Patent ID: 8266724
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: A42B

Abstract:
1. For a firefighter or for an industrial, chemical, or emergency rescue worker, a helmet having a crown and having a brim projecting forwardly from the crown, the helmet being equipped with an eye shield, which is pivotably mounted to the helmet forward of the crown so as to be manually pivoted about an axis forward of the crown between a storage position extending along and under the brim and a usage position extending downwardly so as to shield at least one of the eyes of a wearer, the eye shield being equipped with a face-conformable gasket, which is disposed along an outer edge of the eye shield and which is adapted to conform to the face of a wearer when the eye shield, so mounted, is moved into the usage position wherein the face-conformable gasket has a grooved channel, into which the outer edge of the eye shield fits.