US1337397A

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Publication number: US1337397A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1920-04-20
Anticipated expiration: 1937-04-20

Description

P. A. FISCHER.

ADJUSTABLE CAP. APPLICAUON man Nov.11.1919.

1,337,397, Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

PHILIP A. FISCHER,

0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADJUSTABLE CAP.

1 ,I 37 ,39 7 Specification of Letters Patent Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

Application filed November 17, 1919. Serial No. 388,739.

To all whom t 'may concern:

lic it known that l, PHILIP A. FISCHER, o citizen olf the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new und useful 'Improvements in Adjustable Cups; and I do hereby declare the following to be o full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the nrt to which it appertains to make und use the same,

This invention relates to adjustable caps und huts mede of cloth or similar material.

in order to avoid` the necessity of carrying .i large stoel; oi ips of 'various sizes to meet the demands of' tbc trede, it has heretofore been proposed to make the caps adjustable so that. ir single cop oi" any desired st le and materiel muy be adjusted to lit the eed of the wearer. Dealers are thus enabled to meet the demands of the trade without the necessity ofi carrying n line of cops of eech style and pattern in e sufficient number of sizes to fill all possible requirements. Furthermore, the provision of an adjustable cop permits the wearer of the cap to alter its size to compensate for shrinkage or stretching of the material of which the cap is com posed. The above, as well as other advantages of adjustable caps, have led to the provision of various arrangements for securing edjnstebiliiy, such as by making incisions in the materiel of the cap, or by eaving open vfor more or less distance some of the seems between the segments of the crown of the cap. in some cases these incisions or openings ere erren red et the sides of the cap near the ends o the vizor, and in some other constructions they ere et the b ack of the cap. Changes in the size of the cajp ere secured by Ineens of straps by which the sides of the incisions or openin s may be more or less drawn to other. ese prior constructions require t at the material of the cap be cut, or that certain of the seems be left. open, and in many ceses, due to the depth of the Iincisions or openings it is necessary to provide gussets or simi er errengement-s for closing the openings.

It is an object oi this invention to simplifyV and otherwise improve the construction of adjustable caps while eliminetin the necessity of slitting the material of te cap for leaving some of the seams open. The ifmprovement does not interfere with thefeppearance of the cap, end when the latter is feirtension 12, or in other words, rim of the crown is indented or the normal being worn, itl cannot readily be distinguished from e. cap of the usual construction.

In accordance with the invention, the edge of the rear portion of the cap lies below the front edge to which the vizor or peak is atteched, thus forming En extension or depending portion of the crown. with the extension are straps or similar devices which pass over the vizor and are adjustahly connected to each other, so that the rim of the rear iortion of the crown may be drown toward t e vizor as much as may be necessary to make the cop of the required size.

The particular nature of the invention, as well as other objects and advantages thereof, will appear more clearly from a description of certainpreferred embodiments es shown 'in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 shows in perspective a complete repI with the straps detached .from each other. i,

Fig. 2 represents the crown and v,izo`r of a cap with the straps omitted to show more clearly the relation between these parts.

3 is a, modification of the invention in which the straps are formed as extensions of some ofthe se ents of the crown.

Fi 4 is e modification of the invention, in w ich the extended portion of the crown consists of e band having its ends free to serve as the adjusting straps; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged View of the interior of e cop at the point where adjustment takes place, showing particularly the arrangement of the sweat bend used in connection with the` improved construction.

Referring to the drawings, of the lccp may the crown 10 be formed of a number of segments 11 of the required shape and materml, sewed together at their edges or it may be formed of one piece of materia as is customary in some styles of ea s. Inaccordance with this invention, t e normal rim of the rear portion of the crownii ybelow the rim of the front portion, for' ng en the front rim of the rear portion of the crown.. A peek or vizor 13 of any desired shape is attached to of the crown, and

the vizor should terminhte a short distance from the forward edge of the projectigpor- A tion of the rear part of the crown, as indilies above Associated the lfront indented rim preferably the. sides of cated at 14.` The vizor may be provided `@with a suitable fastening device, such as, a 1 snap fastener 15, the coperatin member 16 f which is attached to the ront of the 5 crown so that the latter may be fastened to the vizor in the usual manner.

The structure thus far described will ap ear as in Fig. 2, but in order to secure ad- )nstability there is associated with the ex tended portion of the rear part of the crown on each side of the cap a strap 17. When in use these straps pass upwardly over the top of the vizor and are adjustably connected to each other by means of a buckle 18, or other suitable device. As shown in Fig. 1 each strap ma be connected as by sewing, to the front e ge of the extended portion 12 of the crown. These straps maybe con-A veniently and economically cut out of waste portions of material use for forming the sections of the crown, or, if desired, they ma be formed of other material.

Il; Fig. 3 there is shown a modification of the invention, in which each of the straps 17 is formed as an integral extension of one of the se nente 11' on each side of the cap, each of t ese sections being somewhat longer than the sections which form the front part of the crown, so asr to provide the required extended portion at the bottom of the rear part of the crown.

