions, such as generally horizontally or generally vertically rel~tive to the head of the wearer of the helmet.
other features and advantages of the invention will become apparent during the course of the following detailed ' 15 description.
Brief Description of the Drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of an athletic helmet face guard according to the invention.
Figure 2 is an enlarged exploded perspective view of the mount.
Figure 3 is an enlarged cross section through the mount taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1.
Figure4 is an elevational view ofa connecting strap element in a relaxed state~
Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary cross section through the mount and associated elementstaken online 5-5 of Figure 1.
Figure 6 is a similar view depicting the operation of the face guard mount under an impact force.
Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing the inYention applied to a hockey helmet.
Figure 8 is an enlarged horizontal section taken on line 8-8 of Figure 7O
Detailed Description Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like numerals designate like parts, there is shown in Figures 1 through 6 a football helmet having the customary substan-tially rigid exterior shell 20 to which the usual rigidface guard 21 is attached through the shockabsorbing mount 22 forming the main subject matter of this invention.
The shock absorbing mount 22 comprises an L-shaped anchor bracket 23 formed of molded nylon or like tough material and having a circular aperture 24 in its base web receiving an anchor screw 25 engaging through a T-nut 26, held within a grommet 27, inserted in a provided opening in the helmet shell 20, Figures 5 and 6. The other web of the anchor bracket 23 extends outwardly from the helmet shell and has a preferably rectangular aperture 28 formed therethrough adapted to receive two extension arms 29 of a strap element 30 formed of tough nylon or similar strong material. The arm extensions 29 have retainer heads 31 on their leading ends.
The shock absorbing mount further comprises a short length of cylindrical resilient tubing32/ such as polyure-thane tubing, capable ofserving as a shock absorbing spring element. At its longitudinal center, the tubing section has a transverse rectangular through opening 33 adapted to receive the extension arms 29, and through which the re-taining heads 31 can be inserted.
The mount further includes a resilient clip 34 also formed of tough nylon or equivalent material and having beveled entrance faces35 which can be cammed over the arms 29 when thelatterare in parallelcontracting relationship, the clip then engaging behind the retainer heads 31, as clearly shown in Figures 5 and 6.
~225i2 The strap element 30, when its arms 29 are drawn together intoparallelism,assumes a substantially cylindri-cal form and can embrace a rod portion3~ of theface guard 21, as shown in Figure 1. In this position, the strap element 30 becomes quite rigid and can embrace the rod por-tion 36 of the guard tightly to support it in assembled relationship with the helmet shell.
The resilient tubing element 32 is held captive in the shock absorbing mount between the outwardly projecting web of anchor bracket 23 and shoulder formations 37 which exist on the strap element 30 on opposite sides of the extension arms 29. These arms preEerably have a somewhat loose fit within the rectangular aperture 28.
When the cylindrical tubing section 32 is relaxed, Figure 5, as when there is no impact force on the face guard 21, its opposite sides are very close to or in light contact with shoulders 37 and the opposing outstanding web of bracket 23. As shown in ~igure 6, when the face guard 21 receives an impact blow indicated by the arrow 38, the tubing section 32 can yield to the required extent to ab-sorb the shock of this blow, and in some cases will assume a completelyflattened configuration against theoutstanding web of bracket 23. The arms 29 at this time will move through the aperture 28 and with the clip 34 will be dis-placed well beyond the far side of the outstanding bracketweb. In practice, the actual displacement allowed by the collapsing tubing section32 can be 3/8ths of an inch more-or-lessdepending upon the relative sizes of the components of the shock absorbing mount.
When themountmoving in thismanner with the connect-ed portion 36 of the face guard has sufficiently absorbed the shock force generated by the impact blow, its compon-ents will return automatically to their relative positions of Fig~lre 5as a result of the memory of the resilient tub-ing section.
sackground of The Invention ~ widelyrecognized and urgentneed forsaferathletic helmets, such as football and hockey helmets, exists at the present time and hasnot been satisfied by state of the art developments. Very serious and sometimeslife-threaten-ing injuries continue to occur in games such as football due to shocks transmi~ted direc~ly by the steel face guard to the rigid shell of the player's helmetOBrain concussion and spinal column injuries can result. Similar problems exist with hockeyhelmets, motorcyclehelmets and the like.
