The invention will find its application particularly in the field of clothing accessories adapted for advertising.
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[0002] It will find its application particularly in the field of clothing accessories and in the field of advertising to constitute advertising supports.
[0003] Given its practical and original character, it could also find use in the field of presents or the sale of gadgets.
[0004] It could also be a head covering, an umbrella or else a parasol.
[0005] There are already known head coverings adapted to be folded and unfolded as needed by the user.
[0006] In particular, the document FR-A-2.678.486 discloses a head covering which comprises a covering portion of substantially hemispherical form, a crown strip forming a cylindrical section at the base of the covering portion and a visor which prolongs, its forward portion, the lower edge of the strip. The covering portion is made of a series of elements in the form of pins, disposed side by side, and whose ends located on the same side are superposed so as to form two stacks respectively fixed in two opposite positions of the strip. The head covering can be made by cutting out, bending and assembling a blank of semi-rigid material.
[0007] According to this prior art, a deployment of different elements composing the covering portion is permitted by the bias of two articulations in rotation located substantially each at the level of the temples of the user.
[0008] However, this system has the drawback of not permitting folding the visor.
[0009] Moreover, it does not fold flat.
[0010] As a result, this head covering remains particularly cumbersome even when it is in a non-use position.
[0011] Worse, this encumbrance is increased by the substantial length of the head covering in the folded position.
[0012] Thus, the elements articulated together which comprise the covering portion have a length corresponding to the entire width of the headwear, even when folded.
[0013] The present invention permits overcoming the drawbacks of the existing devices.
[0014] To do this, it has among its objects to facilitate the folding and the deployment of the solar protective device.
[0015] These operations take place according to a single circular movement, flat, of the constituent portions of the solar protective device about a single articlation.
[0016] Moreover, the invention has for its object to provide a solar protective device whose size in folded position is particularly reduced.
[0017] It has the advantage, to do this, of permitting complete folding including the visor which is however optional according to the invention.
[0018] Moreover, the articulated elements comprising the solar protective device have a large dimension corresponding only to half the circular profile of the solar protective device.
[0019] Another advantage of the solar protective device according to the invention is to provide in the course of unfolding the use in the form of a fan.
[0020] Other objects and advantages will become apparent from the following description of the invention, which is however not limiting.
[0021] The present invention relates to a foldable solar protective device comprising several articulated elements, characterized by the fact that the articulated elements are stacked panels of flexible material connected by a single pivot adjacent one of their ends for deployment by a circular movement and by the fact that it has means for holding the panels in deployed position.
[0022] Different modifications are envisigible for the invention, including those set forth hereafter:
[0023] the holding means are constituted by slides formed between successive panels and assembly means for the end panels;
[0024] each slide formed between two successive panels is constituted:
[0025] by an oblong hole formed on one of the panels in a curved manner on the arc of a circle centered on the pivot,
[0026] by a rivet disposed on the second panel and movable in the oblong hole between two abutment positions corresponding one to the folded position of the panels and the other to the deployed position;
[0027] it comprises a visor assembled by two corners to two panels to constitute a cap;
[0028] the visor is pivotally mounted by one corner on a panel, toward its second end and has, at the second corner, a hook adapted to coact with a hooking rivet located on a second panel, toward its second end;
[0029] the middle panel, located at an equal distance from the two assembly panels of the visor, comprises a tongue whose ferrule is adapted to be inserted at the bottom of a slot formed on the visor, to reinforce its holding;
[0030] the panels comprise one or several longitudinal cutouts adapted to increase their flexibility and aeration.
[0031] The accompanying drawings are given by way of indicative examples and are not limiting. They represent a preferred embodiment according to the invention in the form of a head covering. They permit easy comprehension of the invention.
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[0036] There will be described hereafter a preferred embodiment of the invention in the form of a head covering.
[0037] The device according to the invention however is not thus limited.
[0038] It is at once to be noted that the visor
[0039] According to the invention, the head covering comprises, to cover the upper portion of the head, different elements articulated together.
[0040] These elements are panels indicated at
[0041] Within the scope of the invention, the panels
[0042] Articulation
[0043] In this way, an assembly of panels
[0044] In the folded position, the panels
[0045] On the contrary, in the deployed position, only their first ends
[0046] To permit the shaping of the head covering from substantially flat panels
[0047] The preformed panels can thus be used according to the curvature to be given to the headwear.
[0048] In addition to these panels
[0049] These means ensure the securement of the configuration of the head covering for its use and, within the scope of shaping by bending the panels
[0050] According to a preferred embodiment as shown in the different figures, the holding means are constituted by slides
[0051] A slide
[0052] Moreover, the holding means comprise assembly means for the end panels
[0053] The slides
[0054] Moreover, the assembly means definitively fix in position the panels
[0055] Preferably, the assembly means for the end panels
[0056] The use of several slots
[0057] As to the slides
[0058] In this framework, each slide
[0059] Moreover, to conform to the circular deployment movement of the panels
[0060] To coact with the oblong hole
[0061] In this way, the rivet
[0062] Preferably, and as previously indicated, the head covering according to the invention comprises a visor shown at
[0063] This is preferably assembled to the rest of the head covering by two of its corners
[0064] These latter are shown in
[0065] By the corners
[0066] Again preferably, the visor
[0067] As shown particularly in
[0068] Moreover, according to this arrangement, the other corner
[0069] This hooking rivet
[0070] As shown also in
[0071] Moreover, to help shape the visor
[0072] As shown in
[0073] As previously indicated, one of the advantages of the invention is to be deployable along a plane then adapted to be shaped to constitute the three-dimensional head covering.
[0074] To this end, there is used a plastic material whose flexibility is suitable to produce the panels
[0075] Moreover, to increase the flexibility or to adjust it, it is possible to constitute the cutouts
[0076] An example of cutout
[0077] Moreover, the cutouts provide supplemental aeration to the head covering.
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[0079] To reach this result, the visor
[0080] Thus the position shown in
[0081] At this time, a pivoting of the visor about the pivoting corner
[0082] There is then carried out a circular deployment movement shown by an arrow in
[0083] It is to be noted that at this time, it is possible to use the head covering according to the invention in the form of a fan because it is substantially flat.
[0084] Moreover, the hook
[0085] To obtain the head covering, the end panels
[0086] At this time, the head covering is set up and the mounting can be finalized by the definitive securement of the visor
[0087] This is carried out by insertion of the hook
[0088] Moreover, the tongue
[0089] The folding of the head covering according to the invention takes place in the reverse manner of the steps previously described.
[0090] The position shown in
[0091] It is possible to use the hook
[0092] In this connection, the hook
[0093] In addition to a head covering, the solar protective device of the invention could be present in the form of a parasol or an umbrella, a sleeve prolonged by a shaft being brought to the pivot
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