CN212088243U - Epidemic situation protection silica gel gauze mask - Google Patents

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CN212088243U
CN212088243U CN202020377960.0U CN202020377960U CN212088243U CN 212088243 U CN212088243 U CN 212088243U CN 202020377960 U CN202020377960 U CN 202020377960U CN 212088243 U CN212088243 U CN 212088243U
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The utility model relates to an epidemic situation protection silica gel oronasal mask, including nasal part sealed cowling, oral area sealed cowling, air membrane, characterized by is equipped with antibiotic filtration passageway in the side of controlling of nasal part sealed cowling, and the lower part is equipped with the epidemic prevention champignon chamber, and nasal part sealed cowling and oral area sealed cowling are linked into an organic whole, and antibiotic filtration membrane, epidemic prevention oronasal mask main part load antibacterial material are inlayed to the oral area sealed cowling. The invention has the advantages that the herbal medicine aromatherapy is combined with the mouth-nose mask, the herbal medicine smell is breathed, the plague invasion is prevented, the filter channel and the ventilation grating are antibacterial, each part of the mouth-nose mask is antibacterial, the whole face is sealed by the antibacterial material, bacteria and viruses cannot enter, and the breathing is smooth and not oppressed. The replacement of Chinese herbal medicine can relieve various symptoms, such as rhinitis, insomnia, snoring, carsickness, pharyngitis, asthma, smoking cessation, lung heat clearing, pneumoconiosis protection, etc. The utility model discloses structural innovation, the function innovation, the epidemic situation can all be worn with at ordinary times, and the function is unchangeable after wasing, can use repeatedly, and market prospect is very wide.

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Epidemic situation protection silica gel gauze mask
Technical Field
An epidemic situation protection silica gel mouth-nose mask belongs to the technical field of articles for daily use.
Background
In 12 months in 2019, a plurality of novel coronavirus infection cases are discovered in Wuhan city hospitals in succession and are determined as acute respiratory infectious diseases. The new transmission routes of coronary pneumonia are mainly direct transmission and aerosol transmission. Direct transmission refers to infection caused by sneezing, coughing, speaking droplets and direct inhalation of exhaled air in close proximity; aerosol transmission refers to the mixing of droplets in the air to form an aerosol that causes infection after inhalation. The new coronavirus pneumonia is a fulminating infectious disease, no specific therapy exists at present, and the new coronavirus pneumonia can be only treated by adopting traditional medical means such as antivirus, fever reduction, lung moistening, cough relieving and the like according to the disease condition. Mainly adopts a prevention-oriented method, namely, people go out and gather less, go out and wear a mask, and frequently wash hands and the like. The mask becomes the important protection instrument to novel coronavirus, and N95 mask and medical surgery gauze mask are recommended to the protection gauze mask, and N95 mask can block 95% bacterium, nevertheless can not wear for a long time, can cause the oxygen deficiency, does not advise old man, pregnant woman, children and uses. The medical surgical mask can block 75% of bacteria, but is disposable, and can not be reused, so that the mask is short of supply and demand in an epidemic situation period, and is also a waste phenomenon. In 19/2/2020, the national health and health committee issued "new diagnosis and treatment plan for coronavirus pneumonia" (trial sixth edition), dividing the traditional Chinese medicine treatment into confirmed cases in the medical observation period and the clinical treatment period, wherein the medical observation period recommends using Chinese patent medicines, and the clinical treatment period recommends a general formula of "lung-clearing and toxin-expelling decoction". This shows that the Chinese traditional medicine is effective for curing acute respiratory infectious disease of new coronary pneumonia. In fact, the ancient Chinese epidemic prevention method is simple and high-grade, and the ancient people epidemic prevention method comprises the steps of fumigating, and carrying out space disinfection by burning herbs or soaking in water and heating by using gas generated by the herbs. Tang dynasty recorded at Sun Simiao: when pestilence outbreaks occur, sixteen medicinal materials such as realgar, orpiment, cinnabar and the like are put in front of a court to be burnt for disinfection and epidemic prevention; secondly, smearing, recorded in the jin dynasty, grinding