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Headwear with multiple billsRelated Patent Categories: Apparel, Head Coverings, Having Crown And Horizontally Extending Brim (e.g., Hat, Etc.)Headwear with multiple bills description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060107440, Headwear with multiple bills. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims priority based on U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/628,888, a copy of which is attached. STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0002] This invention was not federally sponsored. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] This invention is directed toward (put abstract here). [0004] Visors are one of the most popular methods of keeping the sun or rain out of a user's face. They are widely used by adults and children for all sorts of outdoor activities where it is desirable to shade a user's face from the sun and, in some cases, rain. A quick look at any beach, outdoor sporting event, outdoor mall, golf course or park will reveal a number of people using visors. As concern over skin cancer and other damage from the sun grows, the popularity of visors has grown and will continue to grow in the future. [0005] The term "visor" refers generally to any headwear which incorporates a visor into the headwear. "Visor", as used in this patent, includes a widely ranging group of headwear which consists of a bill to shade the face held in its place on the user's head through some encircling material component, which can range from a baseball cap to a headband. [0006] In addition to their practical uses, visors have been used since their inception as advertising media for a wide range of commercial entities. Indeed, it is highly unlikely that an athlete using a visor in a tennis match or round of competitive golf will be using a plain visor; athletic wear companies pay millions of dollars each year to entice top athletes to wear a visor with their particular logo or other identifying information emblazoned on it. [0007] Conventional visors are very simple in design, comprising a semi-rigid, normally arched, bill connected to a headband or other device which encircles the user's head and keeps the bill over (usually) the eyes of the user. Normally the bill is flipped in a downward-slanted position over the eyes, but in some cases the user flips the bill up to improve his/her field of view. Alternatively, a user can flip the visor around such that the bill provides shade for the user's neck or the side of the user's face rather than eyes. This alternative use leaves the user's face exposed to the sun and rain, but is often used by those concerned with appearing trendy, as among some segments of society the "look" is more important than the function. Conventional visors can be made with fixed head sizes, or with adjustable headbands. [0008] While conventional visors have been an integral part of human society for several decades, the problem remains that a user has to choose which part of his/her face is to be protected, as the conventional visor has only one bill. There exist other attempts to solve this problem, including visors or hats with flaps and shields, such as the "Lawrence of Arabia" line of hats which have a fixed or removable back flap of cloth hanging off the back of the hat to provide protection to the user's neck. Problems with this hat include difficulty of controlling the back flap when engaged in high risk activities such as rock climbing where unobstructed vision is imperative, or activities involving a substantial amount of motion, such as playing tennis, where the flap may move across the face and obstruct the user's vision. Probably the most commonly seen use of the baseball cap version of the visor being used in an unconventional yet functional manner is when a baseball catcher turns his or her baseball cap around so that the bill does not interfere with the use of a catcher's mask. With this use of a visor, the neck of the user is shaded but the face is not protected. [0009] Thus there has existed a long-felt need for a visor with two or more bills that is capable of simultaneously shading the user's face and at least one more body part such as the ears or neck, and providing such protection without relying upon loose flaps of cloth to provide the shade. [0010] The current invention provides just such a solution by having a (abstract). SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0011] It is a principal object of the invention is to provide a visor with two or more bills that is capable of simultaneously shading the user's face and at least one more body part such as the ears or neck, and providing such protection without relying upon loose flaps of cloth to provide the shade. [0012] It is an additional object of the invention is to provide a visor with two bills, one of which shades the face; the other shades the neck. [0013] It is an additional object of the invention that is to provide a visor with three bills, one of which shades the face; the other two shading the ears. [0014] It is a further object of the invention that the invention that is to provide a visor with four bills, one of which shades the face; two bills shade the ears, and a fourth bill shades the neck. [0015] It is an additional object of the invention that all bills on the invention can be flipped up or down depending on the user's desires. [0016] It is also an object of this invention that the bills can be manufactured with two partial headband members extending horizontally from either side of the bill with means of attachment such as Velcro.RTM. such that one bill can be removably attached to another bill, so that the user can attach bills in upright or downward iterations at the user's convenience. [0017] It is an additional object of the invention that the bills and headband members can display commercial logos, names, messages, and other printed matter such that the visor is useful from a commercial perspective. [0018] It is a further object of the invention that the printed matter on one headband can remain in a proper orientation regardless of the orientation of the second headband. [0019] It is an additional object of the invention that a user (or commercial entity providing the visor) can remove one bill and substitute in a second bill with a different color, commercial message, or shape. [0020] It is also an object of this invention that the means of attachment between the first bill and the second bill can be used to adjust the tightness of the visor to heads of various circumferences. Continue reading about Headwear with multiple bills... Full patent description for Headwear with multiple bills Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Headwear with multiple bills 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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