Perforated projection visors
My invention is the perforation of hat visors. Perforated Projection Visors are articles of manufacture that are to be worn on a person's head. It involves cutting into the visor of a hat. A picture can be perforated through the hat's visor, allowing it to be reflected onto a person's face or article of clothing. Plastic is placed into the hat's visor so that a person can be protected from elements of the weather. The plastic can also be tinted so that the picture can be in color when reflected onto a person's clothing.
I, Charles A. Christian, claim priority to the provisional application titled Perforated Hat Visors, application No. 60/813,722, filing date of Aug. 21, 2006.
TITLE OF INVENTIONPerforated Projection Visors
Not Applicable
REFERENCE TO SEQUENCE LISTING, A TABLE, OR A COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTING COMPACT DISC APPENDIXNot Applicable
BACKGROUND OF INVENTIONA perforated projection visor is an article of manufacture. It involves perforating designs, logos, words and numbers into the visor of a hat. Through research I have found that there have been no prior attempts to perforate a hat visor, therefore there have been no prior specific problems.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONPerforated projection visors are visors on hats that have a design, word, logo or number cut through them. The perforated hat visor allows the design, word, logo or number to reflect onto a person's face or clothing, giving it the advantage of simply having the design, word, logo or number on a hat.
The rear of the hat with a perforated visor is flat and unornamented and therefore is not drawn.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTIONThe title of my invention is Perforated Projection Visor, which is an article of manufacture. It involves cutting through the visor of any style of hat. There have been no prior attempts at perforating hat visors. In the past hats have been manufactured with designs, logos, words, numbers or images embroidered on the tops of hat visors only. The advantage of having a perforated projection visor is that it allows the design, word, logo, number or image to be reflected onto a person's face or clothing, thus expanding the use of the design, word, logo, number or image.
For the purpose of filing this patent and for simplicity, I have used the shape of a circle as the design in my drawings to show how a completed hat visor will look. In
When manufacturing a perforated visor, you must first start with a hat that has a visor. Place the visor of the hat onto a die-cutting machine's plate so that the perforation will be ⅜ of an inch away from the visor's outer edges. Insert the die (in this case a circle) into it's slot of the die-cutting machine. Press the lever of the die-cutting machine down firmly so that the die goes completely through the hat's visor. The perforation should be ⅜ of an inch away from the visor's edge. Once this is done, the hat will have the circular shape cut completely and cleanly through the visor of the hat as shown in
Next, you will need to open up the portion of the visor around the perforated circle only by removing the thread sewn into it. Only the area near the perforation has to be thread free, the remaining portion of the visor should remain undisturbed. The thread should be only be removed ⅜ of an inch from the perimeter of the perforated circle which can be seen in
Step 4 is to seal and complete the perforated circle on the top of the visor, which
Step 6 is to place a second clear transparency tint on top of the liner mentioned in step 5.
If a person simply wants a circle unadorned of an image, design, word, number or logo to reflect onto their body or clothing, a clear transparency tint showing no design, wording, numbering, image or logo is inserted in step 5 of this process. The tint can be clear or colored to meet the needs of the consumer. By doing this a circle shape is reflected onto a person's body or clothing.
Once patented, one example of how I intend to use my invention is to get the endorsement of different sporting teams to perforate their team's name, pictures of team players and team logos onto various styles of hat visors. For example, if endorsed, I would be able to perforate the word “Titans” onto the visors of Tennessee Titans hats. I would also be able to manufacture a visor with the Tennessee Titan logo placed onto a tinting material place inside the perforated portion the visor. Another option is insert a clear transparency tint with the image of an Titan football player into a circle perforated into a visor. These three examples will allow the word “Titans”, the team's logo or a team member's picture to reflect onto a person's body or clothing. This will give the hats a new and unique style that will be beneficial to sporting teams as well as the sports fans.
