Patent ID: 6546563
Filing Date: 2003-04-15
Classification: A42B,A42C

Abstract:
A sweat-absorbing headgear, comprising:a headgear body having a ring portion adapted to extend around the head of a wearer, said ring portion including a woven elastic band section and being changeable in size due to stretchable and contractible characteristics of said woven elastic band section, said woven elastic band section being stretchable along a longitudinal direction of said woven elastic band section and including a plurality of fiber bundles which extend along the longitudinal direction and which are spaced apart transversely, said fiber bundles being stretched when said woven elastic band section is stretched, said fiber bundles forming a plurality of sweat-absorbing fiber tufts projecting from an inner surface of said woven elastic band section when said woven elastic band section returns to a normally contracted state; wherein said ring portion further includes a non-elastic section connected to said woven elastic band section; and wherein said non-elastic section has two cloth layers and a foam layer sandwiched between said two layers.