Some styles of cans are provided with a band around the rim of the c1'own,*this baudV being formed of the same or diderent ma terial. In accordance with the present invention, caps of this style maybe produced by attaching a band 19 to the edge of the crown, so that it extends below the edge to which the vizor is attached, as shown in Fig. 4. The ends of the band may be left free to form the straps 17 which pass over the top of the vizor and are adj ustnbly connected to each other to permit the size of the cap to be altered.

It is intended that in any of the modifications of thc invention sweat bands 2O of any suitable material ma Vbe attached to the inside of the rim of t e crown, and the forward ends of the bands should preferably be extended along the inside oi the straps 17 as indicated at 21 in the interior view, Fig. 5. The rim of the front portion of the crown is also provided with o sweat bend 22, which preferably tapers to a point at each side of the cup. Due to the above arrangement there 1s formed a practically continuous sweat band around the interior of the cap, so that even when the size of the cup is ziltered by adjustment of the straps l?, there is always n portion of the sweat bund in contact with the head of the wearer at the `sides of the cup on account of the extensions 21.

F rom the above description of the invcn tion it will bc seen that there is provided an adjustable cap of simple construction,

4of a continuous rim.

which may be rapidly and cheaply manufactured. When the cap is being worn the front portion of the crown will usually be folded over the vizor and .held in plaeefby means of the fasteninr devices 15 andY j16, and under these con itions the adjustin straps 17 will be largely concealed beueat the portion of the crown which overla s the vizor. At the same time the straps wi l oonceal the openin s formed between the front ed es of the spending portion and the si es of the vizor and ive the appearance en the straps are manipulated there will be relative movement between the extended rim of the crown and the sides of the vizor in the nature of a swinging movement of the extended portion about-the points a. at Ythe top of the front edges of this portion. In practice it is preferred to space the pointed ends of the vizor slightly in advance of the front' edges of the extension, as at 14, to permit overlapping or gathering of the material at this region as the size of the cap is altered, arid since these regions of the cap are largely conc-ended under the folded forward'portion of the crown when the ca is being worn, any folding| or wrinkling wiich may occur at these points will not be conspicuous.

' By virtue of the improvement it is* possible to provide for all of the demands of the trade without making it necessary fdr dealers to carry in stock a number of sizes of each st le and pattern of cap. Caps cony cipally the straps 17, may be cut o t of remnants of the material used for fo ming the crown; or, as is shown in Fig. 3 they may be made as integral extensions of the same ma-` terial,

While certain preferred embodiments of the invention have been shown and de scribed, it will be understood that various changes in details may be made without departlng from the principle of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

1. An adjustable cap, a crownyprovided with an extension lying below the edge to which the vizor is attached, means on each side of the cap assoparts, and such parts usare necessry, princomprising a. vizor,

ciated with the extension and passing uphaving the iim of its rear portion lying below the rim of the forward portion, a vizor attached to the rim of the forward portion, a strap associated with the extended portion on each side of the cap, said straps being arranged to extend across the top of the vizor adjacent the forward edge of the crown, and means for adjustabl connecting the straps together to perm1t the size of the cap to be altered.

3. An adjustable cap, comprising a vizor, a crown provided with an extension lying below the edge to which the vizor is attached, a strap associated with the extension on each side of the cap, and having a width substantially equal to-the width of the extension, said straps being arran ed to extend across the top of the vizor a jacent the forward edge of the crown, and means for adjustably connecting the straps together to permit the size of the cap to be altered.

4. An adjustable cap, comprisin aerown having its rear portion projectin elow the forward portion, a vizor attac ed to the lower edgfl of the forward portion and terminating on each side of the cap a short distance in advance of the front edge of the projecting portion, a strap associated with the projecting portion. of the crown on each side of the cap, said straps being arran ed to extend across the top of the/vizor aA jacent the forward edge of the crown, and means for adjustablv connecting the straps together to permit the size of the cap to be altered.

5. An adjustable cap, comprising a crown having the rear portion extended below the forward portion, a vizor attached to the lower edge of the forward portion and terminating on each side of the cap a short distance in advance of the front edge of the extended portion, a strap associated with the extended portion of the crown onI each side of the cap and having a width substantially equal to the width of the extended portion so that the upper edge of the strap lies closely adjacent to the lower edge of the front portion of the cap between the end of the vizor and the forward edge of the eX- tended portion, said straps being arranged to extend across the top of the vizor when the cap is in use, and means for adjustably connecting the straps together to permit the size of the cap to be altered.

6. An adjustable cap, comprising a vizor,

a crown provided with an extension lying below the edge to which the vizor is attached, a strap associated with the exten` sion on each side of the cap and passing upwardly over the vizor, means for adjust` ably connccting'together thc straps to permit the size of the cap to be altered, a band attached to the interior of the extension and carried along the inner face of each strap, and a second band attached to the lower fdge of the front portion of the crown'at the inner edge of the vizor.

7. An adjustable cap comprising a crown and a vizor attached to the front of the crown on a line placed above the normal rim of the cap, means on each side of the cap, continuons with the normal rim of the cap and passing upwardly over the vizor, and means for adjustably connecting the said means together to permit the size of the ca to be altered.

n testimony whereof I aixm PHILIP A. F

signature.

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