Patent ID: 8701954

Claim:
Helmet mount apparatus for mounting a helmet of a type used by firemen with an annular brim of some shape extending around a protective head cover, such helmet mount apparatus being particularly adapted for mounting such a helmet of the type used by firemen securely in a fire truck or other emergency vehicle in which the fireman rides to emergency situations and being characterized by three brim brackets attached to a base plate, two of the three brim brackets being rear-lateral brim brackets mounted in immovable relation to the base plate and the remaining one of the three brim brackets being a front brim bracket mounted in a slidable manner along a longitudinal axis that extends between the two rear-lateral brim brackets and through the front brim bracket, and wherein the rear-lateral brim brackets each has a lip extending radially inwardly and upwardly in relation to the base plate and is configured and oriented to receive and retain the annular brim of the helmet under the lip and are spaced apart from each other at locations as vertices of a triangle and at respective distances in relation to each other that enable the three brim brackets to receive and retain the annular brim of the helmet at three respective locations on the perimeter of the annular brim of the helmet that prevent movement of the helmet in any direction in relation to the base plate except upon slidable movement of the slidably mounted brim bracket along the longitudinal axis away from the two immovably mounted brim brackets, the helmet mount apparatus being further characterized by a force mechanism connected to the slidably mounted brim bracket in a manner that applies a force on the slidably mounted brim bracket in a manner that clamps and retains the brim of the helmet in the brim brackets, whereby a fireman can mount the helmet by inserting one portion of the perimeter of the brim of the helmet in the slidably mounted brim bracket and push the slidably mounted brim bracket along the longitudinal axis away from the two immovably mounted rear-lateral brim brackets far enough to clear the lips of the rear-lateral brim brackets and then pivot the helmet in the slidably mounted pivot bracket toward the base plate to position other portions of the brim of the helmet into alignment with the two immovably mounted brim brackets whereupon the said other portions of the brim of the helmet are movable under the lips of the rear-lateral brackets to clamp and secure the helmet in the helmet mount apparatus.