Arm for Twirling a Flag, Banner or Rally Rag From a Hat or Helmet

Abstract

A hat or helmet having an electric motor driven rotatable arm permanently or temporarily affixed to its top exterior. The arm holds a rally rag, banner or flag for twirling about.

Claims

1. A hat with a motorized rotating arm designed to hold and twirl about a rally rag.

2. The hat of claim 1, which is battery powered.

3. The hat of claim 1, which is mechanically turned on and off.

4. The hat of claim 3 wherein the motor is activated by one or more of: a remote control and a phone app.

5. The hat of claim 1, which can be sound activated to rotate for a set amount of time.

6. The hat of claim 1, which is in a shape selected from the group consisting of: a safety hard hat, a football helmet, a baseball cap, an enlarged foam hockey puck, an enlarged basketball-shaped hat, an enlarged soccer ball-shaped hat and an automotive or bicycle racing helmet.

7. The hat of claim 1 wherein the rotating arm includes a portion of shirt sleeve matching a team jersey colors.

8. The hat of claim 1 wherein the rally rag is selected from the group consisting of: a sports team's colors, a soccer scarf, a country's flag and a car racing driver's colors and/or number.

9. A motor-powered novelty hat comprising: (a) a head covering component; (b) an on-off controlled motor inside the head covering component; (c) a rotatable stem extending from the motor and to an upper, outer surface of the head covering component; (d) an appendage resembling a small, human forearm, said appendage having a hand component; and (e) a sports rally rag for positioning in the hand component of the appendage and rotating about when the motor is turned on.

10. The novelty hat of claim 9 wherein the head covering component is a sports hat selected from the group consisting of: a safety hard hat, a football helmet, a baseball cap, an enlarged foam hockey puck, an enlarged basketball-shaped hat, an enlarged soccer ball-shaped hat and an automotive or bicycle racing helmet.

11. The novelty hat of claim 10 wherein the head covering component is a safety hard hat in a sports team's colors.

12. The novelty hat of claim 9 wherein the appendage includes a section of sports jersey as a sleeve element therefor.

13. The novelty hat of claim 9 wherein the motor is battery powered.

14. The novelty hat of claim 9 wherein the motor can be activated by a hand held remote control.

15. The novelty hat of claim 9 wherein the motor can be activated by a phone app.

16. The novelty hat of claim 9, which can be sound activated for commencing a timed rotation by the motor.

17. The novelty hat of claim 9 wherein the rally rag is a small towel in a sports team's colors.

18. The novelty hat of claim 9 wherein the rally rag is a soccer team's scarf.

19. The novelty hat of claim 9 wherein the rally rag is representative of a country's flag.

20. The novelty hat of claim 9 wherein the rally rag is representative of a car racing driver's colors and/or number.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0021] Further features, objectives and advantages of this invention will become clearer with the following Detailed Description made with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

[0022] FIG. 1 is a rear perspective view of my invention illustrating the rotating arm, at rest (i.e., the motor has been turned off) with a rally towel or rag wedged between the thumb and pointer finger of the hand;

[0023] FIG. 2 is a side perspective view of the helmet, arm and rally rag from FIG. 1;

[0024] FIG. 3 is a top perspective view showing one embodiment of battery-powered rotational motor INSIDE the helmet of FIG. 1;

[0025] FIG. 4 is a top plan view of the helmet from FIGS. 1 and 2 showing the arm held rally rag being rotated clockwise in the direction of arrows A; and

[0026] FIGS. 5A, B, C, D and E are perspective views showing variations of this invention using a ball cap (5A), hockey puck hat (5B), basketball-shaped hat (5C) and soccer-ball shaped hat (5D).

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0027] A preferred embodiment of this invention includes a hard hat/safety helmet 10 but can also be a true football helmet, a baseball cap (item 110 in FIG. 5A), a puck-shaped hockey hat (item 210 in FIG. 5B), a basketball-shaped hat (item 310 in FIG. 5C), a soccer-ball shaped hat (item 410 in FIG. 5D or an automotive or bicycle racing helmet (item 510 in FIG. 5E).

[0028] Fitting comfortably inside any of the foregoing headgear (helmet, puck hat and/or ball cap) is a DC-powered motor 20 in FIG. 3) that serves as an electrical power source for a pivotal, rotational pin 30 extending from the outside of that helmet 10 (or other headgear). A muscular forearm 40, with its own (rally rag-holding) hand 50 affixes to pivotal pin 30 for twirling a rally rag 60 when the helmet's motor 20 is turned ON, either manually by activation of a button 70, or via a handheld remote (R). Per FIG. 4, the rally rag 60 can be rotated clockwise about the top of helmet 10 (as shown by the directional arrows A). Alternately, the invention can be configured to spin the rag about in a counter-clockwise direction, or in either manner as selected by its wearer.

[0029] The rallying rag-holding component for hand 50 at the end of forearm 40 can accommodate numerous flags/banners or the like. The simplest version includes a slot 80 for wedging rally rag 60 between the thumb and finger of hand 50. Alternately, hand 50 can be fitted with a pin, or spring-loaded clip 180 as seen in FIG. 5A. The invention can also be made and sold with a permanently fitted, rally rag/team color scarf and/or banner for twirling.

[0030] On a more preferred basis, the forearm 40 includes part of a shirt sleeve 90 that mimics a particular team's colors . . . in this case, black for a Pittsburgh Steelers' shirt.

[0031] When power is supplied, via the internal (preferably sweat-proof, i.e. waterproof) motor 20, the handheld rallying rag/towel 60 held by the arm 40 atop helmet 10, will begin to rotate, and continue rotating until it is either manually shut off or timed to cease, temporarily. Still other variations to a manual ON-OFF or remotely held activation switch could include a sound-activated start/stop switch.

[0032] While the invention has been described with a certain degree of particularity, it is manifest that many changes may be made in the arrangement of components without departing from the spirit and scope of this disclosure. It is understood that the invention is not limited to the embodiments set forth herein for purposes of exemplification, but is to be limited only by the scope of the attached claim or claims.