the herbal medicines into fine powder, blending and smearing the fine powder on the nose and the middle of a person, and playing an epidemic prevention role through breathing; thirdly, wearing the medicine is a unique epidemic prevention measure in the traditional Chinese medicine, and the medicine smell is continuously released by utilizing the pendant herbal medicine preparation so as to prevent the invasion of infectious bacteria. Without modern scientific technology, chemical synthetic antibacterial drugs and N95 mask, the defense against pestilence shows great wisdom. The title of Han Wu Story is that Han Wu Di Shao Du Tu Dou is fragrant and smells Bai Li. Guan Zhong Fang Yi Xiang and Yue Zhi. As early as the Han dynasty, people find that the incense can sterilize, and pestilence is spread in Han dynasty, namely, the pestilence spread is inhibited by using incense burning medicines. According to the 'history of Chinese epidemic diseases' edited and published by the Chinese institute of traditional Chinese medicine, from Xihan to Qing Fang, China has at least 321 times of large-scale pestilences. The traditional Chinese medicine and various pestilences are combined once and again, and the spread of epidemic situation is controlled in limited regions and time. China never has seen tragedies of several million people died of Spain large influenza, European black death disease and global plague caused by one pestilence. In traditional Chinese medicine, records of using incense to prevent and treat pestilence are recorded in many classic medical books such as Huangdi's inner classic, Wen Bing tiao, Qian jin Fang and Shang Han Lun. In the struggle between human beings and infectious diseases, Chinese herbal medicines make great contribution to human beings.
Combine together ancient wisdom and modern technology, combine together chinese herbal medicine and modern antibacterial material, combine together champignon epidemic prevention and respirator, constitute a neotype epidemic situation protection product, establish the unbreakable protection fort in people's face, prevent the infringement of bacterial virus, wear for a long time and breathe with the big amount of exercise and do not hold back breath to can use repeatedly. This is the object of the present invention.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model provides an epidemic situation protection silica gel oronasal mask seals up mouth and nose respectively, forces nose breathing to pass through antibiotic filtration passageway, forces the mouth to breathe through antibiotic ventilation grid, sets up epidemic prevention chinese herbal medicine box in nostril department, gives off medicine smell, and overall structure forms antibiotic epidemic prevention microenvironment at oronasal part for prevent the pestilence infringement.
The purpose of the utility model is realized through the following technical scheme: the utility model provides an epidemic situation protection silica gel oronasal mask, includes nasal part sealed cowling, clean air mouth, outer air mouth, hangs area, oral area sealed cowling, leads to air net, air film, its characterized in that: antibacterial filter material is placed in an antibacterial material box, an epidemic prevention oronasal mask main body upper portion is provided with a nasal sealing cover, the antibacterial material box is arranged into a filter channel fixing clamping piece through a filter channel mounting port on the left side of the nasal sealing cover, a left antibacterial filter channel is formed, the antibacterial material box is arranged into a filter channel fixing clamping piece through a filter channel mounting port on the right side of the nasal sealing cover, a right antibacterial filter channel is formed, an herbal box fixing clamping piece is arranged on the lower portion of the epidemic prevention oronasal mask main body, the herbal box is arranged into an herbal box fixing clamping piece, an epidemic prevention aromatherapy cavity is formed, the nasal sealing cover and the oral sealing cover are connected into a whole, ventilation grids are arranged on the periphery of the oral sealing cover, and antibacterial filter membranes are embedded in the inner sides of the ventilation grids. The main body of the anti-epidemic oronasal mask comprises a nasal sealing cover, a hanging belt, an oral sealing cover, an antibacterial ventilation grille, a filter channel fixing clamping piece and a herbal medicine box fixing clamping piece which are all loaded with antibacterial materials. The left side and the right side of the antibacterial material box are provided with ventilation nets, the antibacterial material box cover is arranged on the antibacterial material box, the herbal medicine box cover is arranged on the herbal medicine box, and the herbal medicine box is provided with hollowed-out emission holes.
