Patent ID: 6507956
Filing Date: 2003-01-21
Classification: A42B

Abstract:
In combination:a) a headwear piece having a front and rear and comprising a crown having a surface which is grippingly engageable with a wearer's head and a visor of sufficiently rigid material to be shape retentive and readily reducible to a compact state, said visor projecting in a forward direction away from the crown, wherein the visor has a relaxed state wherein the visor has a first width dimension taken transversely to a fore-and-aft line and a deformed state, wherein the visor in the deformed state has a second width dimension taken transversely to the fore-and-aft line that is less than the first width dimension, the visor changed from the relaxed state into the deformed state by bending the visor around the fore-and-aft line towards a continuous cylindrical shape; and b) at least one holding element that is fully separable from the headwear piece, the at least one holding element maintaining the visor in the deformed state so that the visor has the second width dimension, wherein a part of the crown is folded forwardly toward the visor.