US 8,540,445 B2Granted

Three dimensional face mask

AssigneeNichiei Co., Ltd.

InventorSusumu Omoto

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Abstract

This face mask includes a right side sheet and a left side sheet which are mutually enantiomorphic. On a right side sheet and a left side sheet, a thermoplastic adhesive material is applied to the inner sides of ranges which include front edge strip portions which, during use, oppose the median line of the user's face; the right side sheet and the left side sheet are then laid together overlapping their inner sides; and heat is applied to areas of these front edge portions other than portions which, during use, oppose the nostrils and the mouth of the user, so that thereby the right side sheet and the left side sheet are joined together. By then opening out the right side sheet and the left side sheet in the direction to separate them, this face mask is caused to assume a three dimensional shape over its entire surface.

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Dependent claims

A three dimensional face mask formed as a sheet, which is to be mounted over the entire surface of the face of a user and impregnated with a liquid, comprising a planar left side sheet and a planar right side sheet which respectively, during use, oppose the left side and the right side of the face of the user, and which have front edge portions along a front edge of the mask, the front edge portions are mutually enantiomorphic and which, during use, oppose the median line of the face of the user, wherein:

said front edge portions present shapes which, overall, are convex to the outside;
said front edge portions each have:
a portion opposing a mid-eyebrow of the face that is made as a circular arc which is convex to the inside,
a wedge-shaped cutaway formed at a portion of the front edge under a lower part of a nose in the face and opposed a point between the nose and upper lip of the user during use, and
a cut joining with the wedge-shaped cutaway and extending in right and left directions in a plan view so as to supply an opening that opposes the respective nostril of the user during use;
and
said left side sheet and said right side sheet are provided with a thermoplastic adhesive material at least on certain inner surface portions thereof, in the thickness direction, of at least portions thereof which include areas towards their said front edge portions from lines which connect from their upper points to chin portions which, during use, oppose the chin of the user;
said front edge portions thereof are adhered together with the thermoplastic adhesive material by selectively applying heat over a strip of a certain width along the front edge except for a portion which, during use, opposes the nostrils of the user, and a portion which, during use, opposes the mouth of the user;
and
wherein the width of the heat-adhered strip of thermoplastic material is smaller than a width of the thermoplastic adhesive material.

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said front edge portions present shapes which, overall, are convex to the outside;
said front edge portions each have:
a portion opposing a mid-eyebrow of the face that is made as a circular arc which is convex to the inside,
a wedge-shaped cutaway formed at a portion of the front edge under a lower part of a nose in the face and opposed a point between the nose and upper lip of the user during use, and
a cut joining with the wedge-shaped cutaway and extending in right and left directions in a plan view so as to supply an opening that opposes the respective nostril of the user during use;
and
said left side sheet and said right side sheet are provided with a thermoplastic adhesive material at least on certain inner surface portions thereof, in the thickness direction, of at least portions thereof which include areas towards their said front edge portions from lines which connect from their upper points to chin portions which, during use, oppose the chin of the user;
said front edge portions thereof are adhered together with the thermoplastic adhesive material by selectively applying heat over a strip of a certain width along the front edge except for a portion which, during use, opposes the nostrils of the user, and a portion which, during use, opposes the mouth of the user;
and
wherein the cut that supplies the opening that opposes the respective nostril of the user during use has an upwardly curved turn at an end of the cut distal the front edge.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/421,720Filed 10 Apr 2009
Priority: JP 2008-10593715 Apr 2008
Published: US 2009/0255554 A115 Oct 2009
Granted: 24 Sep 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A45D 44/00
Hairdressing or shaving equipment: other cosmetic or toiletry articles
A45D 44/002
Other cosmetic or toiletry articles, e.g. for hairdressers' rooms: masks for cosmetic treatment of the face
A45D 44/22
Other cosmetic or toiletry articles, e.g. for hairdressers' rooms: face shaping devices, e.g. chin straps; Wrinkle removers, e.g. stretching the skin
A45D
Hairdressing or shaving equipment

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US 2009/0255554 A1Pre-grant publication · published 15 Oct 2009
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