Knit cap with elastic head band

Claim 1

In a visored cap including a crown knit of body yarn stitches and a lower edge providing a band adapted to engage the head of the wearer, and a visor extending throughout a minor portion of said band, the combination therewith of elastic yarn incorporated with the body yarn stitches in the major portion of said band and floating across the body yarn stitches substantially throughout the minor portion of said band, said elastic yarn being sufficient to draw the major portion of said band into resilient engagement with the head of the wearer.

Claim 10

A method of forming a visored cap comprising the steps of knitting an elongate seamless blank of body yarn stitches and including open opposite ends and while incorporating an elastic yarn with the body yarn stitches in a relatively narrow band positioned substantially equal distance between the open ends of the seamless tubular blank, the elastic yarn being incorporated with spaced body yarn stitches in the major portion of the circumference of the narrow band, the elastic yarn floating across the body yarn stitches substantially throughout the minor portion of the narrow band, folding half of the seamless tube within the other half to form a two-ply tubular member with the inner and outer plies being integrally knit along a fold line extending through the narrow band with the elastic yarn incorporated therein and the open ends of the inner and outer plies being juxtapositioned, inserting a visor between the inner and outer plies and sewing the same in position in the minor portion of the band in which the elastic yarn is floated, and joining together the juxtapositioned open ends to form a crown for said cap, the elastic yarn incorporated in the body yarn stitches in the major portion of the band drawing the same into resilient engagement with the head of the wearer.

Claim 11

A method of forming a visored cap comprising the steps of knitting an elongate seamless blank of body yarn stitches and including open opposite ends and while incorporating an elastic yarn with the body yarn stitches in a relatively narrow band positioned substantially equal distance between the open ends of the seamless tubular blank, the elastic yarn being incorporated with spaced body yarn stitches in the major portion of the circumference of the narrow band, the elastic yarn floating across the body yarn stitches substantially throughout the minor portion of the narrow band, folding half of the seamless tube within the other half to form a two-ply tubular member with the inner and outer plies being integrally knit along a fold line extending through the narrow band with the elastic yarn incorporated therein and the open ends of the inner and outer plies being juxtapositioned, inserting a visor between the inner and outer plies and sewing the same in position in the minor portion of the band in which the elastic yarn is floated, and joining together the juxtapositioned open ends to form a crown for said cap, the elastic yarn incorporated in the body yarn stitches in the major portion of the band drawing the same into resilient engagement with the head of the wearer.