U.S. patent application number 11/595889 was filed with the patent office on 2008-05-15 for cap combined with assistant tapes.
This patent application is currently assigned to DADA Corporation. Invention is credited to Jeong Sik Lee.
Application Number | 20080109939 11/595889 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 39367725 |
Filed Date | 2008-05-15 |
United States Patent
Application |
20080109939 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Lee; Jeong Sik |
May 15, 2008 |
Cap combined with assistant tapes
Abstract
Disclosed is a cap combined with assistant tapes. The cap
combined with assistant tapes is allowed to enhance quality and
yield of the cap by controlling flexibility of the cap properly so
that a size of the cap is spontaneously adjusted according to a
size of user's head without separate size-adjusting device. The cap
includes a crown part which is composed of one or more panels; a
visor part which is attached to a front lower portion of the crown
part; and a headband part which is attached to an inner lower
peripheral portion of the crown part, one elastic tape of the
assistant tapes is connected between the crown part and the
headband part to be attached to a lower peripheral portion and a
rear portion of the crown part, another elastic tape of the
assistant tapes is connected between the crown part and the visor
part to be attached to a front portion of the crown part, at least
one sewing line is formed on the headband part with being sewed in
a chain-like stitch using two flexible yarns.
Inventors: |
Lee; Jeong Sik; (Seoul,
KR) |
Correspondence
Address: |
Do Hyun Park;Apt. #2H
200 Old Palisade Road
Fort Lee
NJ
07024
US
|
Assignee: |
DADA Corporation
|
Family ID: |
39367725 |
Appl. No.: |
11/595889 |
Filed: |
November 13, 2006 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
2/181 ; 2/175.1;
2/195.1; 2/195.3 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A42B 1/22 20130101; A42C
5/00 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
2/181 ; 2/175.1;
2/195.3; 2/195.1 |
International
Class: |
A42C 5/00 20060101
A42C005/00; A42B 1/00 20060101 A42B001/00; A42B 1/22 20060101
A42B001/22 |
Claims
1. A cap combined with assistant tapes comprising: a crown part
which is composed of one or more panels; a visor part which is
attached to a front lower portion of the crown part; and a headband
part which is attached to an inner lower peripheral portion of the
crown part, at least one panel of the panels composing the crown
part has flexibility, the headband part is made of a fabric having
flexibility in a peripheral direction, one elastic tape of the
assistant tapes is connected between the crown part and the
headband part to be attached to a lower peripheral portion and a
rear portion of the crown part, another nonelastic tape of the
assistant tapes is connected between the crown part and the visor
part to be attached to a front portion of the crown part, at least
one sewing line is formed on the headband part with two flexible
yarns being connected in a chain-like stitch.
2. The cap according to claim 1, wherein a fabric of the headband
part is cut in a bias direction.
3. The cap according to claim 1, wherein fabrics used in the crown
part and the headband part are made of spandex yarn.
4. A cap combined with assistant tapes comprising: a crown part
which is made of one or more panels; a visor part which is attached
to a front lower portion of the crown part; and a headband part
which is attached to an inner lower peripheral portion of the crown
part, at least one panel of the panels composing the crown part has
flexibility, the headband part is made of a fabric having
flexibility in a peripheral direction, one elastic tape of the
assistant tapes is connected between the crown part and the
headband part to be attached to a lower peripheral and rear
portions of the crown part, another nonelastic tape of the
assistant tapes is connected between the crown part and the visor
part to be attached to a front portion of the crown part, the
fabric of the headband part is cut in a bias direction.
5. The cap according to claim 4, wherein at least one sewing line
is formed on the headband part with two flexible yarns being
connected in a chain-like stitch.
Description
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a cap combined with
assistant tapes, and more particularly to a improved cap combined
with assistant tapes which is allowed to enhance quality and
productivity of the cap by controlling flexibility of the cap
properly so that a size of the cap is spontaneously adjusted
according to a size of user's head without a separate
size-adjusting device.
[0003] 2. Description of the Related Art
[0004] Generally, the cap is baseball-cap style, which is greatly
constructed with a crown part referred to as a main body of the
cap, a visor part attached to a front lower portion of the crown
part to protect the user's face from a sunlight, a headband part
attached to a inner bottom peripheral portion to absorb sweat of
user's head, and a size adjusting device located in a rear lower
portion of the crown part to adjust the size of the cap according
to the size of user's head. The size adjusting device is generally
formed with Velcro fastener, a plastic locking device or the like
so that the size thereof may be controlled according to the size of
user's head. However, an inconvenience occurs in such a manner that
a user must adjust the size adjusting device each time the user
wears the cap. In order to overcome this inconvenience, the crown
part and the headband part are made to be flexible so that the size
of the cap may be spontaneously adjusted even without adjusting the
separate size-adjusting device according to the size of user's
head.
[0005] However, as the crown part has flexibility even though the
cap is not provided with the separate size-adjusting device, a
lower portion of the crown part is intended to be bent outward.
