US1520717A

US1520717A - Ventilated cap

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Publication number: US1520717A
Application number: US702515A
Authority: US
Inventors: Kaplan Isidor
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1924-03-28
Filing date: 1924-03-28
Publication date: 1924-12-30
Anticipated expiration: 1941-12-30

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Dec. 1924. 1,520,717- KAPLAN VENTILATED an Filed March 28. 1924 anomtoz Side? Kaplan i Patented Dec. 30, 1924.

UNITED STATES ISIDO'B, KAPLAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

' I VENTILATEI CAP.

Application filed March 28. 1924.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ismon KArLAN, a citi Zen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilated Caps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to caps and particularly to the ventilating means therefor.

It is well known that the air enclosed in the interior of a cap becomes heated when the cap is worn due to the natural heat of the body and that under certain conditions, such as in warm weather or in a warm place the heated air causes the wearer to perspire at the forehead and to become uncomfortable.

My invention contemplates the provision of means communicating with the outer air for ventilating the inside of a cap and for allowing sufficient circulation of air therethrough at all times to keep the head of the wearer cool and to prevent undue perspiration, and consequent discomfort.

1 illustrate the preferred eml'iodiment of my invention in the drawings accompanying this specification, in which,

Fig. 1 is a side view of my improved cap.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same, showing the parts unfastened to illustrate improved ventilating more clearly my means.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section of my improved cap and Fig. 1 is a perspective view, greatly enlarged, of one of the eyelets forming a part of the ventilating means.

In that form of my invention illustrated herein, said ventilating means comprises a series of eyelets 10 having openings 11 therein of considerable size, through which air may pass freely between the interior and the exterior of the cap, a suflicient number of said eyelets 10 being provided to accomplish the purpose for which this invention is designed. Said eyelets are preferably positioned near the front part of the cap, rearwardly of the tip 12 thereof, so that said eyelets are hidden and unseen when the cap is worn. (Fig. 1.) In order that said eyelets become still less noticeable, I prefer to make them. of substantially the same color as the material of which the cap is made.

The row of eyelets 10 is arranged in spaced. relation to the juncture 13. of the Serial No. 702,515.

peak 14 and of the front spacing member 15 of said cap, for the reasons which will appear hereinafter.

I prefer to insert said eyelets in a cap in which front spacing members as 15 independent of, and seamed to the remainder of the tip 12, are provided. Said members 15 are seamed to the peak 14: in the usual man ner by means of the stitching 21, while the upper edge thereof is joined to the lower edge of the tip 12 by means of the seam 18. The inside of said seam 18 is preferably taped in the usual manner with the tape 19 seamed to the member 12 and. the member 15 by the

stitches

22 and 23 respectively. By folding over the edges of said members at the juncture of the

members

12 and 15 in the usual manner, it will be noted that three thicknesses of material are provided through. which at least half of each of the eyelets 10 may be fastened without severing the stitching 21. (Fig. 1.) I prefer to so position the eyelets 10 that the uppermost part thereof is very close to the seam 18 for the reason that the prongs 20 of said eyelet may be caused to bite deeply into the material and the eyelets firmly secured in place, due to the fact that a. sutiicient thickness of material is provided to give a firm grip on the cap. It will be understood that in that form of cap wherein an eyelet is secured to only one thickness of material. in the front of the cap, there is considerable danger that the material gripped between the prongs 20 and the head of said eyelet 10 may work loose from said eyelet under tension, and the eyelet may finally drop out. This difiiculty is prevented by securing the eyelet in the manner illustrated in Fig. 4, wherein there are at least three thicknesses of material. gripped and compressed between the head and the prongs of said eyelet, so that ten sion on the cloth of the cap is not transmit ted to the tape, whereby the eyelet is main tained in place by said tape.

A further advantage attained by positioning the eyelets near the seam 18 is that wrinkling of the material, of the cap or of the lining which n'ia'y be used to replace the tape, at the point where said eyelets are secured, and between sa'l eyelets. is thereby prevented. positioning the eyelet just below the seam 18, said seam remains strong and unsevered, while the major portion of the eyelet is caused to grip more than. one thickness of material and the tape,

tween the point 24 of the tip 12, where said tip is secured to the peak. 14: as by means of the snap fastener and said member 15. It will. also be noted that said member 15 tends to bend to form fold when the tip 12 is fastened in place by said snap fastener 25, along a line just below the eyelets 10, due to the weight of the material at the seam 18 so that said eyelets assume preferably a siibsta'ntially horizontal position, and,

' outside.

It will also be understood that various changes from the embodiment illustrated may be made without departing from the spirit of this invention, such as in the position of the eyelets 10, the shape of the member 15, and in the manner of joining the parts together.

I claim:

1. In a cap, a peak, a tip, a front flexible spacing member interposed between said peak and said tip, for maintaining said tip and said peak in spaced relation near the juncture. of said member and said tip, whereby said spacing member is unobstructedly exposed to the atmosphere, inwardly turned folds at the adjacent edges of said tip and said spacing member, a seam for joining said edges together, and a series of eyelets for ventilating said cap, secured against loss by being passed through and clamped in the folded material of one of said folds and permanently maintained substantially horizon'tal when said cap is worn by the partial collapse of said spacing member.

2; In a cap, a tip portion, a flexible spacing' member, a seam joining said member to said tip portion, tape on the inner surface of said cap at said seam, and eyelets adapted to allow air to pass therethrough, passed through said cap and said tape and gripping the material of said cap and said tape under compression between the ends of the eyelet, whereby the separation of said cap and tape material from said eyelets is prevented. j

3. In a cap, an overhanging flexible tip portion, a peak, a flexible front member in terposed between said tip portion and said peak, a seam joining the lower edge of said front member to said peak, a folded seam joining the upper edge of said front member to said tip portion, and eyelets arranged in the fold of said folded seam for gripping more than single thickness of material between the flanges thereof without severing said seam, and for causing said frontmemher to bend below said eyelets.

4. In a cap, an overhanging flexible t-ip portion, an imperforate peak, a flexible front spacing member in'tcrpos'edbetween said tip portion and said peak adapted to stand substantially upright throughout the lower part thereof, a seam joining the lower edgeofsaid front member to said peak, a foldedstitcli'ed seam joining the upper edge of said frontmember to said tip portion, a length of tape seamed to said front member and said tip portion at said upper edge for concealing said folded seam, and forproviding an additional thickness of material at said seam, and a row of eyelets hidden when said cap is worn, arranged immediately below the stitching of said folded seam in said front member for passing through the thicknesses of material in said seam, and through said tape without severing the stitching of said seam. whereby said eyelets are secured in position, and said front member bends below said eyelets for positioning said eyelets with the axes thereof substantially vertical.

5. In a cap, a tip portion, a peak, a flexible spacing member interposed betwecn'said tip portion and said peak, a fold at the lower edge of said tip'portion, a'simila'r fold at the upper edge of said spacing member, a seam joining said edges together, a' length of tape seamed to said tip portion, and said front member at said edges and a row of eyelets passing through said tape and the folded edge of said spacing member.

6. In a cap,'a tip portion, a peak, a-sp'acing member interposed between said tipp'ort-ion' and said peak, and adapted to stand substantially upright when said cap is Worn, a fold at the lower edge of said tip portion, a similar fold at the upper edge of said front member, a seam joining'said edges together, a length of tape seamed tosaidtip portion and said front member at said edges and a row of eyelets hidden when said cap is worn, passing through said tape and the folded edge of said front member forven'ti lating said cap, said row being substantially parallel and in spaced relation to the-inner edge-of said peak.

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