Removable Visor Hat with Sleeve Arms and Snap Fasteners

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing cold weather hats lack a practical and secure removable visor solution that maintains proper positioning and angle, often becoming inconvenient or distracting during windy or high-velocity activities, and are not easily interchangeable with different hats and visors.

Innovation Solution

A toboggan-style hat with a removable visor featuring rearwardly extending arms that slide into inner sleeves on the hat, secured using snaps or other attachment means, allowing for easy attachment and detachment while maintaining a consistent angle and preventing discomfort from snap placement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a visor is permanently attached to a cold weather hat, then the visor provides consistent sun and wind protection, but the visor becomes inconvenient and distracting during high-velocity activities when wind forces it upward

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisor protection consistencyVSAvoidcomfort during high-velocity activities

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The visor is made detachable from the hat through a snap fastening system, allowing it to be attached when protection is needed and removed when it becomes inconvenient during high-velocity activities. This dynamic configuration enables the user to adjust the visor's presence based on activity conditions, resolving the contradiction between consistent protection and comfort during movement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Object-affected harmful factors

If a visor is attached to a cold weather hat, then the visor shades the wearer's eyes from the sun and blocks wind, but the visor may blow off or dislodge the hat during windy conditions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesun and wind protectionVSAvoidhat and visor stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The snap fastening system is pre-positioned on both the visor and hat to engage automatically when the visor is placed on the hat. This preliminary preparation of attachment points ensures secure connection before wind forces act on the visor, preventing it from blowing off or dislodging the hat during windy conditions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The attachment system uses vertical snap engagement rather than horizontal attachment, allowing the visor to be secured in a dimension perpendicular to the wind force direction. This dimensional approach to attachment provides stability against wind forces that would otherwise lift or dislodge a horizontally attached visor.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Adaptability or versatility

If a visor is included on a cold weather hat, then the visor is useful on sunny days and when rain, sleet or snow begins to fall, but the visor is unnecessary on cloudy days and may be inconvenient when not needed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisor utility across weather conditionsVSAvoidconvenience when visor is not needed

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The detachable visor allows the user to dynamically adjust the hat's functionality based on weather conditions. The visor can be attached when sun, rain, sleet, or snow requires protection, and removed on cloudy days or when not needed, providing adaptability while maintaining convenience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

4Manufacturing precision

If the visor is securely attached to the hat, then the visor maintains proper angle and position, but the attachment means may cause discomfort by contacting the wearer's head

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisor angle and position accuracyVSAvoidwearer comfort

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

A flap of material is introduced as an intermediary element between the snap attachment means and the wearer's head. This flap covers the snaps on the interior of the hat, preventing direct contact with the wearer's head and eliminating discomfort while allowing the snap attachment to maintain proper visor angle and position.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9578913B2Toboggan style hat with removable visor

Publication Date: 2017.02.28 MCGOOGAN JOHN C

AI summary

A toboggan style hat includes a removable visor, as well as novel means for removable attachment thereto. In a preferred embodiment, the visor member includes a pair of arms that extend rearwardly from the bill, and the hat includes a pair of holes on an underside thereof. Each hole serves as an opening for an inner sleeve, so that when a user wishes to attach the visor to the hat, the arms of the visor slide into the holes and along the inside of the sleeves in order to properly position the visor with respect to the hat and face. In one embodiment, a series of snaps are positioned on an outer portion of the visor, and correspond with a series of snaps that are positioned on an inner portion of the hat.