U.S. patent application number 10/928675 was filed with the patent office on 2006-03-09 for cap having comfortable elastic band.
Invention is credited to Sung Yie Liao.
Application Number | 20060048273 10/928675 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 35994696 |
Filed Date | 2006-03-09 |
United States Patent
Application |
20060048273 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Liao; Sung Yie |
March 9, 2006 |
Cap having comfortable elastic band
Abstract
A cap includes a hemispherical portion, a visor portion, and an
elastic band attached to the bottom peripheral portion of the
hemispherical portion, to resiliently engage onto the heads of the
users, and to adjustably accommodate a number of various sized
heads. The elastic band includes a number of elastic straps and a
number of cloth straps alternatively arranged and secured to each
other. The elastic straps are made of resilient materials to
resiliently engage onto the heads of the users. The cloth straps
include a stretchability less than that of the elastic straps, to
allow the elastic band to be mostly stretched circumferentially at
the elastic straps, and to allow air to ventilate into and out of
the cap.
Inventors: |
Liao; Sung Yie; (Taichung,
TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
CHARLES E. BAXLEY, ESQ.
90 JOHN STREET
3rd FLOOR
NEW YORK
NY
10038
US
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Family ID: |
35994696 |
Appl. No.: |
10/928675 |
Filed: |
August 30, 2004 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
2/181 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A42B 1/22 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
002/181 |
International
Class: |
A42C 5/02 20060101
A42C005/02; A42C 5/00 20060101 A42C005/00 |
Claims
1. A cap comprising: a hemispherical portion for fitting onto heads
of users, and including a bottom peripheral portion, and including
a plurality of rectangular panels joined to each other by seams, a
visor portion extended forwardly from said hemispherical portion,
and an elastic band attached to said bottom peripheral portion of
said hemispherical portion with at least one seam, to resiliently
engage onto the heads of the users, and to adjustably accommodate a
number of various sized heads, said elastic band including a
plurality of elastic straps and a plurality of cloth straps
alternatively arranged and secured to each other, to allow said
elastic straps to be alternatively arranged and secured between
said cloth straps, and said elastic straps being made of resilient
materials to resiliently engage onto the heads of the users, and
said cloth straps including a stretchability less than that of said
elastic straps, to allow said elastic band to be mostly stretched
circumferentially at said elastic straps, said cloth straps being
made of woven or non-woven cloth materials.
2-4. (canceled)
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a cap, and more
particularly to a cap having an elastic band for comfortably
engaging onto heads of users.
[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art
[0004] Typical caps, such as baseball caps comprise a hemispherical
portion for fitting onto heads of users and formed of a number of
rectangular panels that are joined to each other by seams, and
comprise a visor portion extended forwardly from the hemispherical
portion.
[0005] For allowing the caps to be snugly fitted onto the heads of
the users, the caps normally include an opening formed in the back
of the hemispherical portion, opposite to the visor portion, and
two straps extended from the rectangular panels and adjustably
secured to each other with projection-and-orifice engagements, to
allow the bottom peripheral portion of the hemispherical portion to
be adjusted in size to fit various size heads.
[0006] However, the straps are normally made of plastic materials,
and may not be easily secured onto the rectangular panels of the
hemispherical portion, such that the caps may not be easily
manufactured by factories, and may not be easily used by users.
[0007] For avoiding the straps of plastic materials, and for
allowing the caps to be easily fitted onto the heads of the users,
the other caps have been developed and comprise an endless
stretchable band attached to the bottom peripheral portion of the
hemispherical portion, to adjustably accommodate a number of
various sized heads.
[0008] For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,615,415 to Beckerman, and U.S.
Pat. No. 6,052,831 to Park disclose two of the typical caps each
also comprising a hemispherical portion for fitting onto heads of
users, and a visor portion extended forwardly from the
hemispherical portion, and an endless stretchable band attached to
the bottom peripheral portion of the hemispherical portion, to
adjustably accommodate a number of various sized heads.
