CA1142302A

CA1142302A - Painter's protective device

Info

Publication number: CA1142302A
Application number: CA000369976A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Andrew J. Helmbreck
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1981-02-03
Filing date: 1981-02-03
Publication date: 1983-03-08

Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure The disclosure teaches a painter's protective device providing a mask adapted to cover the forehead, eyes and nose of the wearer and having suitable eye holes and a visor projecting outwardly from the forehead portion of the mask above the eye holes and means for retaining the mask on the wearer's head. In a preferred embodiment the eye holes axe covered by a screen.

Description

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1 ¦¦ P~INTFR' S PROTECTTVÆ DEVICE

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This invenkion relates to devices or the protec-6 1l tion of painters.
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81 ; Painters using spray guns, especially of the airless 9¦1 type, suf~er much inconvenience and even injury to the skin 10 ¦ as a resul.t of receiving deposits of pain~ on their faces and 11 l in their eyes which causes at the least redness and irritation.

13 The problem i~ particularly acute in ovexhead spray-14 ing ~rom airless guns because the painter must loo~ up to 15 see what he is doing and certain amounts of the spray parti- .. .
1G cles bounce off the sw~Eace to be painted and on to the face .
17 and in~o the eyes of the painter~ ~o a somewhat lesser extent 18 the same problem exists with a.ir gunsO
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To applicant's knowledge, no person in the pxior art 21 has made a light-weight, inexpensive, satisfactory protective 22 device in response to the problem. Accordingly, it is an 23 object of this invention to xespond to the problems hereto-24 fore descri.bed.
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1~ Brief S~mmarv of the Invent _n 3 ¦ In accord~nce wi~h the invention more fully described 4 I hereafter there is p~ovided a paintex's protective device 5 j which has a m~sk adapted to cover the forehead, eyes and nose 6¦1 of the wearer~ eye holes therein appropriately placed, a 7 visor projecting outwa.rdly fxom the Eorehead portion of the 8 mask above the eye holes, and means for retai.ning the device 'J on the wearer's head.

11 Convenientl~, the eye holes may be narrow slits 12 and the visor may be extended and curved downwardly at the 13 el~ds to provide additional proteckion at the sides in the 14 vic.inity of the eye holes~
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16 ! Preferably, ~he eye hole~ are covered by a screen 178 material to give additional protection to the eyes.

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4 obtained 'rom the following drawings considexed in connec-tion with the detailed description that follows wherein:
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71 I~ig. l is a perspectlve view of a presently preferred 81 embodiment of the device; .
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Fig. 2 is a side ele~ation view o~ the device of 11 Fig. l, taken in section along the lines 2-2; ..
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13 Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the device of Fig.
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16 Fig. 4 is a perspective view of an alternative ..
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19 Fig. S is a view, in section, o~ the device of Fig.
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22 Fl~. 6 is a perspective view o yet an~ther pre-23 ferred embodiment of the device; and 24 . . .
Fig. 7 is a view of the device of Fig, 6, in section, 2G along the lines 7-7.

28 Reerring now to the drawings wherein a pxesently 29 preferred embodiment of the invention is depicted, with parti-301 cular reference to Figs. l, 2 and 3 there is provided in the 31 device a mas~ l which has a forehead area 2, a nose area 3 ~2 .
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1 nd eye holes 4. Projecting from the forehead area 2 is a 2 visor 5 which has a hori~ontal component which is integrally .
3 formed into a downwardly and outwardly extending, vertically inclined, extension of the visor 5. The eye holes 4 in this embodiment are narrow, elongate strips. The mask is held in 6 place on the head of the wearer by means of an elastic band 8 7 whose ends ~ are inserted through suitable apertures 10 in the 8 ~ides 6 of the mask 1.
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Referring now particularly to Figs. 4 - 7 wherein 11 the same parts are assigned the same numbers, tlle mask 1 is 12 provided as an alternative embodiment with a lar~e opening 4a 13 covered by a screen 14.

Persons ordinari,ly skilled in the art will appxeciate 1G from a thou~ltful consideration of the Eoregoing disclosure ... .
17 that various equivalents of the pxeerred embodiment may ~e 18 employed.~
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All such embodiments as ma~ he considered fairly to 21 fall within the ambit of the appended claims are intended to 22 be considered a part of this invention.

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Claims

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:

1. A painter's protective device comprising a mask adapted to cover the forehead, eyes and nose of a wearer and having eye holes, a visor projecting outwardly from the forehead portion of the mask above the eye holes, and means for retaining said mask on the wearer's head.

2. The mask of claim 1 wherein said eye holes are narrow slits.

3. The mask of claim 1 wherein said visor curves downwardly at the ends to the sides of said mask and said eye holes.

4. The mask of claim 2 wherein said visor curves downwardly at the ends to the sides of said mask and said eye holes.

5. The mask of claim 1 with the addition of screening means covering said eye holes.

6. The mask of claim 2 with the addition of screening means covering said eye holes.

7. The mask of claim 3 with the addition of screening means covering said eye holes.

8. The mask of claim 4 with the addition of screening means covering said eye holes.