Patent ID: 7802319

Claim:
A method of putting on a safety helmet comprising the steps of: providing a helmet, the helmet comprising: a helmet shell having an outer and an inner surface, the helmet shell having an inner core positioned between the outer surface and the inner surface, the helmet shell having a frontal portion and a rearward portion, the helmet shell having a first opening for use in fitting the helmet over an associated person's head, the helmet shell having a front visual access section fashioned at the frontal portion of the helmet shell for use in allowing the associated user to see out from the helmet shell; an aperture fashioned in the rearward portion of the helmet extending from the inner surface to the outer surface of the helmet shell; a generally tubular channel member having a flange fashioned at a first end of the channel member, the channel member being operatively received within the aperture and wherein the channel member includes a second end, wherein the second end of the channel member includes a threaded portion fashioned on the outer surface of the channel member; and a ring member having a threaded inner surface for use in securing the channel member to the safety helmet; providing a flexible, hollow tube member having first and second ends; placing the flexible tube member over an associated user's ponytail so that the ponytail is substantially inside the flexible tube member; passing the second end of the flexible tube through the aperture, from inside to outside so that at least a portion of the flexible tube extends outside the helmet adjacent the aperture; placing the helmet on the associated user's head; and pulling on the second end of the flexible tube to draw the flexible tube substantially through the aperture.