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Full face cloth respiratory mask

  • US 9,981,104 B1
  • Filed: 03/15/2013
  • Issued: 05/29/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A full-faced respiratory mask for supplying air from an air hose to both a user'"'"'s mouth and nasal passages at a therapeutic pressure comprising:

  • an oral portion, comprising a moisture-vapor breathable cloth material, having a first inflated oral configuration where the presence of the supplied air cooperates with the material to create an oral chamber maintaining a fixed shape and a second uninflated oral configuration where the fixed shape is not maintained due to the absence of supplied air, the oral portion having a proximal surface with an oral interface that forms an oral portion seal around the user'"'"'s mouth and having an aperture formed therein for delivering air to the user'"'"'s mouth, a distal surface having a substantially circular aperture of a first diameter formed therein, and an upper wall;

    a nasal portion, comprising a moisture-vapor breathable cloth material, having a first inflated nasal configuration where the presence of the supplied air cooperates with the material to create a nasal chamber maintaining a fixed shape and a second uninflated nasal configuration where the fixed shape is not maintained due to the absence of the supplied air, the nasal portion being separate from the oral portion, being disposed above the oral portion, and having a proximal surface forming a nasal interface that creates a nasal portion seal encircling the user'"'"'s nasal passages for noninvasively delivering air to the user'"'"'s nasal passages and a lower wall;

    the lower wall of the nasal portion connected to the upper wall of the oral portion via a shared aperture having a diameter no greater than the first diameter;

    an air delivery arrangement comprising an elbow and an internal connector;

    the elbow having a first end and a second end, the first end sealingly disposed on the air hose and the second end having a connector ring that extends through the substantially circular aperture in the oral portion into the oral chamber and sealingly mates with the internal connector, whereby the internal connector and connector ring cooperatively clamp the oral portion cloth material around the circumference of the substantially circular aperture and sealingly connect the air delivery arrangement to the cloth material of the oral portion;

    whereby air at therapeutic pressure is supplied through the air delivery arrangement to the oral portion of the mask and inflates both the oral portion and the nasal portion causing them to assume and maintain the first inflated oral configuration and the first inflated nasal configuration and to resist deformation so that the air at a therapeutic pressure is applied to both the user'"'"'s mouth and nasal passages at the same time; and

    an exhalation system.

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