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US 5,689,830 AGranted
Retractable visor
OwnerTrish Winsche Pfluminventor
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Abstract
This invention is of a visor for use either as a brim component for a hat or cap, or for use merely attached to a headband or sweatband worn around the head of the wearer, which brim is both retractable/extendable and is also swivelable/rotatable around the circumference of the head of the wearer, with the position of the extended or unextended visor being held in place by a unique construction taking advantage of the friction of the mating surfaces of the layers of the visor assembly.
Claims1
A retractable visor comprising:
- a plurality of nested visor components slidably engaging one another comprised of a base visor component and at least one additional visor component;
- each visor component having a rear edge, a front edge, and two curled edges extending longitudinally from the rear edge to the front edge, each curled edge having an exterior portion that forms a lateral edge and an interior portion that forms an annular slot, said lateral edge of the at least one additional visor component having a physically textured surface and the annular slot of each visor component having a physically textured surface;
- wherein the lateral edge of each succeeding visor component is slidably disposed in the annular slot of each preceding visor component, and the physically textured surfaces cause frictional engagement between each mating lateral edge and annular slot thereby preventing uninitiated movement of the visor components relative to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.