Patent ID: 8893934
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: A42B,A42C

Abstract:
1. A cap shaper for shaping a non-rigid cap, comprising one or more contact-members, arranged and adapted for respectively contacting and supporting, under tension, a corresponding number of specific regions on the inside of the cap, the cap-shape-defining-regions, and interconnected or interjoined by elastic means for maintaining a generally larger dimension of a collective outline of the contact-members when the shaper is free from external forces, than that of the cap inside, enabling elastic deformation of the cap shaper and relative displacement of the contact-members in response to external forces exerted thereto, and generating cap shaper internal elastic tension counter-balancing the external forces; when the cap shaper is placed inside of the cap with said contact-members in respective contact with said cap-shape-defining-regions of the cap, it deforms elastically under the confines of the smaller cap inside dimension by tensioned contacts of said contact-members with said cap-shape-defining-regions, elastically displacing contact-members due to the contact forces exerted thereto by cap-shape-defining-regions of the cap, resulting in its internal elastic tension and tendency to expand and substantially self-adapt the relative positions of said contact-members, as permitted by said elastic means, to fit in said cap-shape-defining-regions of the cap, accommodating minor cap size and shape variations, counter balancing the external contact forces and maintaining tensioned contact to shape the cap.