Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7967173 | Device and associated methods for storing, displaying, and shaping hats The technology described herein provides a device and associated methods for storing, displaying, and shaping hats, caps, or the like. This device includes multiple rings of the same diameter and multiple rings of varied diameters to provide for the storing and disp... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7461764 | Hat accessory with indicia Disclosed herein is a hat accessory for engaging the visor or bill of a baseball cap or other hat with a forward extending visor or bill, the hat accessory comprising an indicia that may bear information, images, messages or the like related to sports teams, adverti... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7178173 | Apparatus for shaping and/or placing information on a baseball-style cap The combination of a headwear piece and an attachment. The headwear piece has a crown with a circumference and a bill projecting away from the crown and extending less than fully around the circumference of the crown. The bill has a peripheral edge including a front... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7097080 | Athletic headwear shaping device and method An improved headwear shaping device which is compact, lightweight, modular and contains an arcuate channel for receiving the visor portion of athletic headwear, shaping the visor by applying equal pressure throughout the perimeter of the visor. The shaping device al... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7082619 | Bill adjuster with indicia A device for adjusting and securing the bill of a cap in a user chosen arc having indicia on the top surface. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075009 | Screwless faceplate components and assembly A screw less faceplate assembly includes of a single monolithic subplate component and a single monolithic faceplate component that is removably attachable to the subplate component. Both the subplate component and the faceplate component have complimentary, respect... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6824027 | Cap brim shaper The present invention provides a cap brim shaper for shaping the brim of a sports cap comprising a body member with at least two grooves. Both grooves are sufficiently long and wide to receive the brim of a sports cap. The second groove's curvature is greater than t... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6755329 | Instant wearable cap bill shaper A curved cap bill shaper has binding tabs at each end compression fitting the side edges of a cap bill and imparting a desired curvature to the cap bill. Mating curved arms hinged to the bill shaper may adjustably interlock below the cap bill sandwiching it therebet... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6655558 | Ornamental bending device for a baseball cap type visor An ornamental visor-bending device with a strand that is bent, formed and cut, comprises a laterally arched member running substantially from one side of a baseball cap type visor to the other side. The device further includes end members on each end of t... | 12/02/2003 |
| 5862522 | Method and device for shaping the visors of caps and such a cap A method and device for shaping the visors of caps is disclosed. In the method, the visor is curved into a predetermined curvature prior to being heated by hot steam having a temperature of about 100° C. for about 5-150 seconds. The heated visor is coole... | 01/26/1999 |
| 4927063 | Combination cap hanger and visor press A combination cap hanger and visor press includes pivotally connected spring loaded gripping members, adapted to receive a cap visor between them and curved in the direction appropriate to the cap visor. The curvature of the gripping members and the force... | 05/22/1990 |
