Patent ID: 6840411

Claim:
A storage and display device for baseball-type caps having a domed cap section and a brim mounted thereon, said storage and display device for baseball-type caps comprising; a generally planar base; at least one generally concave brim shaping and receiving arcuate wall section mounted on and extending outwards from said base, said arcuate wall section having an inner curved wall surface and outer edges and being operative to receive a brim of a baseball-type cap therein and force the brim to retain a curved shape along a longitudinal axis thereof when the brim is in at least partial adjacent contact with said inner curved wall surface of said at least one generally concave brim shaping and receiving arcuate wall section; at least one brim retaining wall structure mounted on said generally planar base adjacent said outer edges of said at least one generally concave brim shaping and receiving arcuate wall section for frictionally contacting a section of a brim of a baseball-type cap when the brim is within said at least one generally concave brim shaping and receiving arcuate wall section thereby releasably retaining a brim of a baseball-type cap on said storage and display device; said at least one generally concave brim shaping and receiving arcuate wall section and said at least one brim retaining wall structure cooperating to form at least one brim-receiving and retaining cylinder, said at least one generally concave brim shaping and receiving arcuate wall section and said at least one brim retaining wall structure each having a longitudinal axis extending generally perpendicularly to and outwards from said generally planar base such that the longitudinal axis of said at least one brim-receiving and retaining cylinder is generally perpendicular to said generally planar base.