Background Art As well-known to those skilled in the art, a cap or a piece of headgear equipped with an opaque visor is used for shielding strong sunbeams, ultraviolet rays, and infrared rays to protect user's eyes on the beach, in fishing areas, playgrounds, etc.

The above conventional headgear can shield the sunbeams irradiated to a user's face but not shield the sunbeams reflected to the user's eyes, and so the user should willingly submit to the inconvenience of wearing separate sunglasses to protect his eyes and separately storing the sunglasses when not in use.

To avoid the above inconvenience, a cap equipped with sunglasses is proposed, which comprises a member, rotating around a hinge pivot, combined with the cap at each side of the cap, and a combination part for combining the end of a rotating part of the member with a sunglass-hanging part. The cap equipped with the sunglasses can protect user's eyes from strong sunbeams irradiated from the sun and reflected sunbeams by selectively controlling the position and angle of the sunglasses according to irradiation angles of the sunbeams. However, the cap equipped with the sunglasses is disadvantageous in that it cannot be conveniently

applied to users having different face sizes because the cap equipped with the glasses is produced according to a predetermined specification and the position of the sunglasses cannot be freely controlled.

For example, when the user's face is too long or short, the height of the sunglasses is too low or high in comparison with the user's face, and so the sunglasses are not desirably adjusted to the user's eyes or, come down to press the ridge of the nose, causing discomfort to the user.

Furthermore, when a user's head is too long or short in the back or front, the user suffers from the sunglasses positioned at a very close or far distance from eyes.

Disclosure of the Invention Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to avoid the above disadvantages and to provide a cap equipped with rotative sunglasses, which can shield strong sunbeams irradiated from the sun and reflected sunbeams to protect user's eyes and create a desired fashion by positioning the sunglasses over and under a visor of the cap.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a cap equipped with rotative sunglasses capable of shielding strong sunbeams irradiated from the sun and reflected sunbeams to protect a user's eyes, whereby the position of the sunglasses can be desirably controlled according to the size and profile of a user's face.

Brief Description of the Drawings The above and other objects, features and other advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: Fig. 1 is a partly exploded perspective view of a cap with sunglasses according to the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a partial perspective view of the cap with sunglasses according to the present invention; Fig. 3 is a partial view of the cap with sunglasses, illustrating the combination structure of a rotative button and a combination member with the cap; Fig. 4 is a partly expanded exploded view of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a side view of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the cap equipped with sunglasses, illustrating operation of the sunglasses; and Fig. 7 is a side view of the cap equipped with the sunglasses, illustrating operation of the sunglasses.

Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention According to the present invention, provided is a cap equipped with sunglasses, in which the sunglasses are rotatably combined with the cap, having a visor so as to shield sunbeams or ultraviolet rays irradiated to a user's face, comprising a combination member, having a hole at a center thereof, engaged through an opening at each side of the cap with a fixing member positioned at each inner side of the cap so as not to undesirably rotate; a lever consisting of a rotative means, engaged with the hole, rotating by a predetermined force and being stepwise stopped, and a height control slot being longitudinally formed at the end of a lever and having uneven surfaces on both sides; a sunglass-hanging part, tightly combined with a portion of the height control slot of the lever, having a length control slot selectively and horizontally controlling a position thereof ; and a pair of control pivot pins rotatably engaged with each other through both the height control slot of the lever and the length control slot of the sunglass-hanging part.

The length control slot is longitudinally positioned at the end of the sunglass- hanging part, having uneven surfaces on both sides.

The rotative means comprises a rotative button, having a serrated surface positioned on an upper inner side of the lever, engaged with the hole of the combination member. The rotative button is engaged with a fixing button having

another serrated surface through the hole in such a way that a spring is positioned between the fixing button and a fixing member to elastically support the fixing button to prevent the rotative button from undesirably rotating.

