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  Headgear with eyewear attachmentUSPTO Application #: 20070256214Title: Headgear with eyewear attachment Abstract: The headgear with eyewear attachment is a device that allows a user to wear and interchange eyewear that is attached to a headgear. The eyewear is attached to the visor of the headgear by a removably attachable fastener that can be separated when desired. The headgear may be any sort of hat or headband having a visor. The eyewear may be prescription glasses, or ultraviolet eyewear. The headwear and eyewear combination would also have an envelope to hold personal possessions such as money, credit cards, identification cards. The envelope would be disposed in the visor where a top brim portion and a bottom brim portion of the visor would define the envelope. The envelope would be accessed from the inside of the headgear where the user's forehead meets the visor. The entire headgear could be waterproof being made of buoyant material to keep the headgear afloat if dropped in water. (end of abstract) Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd. - Arlington, VA, US Inventors: Joan M. Mcgowan, Karen F. Zornes USPTO Applicaton #: 20070256214 - Class: 002209130 (USPTO) Related Patent Categories: Apparel, Head Coverings, Combined With Diverse Article The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070256214. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to headgear, such as a cap or visor, having an eyewear attachment, such as sunglasses, integrated with the headgear. BACKGROUND ART [0002] People who are active in the outdoors must protect their eyes from the damaging effects of the sun. Many people who work or play outdoors find it difficult to maintain their active lifestyles when encumbered by eyewear, such as prescription glasses or ultraviolet (UV) eyewear. Devices have been developed or proposed for supporting eyewear on headgear. However, an adjustable, portable and easily exchangeable device is needed that is comfortable, safe and provides maximum ease in use. It would further be desirable that the headgear be waterproof and have a pocket to hold small essential articles, such as identification cards or money. [0003] Numerous headgear combined with eyewear have been developed where the eyewear can rest against a visor. U.S. Patent Publication Number 2002/0129433, published on Sep. 19, 2002, describes a reconfigurable eyewear apparatus for headwear visor. The eyewear apparatus comprises a support member securable to the headwear visor, an eyewear assembly adjustably coupled to the support member and at least one fastening assembly coupled to the eyewear assembly and the support member. [0004] U.S. Pat. No. 2,004,701, issued to Livengood on Jun. 11, 1935, describes a goggle support. The support comprises at least one channel member joined to the under side of a visor, a member positioned within the channel that is then attached to eyewear. A spring is used in the support to hold the member under pressure as the eyewear is positioned on the headwear. [0005] U.S. Pat. No. 2,500,280, issued to Feldman on Mar. 14, 1950, describes a combination cap and sunshade. The shade is joined to the underside of the cap by stud posts that have ball portions at an opposite end. The eyewear has brackets that are joined to the ball portions of the posts and cooperate to move the eye shield around. [0006] U.S. Pat. No. 2,648,091, issued to Jones on Aug. 11, 1953, describes a fastening assembly for attaching an eye shield to a visor. The assembly uses a stud and socket snap fastener. The stud is attached to the eye shield and the socket is attached to the visor. The snap fastener cooperates in a snapping fashion to allow the shield to tilt against the underside of the visor. [0007] U.S. Pat. No. 2,654,089, issued to Tannenbaum on Oct. 6, 1953, describes a combination cap and eyeshield. The eyeshield is attached to a visor portion of the cap by a track member and a pair of universally inter-engaging members that is slide and rotates within the track member. [0008] U.S. Pat. No. 2,725,560, issued to Feldman on Dec. 6, 1955, describes a combination cap and eyeshield. A track or channel member is attached to the underside of the cap's visor by rivets. The shield is attached to the cap by a mounting means that comprises an inter-engaged ball and socket member cooperating with a track member to slide the eyewear in a desired position. [0009] U.S. Pat. No. 4,869,585, issued to Chung on Sep. 26, 1989, describes a cap and sunglasses combination. A frame of the sunglasses has an assembly comprising a fixing shaft at each of its sides for fitting within a fixer. The fixer has a hole at one end to receive the fixing shaft and a slot at an opposite end to slide onto a visor. The fixer is ultimately fixed on the sides