Patent ID: 7398560

Claim:
Headwear comprising a headband and an opaque brim unit extending generally outwardly therefrom, said headwear further including: said headband having an interior for engagement with a wearer's head said headband further having an exterior leading edge; said opaque brim unit is directly interconnected only to said headband exterior leading edge so as to extend laterally along said exterior leading edge; said brim unit having a predetermined unfettered extension freely outward from its direct interconnection along said headband to a brim unit tip, and having a predetermined extent from a first lateral side of said brim unit to a second lateral side of said brim unit; said brim unit is configured to at least partially define and include a generally crescent shaped opening at and along the headband leading edge and extending for a majority of the lateral extent of the brim unit; said crescent shaped opening is defined as having a larger central open area flanked by narrowing ends thereof; each of said narrowing ends terminates at a point along the headband exterior leading edge and generally adjacent a respective lateral side of said brim unit; said opening is further defined as extending between a lower brim unit surface and an upper brim unit surface and open to surrounding ambient atmosphere at said upper and lower brim unit surfaces; whereby said opaque brim unit shields a wearer's eyes and face while air passes bidirectionally through said crescent shaped opening to and from the ambient atmosphere and across forehead and eye areas of the wearer thus serving to cool and dry said forehead and eye areas.