Patent Application
20240381963
This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2023-0062273 filed on May 15, 2023, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The present invention generally relates to a hooded cap having a variously adjustable visor, and more particularly, to a hooded cap having a variously adjustable visor that provides a visor structure capable of maintaining the various shapes of a cap visor, thereby enabling the various types of adjustment of the hooded cap and also allowing the function of blocking sunlight to be maintained.
In general, when people go mountain climbing or exercise, they use handkerchiefs to wipe sweat, and wear hats or caps to prevent their faces from being scorched by the sun's ultraviolet rays.
Since such a handkerchief and such a hat or cap are separate items, a user has to purchase the items separately, so that a disadvantage arises in that the purchase cost is high, and the items are separately stored even when not in use, so that another disadvantage arises in that it is inconvenient to store them separately, resulting in poor portability and storage.
Korean Utility Model Registration No. 20-0287368 (registered on Aug. 16, 2002; hereinafter referred to as “prior art document 1”) proposed a handkerchief provided with a visor. The technology of prior art document 1 provides a structure in which a handkerchief is folded along a diagonal line, the outer portion of a sun visor plate is arranged to protrude beyond the diagonally folded line of the handkerchief, and then a sewing line is formed on the inner portion of the sun visor plate to combine the components. The technology of prior art document 1 is inconvenient to store the handkerchief because the sun visor plate is formed of a plate material. In addition, when a user wears the handkerchief, a handkerchief part on both sides of the sun visor comes into vertical contact with the forehead of a user. Accordingly, the sun visor plate is also arranged only vertically in the same direction as the handkerchief part. As a result, there is a structural difficulty in fulfilling the role of blocking sunlight through the horizontal arrangement.
In addition, Korean Utility Model Publication No. 20-2011-0004641 (published on May 12, 2011; hereinafter referred to as “prior art document 2”) proposed a combined triangular handkerchief and headband. The technology of prior art document 2 enables a handkerchief to be used as a hood, and has a structure in which a band is wound around one side of a triangular handkerchief to form a cylindrical shape and then the cylindrical band is integrated with the side of the handkerchief. This structure allows a user to wear the cylindrical band then collect and tie the vertices of the diagonally folded handkerchief onto the rear of the head, thereby easily utilizing it as a hood. However, the technology of prior art document 2 has disadvantages in that the combined triangular handkerchief and headband is not equipped with a visor capable of blocking sunlight and it is inconvenient to fold and store triangular handkerchief and headband due to the structure of the cylindrical band.
Therefore, a visor capable of blocking sunlight is integrated with a handkerchief to be thus used for both purposes. There is a need for a combined cap and handkerchief with a new structure that enables the shape of a visor to be easily changed for easy cleaning and facilitates the placement of the visor vertical to the surface of the face of a user when the combined cap and handkerchief is worn on the user to thus improve a sunscreen effect.
In recent years, Korean Utility Model Registration No. 20-0496513 (published on Feb. 16, 2023; hereinafter referred to as “prior art document 3”), which was previously registered by the present applicant, proposed a combined cap and handkerchief. In the combined cap and handkerchief, a cap and a handkerchief are integrated with each other, the shape of the sun visor of the cap is maintained by wire, and the wire is also made of a material that is easily deformable. Even when the sun visor is attached to the handkerchief, the handkerchief can be easily wrinkled, so that it is easy to use and store the combined cap and handkerchief and the combined cap and handkerchief can be easily washed and used. The shape of the visor is limited to a curved shape and the function of blocking sunlight is simple, so that there is a need for efforts to compensate for these disadvantages.
Therefore, the present invention has been conceived to overcome the above-described problems of the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a hooded cap having a variously adjustable visor that provides a visor structure capable of maintaining the various shapes of a cap visor, thereby enabling various types of adjustment of the hooded cap.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a hooded cap that provides a cap visor capable of various types of adjustment, thereby enabling adjustment in accordance with the fashion sense of a user.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a hooded cap that allows the angle of a cap visor to be adjusted, thereby improving the function of blocking sunlight.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a hooded cap in which a soft material is inserted into a cap visor so that the volume can be minimized when the hooded cap is folded and restoration into the cap visor can be made immediately when the hooded cap is unfolded, with the result that the hooded cap is convenient to carry and use.
