Cap

Claim 1

A CAP OF TAILORED CONSTRUCTION COMPRISING A SHELL ADAPTED TO EMBRACE THE UPPER PART OF THE HEAD ABOVE THE HEADSIZE LEVEL, INCLUDING A FOREHEAD PORTION HAVING AN UPPER EDGE, SIDE EDGES AND A LOWER EDGE AT THE HEADSIZE LEVER, A TOP, AND A SIDEWALL-REARWALL BAND ADAPTED TO COVER THE SIDES AND REAR PORTIONS OF THE HEAD, SAID SIDEWALL-REARWALL BAND HAVING AN UPPER EDGE, A LOWER EDGE AND FRONT EDGES, THE FRONT EDGES OF SAID SIDEWALL-REARWALL BAND BEING ATTACHED TO THE SIDE EDGES OF THE FOREHEAD PORTION, A VISOR CENTERED IN RESPECT TO THE FOREHEAD PORTION AND HAVING ITS REAR EDGE ATTACHED TO THE LOWER EDGE OF THE FOREHEAD PORTION, THE UPPER EDGE OF THE SIDEWALL-REARWALL BAND BEING ATTACHED TO THE TOP, SAID VISOR, FOREHEAD PORTION AND TOP BEING OF RELATIVELY INEXTENSIBLE MATERIALS, SAID SIDEWALL-REARWALL BAND HAVING INNER AND OUTER FABRIC PLYS AND AN INTERMEDIATE SOFT COMPRESSIBLE PLY ADHERED TOGETHER FORMING A COMPOSITE OF PLYS OF MATERIAL, ALL OF WHICH PLYS ARE ELASTIC AT LEAST IN THE LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION OF SAID SIDEWALL-REARWALL BAND BETWEEN ITS ATTACHMENTS TO THE FOREHEAD PORTION OF THE CAP, THE LOWER MARGIN OF SAID SIDEWALL-REARWALL BAND BEING FOLDED UPON AND INWARD FORMING AT THE FOLD A LOWER EDGE ADAPTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE HEADSIZE LEVEL, SAID UPWARD AND INWARD FOLDED MARGIN TERMINATING AS IN UPWARDLY DIRECTED TERMINAL EDGE INSIDE THE CAP SHELL AND SLIGHTLY ABOVE SAID LOWER EDGE, A CUSHION BAND COMPRISING AN INVERTED USHAPED FOLD OF MATERIAL, ELASTIC MEANS MARGINALLY SECURING SAID CUSHION BAND TO SAID TERMINAL EDGE, SAID CUSHION BAND BEING TRANSVERSELY COMPRESSIBLE AND STRETCHABLE IN THE DIRECTION OF ITS LENGTH, AND AN EAR FLAP ASSEMBLY FOR THE CAP COMPRISING A MAIN EAR FLAP PORTION HAVING INNER AND OUTER FABRIC PLYS AND AN INTERMEDIATE COMPRESSIBLE PLY ADHERED TOGETHER FORMING PLYS OF MATERIAL, AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE EAR FLAP ASSEMBLY BEING ELASTIC SO AS TO PERMIT IT TO STRETCH IN A DIRECTION PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION OF THE SIDEWALL-REARWALL BAND, UPPER AND LOWER ELASTIC EDGINGS FOR SAID MAIN EAR FLAP PORTION, AT LEAST THE UPPER ELASTIC EDGING COMPRISING A FABRIC STRIP WHICH IS FOLDED ALONG TIS LENGTH HAVING PROXIMATE EDGES OF THE STRIP ENCLOSING PROXIMATE UPPER MARGINS OF THE MAIN EAR FLAP PORTION, ELASTIC MEANS SECURING SAID UPPER ELASTIC EDGING IN SUCH POSITION, SAID MAIN EAR FLAP PORTION AND ELASTIC EDGINGS AND MEANS FOR SECURING WHEN ALL ASSEMBLED TOGETHER ADAPTED TO BE EXTENSIBLE AT LEAST IN THE DIRECTION AROUND THE HEAD OF THE WEARER, THE FOLD OF THE EDGING ON THE UPPER EDGE OF SAID MAIN EAR FLAP PORTION BEING SPACED UPWARDLY FROM THE UPPER EDGE OF SAID MAIN EAR FLAP PORTION, ELASTIC MEANS SECURING SAID EDGING TO SAID UPWARD AND INWARD MARGIN OF THE CAP.