of the visor to hold the sunglasses in an adjustable position on the cap. [0010] U.S. Pat. No. 5,347,655, issued to Garrett on Sep. 20, 1994, describes an eyewear and visor combination. The eyewear has a frame with posts extending from each end of the frame. The visor has scalloped edges extending from the sides of the visor within which the posts rest to adjustably hold the eyewear. [0011] U.S. Pat. No. 5,533,208, issued to Tonoyan et al. on Jul. 9, 1996, describes a cap and glasses combination. The glasses are attached to a rim of the cap by an assembly, which includes an attachment rail, an attachment member having a cylindrical member and a hexagonal support member that is joined to a lens support structure for the glasses. [0012] U.S. Pat. No. 5,687,420, issued to Chong on Nov. 18, 1997, describes a device for fixing sunglasses to a cap. The device comprises of a left and right clip element mounted on left and right sides members of an anchoring means that then clips onto a rod-like left and right side portions on the sunglasses. The sunglasses are then rotated upward or downward about the rod-like portions. [0013] U.S. Pat. No. 5,689,827, issued to Ryder on Nov. 25, 1997 describes a fastener assembly for a combination visor and eyeshield. The eyeshield is coupled to a connector that is then connected a base disposed on the underside of the visor. The eyeshield may be pivoted to any position, vertical or horizontal, as desired by the user. [0014] U.S. Pat. No. 5,692,234, issued to Yuen on Dec. 2, 1997, describes a clip body for attaching glasses to a bill of a cap. U.S. Pat. No. 6,553,570, issued to Flynn on Apr. 29, 2003, describes a cap and glasses combination. A mounting assembly hinges the glasses to the underside of the cap. [0015] U.S. Pat. No. 6,275,992, issued to Bondy on Aug. 21, 2001, describes an eye shield assembly. A pair of C-clips is attached to the underside of a hat brim. The eye shield has a frame to which a pair of spaced posts protrudes up from the top of the frame. A ball is located at the top of the frame. The ball is positioned within a spherical recess in the C clip to allow the eye shield to pivot under the brim of the hat. [0016] British Patent Number 2,337,443, published on Nov. 24, 1999, describes a hat having spectacles mounted to the underside of the hat. The spectacles are supported under the brim of the hat by a magnet, frictional means or a clip. [0017] W.I.P.O. Patent Number 03/048842, published on Jun. 12, 2003, describes glasses for use with a cap. The glasses have gear-fixing grooves on its upper ends to receive gears that are coupled to a clip. The clip has a slot to receive a brim of the cap. [0018] Headgear having pockets is disclosed in U.S. Design Pat. No. 456,118, issued to Hill on Apr. 30, 2002; U.S. Pat. No. 5,724,678, issued to McCallum et al. on Mar. 10, 1998; U.S. Pat. No. 6,023,788, issued to McCallum et al. on Feb. 15, 2000; U.S. Pat. No. 6,317,892, issued to Galigani on Nov. 20, 2001; British Patent Number 2,295,307, published on May 29, 1996 and European Patent Number 1,151,683, published on Nov. 7, 2001. [0019] None of the above inventions and patents, taken either singly or in combination, is seen to describe the instant invention as claimed. Thus, an article of headgear with an eyewear attachment solving the aforementioned problems is desired. DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION [0020] This disclosure is directed to an article of headgear with an eyewear attachment. The article of headgear with an eyewear attachment includes a headgear article that has a visor extending from the article. The visor has a top brim portion and a bottom brim portion. The article of headgear with an eyewear attachment further includes an eyeglass attachment fastener that has a track member, a slidable track-engaging member, an eyeglass attachment end and means for vertically adjusting the eyeglass attachment end in an upward or downward direction. [0021] The track member is attached to the bottom brim portion of the visor. The track member defines a longitudinal slot extending through the track member. The longitudinal slot receives the track-engaging member. The eyeglass attachment end is connected to the track-engaging member. The eyeglass attachment end is adapted to attach to an eyeglass frame. The eyeglass frame is slidable toward and away from a user wearing the headgear article. The eyeglass frame is rotatable against the bottom brim portion of the headgear article and is adjustable vertically in an upward or downward direction. Continue reading... Full patent description for Headgear with eyewear attachment Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Headgear with eyewear attachment patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. 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