[0009] However, the endless stretchable bands are attached all
around the bottom peripheral portions of the hemispherical
portions, and may also tightly engaged onto and around the outer
peripheral portions of the heads of the users, such that air may
not be easily ventilated through the stretchable bands and may not
be easily ventilated into and out of the caps, and such that the
heads of the users may not feel comfortable.
[0010] The present invention has arisen to mitigate and/or obviate
the afore-described disadvantages of the conventional caps.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0011] The primary objective of the present invention is to provide
a cap including an elastic band for comfortably engaging onto heads
of users, and for allowing air to be easily ventilated through the
elastic band and to be easily ventilated into and out of the
cap.
[0012] In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is
provided a cap comprising a hemispherical portion for fitting onto
heads of users, and including a bottom peripheral portion, a visor
portion extended forwardly from the hemispherical portion, and an
elastic band attached to the bottom peripheral portion of the
hemispherical portion, to resiliently engage onto the heads of the
users, and to adjustably accommodate a number of various sized
heads. The elastic band includes a number of elastic straps and a
number of cloth straps alternatively arranged and secured to each
other, to allow the elastic straps to be alternatively arranged and
secured between the cloth straps, and the elastic straps are made
of resilient materials to resiliently engage onto the heads of the
users. The cloth straps include a stretchability less than that of
the elastic straps, to allow the elastic band to be mostly
stretched circumferentially at the elastic straps.
[0013] The cloth straps are made of woven or non-woven cloth
materials. The elastic band is attached to the bottom peripheral
portion of the hemispherical portion with at least one seam. The
hemispherical portion includes a number of rectangular panels
joined to each other by seams.
[0014] Further objectives and advantages of the present invention
will become apparent from a careful reading of the detailed
description provided hereinbelow, with appropriate reference to the
accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0015] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a cap in accordance with the
present invention;
[0016] FIG. 2 is an enlarged partial plan view of the elastic band
of the cap; and
[0017] FIG. 3 is an enlarged partial plan view illustrating the
operation of the cap.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[0018] Referring to the drawings, and initially to FIGS. 1 and 2, a
cap in accordance with the present invention comprises a
hemispherical portion 10 for fitting onto heads of users and formed
of a number of rectangular panels 11 that are joined to each other
by seams 12, a visor portion 13 extended forwardly from the
hemispherical portion 10.
[0019] The cap further includes an elastic band 20 attached or
secured into an inner portion of a bottom peripheral portion 14 of
the hemispherical portion 10, to resiliently engage onto the heads
of the users, and to adjustably accommodate a number of various
sized heads. For example, the elastic band 20 may also be secured
onto the bottom peripheral portion 14 of the hemispherical portion
10 with one or more seams 15.
[0020] The elastic band 20 is preferably a sweat band and includes
a number of elastic straps 21 and a number of cloth straps 22
alternatively arranged and secured to each other with such as
stitches or seams 23, to allow the elastic straps 21 to be
alternatively arranged and secured between the cloth straps 22. The
elastic straps 21 are made of resilient or elastic materials for
snugly and tightly and resiliently engage onto the heads of the
users.
[0021] The cloth straps 22 are preferably made of woven or
non-woven cloth materials, and include a stretchability less than
that of the elastic straps 21, such that the elastic band 20 is
mostly stretched circumferentially at the elastic straps 21 as
indicated by the arrows 24, best shown in FIG. 3.
[0022] It is to be noted that the cloth straps 22 will not be
resiliently or tightly engaged onto the heads of the users as the
elastic straps 21, to allow air to easily ventilate through the
cloth straps 22 of the elastic band 20 and to easily ventilate into
and out of the cap, such that the users may feel more
comfortable.
[0023] Accordingly, the cap in accordance with the present
invention includes an elastic band for comfortably engaging onto
heads of users, and for allowing the air to be easily ventilated
through the elastic band and to be easily ventilated into and out
of the cap.
[0024] Although this invention has been described with a certain
degree of particularity, it is to be understood that the present
disclosure has been made by way of example only and that numerous
changes in the detailed construction and the combination and
arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the
spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.
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