WO2007053860A1

WO2007053860A1 - An accessory for a peak

Info

Publication number: WO2007053860A1
Application number: PCT/ZA2006/000099
Authority: WO
Inventors: Norman Clifford Venn
Original assignee: Norman Clifford Venn
Priority date: 2005-11-02
Filing date: 2006-08-11
Publication date: 2007-05-10
Also published as: AU2006308544A1; AU2006308544B2; US20080276351A1; ZA200804754B; CN101588734A

Abstract

The invention provides an accessory for a peak. The accessory includes a sheet with a slit defined therein which slit is shaped and configured for receiving a peak there through.

Description

Title: An Accessory for a Peak

Technical field of the invention

This invention relates to an accessory for a peak.

Background to the invention

The applicant is aware that headwear such as caps have a peak for keeping the sun out of the wearers eyes. Such peaks do not protect sides of a wearers head from direct sunlight and sunburn. Despite limited protection against the sun, peaked caps have an aesthetic appeal and have been popular for many years. It is an object of this invention to provide an accessory for a peak which provides additional protection against the sun and does not, at least not permanently, alter the general aesthetic appearance of headwear having such peaks.

General description of the invention

According to a first aspect of the invention there is provided an accessory for a peak, which accessory includes: a sheet with a slit defined therein which slit is shaped and configured for receiving a peak there through.

The sheet may be of resiliency flexible material. The sheet may be of plastics material such as polycarbonate, for example. The sheet may be coloured, preferably transparent. The sheet may filter ultra violet rays from the sun.

It will be appreciated that the sheet may be preformed to conform to usual curvature of a peak or the sheet may be flat and shaped by a peak to which it is fitted, in use. The sheet may preferably be generally half-moon shaped with the slit generally following the curve of the half-moon proximate the inside edge of the half-moon. The opposed free ends of the half-moon shaped sheet may extend past the slit with a width and length that will cover a wearer's ears, in use.

It will be appreciated that the main objective of the accessory is to protect against sunburn while not detracting from the aesthetic appeal of peaked headwear such as the popular caps. This objective is reached by the accessory since it is removable and temporarily attached to the peak and can also be manufactured from transparent plastics material such a polycarbonate. The accessory in itself may also become aesthetically pleasing with fashionable colouring and branding.

Detailed description of the invention

The invention is now described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 shows diagrammatically a plan view of an accessory for a peak, in accordance with the invention;

Figure 2 shows diagrammatically a perspective view of an accessory for a peak;

Figure 3 shows diagrammatically a side view of an accessory for a peak;

Figure 4 shows diagrammatically the use of the accessory for a peak with a cap; and

Figure 5 shows diagrammatically the use of the accessory for a peak with a peaked headwear.

Referring now to the drawings, the accessory for a peak, in accordance with the invention, is generally indicated by reference numeral 10. The headwear with peaks is indicated by reference numeral 12 and the peak with reference numeral 14.

The accessory 10 includes a transparent resiliently flexible polycarbonate sheet 16 with a slit 18 defined therein which slit is shaped and configured for receiving a peak 14 there through. The sheet 16 filters 92 % ultra violet rays from the sun.

The sheet 16 is generally half-moon shaped with the slit 18 generally following the curve of the half-moon proximate the inside edge 20 of the half- moon. The opposed free ends 22 of the half-moon shaped sheet 16 extends past the slit 18 with a width and length that will cover a wearer's ears, in use.

In use, a person such a golf player who wears a cap 12 will fit the accessory 10 (See Figures 4 and 5) to his cap while he is exposed to the sun and, if the person wishes to, remove it as soon as he is not exposed to the sun. If the accessory 10 is transparent, it will be almost invisible, especially from a distance.

It shall be understood that the examples are provided for illustrating the invention further and to assist a person skilled in the art with understanding the invention and are not meant to be construed as unduly limiting the reasonable scope of the invention.

Claims

1. An accessory for a peak, which accessory includes: a sheet with a slit defined therein which slit is shaped and configured for receiving a peak there through.

2. An accessory as claimed in Claim 1 , wherein the sheet is of resiliency flexible material.

3. An accessory as claimed in Claim 1 or Claim 2, wherein the sheet is of transparent plastics material which filters at least some ultra violet rays from the sun.

4. An accessory as claimed in any one of the previous claims, wherein the sheet is generally half-moon shaped with the slit generally following the curve of the half-moon proximate the inside edge of the half- moon.

5. An accessory as claimed in Claim 4, wherein the opposed free ends of the half-moon shaped sheet extends past the slit with a width and length that will cover a wearer's ears, in use.

6. An accessory, substantially as described herein with reference to the accompanying drawings.