Patent classifications
A41D13/1169
Personal protective equipment and methods
Improved personal protective equipment facial wear including, in one embodiment, an at least partly adhesive mask, and one or more adhesive eye shields. In one implementation, the mask avoids significant contact with the delicate periorbital skin of the wearer, yet provides a substantially airtight seal so as to preclude moisture vapor transfer and fogging of eyeware or instruments. In another implementation, adherence of the eye shield is at least partially overlapping with the mask and creates an at least partial seal around a perimeter of the eye shield. Further, an at least partial seal is formed around a perimeter of the mask. The mask and eye shield additionally prevent nasal air flow obstruction, and address the problem of skin irritation and attachment during normal facial expression and movement of the wearer.
Flexible face mask having sides that adhere closely to wearer's cheeks
Proposed is a flexible dental mask having sides that adhere closely to the wearer's cheeks, in which both sides of a rectangular mask body are bonded so that a predetermined length of a lower end of a pleated portion is not bonded, thus forming a non-bonded portion, and only the remaining part excluding the non-bonded portion is bonded, so the non-bonded portion is folded to flexibly cope with shape deformation when the mask is worn, enabling the both sides of the mask body to closely adhere to the wearer's cheeks when the mask is worn.
Mask guide
There is provided a mask guide including a guide positioned between a mask and a chin of a user to prevent the user's chin and an inner surface of the mask from coming in contact with each other. The guide includes a first guide disposed on the inner surface of the mask. The guide includes a second guide configured to be positioned on the user's chin and configured to be moved in accordance with movement of the user's chin.