Antibacterial filtering materials are placed in the antibacterial material box, and antibacterial filtering membranes are embedded in the inner sides of the ventilation grids. The main bodies of the antibacterial filtering material and the antibacterial filtering membrane are three-dimensional nested air membranes, and the air membranes have the characteristics of small resistance and high air permeability. The air film is loaded with the antibacterial material by various methods, for example, in the production process of manufacturing the air film, at least one material of nano silver, nano zinc, nano copper, graphene, tourmaline and cerium dioxide is loaded into the raw material for manufacturing the air film by a special process, so that the antibacterial metal elements are uniformly dispersed and precipitated in a certain size and form in the air film, the volume percentage of the precipitated phase is ensured, and the air film is endowed with excellent antibacterial performance. If the processing capability is not provided, the antibacterial agent can be sprayed on the finished product of the air film of the three-dimensional nest-shaped body, or the air film is soaked in the antibacterial solution for sizing treatment.
The lower part of the anti-epidemic oronasal mask body is provided with an anti-epidemic aroma chamber. The Chinese herbal medicines in the anti-pestilence champignon cavity comprise one or more of sweet wormwood herb, folium artemisiae argyi, honeysuckle, rhizoma atractylodis, fructus forsythiae, houttuynia cordata, frankincense, rosewood heart wood, asarum, calamus, burdock, folium isatidis, myrobalan, herba schizonepetae, pepper, agastache rugosus, eupatorium fortunei, mangnolia officinalis, antifebrile dichroa, astragalus mongholicus, areca catechu, golden cypress, polygonum cuspidatum, scutellaria baicalensis, isatis root and thyme. The Chinese herbal medicines in the anti-pestilence aromatherapy cavity are replaced by the Chinese herbal medicine with another function, so that different effects can be achieved, including rhinitis relieving, insomnia relieving, snoring relieving, car sickness relieving, pharyngitis relieving and asthma relieving, and a plurality of healthy formulas for smoking cessation, lung heat clearing, pneumoconiosis protection and the like can be achieved. The formula is simple and practical, and the wearing experiment effect is good.
The nose sealing cover and the mouth sealing cover are connected into a whole. The nose and the mouth are separated and integrated, which is elaborately designed. Firstly, the mouth sealing cover is large in size, the ventilation area of the antibacterial ventilation grating of the mouth sealing cover is large, and the filtering effects of the left and right antibacterial filtering channels on the two sides of the nose sealing cover can not be influenced by separation; secondly, the mouth sealing cover not only can shield the droplets of sneezing, coughing and speaking of the patient, but also ensures that the wearer can breathe smoothly when the activity is large, and the nose and the mouth are separated and integrated reasonably; the air from the outside is sterilized and inhaled healthily, and the exhaled air is sterilized by the user, so that the air is beneficial to public health and health of other people; and fourthly, the air flow is guided to enter and exit from the two sides and the lower part, and is far away from eyes and faces, so that the moisture accumulation is reduced, and the fogging of the glasses is prevented.
The epidemic prevention oronasal mask main body comprises a nasal part sealing cover, a hanging belt, an oral part sealing cover, an antibacterial ventilation grating, a filtering channel fixing clamping piece and a herbal medicine box fixing clamping piece which are all loaded with antibacterial materials. The production raw material of the main body of the anti-epidemic oral-nasal mask is silica gel, and at least one material of nano-silver, nano-zinc, nano-copper, graphene, tourmaline and cerium dioxide is added in proportion in the process of mixing rubber by using the silica gel raw material to form functional silica gel loaded with antibacterial materials, so that each part of the main body of the anti-epidemic oral-nasal mask has an antibacterial function.
