Patent ID: 6591430
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: A42B

Abstract:
An apparatus for supporting a user's head and neck in the vertical plane while enabling user head movement in the horizontal plane with respect to the user's field of view, the apparatus having a yoke with an aperture sized to receive the user's head, the yoke resting on the user's shoulders, the yoke having a front portion extending from the user's shoulders to below the user's chest area, the front portion having a seamlessly attached rear portion extending from the user's shoulders to below the user's shoulder blades, the apparatus having a helmet vertically aligned with the yoke's aperture and adjacently spaced from the yoke's front and rear portions, comprising:a.) a first pair of elongated substantially L-shaped flanges, each said L-shaped flange mountably disposed on either side of the yoke's aperture, each said L-shaped flange having a first end adjustably secured to the yoke's front portion, each said L-shaped flange having a second end oppositely spaced from said first end, said second end adjustably secured to the yoke's rear portion; b.) a second pair of elongated substantially L-shaped flanges juxtaposition said first pair of elongated L-shaped flanges, said second pair of elongated substantially L-shaped flanges adjustably secured to either side of the helmet; c.) said second pair of elongated substantially L-shaped flanges each having an arcuate slot disposed along the longitudinal length of each said L-shaped flange; d.) at least one pair of elongated quick-release assemblies, each said elongated quick-release assembly extending through each said arcuate slot; whereby said second pair of elongated substantially L-shaped flanges arcuately rotating in relation to said first pair of elongated substantially L-shaped flanges via said quick-release assemblies enabling the user arcuate head movement in the horizontal plane with respect to the user's field of view.