Hunters Hood with Adjustable Face Opening

Abstract

The hunter's hood with an adjustable face opening has fabric side panels and a fabric center panel that are sewn together. A face opening is encircled by a fabric tube that is sewn to the side panels and to the center panel by stitches. The fabric tube permits the passage of a persons head through the face opening. An elastic line passes through the right side panel, into the fabric tube, under the face opening, and out through the left fabric tube and side wall. An elastic upper line is mounted in the fabric tube above the face opening. An elastic line right end passes through a right loop end on the upper line. An elastic line left end passes through a left loop on the upper line. Tensioning the elastic line tensions the elastic upper line. Releasing tension on the elastic line releases tension on the upper line.

1 . A hunter's hood with adjustable face opening comprising:
 an outer shell including a fabric left side panel, a fabric right side panel, and a fabric center panel sewn to the fabric left side panel and sewn to the fabric right side panel;   a left ear opening in the fabric left side panel with a left ear opening top tongue sewn to the fabric left side panel and movable between a left ear opening closed position and a left ear opening open position;   a right ear opening in the fabric right side panel with a right ear opening top tongue sewn to the fabric left side panel and movable between a right ear opening closed position and a right ear opening open position;   a face opening encircled by the fabric center panel, the fabric left side panel, the fabric right side panel and a fabric connection between the fabric left side panel and the fabric right side panel below the face opening;   a fabric tube sewn to the fabric left side panel, the fabric right side panel, the fabric center panel, extending completely around the face opening and forming a passage sized to permit passage of a hunter's head through the face opening;   a left strap assembly with an adjustable length, having a left first end secured to the fabric left side panel above and to the rear of the left ear opening and a left second end secured to the fabric left side panel above and to the front of the left ear opening;   a right strap assembly with an adjustable length, having a right first end secured to the fabric right side panel above and to the rear of the right ear opening and a right second end secured to the fabric right side panel above and to the front of the right ear opening;   a right grommet in the fabric right side panel above and to the rear of the right ear opening and a right tube grommet in the fabric tube;   a left grommet in the fabric left side panel above and to the rear of the left ear opening and a left tube grommet in the fabric tube;   a stretchable elastic line passing through the right grommet from a hood outside to a hood inside, through the right tube grommet, through the fabric tube under the face opening, through the left tube grommet and into the hood inside, through the left grommet in the fabric left side panel to the hood outside, and a spring biased clamp that receives a right elastic line end and a left elastic line end on the hood outside;   a stretchable upper elastic line mounted inside the fabric tube and extending through the fabric tube above the face opening, having an upper line right end loop that receives the stretchable elastic line adjacent to the right tube grommet and inside fabric tube, and having an upper line left end loop that receives the stretchable elastic line adjacent to the left tube grommet and inside the fabric tube;   wherein tensioning the stretchable elastic line and holding the tension with the spring biased clamp tensions the stretchable upper elastic line, and   wherein releasing tension on the stretchable elastic line by releasing the spring biased clamp releases tension on the stretchable upper elastic line.