The utility model discloses epidemic situation protection silica gel oronasal mask's beneficial effect is:
1. the function is innovative, the herbal fragrance is combined with the mouth-nose mask, the fragrance of the herbal is directly breathed, and the plague invasion is prevented;
2. the structure is innovative, the nose and the mouth are respectively sealed, the side surface and the lower part are ventilated, and the breath is smooth and not oppressed;
3. the oral-nasal mask has the advantages that the oral-nasal mask is three-dimensional antibacterial, the filter channel is antibacterial, each part of the oral-nasal mask is loaded with antibacterial materials for antibacterial, the whole face is sealed in a small purification environment, and bacteria and viruses cannot enter;
4. the Chinese herbal medicine of the aromatherapy and the antibacterial material loaded by the mouth-nose mask are nontoxic and have no side effect on human bodies;
5. the product has multiple functions, and can relieve various symptoms such as rhinitis, insomnia, snoring, motion sickness, pharyngitis, asthma, smoking cessation, lung heat clearing, pneumoconiosis prevention, etc. by replacing Chinese herbal medicines.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the main body of the oronasal mask loaded with an antibacterial material;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of an antimicrobial filter cartridge;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of an herbal medicine cartridge;
fig. 5 is a schematic view of an air film.
The designations in the various drawings are as follows: (1) an anti-epidemic oronasal mask body; (2) a left antimicrobial filtration channel; (3) a pestilence prevention aromatherapy cavity; (4) a nose seal cover; (5) cleaning the air port; (6) an antibacterial filter material; (7) a right antimicrobial filtration channel; (8) an outer air port; (9) hanging a belt; (10) a mouth sealing cover; (11) an antibacterial material; (12) an antibacterial filtering membrane; (13) an antibacterial ventilating grille; (14) the filter channel fixing clamp piece; (15) a filter channel mounting port; (16) the herbal box fixing fastener; (17) an air inlet of the fixed clamping piece; (18) a ventilation net; (19) an antimicrobial material cartridge; (20) a box cover made of antibacterial materials; (21) hollowing out the emission holes; (22) a herbal box; (23) herbal medicine box cover; (24) an air film.
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The invention will be described in further detail below with reference to the following embodiments and the accompanying drawings for better understanding by those skilled in the art.
Example one
As shown in figures 1 and 2, the anti-epidemic oronasal mask body 1 is loaded with antibacterial materials and adopts the following steps: weighing 10 g of nano-silver, 10 g of nano-zinc, 20 g of nano-graphene, 10 g of nano-tourmaline and 50 g of 400-mesh white carbon black, putting the white carbon black into a small-sized stirrer, stirring for 1 minute, putting the weighed nano-silver, nano-zinc, nano-graphene and nano-tourmaline into the small-sized stirrer, mixing and stirring for 5 minutes, and pouring out to obtain the antibacterial material 11. Weighing 900 g of silica gel raw material, cutting into small blocks of about 1 cm, putting into a stirrer, putting the mixture of nano silver and the like into the stirrer, rolling and mixing at a low speed for 1 minute, dipping the silica gel blocks on the mixture, stirring at a high speed for 15 minutes to obtain the silica gel raw material with the antibacterial function, transferring into a mixing roll for repeatedly rolling and shaping, and finally vulcanizing and molding for the second time to obtain the epidemic prevention oronasal mask main body 1 with the antibacterial function. The epidemic prevention oronasal mask body 1 comprises a nasal sealing cover 4, a hanging belt 9, an oral sealing cover 10, an antibacterial ventilation grille 13, a filter passage fixing fastener 14 and a herbal medicine box fixing fastener 16.
Example two
On the basis of the first embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, 2 and 4, the formation process of the plague prevention champignon cavity 3 is as follows: putting 150 g of sweet wormwood herb, 200 g of folium artemisiae argyi, 200 g of honeysuckle flower, 400 g of rhizoma atractylodis and 150 g of fructus forsythiae into a grinder, grinding into fine powder, and sieving by a 200-mesh sieve to obtain 1000 g of aromatherapy herbal medicine; putting pepper oil according to a predetermined proportion into a pot, adding beeswax according to a proportion, frying until no yellow foam exists, taking the mixture away from fire, gradually adding 1000 g of the fumigation herb medicine powder, uniformly mixing the mixture into paste, naturally cooling the paste, dividing the paste into a plurality of equal parts, putting one part of the fumigation herb medicine box 22 into the herb medicine box, covering the herb medicine box cover 23, and placing the herb medicine box 22 into the herb medicine box fixing clamping piece 16 to obtain the fumigation cavity 3 for preventing plague. The hollow emitting hole 21 corresponds to the herbal medicine box fixing fastener 16.
