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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2016
Applicant:
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Inventor:
Dean R. Duffy, Woodbury, MN (US);
Assignee:
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A62B 23/00 (2006.01); A41D 13/11 (2006.01); A62B 23/02 (2006.01); A62B 18/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A41D 13/1115 (2013.01); A41D 13/1161 (2013.01); A62B 18/084 (2013.01); A62B 23/025 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49908 (2015.01);
Abstract
A filtering face-piece respiratorthat includes a harnessand a mask bodythat has a multi-layer filtering structure. The mask bodyincludes an upper interior perimeter segmentformed from the filtering structureand configured to fit against the face of the respirator wearer. Present in the upper interior perimeter segmentis a nose notch, which is an area void of filtering structure