Sweat-absorbing headgear

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2001-07-16

2003-04-15

Hale, Gloria M. (Department: 3765)

Apparel

Head coverings

With sweats or other supplementary head engaging member

Reexamination Certificate

active

06546563

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a headgear, more particularly to a sweat-absorbing headgear with stretchable and contractible characteristics.
2. Description of the Related Art
Referring to
FIG. 1
, a conventional headgear
1
primarily includes a crown portion
101
and a visor
102
. The crown portion
101
has a semi-spherical shape and includes a looped marginal end
103
defining a bottom open end
104
. The looped marginal end
103
includes a front portion attached to the visor
102
, and a rear portion opposite to the front portion and formed with an inverted U-shape recess
105
. A band unit
106
spans an open end of the recess
105
. The length of the band unit
106
can be adjusted to fit the head of the wearer. The band unit
106
can be formed as, for example, a fabric strip with fasteners, as shown in
FIG. 1. A
sweatband
107
is usually provided along the looped marginal end
103
at an inner surface of the crown portion
101
. The sweatband
107
is usually formed from a cotton cloth. The shortcoming of the aforesaid headgear
1
is that the recess
105
located at the rear portion of the looped marginal end
103
destroys the integral shape of the crown portion
101
.
FIG. 2
illustrates another conventional headgear
2
. The headgear
2
has a crown portion
201
with an integral appearance, and a looped marginal end
203
defining a bottom open end. An elastic fabric band is provided along the looped marginal end
203
at an inner surface of the crown portion
201
and is adapted to adjust the size of the bottom open end. However, the sweat-absorbing capability of the elastic fabric band is inferior to that of a non-elastic fabric band. Therefore, the wearer will feel uncomfortable while wearing the headgear
2
.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to provide a sweat-absorbing headgear with stretchable and contractible characteristics, and capable of overcoming the aforesaid drawbacks of the prior art.
The sweat-absorbing headgear according to this invention comprises a headgear body having a ring portion adapted to extend around the head of a wearer. The ring portion includes a woven elastic band section and is changeable in size due to stretchable and contractible characteristics of the woven elastic band section. The woven elastic band section is stretchable along a longitudinal direction of the woven elastic band section, and includes a plurality of fiber bundles which extend along the longitudinal direction and which are spaced apart transversely. The fiber bundles are stretched when the woven elastic band section is stretched, and form a plurality of sweat-absorbing fiber tufts projecting from an inner surface of the woven elastic band section when the woven elastic band section returns to a normally contracted state.


REFERENCES:
patent: 2445209 (1948-07-01), Clark
patent: 4499741 (1985-02-01), Harris
patent: 4856116 (1989-08-01), Sullivan
patent: 5566395 (1996-10-01), Nebeker
patent: 5632046 (1997-05-01), Green et al.

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