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US 10,765,162 B2Granted
Cap and method of manufacturing a cap
AssigneeShanghai Pacific Hat Manufacturing Company, LTD
InventorZhen Mao
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Abstract
A baseball cap and method of assembling thereof is provided. The cap includes a single-panel crown that is formed from a single sheet or single piece of stretchable fabric, such as using heat pressing techniques. The single-panel crown has a hemispherical shape. The cap further includes a support layer, such as made from buckram, which is attached to an interior, front portion of the single-panel crown, and a visor and an elastic band which are attached to the single-panel crown.
Claims10
A method of assembling a cap comprising:
- forming a single-panel crown for a cap from a single sheet or single piece of stretchable fabric;
- attaching a support layer to an interior portion of the single-panel crown;
- and
- attaching a visor and an elastic band to the single-panel crown with the attached support layer,
- wherein the forming a single-panel crown comprises heating and stretching the single sheet or single piece of stretchable fabric to form a hemispherical shape on a portion of the stretchable fabric,
- wherein the single sheet or single piece of stretchable fabric is to be heated and stretched into the hemispherical shape without applying or adding additional materials thereto for shaping the stretchable fabric.
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A method of assembling a cap comprising:
- forming a single-panel crown for a cap from a single sheet or single piece of stretchable fabric;
- attaching a support layer to an interior portion of the single-panel crown;
- and
- attaching a visor and an elastic band to the single-panel crown with the attached support layer,
- wherein the single sheet or single piece of stretchable fabric comprises a fabric blank of the stretchable fabric,
- wherein the forming a single-panel crown comprises:
- heating and stretching the fabric blank of the stretchable fabric to form a single-panel crown having a hemispherical shape,.
- wherein the single sheet or single piece of stretchable fabric is to be heated and stretched into the hemispherical shape without applying or adding additional materials thereto for shaping the stretchable fabric.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.