In addition, the present invention provides a cap equipped with sunglasses rotatably moving, which can shield sunbeams irradiated and reflected to user's face to protect user's eyes and create a desired fashion by positioning the sunglasses over and under the visor of the cap.

Furthermore, the cap equipped with sunglasses is provided, in which the position of the sunglasses can be desirably controlled according to the size of the user's face by vertically and horizontally controlling the position of the sunglass- hanging part.

Reference should now be made to the drawings, in which the same reference numerals are used throughout the different drawings to designate the same or similar components.

Fig. 1 is a partly exploded perspective view of a cap with sunglasses according to the present invention; Fig. 2 is a partial perspective view of the cap with sunglasses according to the present invention; Fig. 3 is a partial view of the cap with sunglasses, illustrating the combination structure of a rotative button and a combination member with the cap; Fig. 4 is a partly expanded exploded view of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a side view of Fig. 4.

As shown in the drawings, Figs. 1 to 5, a cap 1 equipped with sunglasses according to the present invention consists of a visor 3 for shielding strong sunbeams, ultraviolet rays, and infrared rays irradiated to a user's face, and openings 2 at both sides of the cap 1.

A combination member 10, comprising a hole 11 positioned at the center thereof and a groove 12 positioned inside of the hole 11, covers each opening 2, and a rotative member rotating the sunglasses 27 around the cap 1 is engaged with the combination member 10.

The rotative means comprises a rotative button, having a serrated surface

positioned on an upper inner side of the lever, engaged with the hole of the combination member. The rotative button is engaged with a fixing button having another serrated surface through the hole in such a way that a spring is positioned between the fixing button and a fixing member to elastically support the fixing button to prevent the rotative button from undesirably rotating.

The combination member 10 covers the opening 2 of the cap 1. A fixing button 13, having a perforation 16 positioned at the center thereof and a sloped serrated surface 14 positioned around the perforation 16, is engaged with the hole 11, and is elastically supported by an elastic spring 17 positioned at the back of the fixing button 13.

At this time, a protrusion 15 positioned at the circumference of the fixing button 13 is engaged with a groove 12 positioned inside of the hole 11 of the combination member 10 when the fixing button 13 is engaged with the hole 11 of the combination member 10 so as to prevent the fixing button 13 engaged with the combination member 10 from rotating.

A rotative button 18 engaged with the hole 11 of the combination member 10 comprises a serrated surface 19 engaged with another serrated surface 14 of the fixing button 13, and a hollow cylindrical combination part 20 penetrating through the perforation 16 of the fixing button 13, having a combination hole 21 at an end thereof, positioned at a center of the serrated surface 19. Positioned under the rotative button 18, a lever 22 having a height control slot 23 positioned at a center thereof is united with the rotative button 18.

The combination part 20 of the rotative button 18 is engaged through the hole 11 of the combination member 10 and the perforation 16 of the fixing button 13 with a fixing member 24, thereby the rotative button 18 is fixed against the cap 1.

At this time, the combination hole 21 positioned at an end of the combination part 20 of the rotative button 18 is engaged with a combination protrusion 25 of the fixing member 24.

The combination member 10 having grooves 10'is engaged with protrusions 26 positioned at one side of the fixing member 24 to prevent the lever

22 from rotating.

In addition, the sunglass-hanging part 28 having the length control slot 29 longitudinally positioned in a portion thereof is combined with the height control slot 23 longitudinally positioned in the lever 22 under the rotative button 18 by use of control pivot pins 30a and 30b to be desirably controlled according to the size of a user's face.

