PONYTAIL HOLDER FOR A HAT OR HEADWRAP

Abstract

A headwrap providing mounting a ponytail defined by a stretchable sleeve received over a wearer's head and down onto his or her neck, and able to be attached to the headwrap.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO THE RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 63/167,722 filed on Mar. 30, 2021 which is hereby incorporated by reference.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention concerns headwear.

Long hair of many girls and women and sometimes of men is usually gripped at a point close to the head of the wearer holding long hair which is usually done by gathering and gripping the hair at a point near his or her head forming a ponytail using an elastic loop assembled at base of the ponytail so formed.

The ponytail is attached at a location either high or low on the user's head to create two different looks, similar to the effect of combing in alternate ways to get different looks of the hair.

It has heretofore been suggested such as in U.S. Pat. D588,341; D406,189; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,598,585 to connect a ponytail to a holder held by a connection to a hat.

Such holders have heretofore been limited by passing the hair through a single hole through a hat at a single location, thus limiting the point of attachment to a single attachment point, usually high on the head.

However, this approach limits the location of the ponytail at a single point of attachment.

It is the object of the present invention to afford some choice of a wearer to be able to locate the attachment loop ponytail at a high or low points to better suit the length and bulk of the wearer's hair and to another location of the hair, i.e., to be lower or higher on the wearer's head.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a head wrap which may be used to enable a selective choice of a high or low point of location of the attachment of the loop to the wearer's head, and at the same time provide a head wrap useable in other ways.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention includes a pair of ponytail receiving openings comprising holder features one located above the other.

However, the upper holder opening is not defined by the holder material but rather by an annular shaped member which is deflectable and which is received in slots formed around an opening of the head band or hat by a slidable engagement with feature attachable therefrom.

The annular member is able to hold hair therein and forming a projecting ponytail gripped by the annular member.

The second opening is defined by a downward extending slot extending down from the upper opening which can alternatively receive and hold a ponytail at two different points of attachments.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIGURES

FIG. 1 is a side view of a person wearing a headband with an upper located stretchable loop element.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of a person's head with a ponytail projecting rearward of the attachment forming the ponytail.

FIG. 3 is a partially rotated side view of a headband view showing a ponytail forming hoop prior to forming a ponytail.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary rear view of a headband before forming a ponytail.

FIG. 5 is a view of a headband used as a neck warmer.

FIG. 6 is a pictorial view of a headband used as a neck and mouth warmer.

FIG. 7 is a pictorial view of a vented hat.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In the following detailed description, certain specific terminology will be employed for the sake of clarity and a particular embodiment described in accordance with the requirements of 35 USC 112, but it is to be understood that the same is not intended to be limiting and should not be so construed inasmuch as the invention is capable of taking many forms and variations within the scope of the appended claims.

FIGS. 1-3 show a headband 10, with an annular piece 14 gripping the ponytail 12.

The annular piece 14 in FIGS. 1 and 2 is located to hold the ponytail at a high location while in FIG. 3 the piece 14 holds the ponytail 12 high on the head of the wearer.

FIG. 4 shows the headband 10 without the ponytail 12.

The sleeve 16 is split holding the annular piece 14 before being rotated to grip the ponytail 12.

The annular piece 14 has segments to slidable in tunnels holding either side of piece 14.

A slot 20 allows the piece 14 to be pulled down to the slot 20 and thereby locate the ponytail to be lowered with the piece 14 higher it raises the ponytail higher this enabling flexibility in that regard.

FIGS. 4-6 show usability of the headband 10 in other uses 10A (neck), 10B (vented top) and 10C (face and jaw).

To use:

1. Pull the headband 10 over the head and down onto the neck with the loop against and aligned with the back of the neck.

2. Put one of the hands through the loop.

3. Grip the hair next to the neck with the other hand and push it through the loop to the other hand.

4. Pull up loop and twist it about a vertical axis.

5. Push the hair back through the twisted loop and down (can be repeated). This procedure provides an attachment to the person's head which is high.

6. For a lower attachment, the hair is pushed down through the slot 20.

Claims

1. A head wrap comprising a vertically extending when worn fabric sleeve open at either end able to be pulled onto a wearer's head and stretched thereby to be held thereon;

an upper portion being axially interrupted with a stretchable loop portion slidable in a respective one pair of portions of said interrupted portions of said sleeve;

said loop having an upper exposed segment able to be wrapped one or more times around hair of a wearer to form a ponytail.

2. The head wrap according to claim 1 wherein said sleeve has a slot aligned with said loop extending down from said loop enabling said ponytail to alternatively be able to be passed through said slit instead of said loop.

3. The head wrap according to claim 1 further having a band extending around a lower end of said sleeve when worn.