Knitted cap construction

Claim 1

A CAP COMPRISING AN ELONGATED TUBULAR CONICAL BODY OF STRETCHABLE POROUS KNITTED MATERIAH HAVING AN OPEN END SECTION ADAPTED TO BE FITTED UPON A WEARER''S HEAD, SAID BODY ALSO HAVING A GRADUALLY TAPERED INTERMEDIATE SECTION EXTENDING FROM SAID OPEN END SECTION AND HAVING A LENGTH APPROXIMATELY THREE TIMES THE LENGTH OF SAID OPEN END SECTION, AND A CLOSED END SECTION MERGING WITH SAID INTERMEDIATE SECTION, SAID OPEN END SECTION BEING PROVIDED WITH EXTERNAL FASTENING MEANS ON ONE SIDE THEREOF, SAID FASTENING MEANS HAVING AN OPENING THERETHROUGH DIMENSIONED TO RECEIVE AND FRICTIONALLY ENGAGE SAID CLOSED END SECTION, SAID CLOSED END SECTION BEING FOLDABLE ABOUT ANOTHER SIDE OF SAID OPEN END SECTION OPPOSITE FROM SAID ONE SIDE THEREOF AND BEING SLIDABLE THROUGH THE OPENING OF SAID FASTENING MEANS ON SAID ONE SIDE OF SAID OPEN END SECTION, SAID CLOSED END SECTION BEING FRICTIONALLY ENGAGEABLE WITH SAID FASTENING MEANS TO RESTRAIN RETRACTION OF SAID CLOSED END SECTION FROM SAID OPENING AND TO HOLD SAID INTERMEDIATE SECTION IN A POSITION WHEREIN SAID INTERMEDIATE SECTION IS ADAPTED TO EXTEND ACROSS AND PROTECT THE LOWER PORTION OF A WEARER''S FACE.