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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7945971 | Hat with hair-gathering feature A hair-gathering hat construction comprises a hair-gathering aperture, which hat construction essentially comprises a crown portion, a brim portion, and hat cinching structure for cinching the crown and brim portions against the head of a user for effecting a proper... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7360258 | Headgear with integrated hair shielding mechanism The present invention relates generally to hats, and more specifically to multi-function hats that provide the wearer with an enhanced sporting or fashion experience. The present invention pertains to an article of headwear with an integrated incision for maintainin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7219371 | Safety helmet for heat dissipation The present invention relates to a heat dissipating safety helmet comprising a shell, a liner and a strap. The shell comprises a top portion, a rim, and a visor outwardly extending from the rim, a plurality of spaced longitudinal strips connecting the top portion an... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7213271 | Brow pad for the headband of protective headgear A brow pad for the headband of a protective helmet or similar headgear is ultrasonically welded or similarly joined to itself through openings defined through the headband. By joining the brow pad to itself through the headband, the brow pad remains secured to the h... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7185613 | Fashion accessory A collar, having a support band with a first and a second end, a scented material, and a connection arrangement on the support band, the connection arrangement configured to hold the first and the second end in a desired configuration, wherein the support band has a... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7174572 | Headwear with stretchable sweatband An article of headwear having an adjustable configuration includes a crown portion and a sweatband secured to a peripheral edge of the crown. The sweatband includes an inner piece of stretchable fabric material folded about itself such that opposing longitudinal edg... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168434 | Hair retaining device A hair retaining device for placement on a head comprises an annular, elasticized portion for adjusting to heads of varying sizes and for encircling a wearer's head, said headband having an upper edge and a hair retainer gathered at and extending upwardly from said ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7073207 | Cap linked by strings A cap or visor consisting a crown portion or rim portion and a visor protion is secured to the front bottom of the crown portion. The crown portion, rim portion, or the visor portion, or any combination thereof is separated with at least one gap, both sides of the s... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7058989 | Sports headband to reduce or prevent head injury An adjustable or custom-sized improved headband of uniform vertical height and thickness along its entire length that reduces the force of impact on the player's head and provides the player with better control in redirecting the ball. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7036156 | Head protection system A head protection system includes an open-ended tubular cap band of flexible material for partially encircling the head of a wearer generally at the level of the wearer's forehead. A belt member is slidably received through the tubular cap band and adjusts to accomm... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7024702 | Headwear piece with crown opening A headwear piece having a crown with a peripheral wall which extends around the head of a wearer. The crown has a front, a rear, and a top, and a bottom. The peripheral wall has a front wall portion that projects upwardly to define a forwardly facing surface and is ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7010815 | Cap for encircling wearer's hair A baseball type cap to be worn by a person constructed of a flexible material with a visor extending frontward and a pair of rearwardly extending, generally triangular shaped flaps that both have elongated inner edges and lower edges. In one embodiment, the lower ed... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6978487 | Apparatus for enhancing absorption and dissipation of impact forces for sweatbands used in connection with helmets A sweatband designed to be worn on the head of a user under a pre-existing helmet, for usage in a variety of sporting activities. Due to the presence of an additional layer beneath the helmet, it takes additional time for impact forces to reach the user's head, thus... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6941582 | Novelty head covering A head covering particularly adapted for use as a promotional item to be worn by patrons at sporting events and other types of entertainment venues. The head covering includes first, second and third panel sections which are adapted to cooperate to form a head cover... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6931667 | Headwear piece with object holding capability A headwear piece has a crown defining an opening to receive the head of a wearer. The crown has (a) an inside surface having at least a portion for engaging a wearer's head to maintain the headwear piece operatively situated on a wearers head and (b) an exposed exte... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6910225 | Hat and method for making same An economical to manufacture and easy to assemble billed hat constructed from a sheet of material having a base portion with a left and right headband portion and a central cap portion extending therefrom is disclosed. The distal ends of the left and right headband ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6810533 | Visor with inverted display material A visor construction with inverted display material for enabling the visor to be worn of a head of a wearer in an upside down orientation while providing an upright disposition of display material. The visor has a header panel with a first, outwardly facing surface ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6735779 | Visored hat construction A lightweight visor of semi-rigid plastic mesh material is sized to provide filtered sun ray incidence with minimum wind resistance to and through to the head of the wearer. The visor is crescent-shaped with the outer and larger curvature of the crescent forming the... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6718557 | Baseball style hat with size adjustment An adjustable baseball or sports type hat is disclosed having an adjustable circumferential portion along the bottom of the crown. A visor may be attached to the front portion of the crown. At least two, but eventually four, two-part adjustment clasps are affixed ne... