EP0303090B1 - Seal for protective masks - Google Patents

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EP0303090B1
EP0303090B1 EP19880111946 EP88111946A EP0303090B1 EP 0303090 B1 EP0303090 B1 EP 0303090B1 EP 19880111946 EP19880111946 EP 19880111946 EP 88111946 A EP88111946 A EP 88111946A EP 0303090 B1 EP0303090 B1 EP 0303090B1
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Giovanni Mosca Tenna
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SGE Generale Elastomeri SpA Soc
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A62—LIFE-SAVING; FIRE-FIGHTING
    • A62B—DEVICES, APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR LIFE-SAVING
    • A62B18/00—Breathing masks or helmets, e.g. affording protection against chemical agents or for use at high altitudes or incorporating a pump or compressor for reducing the inhalation effort
    • A62B18/08—Component parts for gas-masks or gas-helmets, e.g. windows, straps, speech transmitters, signal-devices

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  • the present invention refers to a face seal for protective masks.
  • a face seal comprising the features defined in the first part of Claim 1 is disclosed in US-A-3 545 436.
  • the protective masks at present in use comprise a face-shield which acts both as support of the ocular surface and of the filter with which the mask is provided and as a seal on the user's face.
  • the face-shield is made by a single piece of rubber which is sharpened at the edge in order to be particularly flexible and soft to adhere hermetically to the face with as much comfort as possible, acting as a seal.
  • the rubber of the face-shield is on the contrary thick and presents a limited flexibility so that it supports rigidly the filter(s) and the ocular surface of the mask.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a face seal associable to a face-shield, structured in whatsoever way, for protective masks, able to avoid the above mentioned drawbacks, namely to give the necessary tightness without weariness or inflammation of the circumferential portion of the face with which it interacts; said face seal is not affected by the deformations of the face-shield of the mask caused by the weight of the filter(s) and of the ocular surface.
  • Another object of the present invention is to allow many people to use the same mask reducing the number of the sizes necessary to satisfy a population of persons.
  • the face seal presents an annular development which allows it to anchor to an edge 2 of a face-shield 3 for instance of rigid type.
  • the face seal 1 comprises fitting means cooperating with the edge 2 and tightness means operating between said edge 2 and the user's face (not shown).
  • the tightness means of the face seal comprise a bellows 4 in which a first 5 and a second 6 annular foil are reciprocally hinged along an annular edge 7 so that they form between themselves an angle "alpha" with concavity towards the interior of the face-shield 3.
  • the second annular foil 6 extends itself to form a chin-latch by the lower part of the face-shield.
  • the means for the fit of the face seal 1 to the edge 2 of the face-shield 3 comprise a couple of annular flaps (internal 10 and external 11) joined together to form a U-shaped structure fitted on the edge 2 of the face-shield 3.
  • the external flap 11 is pressed against the edge 2 by a metallic hooping 12 made, according to the requirements, even by many pieces and cooperating also with a step 13 associated to said edge 2.
  • the face seal 1 can be fitted, with all the related advantages, also to a soft face-shield with the sole condition that the edge 2 is rigid and therefore independent from the means which fit it to the face-shield 3.
  • the second annular foil 6 comes in contact with the user's face (not shown) and rotates elastically around the annular edge approaching the first foil 5.
  • the concave angle "alpha" between said foils reduces itself till the elastic force generated by the face seal 1 balances the elastic force produced by the means of fit of the mask to the user's head (not shown); said means are usually formed by elastic belts connected directly to the face-shield 3 of the mask.
  • the connecting baffle 8 is present and cooperates to balance said force by its deformation.