In order to accomplish the above objects, the present invention provides a hooded cap having a variously adjustable visor, the hooded cap including: a handkerchief body; a cap visor provided with a curved portion, and formed by cutting upper and lower fabrics superimposed in two to four layers on the front side of one side of the handkerchief body into a semicircular or semielliptical shape and then sewing the edges of the cut upper and lower fabrics together to combine them in an integrated form; and a visor structure inserted into the inside of the edge of the curved portion of the cap visor, and formed to maintain the shape of the cap visor; wherein the visor structure is further configured to be restored to the shape of the cap visor when folded and then unfolded.
The visor structure may be restored to a rectangular or polygonal shape and formed in the shape of the cap visor when folded and then unfolded.
The cap visor may include: a bar-shaped length bar; and a plurality of guide joints configured such that they are formed at predetermined locations of the length bar to guide the length bar through restoration to a rectangular or polygonal shape.
The visor structure may be made of a silicon material that can minimize a volume thereof when folded.
The visor structure may include a plurality of pieces that are spread flat across the curved portion of the cap visor.
The visor structure including the plurality of pieces may be configured to adjust the visor angle of the cap visor.
The visor structure may be formed of wire that is made of a plastic material.
The hooded cap may further include: a silicon fabric installed to be inserted flat between the upper and lower fabrics of the cap visor and maintain the shape of the cap visor; and a silicon bar installed to be seated across the silicon fabric so that the cap visor can be freely folded and unfolded; and the cap visor may be finished and formed as a sunshade by sewing the edges of the upper and lower fabrics together so that they can face each other vertically.
The above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
The present invention may be subject to various modifications and have various embodiments. Specific embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the detailed description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, and should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.
The present invention is not limited to the embodiments to be disclosed below, and may be implemented in various different forms. Only these embodiments are provided to complete the disclosure of the present invention and to fully inform those skilled in the art of the scope of the invention.
Hereinafter, example embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, in the assignment of reference numerals to components of each of the accompanying drawings, it should be noted that the same components have the same reference numerals as much as possible even when they are illustrated on different drawings. Furthermore, in the following description of the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known configuration or function may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted.
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The handkerchief body 110 is fabricated in a square shape having a specific size by cutting fabric, and is typically made of a material that easily absorbs sweat. Various types of patterns may be printed on the surface of the handkerchief body 110.
The cap visor 120 is intended to block sunlight, and is formed by cutting upper and lower fabrics 121 and 122 superimposed in two to four layers into a semicircular or semielliptical shape and then sewing the edges of the cut upper and lower fabrics 121 and 122 to combine them in an integrated form. The cap visor 120 may include an inner part 123 configured such that the visor structure is inserted thereinto and a pulling surface 125 configured to be pulled toward the handkerchief body 110.
In addition, as a method of coupling the cap visor 120 in an integrated form, various methods such as attaching the cap visor 120 with a bond in addition to sewing the cap visor 120 may be applied. The cap visor 120 has a curved front side formed forward in such a manner that the front side is formed as a curved portion. Although the curved surface is described as a semi-circle or a semi-ellipse, it may include various shapes formed by the cap visors of general caps.
In addition, integrated combination may be performed on the inner surface through quilting sewing or adhesion, and may provide a somewhat thicker thickness than a single layer of handkerchief.
The visor structure 130 is inserted into the inside of the edge of the curved portion of the cap visor 120 and is formed to maintain the shape of the cap visor 120 that blocks sunlight. The visor structure 130 is made of a flexible metal or synthetic resin material that is easily deformable such as wire or wire so that it is easily wrinkled when the overall handkerchief is folded or washed. When the hooded cap is used as a cap, the visor structure 130 may be provided such that it can easily maintain a shape for a sunshade. Furthermore, a shape memory alloy that is easily wrinkled is used as the visor structure 130.
Preferably, in order to prevent the ends of the visor structure 130 from being exposed to the outside through the fabric during washing or storage, the ends of the visor structure 130 may be formed to be curved or wide to prevent piercing of the fabric in such a manner that the ends of the visor structure 130 are bent, caps are mounted on the ends of the visor structure 130, or drop layers made of resin are formed on the ends of the visor structure 130.