Furthermore, when the connections between the face guard and helmetshell are rigid, or nearly rigid, stresses on the face guard are transferred directly to the helmet shell and candeform it, sometimes permanently, and can also crack the helmet shell which again can result in an injury to the athlete wearing the helmet.
It is also possible with state of the art helme-ts for the steel face guard to separate under impact from the helmet shell to which it is anchored by relatively rigid or unyieldingmeans,and such separation createsan obviously dangerous situation.
To a very limited extent, some structures have been devised in tne prior art attempting to deal with the above deficiencies and problems,butas yetnothing even approach-ing an adequate solution has been offered.
For example,in priorU.SOPatent 3,263,236 to Humph-rey, an improved connection or mounting for the face guard of a football helmet is disclosed which lessens to some degree the stress transmitted by the guard to the helmet shell and the shock transmitted to the shell whenthe guard receives a heavy blow. In the structures disclosed in this ~' ~L~82;~
patent, however, the shock absorbing ability of the face guard mounting is derived entirely from the resiliency of the material from which the guard attaching or anchoring elernent is formed, such as a solid elastomer. There is no provision in the patented structure fo~ any substantial displacement of the face guard relative to the helmet shell when the guard received an impact blow. Consequently, the face guard mounting is not very effective in isolating the helmet shell and thehead of the wearer from severe shocks, as is accomplished quiteeffectivelywith the presentinven-tion, in accordance with its main objective.
Additional United StatesPatents to Humphrey,namely, Patents 3,139,624; 31729,74~and 4,086~6641possess a similar lack of shock absorbing capability, even though they do show improved connecting means between the face guard and helmet shell which resist separation of the guard from the shell and render it possible to raise the guard upwardly and awayfrom the face of the wearerin emergency situations.
In contrast to thedevices in the above-noted patents and in any known prior art, the present invention provides a simplified, economical, safe and higly efficient shock absorbing connector or mount between the rigid face guar~
and the rigid shell of an athletic helmet which isolates the shell and therefore the head of the wearer from severe shocks resulting from impact blows delivered to the face guardO Without loss of anchoring ability, the mount of a face guard can yield under impact to allow substantial and sufficient relative movement between the face guard and helmet shell to effectively absorb the shock. The mount is constructed from components which exhibit a controlled plunger-likemovementunder shock forceswhich inturnpermits controlled displacement of the face guard relative to the helmet shell followed by controlled return of the guard to 5~:
its normal position after th~ shock forceshave been dissi-pated and without permanentlydeforming ordamaging the hel-met shell. The components of the mount by their nature can be designed to vary the extent of face guard displacement 5 in accordance with variations in forces against the face guard.
The shock absor~ing face guard mount for helmets according to the invention possesses versatility in that it can be installed in various positions on the helmet shell to absorb shocks transmitted in different directions, such as generally horizontally or generally vertically rel~tive to the head of the wearer of the helmet.
other features and advantages of the invention will become apparent during the course of the following detailed ' 15 description.
Brief Description of the Drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of an athletic helmet face guard according to the invention.
Figure 2 is an enlarged exploded perspective view of the mount.
Figure 3 is an enlarged cross section through the mount taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1.
Figure4 is an elevational view ofa connecting strap element in a relaxed state~
Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary cross section through the mount and associated elementstaken online 5-5 of Figure 1.
Figure 6 is a similar view depicting the operation of the face guard mount under an impact force.
Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing the inYention applied to a hockey helmet.
Figure 8 is an enlarged horizontal section taken on line 8-8 of Figure 7O
Detailed Description Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like numerals designate like parts, there is shown in Figures 1 through 6 a football helmet having the customary substan-tially rigid exterior shell 20 to which the usual rigidface guard 21 is attached through the shockabsorbing mount 22 forming the main subject matter of this invention.