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Description

  • The present invention refers to a face seal for protective masks. A face seal comprising the features defined in the first part of Claim 1 is disclosed in US-A-3 545 436. The protective masks at present in use comprise a face-shield which acts both as support of the ocular surface and of the filter with which the mask is provided and as a seal on the user's face. The face-shield is made by a single piece of rubber which is sharpened at the edge in order to be particularly flexible and soft to adhere hermetically to the face with as much comfort as possible, acting as a seal. Far from the edge the rubber of the face-shield is on the contrary thick and presents a limited flexibility so that it supports rigidly the filter(s) and the ocular surface of the mask.
  • Therefore the face-shields of the current protective masks have to be realized trying to mediate the requirements of stiffness and of tightness and comfort which are obviously in contrast.
  • The object of the present invention is to provide a face seal associable to a face-shield, structured in whatsoever way, for protective masks, able to avoid the above mentioned drawbacks, namely to give the necessary tightness without weariness or inflammation of the circumferential portion of the face with which it interacts; said face seal is not affected by the deformations of the face-shield of the mask caused by the weight of the filter(s) and of the ocular surface.
  • Another object of the present invention is to allow many people to use the same mask reducing the number of the sizes necessary to satisfy a population of persons.
  • Such objects are achieved by a face seal for protective masks provided with a face-shield as defined in Claim 1.
  • The main advantages obtained by the use of such face seal on protective masks are the following:
    • improved comfort of use of the mask with the highest guarantee of tightness;
    • reduction of the number of necessary sizes with consequent standardization of the production of the masks;
    • possibility to make the face seal by a type of rubber or other materials which privilege the characteristics of anti-allergy and softness in respect to those of durability, being possible to replace periodically and easy the possibly worn face seal with another one.
  • The invention is illustrated, just for exemplification but not in a limitative manner, in the figures of the attached tables where:
    • fig. 1 is a front view of the face seal mounted on a face-shield of the rigid type of a protective mask;
    • fig. 2 is a cutaway view taken along the line II-II of fig. 1;
    • fig. 3 is a section executed along the line III-III of fig. 2.
  • With reference to the above mentioned figures the face seal, generically quoted as 1, presents an annular development which allows it to anchor to an edge 2 of a face-shield 3 for instance of rigid type.
  • The face seal 1 comprises fitting means cooperating with the edge 2 and tightness means operating between said edge 2 and the user's face (not shown).
  • The tightness means of the face seal comprise a bellows 4 in which a first 5 and a second 6 annular foil are reciprocally hinged along an annular edge 7 so that they form between themselves an angle "alpha" with concavity towards the interior of the face-shield 3.
  • The amplitude of the angle "alpha" is almost constant over the whole development of the face seal 1 close to the edge 2 of the face-shield 3, whereas the position of the whole of the two annular foils 5 and 6 with reference to the fitting means (and therefore to the edge 2 of the face-shield 3 included inside said means) is not constant. This is due to a connecting baffle 8 which reaches its largest extension at the top of the face-shield decreasing gradually up to disappear in the median and lower zones of the face-shield (see section III-III of fig. 2).
  • The second annular foil 6 extends itself to form a chin-latch by the lower part of the face-shield.
  • The means for the fit of the face seal 1 to the edge 2 of the face-shield 3 comprise a couple of annular flaps (internal 10 and external 11) joined together to form a U-shaped structure fitted on the edge 2 of the face-shield 3.
  • The external flap 11 is pressed against the edge 2 by a metallic hooping 12 made, according to the requirements, even by many pieces and cooperating also with a step 13 associated to said edge 2.
  • The face seal 1 can be fitted, with all the related advantages, also to a soft face-shield with the sole condition that the edge 2 is rigid and therefore independent from the means which fit it to the face-shield 3.
  • Wearing a mask provided with the face seal 1, the second annular foil 6 comes in contact with the user's face (not shown) and rotates elastically around the annular edge approaching the first foil 5. The concave angle "alpha" between said foils reduces itself till the elastic force generated by the face seal 1 balances the elastic force produced by the means of fit of the mask to the user's head (not shown); said means are usually formed by elastic belts connected directly to the face-shield 3 of the mask.
  • Where the force produced by the means fitting the mask to the user's face is greater, the connecting baffle 8 is present and cooperates to balance said force by its deformation.
  • It is obvious that the rotation of the second annular foil 6 around the annular edge 7 with reference to the first annular foil 5, with the consequent approaching of the two foils forming the bellows 4, is also influenced by the dimensions of the user's face, which can vary without the arising of tightness problems.

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  1. Face seal for protective masks with face shield, comprising annular flaps (10,11) fastenable onto an annular edge (2) of the face shield (3) and connected to first and second annular foils (5 resp.6) hingedly connected together along an annular edge (7) of the face seal (1) to form a bellows arrangement, wherein said foils (5,6) form between each other an acute angle ( α ) and said second foil (6) extends in the lower part of the face seal (1) to form a chin-latch (9), characterised in that said annular edge (7) of the face seal (1) is disposed at the side of the face seal (1) that is opposite to the face shield (3) and the acute angle ( α ) opens toward the interior of the face shield (3), whereby the second foil (6) extends from said annular edge (7) toward the interior of the face shield (3).
  2. Face seal according to claim 1, characterised in that the acute angle ( α ) has a substantially constant amplitude over the development of the annular edge (7) of the face seal (1).
  3. Face seal according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that between the flaps (10,11) and the first annular foil (5) there is provided a connecting baffle (8) having a largest extension at the top portion of the face seal (1) and a gradually decreasing extension disappearing in the median and lower portions of the face seal (1).
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