US1531394A - Water-polo cap - Google Patents

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Match 3l. 1925.

H. R. HART' WATER POLO CAP Filed Jan. 11. 1922 O INYENTOR BY., U

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Patented Mar. 31, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WATER-rono CAP.

e Application filed January 11, 1922.

To all whom it may conce'm:

Be it known that I, HENRY RDGnwAY HART, a citizen of the United States, residing in Montclair, in the State of New .Tersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVater-Polo Caps, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof.

Water polo is a very rough game and'it is desirable to encase the heads of the players in such a manner as to make holding ditficult. The hair and ears present hand-holds which are availed of in games and this too, often, in spite of the use of some sort of head coverng. Head coverngs, as heretofore provided, however, have not afiorded the kind of protection needed in that they have not been skin-tight and have themselves afiorded some purchase for the fingers so that the wearer might be held by the head. Any looseness in the covering would naturally permit the covering itself to be grasped and would also make it likely that hair or cars could likewse be included. The principal object of the present invention is to provide a water polo cap which shall be of simple and inexpensive Construction and shall fit the head skin-tight and not present to the fingers any hand-hold whatsoever. A further object of the invention is to provide in a cap of this character securing devices for the band thereof which permit it to be adjusted to heads of difierent sizes and which securing devices themselves are of such character to present no hold to the fingers and prevent the cap from being pulled off of the head. With the improved cap no chin-strap is required. Still another object is to provide in a skin-tight cap for the purpose described a band which will have therein a slight degree of ullness for the ears to the end that the band may embrace the head snugly at all other points, while, nevertheless, pressing the ears against the head so as to prevent their being grasped. The invention will be described in greater detail in connection with the accompanying drawing in which- Figure l is a view in perspective showing the improved cap applied to the head.

Figure 2 is a detail view on a' larger scale showing one side of the cap with the retaining laces loosened.

For convenience in manufacture and ineX- pensiveness the crown of the cap may be Serial No. 528,-131.

formed of 'our similar sections a, b, c, d, of suitable fabric, sewed together along their proximate edges, as indicated at a, b, c', d', respectively. The lines of stitching a', 0', will extend directly from the front of the head to the back along the mid line thereof, while the other lines of stitching b', d', will extend at right angle thereto across the mid section of the head. It has been found that this disposition has some advantages in insuring a snug fit and in retaining the crown snugly in place over the hair of the wearer. To the lower edges of the four sections a, b, c, d, is sewed a head band e of suitable width and shape to extend around the lower part of the head below the hair and below the ears and actually embrace the ears so as to press them 'closely against the sides of the head. This head band e is split at the rear side and the meeting edges are held together by a lacing f, this lacing permitting the cap to be drawn tightly on to heads of different sizes and being of such character, as indicated in Figure 1, as not to present a handhold and to keep the cap from being pulled oil', without a chin strap. The free ends of the lacing may be tucked up under the lower edge of the tightly drawn head band e. As shown in the drawing the head band e is formed with a fullness e' to lie over the ears. A fullness will be provided, of course, at both sides of the band. The fullness thus provided will not be so great as to permit the ears to protrude to any appreciable extent but will, nevertheless, insure a snug fit of the head band with the head at all other points. If this fulhess were not provided it is evident that the band could not be drawn as snugly into engagement with the head at all other points. By controlling the degree of fullness the ears may be pressed more or less closely to the head and cannot be grasped. e

From the description it will be evident that the improved cap is ofvery simple and inexpensve Construction and yet is admirably adapted to the purpose intended. It can be drawn on to heads of different sizes so as to lie skn-tght thereon and prevent 'the hair and ears from being grasped. In

its own Construction it does not offer any purchase for the fingers.

I claim as my invention:

A water polo cap comprising a crown piece formed of four sections of pliable fabric secured together by two lines of sttching, one of which extends from front to rear :and the other of which extends transversely 'thereof at its midsection, and a band of pliable fabric Secured to the lower edge of the erown piece and of exactly the same length as the permeter thereof, said band being formed With an inverted V-shaped cut at the rear of the crown piece and provided in adjaeent dges of the cut With companion series of apertures, and a lace in said aper- 10 tures, said band being formed With 'diametrically disposed fullnesses of limited area in the transverse mid-section of the cap.

This specification signed this 9th day of January A. D. 1922. i

I-IENRY RIDGEWAY HART.

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