Patent Application
20210219645
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The disclosure relates to hats and more particularly pertains to a new hat for providing variable designs for a single hat.
The prior art relates to hats offering an interchangeable component. Existing devices offer a variety of methods for adding and removing external decorative elements.
However, these devices do not offer a fully replaceable section of the hat.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a hat body including a front portion, a back portion, a left portion, a right portion, and a top portion. The hat body has an outer surface and an inner surface. The front portion has a patch aperture extending through the outer surface to the inner surface. A patch has an outer face, an inner face, and a patch edge. The patch is dimensioned to be larger than the patch aperture. A plurality of engagement members comprises a plurality of first engagement members coupled to the patch proximal the patch edge and a plurality of second engagement members coupled to the front portion of the hat body proximal the patch aperture. The first engagement members are selectively engageable with the second engagement members to couple the patch to the hat body and covering the patch aperture.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A patch 34 has an outer face 36, an inner face, and a patch edge 40. The patch 34 is dimensioned to be larger than the patch aperture 28. The patch 34 may be attachable to the outer surface 24 or the inner surface 26 of the hat body. When attached to the inner surface 26, the outer face 36 of the patch 34 has an exposed portion 42 conforming to the patch aperture 28 and an attachment border 44 surrounding the exposed portion 42 and extending to the patch edge 40. The outer face 36 of the patch is adorned with a logo 46 or design the user wishes to display. The logo 46 or design may be stitched, printed, dyed, or otherwise applied on the patch 34. The patch 34 may be constructed of the same material as the hat body 12 or as a traditional sewn-on or iron-on patch. The patch aperture 28 and the patch 34 may have a rotationally irregular shape such as, but not limited to, ovular, obround, or rectangular to allow the user to easily place the exposed portion 42 within the patch aperture 28 such that the logo 46 or design displayed on the patch 34 is oriented correctly and not askew.
A plurality of engagement members 48 comprises a plurality of first engagement members 50 coupled to the attachment border 44 and a plurality of second engagement members 52 coupled to the inner surface 26 of the front portion 14 of the hat body proximal the patch aperture 28. The first engagement members 50 selectively engage with the second engagement members 52 to couple the patch 34 to the hat body 12 and cover the patch aperture 28. The plurality of first engagement members 50 and the plurality of second engagement members 52 may be a plurality of selectively engageable male and female fasteners, respectively, such as, but not limited to, snaps, hook-and-loop fasteners, and the like. As shown in
The exposed portion 42 may be raised above the attachment border 44 such that the exposed portion 42 rests flush with, or extends beyond, the outer surface 36 of the hat body when the first engagement members 50 engage the second engagement members 52. The apparatus 10 thus appears to be of a traditional construction when the patch 34 is engaged with the hat body 12.
In use, the patch 34 is selected depending on the logo 46 or design desired. The first engagement members 50 are engaged with the second engagement members 52 and the apparatus 10 is then used as a traditional hat. When the user wishes for a change, the patch 34 is removed and replaced with another patch 34 displaying a different logo 46 or design. The user may thus own or travel with a single apparatus 10 for a variety of occasions rather than owning many traditional hats.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