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6546559 | Auxiliary visor for rider's helmet An auxiliary visor for a standard riding helmet. The visor includes a bill fixed to an elongated flexible band. Facing sides of the ends of the band include mating fasteners that permit the band to surround and apply an inwardly-directed force to the exte... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6367084 | Headwear Headwear in the form, for example, of a baseball cap (1) is provided in its front portion (4) with an inlet aperture (20) with which is associated a baffle (22) whereby in use on the wearer's head, midly turbulent air flow is induced into the cap space (1... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6230332 | Head manipulating device A head manipulating device for assisting movement of a user's head following an injury. The head manipulating device includes a first band member having ends and being adapted to extend about a back and sides of a user's head; and also includes a second b... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6100207 | Absorbent head band Disclosed are head bands comprising a sliver of spontaneously wettable staple fibers. The fibers are of an irregular, grooved shape in cross section and are lightly bound together to permit easy separation into suitable lengths for head bands.... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6092239 | Foldable disposable cap and method for folding thereof A foldable cap is disclosed made from a flat semi-rigid material cut into a plurality of middle panels for forming the crown portion of a cap and two lateral panels for forming the brim of the cap. Each of the middle panels and the lateral panels have a f... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6088836 | Audio/visual sensory inhibitor A meditation and sleep enhancing device having a light occlusion portion attached to a head rest portion and a chin-strap extending therefrom. When in use by an individual, the sleep enhancing device acts both as a light and sound suppression device as we... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6029272 | Sun visor having detachable brim and moisture absorbent pad The invention discloses a novel sun visor, and more particularly, to the combination of a sun visor and bandanna, and to the attachment mechanism, for releasably securing the headband to the visor. A sun visor includes a band of flexible, moisture absorbe... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6009555 | Multiple component headgear system The present invention incorporates a unique system of attaching multiple headgear components upon the user so as to increase the overall effectiveness of the headgear during extreme sporting conditions. This is accomplished by providing a headgear apparat... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5987648 | Cap for catching balls A cap has a visor and a hole defined by its crown. The hole communicates with a pocket that extends from the hole external to the crown. The hole and pocket are sized to easily accommodate a ball to be caught, e.g. a baseball. A ball flying into the crown... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5933872 | Pony tail cap A head cap having a substantially hemi-spherically shaped portion intended to be worn over hair on the head of a wearer and including at least one opening therein large enough to accommodate a bundle of hair passing through the opening and means for secur... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5893170 | Method of reversing a reversible visor A convertible visor has a bill including a first bill covering attached to a second bill covering with a bill stiffener therebetween. The bill stiffener permits the reversing of the bill to display either the first bill covering or the second bill coverin... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5881390 | Headband for use with personal stereo headphones A flexible headband for use with personal stereo headphones allows easy adjustment of the headphone speaker position. The headband is formed of a continuous tube of a stretchable material which has a buttonhole opening in the back toward the inside. The s... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5875494 | Headwear with closable hair opening The invention is a baseball-type cap with a closable opening that extends down the crown seam at the back of the cap. The opening is held closed by means of snaps attached to the overlapping portions of material at the seam edges, and is opened by separat... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5826272 | Visored golf cap A visored golf cap with a measuring means is disclosed. In the cap, a front visor is attached to the front part of a size-adjustable head band. The regularly-spaced visor holders are radially attached to all the opposite side parts of the band except for ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5826277 | Sweat band An improved sweat band. The sweat band includes an elastic band adapted to fit around a user's head and a length of sponge cloth intermittently attached along spaced apart locations to the elastic band. Only the ends and spaced apart segments of the strip... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5806089 | Reversible visor and assembly method therefor A convertible visor has a bill including a first bill covering attached to a second bill covering with a bill stiffener therebetween. The bill stiffener permits the reversing of the bill to display either the first bill covering or the second bill coverin... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5799326 | Sun-visors A sun-visor includes a first plate having a curved inner side from which a second plate extends. A curved slit is defined along an outer side of the first plate so as to form a curved fastening member foldably connected to two ends of the first plate. A b... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5727250 | Sunshade for hard hat A sunshade for use with a hard hat to provide shade and ultraviolet protection for the wearer comprises a vinyl disk with a hole dimensioned to receive the crown of a hard hat, the disk being covered with a washable fabric and having an elastic band sewn ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5704062 | Sun visor A sun visor (10) comprising a headband (12) worn on a head (14) of a person (16). A bill (18) is provided. while a structure (20) is for pivotally connecting the bill (18) to the front of the headband (12). The bill (18) can be tilted to the left side, st... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5682608 | Articulating visor apparatus A head worn visor apparatus having a headband, forwardly disposed shade, and a pair of rearwardly disposed elongated support arm assembliles having movable portions which are positionally adjustable to provide increased wearer comfort. The support arm ass... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5644799 | Headgear accessory A headgear accessory is adaptable to an existing cap, hat, hood, or other article worn on the head, to cover a hole or passage formed therein to provide for the passage of the hair of the wearer therethrough. Using the present headgear accessory, a hole m... | 07/08/1997 |
