Patent Application
20190070039
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The disclosure and prior art relates to ear and headphone covers and more particularly pertains to a new ear and headphone cover for comfortably laying on an ear with headphones on.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising an ear and ear headphone shielding assembly configured to receive an ear when the ear has a headphone positioned therein. The assembly includes a panel with an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface is concavely shaped, while the outer surface is convexly shaped. The panel has a perimeter edge including a top edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge, and a second side edge. The inner surface is configured to receive an ear such that the ear is adjacent to the inner surface. A cushion member is attached to the perimeter edge as to be coextensive with the top edge, the first side edge and the second side edge, leaving the bottom edge free of the cushion member.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The inner surface 16 has a depth of less than 2.0 inches and typically greater than 0.5 inches. The depth is measured from the lowest point of the concave surface to a plane extending between and including the first side edge 24 and second side edge 26. As can be seen in the Figures, while the panel is curved from its central area to the top 20, bottom 22 and first side edges 24, the bottom edge 16 may extend generally straight down from the central area.
The cushion member 14 may be attached to the perimeter edge and is coextensive with the top edge 20, the first side edge 24 and the second side edge 26, but leaving the bottom edge 22 free of the cushion member 14. The cushion member 14 may comprise of a resiliently compressible material such as a foamed elastomer, but should not exclude other compressible materials. The cushion member 14 may extend inwardly from the perimeter edge and over the inner surface to form a lip 28.
In use, the assembly 10 is worn over a person's ear 70 when the ear has an internal headphone 72 positioned therein. Such headphones are colloquially known as “buds” or “ear buds.” The assembly provides a shield between the ear and a surface, which may include a pillow, upon which a person lays their head such that the headphone 72 is not biased inward and against the ear 70. The assembly 10, in this fashion, forms a shield or barrier between the ear 70 and the surface against which the head lies to improve comfort for the user of the headphones.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
