Patent ID: 6755329
Filing Date: 2004-06-29
Classification: A42B

Abstract:
A cap bill shaper device for a cap with a shapeable bill extending forward and side-to-side a sufficient distance to shade a forehead and eyes of a wearer, which device may be instantly applied to a shapeable cap bill and worn with the cap bill shaper device in place on the cap bill, the cap bill shaper device comprising:a curved shaper strip slightly greater in length than a width of a shapeable cap bill, the shaper strip having an exposed upperside and an underside adapted to contact a top surface of a shapeable cap bill and adapted to make a shapeable cap bill conform to the shape of the curved shaper strip, the shaper strip having an attached spaced binding tab at each end distanced from an the underside of the shaper strip by an amount less than the thickness of a shapeable cap bill so that the binding tab is adapted to receive and compress and securely grip a portion of a side edge of a shapeable cap bill against the underside of the curved shaper strip with a tight compression fit so that the can bill shaper device will not fall off of a shapeable cap bill even during intensive use of the cap, as in a sporting event; wherein the bill shaper device is fabricated in one piece of a semirigid material adapted to bend outwardly in a relatively flat configuration of the shaper strip and the binding tab is adapted to bend outwardly to receive a shapeable cap bill insertable between the binding tab and the shaper strip in a relatively flat configuration of the cap bill and further capable of bending back into the curved configuration for shaping a shapeable cap bill and binding a portion of the edges of a shapeable cap bill between the binding tab and the curved shaper strip.