JP2007044464A - Spectacles holder used for wearing mask - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that the need to maintain airtightness within a mask makes a person wearing vision correction spectacles (hereinafter referred to as a spectacles wearer) be unable to wear a mask while wearing the spectacles when wearing a conventional respiratory mask or an underwater mask and take away the spectacles to wear the mask to hinder safety and activities due to weakening of the vision when a spectacles wearer, and that masks on the market made specially for spectacles wearers using vision correction lenses suited for the weares allows no sharing of such a kind of mask with a third person, or the like. <P>SOLUTION: The spectacles holder allows a person to wear a mask while wearing spectacles. A face abutting member of the mask is made of an elastic material, such as a natural rubber, a synthetic rubber, a silicone rubber, a urethane elastomer or the like, and has right and left cuts for holding temples of the spectacles. When wearing the mask, the temples are inserted into the cuts to unite the spectacles with the mask. The mask can be shared by a spectacles wearer and a person no wearing spectacles. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  According to the present invention, a spectacles holding device is provided on a respiratory mask, a water rescue rescue underwater mask, a leisure underwater mask, or the like of an occupational safety and health protective device, and the mask is worn while wearing the glasses.

The respirator mask needs to be in close contact with the face and kept airtight in order to be used in an environment such as toxic gas filling or lack of oxygen. Therefore, when a person who regularly uses glasses for correcting vision (hereinafter referred to as a regular user) wears the mask while wearing the glasses, a gap is generated between the face contact portion of the mask and the string and face contact portions of the glasses. Since it is an obstacle to airtightness, it is not possible to wear a mask while wearing glasses.
The following method is selected when a regular user wears a mask.
First, remove the glasses and put on the mask.
2. Wear a mask using contact lenses.
3. Wearing a mask with a special eyeglass lens that fits the eyesight of the user.

The above-mentioned underwater mask also needs to be kept in close contact with the face in order to prevent water from entering when diving, and it is necessary to wear a mask with glasses worn by a regular eyeglass user like the above-described respiratory mask. I can't.
The following method is selected when a regular user wears a mask.
First, remove the glasses and wear them like the respiratory mask. Second, wear the masks using contact lenses.
3. Use a special mask that replaces the front glass of the mask body with a correction lens that matches the user's vision.

  Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-267235   "Occupational Safety and Health Protective Equipment / Equipment General Catalog 2002", Shigematsu Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

  When a conventional eyeglass wearer wears the conventional respiratory mask and underwater mask as described above, the eyesight is reduced due to the naked eye, which may hinder safe activities and work efficiency. .

On the other hand, respiratory masks, which are permanently installed in disaster prevention equipment at factories, etc., are used jointly by unspecified personnel such as the company's self-defense firefighters and engineers in the event of an emergency such as a disaster. Special masks with corrective eyeglass lens frames are usually not installed.
In addition, fire-fighter-equipped respirator masks used by firefighters working in shifts in small and medium-sized cities nationwide are often used together, so special masks are not loaded.
For this reason, it is necessary for a regular user of glasses to always prepare a frame containing a contact lens or a correction spectacle lens in preparation for wearing a respiratory mask.

For underwater masks, apart from the use of special masks or contact lenses that replace the full-face glass owned by individuals with a diving hobby as a correction lens, for example, a fire rescue team is loaded on a rescue vehicle in preparation for a water accident. The Aqualung underwater masks are used in common by rescue workers in the field, and as a rule, special masks with front glass replaced with corrective lenses are not loaded.
In addition, there is no person who wears a simple underwater mask for leisure while wearing glasses at a beach or the like.

  It is an object of the present invention to implement various safe and efficient operations and activities (including leisure) while wearing various masks while wearing glasses that are regularly used by eyeglass users and maintaining the functions of the mask such as airtightness. It is what.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention employs the following two types of glasses holding means.
First, a natural rubber, synthetic rubber, silicone rubber, urethane elastomer, or other material having elasticity is used for the face contact member on the entire face contact portion of the mask, and cuts that hold the strings of the glasses are made on the left and right. (See Figure 3)
Second, cuts are made in the eyeglass holding attachment made of the above-mentioned material, and are fixed to the left and right of the face contact portion of the mask to hold the eyeglass strings (see FIG. 5).

  In the first and second problem solving means described above, when a spectacle wearer wears a mask, the strings of the glasses are fitted into the left and right cuts provided in the face contact portion of the mask so as to be integrated with the mask. The appropriateness and airtightness of the mask face-to-face are tightened by tightening the mask tightening band so that the notch of the string holding portion is in close contact and the airtightness is maintained.

  As described above, the present invention makes it possible to use glasses that are regularly used when a glasses user wears a respirator mask or an underwater mask, ensuring correct visual acuity during activities and work with the mask attached, Safe and efficient action is possible.

  The mask described in the first and second problem solving means described above can also be used by non-glasses users (those who do not need to correct vision and do not use everyday glasses; the same applies hereinafter). To ensure airtightness when a non-glasses user wears a mask, the left and right cut portions that hold the strings of the eyeglasses provided on the face-contacting member are brought into close contact with each other and the airtightness is ensured. Therefore, it is possible to use the glasses regular user and the non-user jointly.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  In the figure, when wearing one mask body, it is possible to utilize glasses that are regularly used by a regular user of glasses. The glasses holding device 3A according to the present invention is attached to the entire face contact portion of the mask, and cuts 4 are made in the left and right portions where the strings of the glasses are in contact.

  As a second embodiment of the present invention, an attachment 3B for holding glasses with notches 4 attached to the left and right sides of the face part of the mask shown in FIG. 5 is fixed, and a string is inserted into the notch 4 when the mask is attached to hold the glasses. Ensure airtightness.

  When a non-glasses user wears the mask with the glasses holding device, the left and right cut portions 4 holding the strings of the glasses provided on 3A and 3B are in close contact with each other by tightening the band of the mask to ensure airtightness. , Glasses regular users and non-users can use it together.

In the side view of the underwater mask of the present invention in a state of wearing glasses, the glasses holding device is located on the inner side of the mask and cannot be seen from the outside. The side view in the state where glasses were put on the mask for respiratory organs of the present invention. The back view seen from the face-contacting part side of the mask of FIG. 2, The figure which cut | notched the left and right of the spectacles holding device attached to the whole face-contacting part, and fitted the string. The enlarged view of the string holding | maintenance part of the glasses in FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment of the present invention. 3 is a rear view corresponding to FIG. 3, in which the glasses holding attachment fixed on the left and right sides of the face part is cut and a string is inserted. The difference from FIG. 3 is that the glasses holding attachment is fixed on the left and right sides of the face part. Is a point. The enlarged view of the glasses holding | maintenance attachment in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mask main body 2 Mask tightening band 3A Glasses holding device attached to the whole face part of the mask 3B Glasses holding attachment fixed to the left and right of the face part of the mask 4 Cut section for holding the string of the eyeglass holding device 5 Glasses string

Claims (2)

  Glasses holding parts made of elastic materials such as natural rubber, synthetic rubber, silicone rubber, urethane elastomer are provided on the face part of respiratory masks and underwater masks. An apparatus for holding glasses when wearing a mask, characterized by forming an incision to hold, and in close contact with the face of the mask in a state where the strings of the glasses are held at the incision portion, and maintaining airtightness.   The glasses holding device according to claim 1, wherein the glasses holding unit is configured by an attachment made of an elastic material fixed to the left and right of the face contact portion, and the cut is formed in the attachment.

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