Racal-Amplivox Communications Ltd.

Brian Arthur Lowe

Raymond Odell

Fan for anti-dust helmet

An improved anti-dust helmet comprising a shell spaced from the wearer's head by a supporting harness and provided with a transparent visor sealed at the sides to the wearer's face. Between the helmet shell and the wearer's head there is a sealing member extending continuously from the visor seals around the upper occipital part of the wearer's head. The sealing member is formed of a soft and resilient material and is so formed that the edge of the sealing member that rests against the wearer's head approaches the head at an acute angle. The sealing member may be fabricated or moulded from natural or synthetic rubber or from other elastomeric materials.

Protective devices

Head seal for an anti-dust helmet

A protective visor comprises an arcuately curved frame having an aperture arranged to accept an arcuately flexed rectangular sheet of resilient transparent material. The sheet is retained in the frame by lugs extending into the aperture at staggered positions on the inner and outer margins of the upper and lower frame bars and has at the sides of the aperture recesses in the frame side bars into which the lateral edges of the transparent sheet will snap. The sheet may be of transparent polycarbonate and the frame of either transparent or opaque polycarbonate. Preferably the frame has at its upper corners hinge members for attachment to a protective helmet.

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Cheshunt, United Kingdom

Brian Arthur Lowe