Abstract:
A baseball cap and method of assembling thereof is provided. The cap includes a crown that is formed from a single sheet or single piece of stretchable fabric, such as using heat pressing techniques. The cap further includes a support layer, such as made from buckram, which is attached to an interior, front portion of the crown, and a visor and a band which are attached to the crown. The crown has a hemispherical shape. In one example, the crown can include a back portion thereof which has been removed to form an open area across which an adjuster is attached. In another example, a front portion of the single-panel crown can be removed and replaced with a front panel made of a different material to form a modified crown.
Abstract:
The brim shaper device, a headwear accessory has binding tabs at each end, compression fitting the side edges of a cap bill and imparting a desired flat shape to the cap bill. Indicia may be placed on a top surface of the brim shaper device which covers the cap bill, The unitary shaped body of the invention is comprised of a lightweight, compact, cost-effective rigid material which also provides for enhanced portability of headwear while not in use.
Abstract:
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.degree. C. for about 5-150 seconds. The heated visor is cooled by a cool air current having a temperature of about 5.degree.-25.degree. C. for about 10-150 seconds. The device has heating and cooling units respectively connected to hot steam and cool air sources. A plurality of molds, used for shaping the visors, are received in at least one of the two units. Each of the molds includes two perforated panels, which are curved into the curvature and are assembled into a single body, with a plurality of spacers being interposed between the two panels and spacing the two panels apart from each other while def ining a curved gap between the two panels for receiving the visor of a cap.