At this time, the control pivot pins 30a and 30b for movably combining the sunglass-hanging part 28 having the length control slot 29 longitudinally positioned at an end thereof with the lever 22, having the height control slot 23, positioned under the rotative button 18 consist of a male control pivot pin 30b and a female control pivot pin 30a. An elastic strip 33b is engaged with a groove 32b positioned at a portion of the male control pivot pin 30b, and a multi-staged combination protrusion 34b positioned at an end of the male control pivot pin 30b is in contact with the uneven surfaces 29'of the length control slot 29 of the sunglass-hanging part 28. Another elastic strip 33a is engaged with a groove 32a positioned at a portion of the female control pivot pin 30a, and a tapered groove 34a positioned at an end of the female control pivot pin 30a is engaged through the height control slot 23 with the combination protrusion 34b of the male control pivot pin 30b.

To protect the user's eyes from strong sunbeams, and ultraviolet and infrared rays, the sunglasses 27 should be positioned under the visor 3 of the cap 1.

When the serrated surfaces 19 and 14 of the rotative and fixing buttons 18 and 13 engaged with each other are demounted from each other by pulling the rotative button 18 from the fixing button 13, the rotative button 18 can rotate to the underside of the visor 3. After the sunglasses 27 are positioned at a desired position under the visor 3 of the cap 1, the serrated surface 19 of the rotative button 18 is again engaged with the serrated surface 14 of the fixing button 13 by releasing the pulled rotative button 18, the rotative button 18 is then firmly engaged with the fixing button 13 being elastically supported by the elastic spring 17 to prevent the rotative button 18 from undesirably rotating.

At this time, the groove 12 is positioned inside of the combination

member 10 and the protrusion 15 of the fixing button 13 is inserted into the groove 12 to prevent the fixing button 13 from rotating during rotation of the rotative button 18.

Furthermore, the groove 10'is positioned inside of the combination member 10 and a plurality of protrusions are protruded from the fixing member 24 positioned inside of the cap 1 to prevent rotation of the fixing member 24 engaged with the combination hole 21 of the rotative button 18.

After the sunglasses 27 are positioned under the visor 3 of the cap 1, it is necessary to properly control the position of the sunglasses 27 according to a size of a user's face.

For example, in order to desirably control a height of the sunglasses 27, the sunglass-hanging part 28 is vertically moved while the height control slot 23 of the lever 22 and the length control slot 29, perpendicular to the height control slot 23, positioned at an end of the sunglass-hanging part 28 are combined with each other by the female and male control pivot pin 30a and 30b. At this time, the sunglass-hanging part 28 is vertically moved while the elastic strip 33a positioned in the groove 32a of the female control pivot pin 30a is tensionally in contact with the uneven surfaces 23'of the height control slot 23 of the lever 22.

On the other hand, in order to desirably and horizontally control the position of the sunglasses 27 according to a size of the user's face, the sunglass- hanging part 28 is horizontally moved while the height control slot 23 of the lever 22 and the length control slot 29, perpendicular to the height control slot 23, positioned at an end of the sunglass-hanging part 28 are combined with each other by the female and male control pivot pins 30a and 30b. At this time, the sunglass-hanging part 28 is horizontally moved while the elastic strip 33b positioned in the groove 32b of the male control pivot pin 30b is tensionally in contact with the uneven surfaces 29'of the length control slot 29 of the sunglass- hanging part 28.

At night, or if the sunbeams are not irradiated to the user's face, the sunglasses 27 may be positioned over the visor 3 of the cap 1 as shown in Fig. 7, so the user can secure a broad visual field and create a desired fashion.

Industrial Applicability As described above, the present invention provides a cap equipped with rotative sunglasses, which can shield strong sunbeams irradiated from the sun and reflected sunbeams to protect user's eyes and create a desired fashion by positioning the sunglasses over and under the visor of the cap.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, provided is a cap equipped with rotative sunglasses capable of shielding strong sunbeams irradiated from the sun and reflected sunbeams, to protect user's eyes, in which the position of the sunglasses can be desirably controlled according to the size and profile of a user's face.

The present invention has been described in an illustrative manner, and it is to be understood that the terminology used is intended to be in the nature of description rather than of limitation. Many modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teachings. Therefore, it is to be understood that within the scope of the appended claims, the invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described.