Claims
1. A perforated projection visor with perforations comprising:
- a) any numerals including but not limited to: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 in any order,
- b) any roman numeral including but not limited to: I,V,X,C,M in any order,
- c) any upper case lettering including but not limited to: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P, Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z in any order,
- d) any under case lettering including but not limited to: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,ij,k,l,m,o,p,q,r,s,t,u, v,w,x,y,z in any order,
- e) any lettering and symbols used in any foreign language, known or foreign,
- f) any symbols used in sign language for the hearing impaired, known or foreign,
- g) any shape or symbol that may be unintelligible,
- h) any shapes in any form including but not limited to: circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, ovals, stars, moons, diamonds, hexagons, octagons, hearts, known or foreign,
- i) any animal shapes found in nature or drawings, known or foreign,
- j) any plant shapes found in nature or drawings, known or foreign,
- k) any insect shapes found in nature or drawings, known or foreign,
- l) any automobile shapes man made or found in drawings, known or foreign,
- m) any persons found in nature or drawings, known or foreign,
- n) any logos found in any kinds of groups including but not limited to: sports, military, sororities, fraternities, churches, social clubs, schools, clothing designers, business organizations, political organizations, musical groups, automobile organizations, food industries,
- o) any mascots found in any kinds of groups including but not limited to: sports, military, sororities, fraternities, churches, social clubs, schools, clothing designers, business organizations, political organizations, musical groups, automobile organizations, food industries,
- p) any patterns including but not limited to: stripes, polka dots, checkers, plaids, floral, animals,
- q) any cartoon characters known or foreign,
- r) any abbreviated words or symbols including but not limited to: etc., misc., pllc.,
- s) any symbols used in astrology known or foreign,
- t) any shapes or symbols used for the solar system, known or foreign,
- u) any symbols used for water, known or foreign,
- v) any symbols used for fire, known or foreign,
- w) any symbols used for earth or dirt, known or foreign,
- x) any symbols used for air, known or foreign,
- y) any symbols or words known or foreign, used for signs of the zodiac including but not limited to: Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Cancer, Aries, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Gemini,
- z) any symbols used in punctuation including but not limited to:.,<,>,?,/,;,:,′,″,[,],{,},\,|,=,+, −, _,),(,*,&, ̂,%,$,#,@,!,′,˜,
- aa) any shapes or symbols used for residential and commercial buildings, known or foreign,
- bb) any shapes or symbols found in music, known or foreign,
- cc) any musical instrument known or foreign,
- dd) pictures of any type of objects known or foreign,
- ee) any flag designs known or foreign,
2. A perforated visor as in claim 1 wherein perforations comprises:
- a) any left side portion of the visor,
- b) any middle portion of the visor,
- c) any right side portion of the visor,
- d) any rim part of the visor,
- e) any total portion of the visor,
- f) any portion of the visor's edges that may form wordings, numbering, designs or logo
3. A perforated visor as in claim 1 wherein the perforation is:
- a) any small sized perforation,
- b) any medium sized perforation,
- c) any large sized perforation,
- d) any perforation using the total portion of the visor,
4. A perforated visor as in claim 1 wherein the manufacturing of the visor is done using:
- a) any perforation is done using any type of knife,
- b) any perforation is done using any type of scissors,
- c) any perforation is done using any type of box cutter,
- d) any perforation is done using any type of saw,
- e) any perforation is done using any type of laser,
- f) any perforation is done using any type of die,
- g) any perforation is done using any sharp object, known or foreign,
5. A perforated visor as in claim 1 wherein the manufacturing of the visor is done using:
- a) any type of sealant material is used on the perforated visor,
6. A perforated visor as in claim 1 wherein the manufacturing of the visor is done using:
- a) any type of material used to act as a liner along the inner edges of the perforation,
- b) any type of material is used to act as a trim on any portion of the visor,
7. A perforated visor as in claim 1 wherein the manufacturing of the visor is done using:
- a) any clear tinting material,
- b) any colored tinting material,
- c) any tinting material of any thickness,
- d) any tinting material of any density,
- e) any tinting material of any shape,
- f) any tinting material of any design,
8. A perforated visor as in claim 1 wherein the visor is comprising:
- a) any baseball hat,
- b) any cowboy hat,
- c) any golf hat,
- d) any designed hat, whether used for sporting reasons or otherwise,
- e) any hat visor,
- f) any brimmed hat,
- g) any hat with a bib or brim of any material,
- h) any visor with a bib or brim of any material.
Type: Application
Filed: Oct 3, 2006
Publication Date: Apr 23, 2009
Inventor: Charles Anthony Christian (Nashville, TN)
Application Number: 11/542,029
International Classification: A42B 1/06 (20060101); A42B 1/00 (20060101); A41D 27/08 (20060101);