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US 5,493,735 AGranted
Cap with hair piece attachments
OwnerJudy Riceinventor
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Abstract
An apparel item is shown which includes a cap to be worn on a wearer's head. The cap interior has one or more specially designed fasteners for receiving mating fasteners of one or more hair accessory pieces, allowing the installation of such accessory pieces within the cap interior. The mating fasteners also include adjustment regions to vary the position and extent of exposure of the accessory hair pieces below the cap lower peripheral edge.
Claims13
An apparel item comprising:
- a cap intended to be worn on a wearer's head, the cap having a crown, a front and a rear and having an initially open interior which is defined between the crown and a lower peripheral edge;
- a hair accessory piece which simulates the appearance of human hair, the hair accessory piece having an upper portion and a normally exposed lower portion, the upper portion including a primary fastening means for removably installing the hair accessory piece within the initially open interior of the cap;
- cooperating fastening means located within the cap interior for matingly engaging the primary fastening means of the hair accessory piece, a selected one of the primary fastening means and the cooperating fastening means including an adjustment region for varying the extent of exposure of the normally exposed lower portion of the hair accessory piece;
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- wherein the adjustment region includes a first fastening strip having a length and a width and wherein the first fastening strip is installed within the interior of the cap and wherein the length of the first fastening strip runs from the approximate cap lower edge in the direction of the cap crown and at least a second cooperating fastening strip having a length and a width and wherein the second cooperating fastening strip is installed within the interior of the cap and wherein the length of the second fastening strip runs peripherally along at least a portion of the approximate cap lower edge.
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A method of installing a hair apparel item of the head of a wearer, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a cap intended to be worn on a wearer's head, the cap having a crown, a front and a rear and having an initially open interior which is defined between the crown and a lower peripheral edge;
- providing a hair accessory piece for use with the cap which simulates the appearance of human hair, the hair accessory piece having an upper portion and a normally exposed lower portion, the upper portion including a primary fastening means for removably installing the hair accessory piece within the initially open interior of the cap;
- providing cooperating fastening means located within the cap interior for matingly engaging the primary fastening means of the hair accessory piece, a selected one of the primary fastening means and the cooperating fastening means including an adjustment region for varying the extent of exposure of the normally exposed lower portion of the hair accessory piece, wherein the adjustment region includes a first fastening strip having a length and a width and wherein the first fastening strip is installed within the interior of the cap and wherein the length of the first fastening strip runs from the approximate cap lower edge in the direction of the cap crown and at least a second cooperating fastening strip having a length and a width and wherein the second cooperating fastening strip is installed within the interior of the cap and wherein the length of the second cooperating fastening strip runs peripherally along at least a portion of the approximate cap lower edge;
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- adjusting the exposure of the lower portion of the hair accessory piece by varying the position of engagement of the primary and secondary fastening means on the adjustment region to thereby adjust the extent of exposure of the normally exposed lower portion of the hair accessory piece both vertically and horizontally with respect to the cap lower peripheral edge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.