Patent ID: 8205272

Claim:
A protective head guard, consisting essentially of: a conventional fabric baseball cap ( 30 ) having a body with a base, a top, a back, a front and a bill at the front, wherein the baseball cap comprises an inner portion of the body of the cap ( 40 ) and an internal circumferentially disposed sweatband ( 35 ) having a base edge coinciding with and connected to the base of the cap and a top edge, the inner portion ( 40 ) and the sweatband ( 35 ) defining a space closed at the base of the cap and open at the top edge of the sweatband; and a shock-absorbing form ( 10 ) conformable from an elongate flat configuration into a conical configuration for insertion into the cap ( 30 ), the form comprising: a base portion having an arcuate profile extending the entire length of said base portion when the form is in the flat configuration and an inner radius side having a concave configuration when the form is in said flat configuration and an outer radius side with respect to the arcuate profile, said base portion comprising on its outer radius side one or more insertable sections ( 20 ) sized and configured for insertion into the space, and a plurality of flaps ( 26 ) extending from the inner radius side of the base portion, said plurality of flaps sized and configured to conform to the inner portion of the body of the cap ( 40 ), wherein said shock-absorbing form is inserted in the baseball cap such that the one or more insertable sections ( 20 ) are inserted into the space and the flaps ( 26 ) extend toward the top of the cap conforming to the inner portion of the body of the cap above the top edge of the sweatband, thereby forming the protective head guard.