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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
May. 28, 1996
David Montalbano, North Babylon, NY (US);
Michael Goldman, Levitown, NY (US);
Other;
Abstract
A helmet rigid flashlight bracket that is replaceably and securingly attachable to a portion of a brim of a helmet that is wearable by a user and replaceably and securingly receives a flashlight of a variety of different flashlights each of which has a handle portion and a light emitting portion that emits a light beam that points substantially at eye level in a forward direction of the user that includes a face plate, flashlight maintaining apparatus, a substantially C-shaped channel, and face plate clamping apparatus. The face plate has a lower portion. The flashlight maintaining apparatus is disposed on the face plate and replaceably and securingly maintains the handle portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights to the face plate. The substantially C-shaped channel is disposed on the lower portion of the face plate in an orientation so as to be parallel to the light beam that emits from the light emitting portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights. And, the face plate clamping apparatus is associated with the substantially C-shaped channel and replaceably and securingly clamps the face plate to the portion of the brim of the helmet, so that the light beam that emits from the light emitting portion of the flashlight of the variety of different flashlights points substantially at eye level in the forward direction of the user.