The shock absorbing mount 22 comprises an L-shaped anchor bracket 23 formed of molded nylon or like tough material and having a circular aperture 24 in its base web receiving an anchor screw 25 engaging through a T-nut 26, held within a grommet 27, inserted in a provided opening in the helmet shell 20, Figures 5 and 6. The other web of the anchor bracket 23 extends outwardly from the helmet shell and has a preferably rectangular aperture 28 formed therethrough adapted to receive two extension arms 29 of a strap element 30 formed of tough nylon or similar strong material. The arm extensions 29 have retainer heads 31 on their leading ends.
The shock absorbing mount further comprises a short length of cylindrical resilient tubing32/ such as polyure-thane tubing, capable ofserving as a shock absorbing spring element. At its longitudinal center, the tubing section has a transverse rectangular through opening 33 adapted to receive the extension arms 29, and through which the re-taining heads 31 can be inserted.
The mount further includes a resilient clip 34 also formed of tough nylon or equivalent material and having beveled entrance faces35 which can be cammed over the arms 29 when thelatterare in parallelcontracting relationship, the clip then engaging behind the retainer heads 31, as clearly shown in Figures 5 and 6.
~225i2 The strap element 30, when its arms 29 are drawn together intoparallelism,assumes a substantially cylindri-cal form and can embrace a rod portion3~ of theface guard 21, as shown in Figure 1. In this position, the strap element 30 becomes quite rigid and can embrace the rod por-tion 36 of the guard tightly to support it in assembled relationship with the helmet shell.
The resilient tubing element 32 is held captive in the shock absorbing mount between the outwardly projecting web of anchor bracket 23 and shoulder formations 37 which exist on the strap element 30 on opposite sides of the extension arms 29. These arms preEerably have a somewhat loose fit within the rectangular aperture 28.
When the cylindrical tubing section 32 is relaxed, Figure 5, as when there is no impact force on the face guard 21, its opposite sides are very close to or in light contact with shoulders 37 and the opposing outstanding web of bracket 23. As shown in ~igure 6, when the face guard 21 receives an impact blow indicated by the arrow 38, the tubing section 32 can yield to the required extent to ab-sorb the shock of this blow, and in some cases will assume a completelyflattened configuration against theoutstanding web of bracket 23. The arms 29 at this time will move through the aperture 28 and with the clip 34 will be dis-placed well beyond the far side of the outstanding bracketweb. In practice, the actual displacement allowed by the collapsing tubing section32 can be 3/8ths of an inch more-or-lessdepending upon the relative sizes of the components of the shock absorbing mount.
When themountmoving in thismanner with the connect-ed portion 36 of the face guard has sufficiently absorbed the shock force generated by the impact blow, its compon-ents will return automatically to their relative positions of Fig~lre 5as a result of the memory of the resilient tub-ing section.
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In ad~ition to forming an effective shock absorber, the mounting is entirely free of sharp edges or exposed metal parts whi~h could injure thehelmet wearer or another person. The cylindrical spring form provided by tubing section 32 is ideal from this sa~ety standpoint, although in some cases alternate spring forms might be employed, such as wavy spring elements or solid rod-type elements formed of foam elastomer.
The shockabsorbing mount 22 in additionto provid-ing for positive significant displacementof the face guardalong the longitudinal axis of arms 29 under impact forces with aplunger-type operation also allows somelateral dis-placement or floating action of the face guard relative to the helmet shell 20 across the axis of the arms 29 due to some inherent resiliency of the attaching loop element 30. Therefore, the mounting can absorb shocks in multiple directions to a significant degree. This ability prevents distorting and cracking of the rigid helmetshell resulting from face guard impact.
While the mount 22 is shown on thehelmet in Figure 1 in a certain inclined side position to accommodate the particular angle of the guard portion36, it will be appre-ciated that the mount can be installed in any required lo-cation on the helmet to resist and absorb shock forces directed along any axis. In the Figure 1 illustrationl the top mount 39 for the face guard is a conventional prior art mount In some cases, the shock absorbing mount 22 can also be used as a top mount for the face guard to absorb shocks in a vertical plane.