EXAMPLE III
On the basis of the first embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, 2, 3 and 5, the air membrane 24 is dried and cleaned by a blower, a nano silver solution is purchased from the market, the components of the nano silver solution are nano silver polymer, nano cerium dioxide, high molecular polymer, dispersing agent, deionized water and the active component content is 1000ppm, the nano silver solution is filled into a container, the dried and cleaned air membrane 24 is put into the container, a glass plate is pressed on the air membrane 24 to ensure that the whole air membrane 24 is soaked in the solution for 30 minutes, the air membrane 24 is taken out and naturally aired to obtain the antibacterial filtering material 6 and the antibacterial filtering membrane 12, the antibacterial filtering material 6 is filled into an antibacterial material box 19, a gap of 1 mm is reserved between the air membrane 24 and an air ventilation net 18 to avoid the air membrane 24 from being extruded and deformed, the antibacterial material box cover 20 is covered, the antibacterial material box 19 is placed into a filtering channel fixing clamping piece 14 from a filtering channel mounting opening 15, the outer air port 8 corresponds to the air inlet 17 of the fixed clamping piece and becomes a left antibacterial filtering channel 2 and a right antibacterial filtering channel 7 at two sides of the nasal sealing cover 4, and the assembled ventilation net 18 is the clean air port 5 and the outer air port 8. The antibacterial filter membrane 12 is embedded inside the antibacterial ventilation grill 13 of the mouth sealing cover 10.
The above, only be the preferred embodiment of the present invention, not for limiting the present invention, it is not right the present invention does not make the restriction of other forms, any technical personnel familiar with the present invention may utilize the technical content disclosed above to change or retrofit to be the equivalent embodiment of equivalent change to be applied to other fields, all do not break away from the technical solution content of the present invention, utilize the content of the description and the attached drawings of the present invention, according to the present invention, any simple modification, equivalent change and retrofit made by the technical entity to the above embodiments still belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides an epidemic situation protection silica gel oronasal mask, includes nasal part sealed cowling (4), clean air mouth (5), outer air mouth (8), hangs area (9), oral area sealed cowling (10), net (18), air film (24) of ventilating, its characterized in that: antibacterial filter materials (6) are placed in an antibacterial material box (19), a nose sealing cover (4) is arranged at the upper part of an anti-epidemic oronasal mask main body (1), the antibacterial material box (19) is arranged into a filter channel fixing clamping piece (14) through a filter channel mounting port (15) at the left side of the nose sealing cover (4) to form a left antibacterial filter channel (2), the antibacterial material box (19) is arranged into the filter channel fixing clamping piece (14) through the filter channel mounting port (15) at the right side of the nose sealing cover (4) to form a right antibacterial filter channel (7), an herbal box fixing clamping piece (16) is arranged at the lower part of the anti-epidemic oronasal mask main body (1), an herbal box (22) is arranged into the herbal box fixing clamping piece (16) to form an anti-epidemic aromatherapy champignon cavity (3), the nose sealing cover (4) and the oral sealing cover (10) are connected into a whole, an antibacterial ventilation grating (13) is arranged around the oral sealing cover (10), an antibacterial filtering membrane (12) is embedded inside the antibacterial ventilating grid (13).
2. The epidemic situation protection silica gel oral-nasal mask according to claim 1, wherein the epidemic situation protection silica gel oral-nasal mask body (1) comprises a nasal sealing cover (4), a hanging belt (9), an oral sealing cover (10), an antibacterial ventilation grid (13), a filtering channel fixing clamping piece (14) and a herbal medicine box fixing clamping piece (16) which are all loaded with antibacterial materials (11), and the antibacterial filtering materials (6) and the antibacterial filtering membranes (12) are loaded with air membranes (24).
3. The epidemic situation prevention silica gel oronasal mask according to claim 1, wherein the left and right sides of the antibacterial material box (19) are provided with ventilation nets (18), the antibacterial material box cover (20) is arranged on the antibacterial material box (19), the herbal medicine box cover (23) is arranged on the herbal medicine box (22), and the herbal medicine box (22) is provided with hollowed-out emitting holes (21).
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