Patent ID: 6611963
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: A61F,H04R

Abstract:
A banded earmuff which includes a band for extending about halfway around the wearer's head and a pair of pods at opposite end portions of the band for each pressing against a head area around an ear of the wearer, wherein said band includes a wire frame, and each of said band end portions includes a pair of spaced and largely parallel wire length end parts of a wire having a predetermined diameter and a connecting part that joins ends of said wire length end parts, and wherein each of said pods has an outer side facing away from the person's head and has a mount projecting from said pod outer side, each mount having a groove with a groove axis, said pairs of wire length end parts each being pivotable about the corresponding one of said groove axes to enable the band end portions to extend in different directions relative to the corresponding pod, wherein:each of said grooves has a radial depth that is greater than the diameter of said wire, and the length of wire on each side of said groove which lies completely in said groove is at least three times the diameter of said wire, to thereby resist tilt of each pod about axes perpendicular to the axis of the pod.