Anotherbenefitof the mount 22isthat in emergency situations as where an athlete may have a serious head or neck injury requiring removal of the helmet with great care, the retainer clip 34 can easily be removed so that the loop element 30canbe separated quickly fromthe bracket ~7--23D This will release the face guard 21 so that it can be rotated upwardly away from the face and toward the top of the headO
Figures 7 and 8 show the invention applied to a typical hockey helmet 40 having a face guard ~1 and side depending shell extensions 42. The guard ~1 at each side thereof can have a short vertical slo~ 43 receiving an attaching loop element 44 substantially identical to the described loop element 30 and having the arms 29, retainer heads 31 and shoulder formations 37. The same retainer clip 34and resilient tubing section32 previouslydescribed are employed and function in the same manner. The anchor bracket 23 is secured by the screw 25 and T-nut 26 to the adjacent shell extension ~2l Figure 80 The invention isapplicable to other typesof helmets includingmotorcyclehelmets. Itsnumberousadvantagesof the prior art should now be fully apparent to those skilled in the art.
The termsand expressions which havebeen employed hereinare used astermsof descriptionand notof limitation, and there isno intention,in theuseofsuch termsand expres-sions,ofexcluding anyequivalentsof the features shown and described or portions thereof butitis recognized that var-ious modi~ications are possible within the scope of the invention claimed.
In ad~ition to forming an effective shock absorber, the mounting is entirely free of sharp edges or exposed metal parts whi~h could injure thehelmet wearer or another person. The cylindrical spring form provided by tubing section 32 is ideal from this sa~ety standpoint, although in some cases alternate spring forms might be employed, such as wavy spring elements or solid rod-type elements formed of foam elastomer.
The shockabsorbing mount 22 in additionto provid-ing for positive significant displacementof the face guardalong the longitudinal axis of arms 29 under impact forces with aplunger-type operation also allows somelateral dis-placement or floating action of the face guard relative to the helmet shell 20 across the axis of the arms 29 due to some inherent resiliency of the attaching loop element 30. Therefore, the mounting can absorb shocks in multiple directions to a significant degree. This ability prevents distorting and cracking of the rigid helmetshell resulting from face guard impact.
While the mount 22 is shown on thehelmet in Figure 1 in a certain inclined side position to accommodate the particular angle of the guard portion36, it will be appre-ciated that the mount can be installed in any required lo-cation on the helmet to resist and absorb shock forces directed along any axis. In the Figure 1 illustrationl the top mount 39 for the face guard is a conventional prior art mount In some cases, the shock absorbing mount 22 can also be used as a top mount for the face guard to absorb shocks in a vertical plane.
Anotherbenefitof the mount 22isthat in emergency situations as where an athlete may have a serious head or neck injury requiring removal of the helmet with great care, the retainer clip 34 can easily be removed so that the loop element 30canbe separated quickly fromthe bracket ~7--23D This will release the face guard 21 so that it can be rotated upwardly away from the face and toward the top of the headO
Figures 7 and 8 show the invention applied to a typical hockey helmet 40 having a face guard ~1 and side depending shell extensions 42. The guard ~1 at each side thereof can have a short vertical slo~ 43 receiving an attaching loop element 44 substantially identical to the described loop element 30 and having the arms 29, retainer heads 31 and shoulder formations 37. The same retainer clip 34and resilient tubing section32 previouslydescribed are employed and function in the same manner. The anchor bracket 23 is secured by the screw 25 and T-nut 26 to the adjacent shell extension ~2l Figure 80 The invention isapplicable to other typesof helmets includingmotorcyclehelmets. Itsnumberousadvantagesof the prior art should now be fully apparent to those skilled in the art.