Therefore, it is difficult to connect and sew the crown part and
the headband part together. Further, a front portion of the crown
part can not be evenly sewed due to flexibility of the crown
part.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0006] Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve
the above-mentioned problems occurring in the prior art, and a
feature of the present invention is to provide a cap combined with
assistant tapes capable of controlling flexibility of the crown
part properly in order to adjust a size of the cap spontaneously
according to a size of user's head without a separate
size-adjusting device.
[0007] Another feature of the present invention is to provide a cap
combined with assistant tapes capable of expanding available size
range of the cap in relation to the size of user's head.
[0008] The foregoing and/or other aspects of the present invention
can be achieved by providing a cap combined with assistant tapes
comprising a crown part of a main body of the cap which is composed
of one or more panels; a visor part which is attached to a front
lower portion of the crown part; and a headband part which is
attached to an inner lower peripheral portion of the crown part, an
assistant tape made of non-woven fabric is connected between the
crown part and the visor part, and an assistant tape made of a
elastic material such as a rubber is connected between the crown
part and the headband part except of the visor part, sewing lines
are formed on the headband part with two flexible yarns being
connected in a chain-like stitch.
[0009] According to an aspect of the present invention, it is
possible to reduce percent defective of the cap and improve quality
and productivity of the cap by controlling flexibility of a front
portion, a peripheral portion and a rear portion of the crown part
properly in order to adjust the size of the cap spontaneously
according to the size of user's head without the separate
size-adjusting device. Further, it is possible to expand available
size range of the cap, because the headband part attached around
the crown part is cut on a bias direction, and sewing lines are
formed on the headband part with two flexible yarns being connected
in a chain-like stitch.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0010] The above and/or other aspects and advantages of the prevent
invention will become apparent and more readily appreciated from
the following description of the exemplary embodiments, taken in
conjunction with the accompany drawings, in which:
[0011] FIG. 1 is a partial perspective sectional view of a cap
according to the present invention;
[0012] FIG. 2 is a bottom view of a cap according to the present
invention;
[0013] FIG. 3 is a partial outward enlarged view of a headband part
of the cap according to the present invention;
[0014] FIG. 4 is a partial inward enlarged view of a headband part
of the cap according to the present invention; and
[0015] FIG. 5 is a sectional view of chain-like sewing lines on the
headband part according to the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE ILLUSTRATIVE, NON-LIMITING EMBODIMENTS
OF THE INVENTION
[0016] Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of
the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the
accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to
like elements throughout. The embodiments are described below so as
to explain the present invention by referring to the figures.
[0017] FIG. 1 is a partial perspective sectional view of a cap
according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a bottom view of
a cap according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 and
FIG. 2, a cap according to the embodiment of the invention is
greatly constructed with a crown part 1 referred to as a main body
of the cap composed of a plurality of panels, a visor part 2
attached to a front lower portion of the crown part to protect the
user's face from sunlight, and a headband part 3 positioned in a
inner lower peripheral portion of the crown portion. The crown part
1 and the headband part 3 are made of a fabric having flexibility
in a peripheral direction so that a user can spontaneously adjust a
size of the cap according to the size of user's head without a need
to adjust separate size-adjusting device each time the user wears
the cap. The headband part 3 is made by a fabric that is cut on the
bias direction and sewing lines are formed on the headband part 3
with outward nylon stretch yarns and inward flexible yarns being
connected in a chain-like stitch, which results in improving
flexibility. Two assistant tapes 4, 5 are connected between the
crown part 1 and the visor part 2, and the headband part 3
respectively. The assistant tape 4 connected between the crown part
1 and the headband part 3 is made of flexible material such as a
rubber. Since the flexible assistant tape 4 described above is
attached to a peripheral portion and a rear surface portion of the
crown part 1, the crown part 1 are bent not outward, but inward.
Also, the assistant tape 5 connected between the crown part 1 and
the visor part 2 is made of inflexible material such as non-woven
fabric. Since the inflexible tape 5 described above is attached to
the front portion of the crown part 1, the visor part 2 can be
evenly connected and sewed with the crown part 1. By means of such
assistant tapes 4, 5 attached to the front portion, the peripheral
portion and the rear portion of the crown portion 1, it is possible
to significantly reduce percent defective of the cap, and therefore
to improve quality and productivity of the cap.
[0018] FIG. 3 is a partial outward enlarged view of a headband part
of the cap according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a partial
inward enlarged view of a headband part of the cap according to the
present invention, and FIG. 5 is a sectional view of chain-like
sewing lines of the headband part according to the present
invention. As shown in FIG. 3 to 5, the headband part 3 according
to the invention is made of fabrics having flexibility in the
peripheral direction. The headband part 3 is folded one time to
form two folds 7 and 8. The sewing lines are formed on the headband
part 3 with two flexible yarns 6a, 6b are being connected in the
chain-like stitch. More specifically, using nylon stretch yarns as
an outward sewing line 6a exposed to outside and rubber yarns as an
inward swing line 6b, the two folds 7 and 8 of the headband part 3
are sewed in a chain-like stitch. Therefore, because the fabric of
the headband part 3 is cut in the bias direction and sewed in a
chain-like stitch using flexible yarns, it is possible to improve
available size range of the cap.
[0019] Although a few exemplary embodiments of the present
invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by
those skilled in the art that changes may be made in these
embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the
invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and
their equivalents.
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