Patent ID: 8024818
Filing Date: 2011-09-27
Classification: A42B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising a neckpiece configured for attachment to a headwear to protect a user's neck, the neckpiece comprising a layer of flexible material with a proximal end supported adjacent the headwear, an opposing distal end configured to be suspended adjacent to a base of the user's neck and a surface therebetween, the layer of flexible material comprising a support portion formed from a laterally extending first panel that supports a first closure device on the surface and a laterally extending second panel that supports a corresponding second closure device on the same surface, the first and second panels fold together with the second panel folded upwardly to contactingly engage the second closure device to the first closure device to form an upwardly directed open V-shaped channel which circumferentially extends in contact against an outermost rearward surface of the headwear, the layer of flexible material further comprising a flap portion which extends from the second panel to the distal end and is moveable between a deployed state to cover the user's neck to a retracted state in which the flap portion is gathered into the channel.