Patent ID: 8176575
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: A42B

Abstract:
1. A shield for a helmet having a rigid body with a chin portion, a forehead portion, and a window opening vertically between the chin portion and the forehead portion, the shield comprising: a shield structure movable over the window opening into and out of a closed position in which the shield structure reaches vertically from the chin portion of the helmet body to the forehead portion; the shield structure having a transparent portion for a wearer to view outwardly through the window opening, the transparent portion having an inner surface; the shield structure also having a horizontal edge which, when the shield structure is in the closed position, defines an upper boundary of an air flow path reaching inward past the horizontal edge; and the shield structure further having an air deflector projecting vertically past the horizontal edge at a location spaced inward from the horizontal edge to deflect air from the air flow path upward across the inner surface of the transparent portion.