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The inner sewing line 151 forms the inner portion 121 of the cap visor 120, which is a space in which the visor structure 130 is inserted between the sewing parts of the edges, and limits and fixes the position where the visor structure 130 is inserted.
As described above, the cap visor 120 having the visor structure 130 is coupled to the handkerchief body 110 in an integrated form by being sewn to the handkerchief body 110 on the rear side thereof, the straight end side in the drawing.
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For example, the cap visor 120 is disposed at the center point of an arbitrary diagonal line that connects two opposite vertices of the handkerchief body 110. A straight part, which is the rear end of the cap visor 120, is sewn along the diagonal line, thereby forming an integrated body.
In this case, the curved portion, which is the front side of the cap visor 120, is disposed to face the inside of the handkerchief body in order not to be exposed to the outside of the diagonal of the handkerchief body 110, and then the rear end of the cap visor 120 is sewn. When sewing is performed, the handkerchief body 110 may be used as a handkerchief without a change in the size of the handkerchief by coupling the cap visor 120 to the handkerchief body 110 in an unfolded state without folding.
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Thereafter, sewing is performed such that the second support sewing line 153 is formed on the inner portion of the cap visor 120 spaced apart from the first support sewing line 152 by a predetermined distance.
In addition, the curved folding sewing line 154 is formed by performing sewing so that a curved portion is formed on the front side of the cap visor 120 while passing through both ends of the second support sewing line 153.
Accordingly, the handkerchief body 110 and the cap visor 120 are integrated with each other by the first support sewing line 152, the second support sewing line 153, and the curved folding sewing line 154. In this case, the distance between the first support sewing line 152 and the second support sewing line 153 is formed to be 12 to 20 mm and the central protruding height of the curved folding sewing line 154 protrudes by 10 to 15 mm from both edges, so that a curved surface corresponding to the forehead of the human body is formed.
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The pulling force acting on both sides forms a different bending direction of the cap visor 120 according to the position of a portion not coupled to the handkerchief body 110, which is the upper part of the cap visor 120, so that it can be arranged vertically or forward and downward.
As described above, when the present invention is used as a handkerchief, it is used in an entirely unfolded or folded state.
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In addition, when the hooded cap of the present invention is used as a hood, the handkerchief body 110 is folded along a diagonal line while the cap visor 120 is raised upward without folding, and is then wrapped around a user's head and tied on the rear of the head, thereby completing wearing. In this case, both sides of the cap visor 120 are bent backward along the curved surface of the user's forehead, regardless of whether it is disposed inward or outward, so that it remains disposed close to the human body unless it is forcibly pulled.
Furthermore, when the hooded cap of the present invention is used as a headband, the visor structure 130 of the cap visor 120 is bent smoothly, so that it can be folded at regular intervals and tied to the head to be used as a band.
Preferably, it can also be used as a scarf if necessary.
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Preferably, the visor structures 130 and 230 may be made of a silicon material capable of minimizing the volume when folded.
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Preferably, the visor structure 330 may be made of a plastic material.
Preferably, the handkerchief body 110 connected to the cap visor 120 may be provided with different colors or patterns, such as a single color or a checkered pattern, on the inside and outside exposed to the outside.
The present invention may provide the hooded cap having a variously adjustable visor that provides the visor structure capable of maintaining the various shapes of the cap visor, thereby enabling various types of adjustment of the hooded cap.
Furthermore, the present invention may provide the hooded cap that provides the cap visor capable of various types of adjustment, thereby enabling adjustment in accordance with the fashion sense of a user.
Furthermore, the present invention may provide the hooded cap that allows the angle of the cap visor to be adjusted, thereby improving the function of blocking sunlight.
Moreover, the present invention may provide the hooded cap in which a soft material is inserted into the cap visor so that the volume can be minimized when the hooded cap is folded and restoration into the cap visor can be made immediately when the hooded cap is unfolded, with the result that the hooded cap is convenient to carry and use.
While the present invention has been illustrated and described with reference to preferred embodiments above, it is not limited to the above embodiments. It will be apparent that various modifications and alterations may be made by those skilled in the art within the spirit of the present invention and the equivalent scope of the claims to be described below.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2023-0062273 | May 2023 | KR | national |
