Combined headgear and electronic receiving device

• US 5,410,746 A
• Filed: 03/13/1991
• Issued: 04/25/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sun Same Enterprises Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: UnaTech Corp.
• Inventors: Gelber, Hugh T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward F.
• Application Number:
  US07/668,857
• Time in Patent Office: 1,504 Days
• Field of Search: 455/344, 455/351, 455/90, 455/88, 455/89, 455/347, 2/185 R, 2/142, 2/199, 381/88
• US Class Current: 455/344
• CPC Class Codes: A42B 1/245 Means for mounting audio or communication systems
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/276 for mounting on helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/086 Portable receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/3866 carried on the head

Abstract

Headgear, such as a cap having a crown, a brim and an internal sweatband or flap, is combined with an electronic receiving device, such as a radio, which is connected to the inner surface of the flap by a first double sided adhesive strip. The first strip, in turn, is adhesively secured to a backing element mechanically attached to the flap. A battery holder is similarly mounted to the flap on the other side of the brim by a second double sided adhesive strip and a second backing element. Earphones are connected to the radio by suitable wires with the wires for the earphones on the opposite side of the radio, along with wires connecting the battery holder to the radio, being secured to the inner surface of the flap adjacent the brim by a third double sided adhesive strip. Preferably, when an electronic receiving means is an AM/FM radio, an antenna is provided.

Claims

1. A combination cap and radio, which comprises:

a cap having a vertically extending crown with an inner surface facing the head of a user, the crown having a first side facing one side of the head of the user and having a second side facing the opposite side of the head of the user, a horizontally extending brim attached to the crown between the first and second sides and a flat, horizontally positioned internal peripheral sweatband movably secured to the crown, the sweatband having an inner surface facing the internal surface of the crown and an opposed outer surface, and being movable between an upper position in which the inner surface thereof faces the internal surface of the crown and a lower position in which the inner surface thereof faces away from the internal surface of the crown;

first double sided adhesive means including a first flat, thin support element fixedly secured to the inner surface of the sweatband at a region of the flap located adjacent the first side of the crown and a first strip of double sided adhesive tape having one side adhesively secured to the first support element;

an AM/FM radio adhesively secured to the other side of the first double sided adhesive strip;

second double sided adhesive means including a second flat, thin support element fixedly secured to the inner surface of the sweatband at a second region of the sweatband located adjacent the second side of the crown and a second strip of double sided adhesive tape having one side adhesively secured to the first support element;

battery receiving means adhesively secured to the other side of the second double sided adhesive strip and having first wire means connecting the battery receiving means to the radio;

first and second earphones connected to the radio by respective second and third wire means; and

a third strip of double sided adhesive tape having one side adhesively secured to the inner surface of the sweatband at a third region located adjacent to the brim and between the first and second sides of the crown, the first and second wire means being adhesively secured to the other side of the third double sided adhesive strip.

2. The combination cap and radio defined in claim 1, wherein the first and second support elements each comprise a plastic mesh, the brim includes first and second spaced openings for respectively receiving the first and second earphones, the first opening being located on the brim closer to the battery receiving means than to the radio and the second opening being located on the brim closer to the radio than to the battery receiving means;

and further comprising an antenna physically mounted to the crown and electrically connected to the radio.

3. The combination cap and radio defined in claim 2, wherein the radio has a station selector dial, an on/off/volume dial and an AM/FM selector switch, the first side of the crown has three openings and the selector dial, on/off/volume dial and AM/FM selector switch protrude through respective ones of the openings when the sweatband is in its upper position.