Patent Document ID: 7676851
Application ID: 11504273

Base Claim:
1. A headwear piece comprising: a crown defining an opening into which a wearer's head can be directed; and a brim/bill projecting away from the crown, the crown having an inside surface for engaging a wearer's head directed into the opening to thereby maintain the headwear piece in an operative position upon the wearer's head, the crown and brim/bill further having an exposed outside surface to which ornamentation is applied, the ornamentation comprising bullion wire that is applied to the exposed outside surface so as to define at least a part of a viewable component that comprises at least one of: a) a scene; b) a logo; c) a design; d) a word; e) a letter; and f) a depiction of a: i) person; ii) place; and/or iii) thing, wherein the ornamentation comprises a discrete shape with an area bounded by a border, and the ornamentation comprises: a) wire that is at least one of bullion wire and non-bullion wire applied in a first pattern comprising substantially straight, substantially parallel, adjacent lengths of the at least one of bullion wire and non-bullion wire within the area bounded by the border that collectively contiguously cover a substantial portion of the area bounded by the border; and b) bullion wire applied in a second pattern comprising substantially straight, substantially parallel, adjacent lengths of bullion wire within the area bounded by the border and overlying the first pattern, wherein the lengths of bullion wire in the second pattern are transverse to the lengths of wire in the first pattern and collectively contiguously cover a substantial portion of the area bounded by the border, a plurality of the lengths of the bullion wire in the second pattern each spanning across a plurality of the lengths of the wire in the first pattern without being interwoven with the spanned plurality of lengths of wire in the first pattern.

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Claim 3:
3. The headwear piece according to claim 1 wherein the border has spaced segments between which the substantially straight, substantially parallel lengths of the bullion wire extend.