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Show i I i 1 r -- - r -- : - t Charlie Patterson proudly displays one of his products. He got into business of making helmets when his son suffered a severe concussion during a hockey game. TAKE IT FROM CHARLIE PATTERSO- N- ' by George Michaelson HI ": Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. . mou can TORONTO, CANADA pound it with a hammer or shoot it with a bullet but there is no way you can break one of my helmets. Every athlete in every contact sport ought to be wearing one, and if I do say so myself, its the safest headgear ever invented." inAnd so saying, portly, ventor Charlie Patterson (known in the sports world as "The Helmet Man") brought one of his homemade helmets into his living room and proceeded to flail away at it with a hammer. "I'm a bit of a screwball," he confessed between strokes, "but you've got to admit, this is one hell of a tough helmet, isn't it?" Evidently so. For Charlie Pattersons helmets made out of a tough, lightweight, engineering plastic called Lexan er r r I A. Pi neighborhood kid wears a " Patterson " model, "safest headgear ever invented . A |