Patent ID: 8480365

Claim:
An article of headwear comprising: a headwear body having a through hole extending completely therethrough; a cooling device; a mounting ring received at the through hole which mounts the cooling device to the headwear body at the through hole to permit selective manipulation of the cooling device about a horizontal axis in a range between 0 to 360 degrees relative to the headwear body and the mounting ring, the mounting ring having: a mounting ring body having a first aperture provided at the gap and a second aperture at the gap concentrically spaced from the first aperture at an opposite side of the mounting ring body; a first flange extending generally perpendicularly from an upper outer peripheral edge of the mounting ring body which engages the headwear body; and a second flange extending generally perpendicularly from a lower outer peripheral edge of the mounting ring body which engages the headwear body, the second flange being spaced from the first flange to define a gap that receives and engages the headwear body; a first mounting ring electric contact provided at a first region of the mounting ring body and a second mounting ring electric contact provided at a second region of the mounting ring body, wherein the first region is opposite to and spaced from the second region, the first mounting ring electric contact having: a first mounting ring electric contact portion extending through the mounting ring body to thereby mount the first mounting ring electric contact to the mounting ring body at the first region; and a second mounting ring electric contact portion extending generally perpendicularly from the first mounting ring electric contact portion adjacent an inner peripheral surface of the mounting ring body, the second mounting ring electric contact portion including a hole that corresponds spatially to the first aperture; a driving source for driving the cooling device.