Headgear with integrated game hoop

Abstract

Headgear comprising a crown portion, a visor portion, and a netting or hoop secured to the visor portion. The crown portion is preferably separably secured to the visor portion. Various means of separably securing the crown portion to the visor portion, are used including any of VELCRO®, or other hook and loop fastening material, buttons, snaps, elastic, or the like. Various means of securing the netting or hoop to the visor portion are also used including any of VELCRO® or other hook and loop fastening material, buttons, snaps, thread, or the like. The headgear may also omit the crown portion to provide only the visor portion with the netting or hoop secured thereto. In any case, a bill of the visor portion may be fitted between a door or drawer frame and an edge of the door or drawer and the frame, in order to render the netting or hoop available for tossing articles into the netting or hoop.

1 . Headgear comprising:
 a visor portion;   a crown portion separably secured to the visor portion;   a substantially circumferential band attached to the visor portion and extending outwardly from the visor portion for fitting around a person's head; and   a netting secured to the visor portion and the circumferential band, and the netting being open at each end thereof and the openings at each end of the netting being larger than openings in the netting.   
   
   
       2 . The headgear of  claim 1 , wherein the circumferential band is sized to fit a wearer thereof. 
   
   
       3 . The headgear of  claim 2 , wherein the crown portion further comprises a circumferential band that fits over the circumferential band of the visor portion when the crown portion is separably secured to the visor portion. 
   
   
       4 . The headgear of  claim 3 , wherein at least one of the respective circumferential bands of the visor portion and the crown portion is circumferentially adjustable. 
   
   
       5 . The headgear of  claim 4 , further comprising fastening means along at least portions of each of the circumferential band of the crown portion and the circumferential band of the visor portion and aligned to separably secure the crown portion with the visor portion by separably fastening the respective circumferential bands to one another. 
   
   
       6 . The headgear of  claim 5 , wherein the fastening means is selected from the group consisting of elastic, VELCRO®, other hook and loop fastening material, buttons and corresponding button receptacles, and snaps and corresponding snap receptacles. 
   
   
       7 . The headgear of  claim 4 , wherein the circumferential band of the visor portion comprises a first free end and a second free end, the first free end and the second free end configured to overlap one another to achieve adjustment of the circumferential band of the visor portion. 
   
   
       8 . The headgear of  claim 7 , wherein one of the first free end and the second free end further comprises holes and the other of the first free end and the second free end further comprises projections, at least one of the projections being received in a corresponding hole to adjust a size of the circumferential band of the visor portion to a wearer. 
   
   
       9 . The headgear of  claim 7 , wherein each of the first free end and the second free end further comprise VELCRO®, or other hook and loop fastening material, configured to adjust a size of the circumferential band of the visor portion to a wearer. 
   
   
       10 . The headgear of  claim 2 , further comprising fastening means for securing the netting or hoop to the circumferential band of the visor portion, wherein the fastening means provided on the netting or hoop and the circumferential band of the visor portion. 
   
   
       11 . The headgear of  claim 10 , wherein the fastening means is selected from the group consisting of thread, VELCRO® or other hook and loop fastening material, buttons and corresponding receptacles, and snaps and corresponding snap receptacles. 
   
   
       12 . The headgear of  claim 1 , further comprising a bill extending from the visor portion, the bill configured to secure the visor portion in a position rendering the netting or hoop available for articles to be tossed therein said netting or hoop. 
   
   
       13 . Headgear comprising:
 a visor portion;   a substantially circumferential band attached to the visor portion and extending outwardly from the visor portion; and   a netting secured to the visor portion and the circumferential band, and the netting being open at each end thereof and the openings at each end of the netting being larger than openings in the netting.   
   
   
       14 . (canceled) 
   
   
       15 . The headgear of  claim 13 , wherein the circumferential band is further comprised at least partly of an elastic material rendering the circumferential band adjustable according to a size of a wearer thereof. 
   
   
       16 . The headgear of  claim 13 , wherein the circumferential band is further comprised of a first free end and a second free end, the first free end and the second free end configured to overlap and secure to one another to adjust the size of the circumferential band according to a size of a wearer thereof. 
   
   
       17 . The headgear of  claim 16 , wherein means for securing the first free end with the second free end is selected from the group consisting of holes and corresponding projections provided on the respective first and second free ends, or VELCRO® or other hook and loop fastening material provided on the respective first and second free ends. 
   
   
       18 . The headgear of  claim 15 , further comprising fastening means selected from the group consisting of thread, VELCRO® or other hook and loop fastening material, buttons and corresponding receptacles, and snaps and corresponding receptacles for securing the netting or hoop to the circumferential band of the visor portion. 
   
   
       19 . A method of deploying a netting integrated into a headgear comprised of a crown portion separably secured to a visor portion, wherein the netting is secured to the visor portion and a circumferential band extending outwardly from the visor portion, the visor portion having a bill extending therefrom, and the netting being open at each end thereof and the openings at each end of the netting being larger than openings in the netting, the method comprising:
 removing the crown portion from the visor portion and the circumferential band;   extending the netting from the visor portion and the circumferential band; and   securing the bill of the visor portion to render the netting available to throw articles through the netting.   
   
   
       20 . The method of  claim 19 , wherein the bill is secured between a door and an edge of the door.