Cradle attachment for head protective equipment

Claim 1

IN HEAD PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT A DETACHABLE CRADLE COMPRISING A CIRCUMFERENTIALLY EXTENSIBLE HEAD BAND HAVING THE ENDS THEREOF ADAPTED FOR LYING IN OVERLAPPED RELATIONSHIP, ONE END OF SAID HEAD BAND HAVING A NECK PORTION OF REDUCED WIDTH ADJACENT TO AN ENLARGED TERMINAL PORTION HAVING A SLOT THEREIN THROUGH WHICH THE DISTAL END OF SAID HEAD BAND CAN BE THREADED, SAID END OF THE HEAD BAND BEING PROVIDED ALSO WITH A PLURALITY OF SPACED ALIGNED APERTURES, THE DISTAL END OF SAID HEAD BAND CARRYING A PAIR UPWARDLY AND INWARDLY EXTENDING FLANGE MEMBERS ADAPTED TO FORM A CHANNEL FOR RECEPTION OF ONE END OF SAID HEAD BAND AND AN UPSTANDING PROTUBERANCE THEREON ADAPTED TO RESIDE WITHIN THE SPACED APERTURES LOCATED ON SAID HEAD BAND, SAID HEAD BAND HAVING TWO ENLARGED SIDE PORTIONS THEREON SPACED APART APPROXIMATELY 180*, EACH OF SAID ENLARGED SIDE PORTIONS HAVING INTEGRALLY CONNECTED THERETO AN OUTWARDLY AND ANGULARLY EXTENDING PROTUBERANCE, THE FREE END OF SAID PROTUBERANCE BEING SPACED LATERALLY FROM SAID BAND AND BEING PROVIDED WITH A ROUNDED DISK MEMBER HAVING AN APERTURE THEREIN FOR RECEIVING FASTENING MEANS FOR ATTACHMENT TO THE HEAD PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, SAID DISK MEMBER HAVING A PAIR OF SPACED APART LUGS ON THE PERIPHERY THEROF TO LIMIT THE PIVOTAL MOVEMENT OF THE CRADLE ATTACHMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE HEAD PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, A HEAD STRAP ADAPTED TO REST ON THE HEAD OF THE WEARER COMPRISING A PAIR OF SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALLY EXTENDING STRAPS CONNECTING WITH THE ENLARGED SIDE PORTIONS ON SAID HEAD BAND AND HAVING THE FREE ENDS THEREOF ADAPTED FOR LYING IN OVERLAPPED RELATIONSHIP, THE FREE END OF ONE OF THE SAID VERTICALLY EXTENDING STRAPS BEING PROVIDED AT ITS TERMINAL END WITH A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR LIP LYING IN A PLANE BELOW AND PROJECTING OUTWARDLY THEREFROM SO AS TO DEFINE A TRANSVERSE SLOT BETWEEN SAID LIP AND THE END OF SAID VERTICAL STRAP AND BEING PROVIDED ALSO WITH A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING SLOT AND A PLURALITY OF SPACED ALIGNED APERTURES, THE OTHER VERTICALLY EXTENDING STRAP BEING PROVIDED WITH AN UPSTANDING PROTUBERANCE ADAPTED TO RESIDE WITHIN THE SPACED APERTURES PROVIDED WITHIN THE FIRST MENTIONED VERTICALLY EXTENDING STRAP.