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US 12,648,605 B2Granted
Rollable baseball cap
OwnerLevi Travis Cooperinventor
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Abstract
A cap includes a crown; and a bill comprising one of a bistable spring sheet or a plurality of bistable springs; wherein, in a first position of the cap, the one of the bistable spring sheet or the plurality of bistable springs are unrolled and the bill is in an extended configuration, and in a second position of the cap, the one of the bistable spring sheet or the plurality of bistable springs are rolled up and the bill is in a rolled configuration.
Claims11
A cap comprising:
- a crown;
- and
- a bill comprising one of a sheet of flat metal formed as a bistable spring sheet or a plurality of strips of flat metal formed as a plurality of bistable springs, the bistable spring sheet or each of the plurality of bistable springs configurable in a first stable state and a second stable state, the bill defining a back edge connected to the crown and a front edge opposite the back edge;
- wherein, in a first position of the cap, the one of the bistable spring sheet or each of the plurality of bistable springs are unrolled in the first stable state and the bill is in an extended configuration, and in a second position of the cap, the one of the bistable spring sheet or each of the plurality of bistable springs are rolled up in the second stable state and the bill is in a rolled configuration;
- and
- wherein, in the second position of the cap, the front edge of the bill is rolled towards the back edge of the bill in a front-to-back direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.