Patent ID: 6050099
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: A42B,A42C,A61F

Abstract:
A device for installing in a cap and dispensing a cooling medium onto the head of its wearer, wherein the cap has a head engaging portion for engaging the head of the wearer and which has an interior and an exterior, said device comprising:a) a dispensing portion for installation on the interior of the cap; andb) a cooling medium reservoir in fluid communication with said dispensing portion for containing and dispensing the cooling medium, wherein said dispensing portion comprises a plurality of conduits that are flexible, elongated, slender, radially-oriented, and in fluid communication with each other, and have inner walls for radially attaching to the interior of the head engaging portion of the cap, outer walls for facing the head of the wearer, and terminal ends that are sealed, wherein said outer walls of said plurality of conduits of said dispensing portion are affixed to respective inner walls of said plurality of conduits of said dispensing portion, only along their longitudinal edges and their terminal ends, and thereby defining a plurality of passageways therebetween, wherein said inner walls of said plurality of conduits of said dispensing portion have thereon a layer of adhesive for radially attaching said plurality of conduits of said dispensing portion to the interior of the head engaging portion of the cap, wherein said dispensing portion further comprises a release sheet that is generally square and of card stock and somewhat larger than said plurality of conduits of said dispensing portion.