The termsand expressions which havebeen employed hereinare used astermsof descriptionand notof limitation, and there isno intention,in theuseofsuch termsand expres-sions,ofexcluding anyequivalentsof the features shown and described or portions thereof butitis recognized that var-ious modi~ications are possible within the scope of the invention claimed.
Claims (15)
1. In a helmet,a substantially rigid helmet shell (20), a substantially rigid face guard (21) for the helmet (20), and a yielding shock absorbing mount (22) for the face guard (21) including an anchor element (23) attached to the shell (20), a connecting element (30) attached to the face guard (21) and being engaged movably with the anchor element (23), and a resilient shock absorbing element (32) engaged between parts of the anchor (23) and connecting (30) elements and yieldingly resisting movement of the con-necting (30) element in one direction relative to the anchor element (23) in response to an impact force on the face guard (21).
2. In a helmet as defined in Claim 1, and the connecting element (30) being adapted to yield across the path of movement of the connecting element (30) with respect to the anchor element (23).
3. In a helmet as defined in Claim 1, and the anchor element (23) comprising a bracket having a wall pro-jecting outwardly from said shell (20) and said wall having an aperture (28), said connecting element (30) comprising an element having a shank portion (29) adapted to reciprocate within said aperture (28), and means (31,34) to retain the connecting element (30) engaged movably with said anchor element (23).
4. In a helmet as defined in Claim 3, and the last-named means (31,34) comprising a head (31) carried by the shank portion (29), and a clip (34) detachably engageable with the shank portion (29) between said head 131) and said wall.
5. In a helmet as defined in Claim 3, and said shock absorbing element (32) comprising a tubing section of resilient material disposed between said wall and a shoul-der (37) of the connecting element (30) across the axis of said shank (29) and having a transverse through passage (33) receiving said shank (29) movably.
6. A shock absorbing mount for a helmet face guard (21) comprising a first attaching element (23) adapted for mounting on a helmet shell (20), a second attaching element (30) adapted for mounting on a helmet face guard (21) and being movably engaged with the first attaching element (23) for plunger-like reciprocation relative thereto, and a shock absorbing resilient element (32) held between opposing sur-faces of the first 123) and second (30) attaching elements.
7. A shock absorbing mount for a helmet face guard as defined in Claim 6, and the shock absorbing resilient element (32) comprising a tube section having its longitudinal axis across the axis of movement of the second attaching element (30).
8. A shock absorbing mount for a helmet face guard as defined in Claim 7, and the first attaching element (23) including a wall portion extending outwardly of a helmet shell (20) on which the first attaching element is mounted, the second attaching element (30) having a shoulder (37) in spaced opposed relationship to said wall portion and said tube section (32) being held between said shoulder (37) and wall portion (23) and collapsing yieldingly when the shoulder (37) moves toward the wall portion (23).
9. A shock absorbing mount for a helmet face guard as defined in Claim 8, and the second attaching element (30) comprising a strap adapted to embrace a bar (36) of the face guard (21) and including extensions (29) forming a reciprocatory shank, said wall portion (23) having an opening (28) receiving said shank (29) for plunger-like movement therein, and said tube section (32) having a trans-verse through passage (33) receiving said shank (29).
10. A shock absorbing mount for a helmet face guard as defined in Claim 9, and means (31,34) connecting said shank (29) releasably with said wall portion (23).
11. A shock absorbing mount for a helmet face guard as defined in Claim 6, and the shock absorbing resilient element (32) comprising a tubing section of resilient material.
12. A shock absorbing mount for a helmet face guard as defined in Claim 11, and said tubing section (32) having a transverse through passage (33) receiving said second attaching element (30).
13. A shock absorbing mount for a helmet face guard as defined in Claim 6, and said shock absorbing resilient element (32) having a transverse through passage (33) re-ceiving said second attaching element (30).
14. In a helmet as defined in Claim 1, and said resilient shock absorbing element (32) comprising a tubing section of resilient material.
15. In a helmet as defined in Claim 1, and said resilient shock absorbing element (32) having a transverse through passage (33) receiving said connecting element (30).
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