Abstract
The Temporary Baseball Cap Radiation Reflector utilizes the low conical shape of the traditional Asian sun hat executed in a laminate of surface metal foil, woven polyethylene sheet, fiberglass mesh, and base layer of sheet polyethylene. The laminate material is reflective, durable, and maintains low conical shape in wind and over use time. Fabric attachment tapes sewn to the inside surface of the reflector are pinned or sewn to five points around the sides of the rounded-crown headgear, baseball cap. This solar reflector augments the lesser protections of most rounded-crown headgear. Even the smallest sized reflector designed for physical activity/higher wind speeds provides thermal stress relief by affecting a high degree of separation between itself and the headgear's crown, standing off from the rounded-crown headgear's crown. The close fit of rounded-crown headgear, the broad coverage of the Asian low cone, and advanced materials maximize thermal and ultraviolet protections.
Claims
1. A reflector in the shape a low cone, apex up, for temporary attachment to rounded-crown headgear and is a laminate of aluminum foil, woven polyethylene, fiberglass window screen mesh, and polyethylene sheeting in a configuration consisting, from sun-facing surface to interior base, of 0.025 mm, 1 mil, aluminum foil 0.05 mm, 2 mil, woven polyethylene sheet woven from 4 mm, 5/32 inch, wide strips 1.5 mm×1.5 mm mesh×0.075 mm thick fiberglass mesh ‘window screen’ and 0.05 mm, 2 mil, polyethylene sheet.
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8. The adjunct reflector in the shape of a low cone of claim 1 is produced in finished diameters 25 cm to 60 cm by overlapping one half of a quadrant of various sized circles of planar starting laminate, composite material described in claim 1.
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10. The adjunct reflector of claim 1 has five radially placed cloth attachment tapes sewn by an end to the solar reflector's undersurface, the free ends of which are pinned or sewn to the rounded-crown headgear, the baseball cap, to fix the low conical reflector to the rounded-crown headgear, the baseball cap.
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Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS
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[0051] FIG. 6 depicts by diagram drawing the laminate, composite material, foil, woven polyethylene, 1.5 mm×1.5 mm fiberglass mesh window screen, and polyethylene, in a cut out, planar state prior to the excised portion of the circle 1B FIGS. 6 to 2 FIG. 6 plus the stitching seam 1A FIGS. 6 to 1B FIG. 6 being overlapped to construct the 32°/116° low cone characteristic of the Temporary Baseball Cap Radiation Reflector. The three dimensional low cone is formed by overlap of ⅛th part of a full circle 1A FIGS. 6 to 2 FIG. 6 of the requisite diameter; however, not all of the overlap is excised. A stitching seam 1A FIGS. 6 to 1B FIG. 6 4.5 cm, 1 ¾ inches, of the overlap relative to the seam line 1A FIGS. 6 to 1C FIG. 6 is retained.
[0052] FIG. 7 depicts by drawing a side view of the Temporary Baseball Cap Radiation Reflector regardless of the finished brim, circumference edge, diameter. The interior apex angle 4 FIG. 7 of the low cone always has an approximate inside angle of 116° and the inside angle of the base relative to the surface incline 5 FIG. 7 is always approximately 32°. The combination of foil, woven polyethylene, 1.5 mm×1.5 mm fiberglass mesh window screen, and polyethylene has a degree of suppleness that precludes precisely defining working angles of the invention; the overlap of ⅛th part of any circumference circle 1A FIGS. 6 to 2 FIG. 6 is used to define the Temporary Baseball Cap Radiation Reflector's shape. All sizes of the reflector are constructed by the overlap of this fixed ⅛th circumference 1A FIGS. 6 to 2 FIG. 6 of the planar starting circle. The exterior half of double fold bias tape 9 FIG. 7 is depicted as stitched to the reflector's circumference edge.
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[0053] FIG. 1A depicts by side oblique drawing the Temporary Baseball Cap Radiation Reflector pinned to a rounded-crown headgear, a baseball cap. Three of the reflector's five attachment tapes 6 FIG. 1A are shown positioned on a headgear. FIG. 1B by oblique drawing depicts one of the five squares of heavy cloth fabric 7 FIG. 1B sewn to the inside surface of the reflector with a cloth reflector attachment tape 6 FIG. 1B sewn to it. FIG. 1C is an inside surface view of an attachment tape support patch 7 FIG. 1C with an attachment tape 6 FIG. 1C sewn to it. This view is suitable for the ‘FRONT PAGE VIEW.’
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[0054] FIG. 8A depicts by drawing the interior, underside of a Temporary Baseball Cap Radiation Reflector. The front of the reflector depicted in FIG. 8A is located on the center line determined by 10A to 10B, on the reflector's circumference edge closest to 10A on that center line. With the point of the reflector's circumference edge that corresponds to the front of the rounded-crown headgear, baseball cap, to which it is affixed designated 0°/360° 10 FIG. 8B, the attachment tapes 6 FIG. 8A and the support patches for the attachment tapes 7A through 7E FIG. 8A are shown at 45° for 7A FIG. 8A, 125° 7B FIG. 8A, 180° 7C FIG. 8A, 235° 7D FIG. 8A, and 315° 7E FIG. 8A. Regardless of the diameter of the reflector, the support patches' inner edges' centers 8A FIG. 8A are placed 9 cm, 3 ½ inches, from the reflector's center point 1C FIG. 8A except for the support patch at 180° 7C FIG. 8A which has its inner edge center point 8B FIG. 8A set at 7.6 cm, 3 inches, from the reflector's center point 10 FIG. 8A to account for the adjustable band at the back of many headgear, baseball caps.
FIG. 8B depicts by drawing diagram the radius angles 11 through 15 FIG. 8B on which the support patches 7A through 7E FIG. 8A are located. The radius angle 10 FIG. 8B of 0°/360° is given as the establishment point for the other five angles.
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[0055] FIG. 15A shows by drawing diagram a cross sectional view of a laminate, composite according to the present invention having a surface, exterior, 1° layer A FIG. 15A of very thin/foil aluminum metal, a next-to-surface, 2° layer of 2 mil. woven polyethylene with a 4 mm×4 mm weave B FIG. 15A, a 3°, third layer C FIG. 15A of 1.5 mm×1.5 mm mesh×3 mil. thick fiberglass screening, and a 4°, base layer of 2 mil. polyethylene sheet plastic D FIG. 15A. FIG. 15B shows an oblique view of the laminate/composite according to the invention shown in FIG. 15A.
