US 11,998,772 B2
Receptacle device
Vasanth Mohanraj, San Francisco, CA (US); and Derek Jenwen Ho, Oakland, CA (US)
Filed by Vasanth Mohanraj, San Francisco, CA (US); and Derek Jenwen Ho, Oakland, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/564,871.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/143,133, filed on Jan. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0241622 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. A62B 18/08 (2006.01); A41D 13/11 (2006.01); A62B 18/10 (2006.01)
CPC A62B 18/086 (2013.01) [A41D 13/1107 (2013.01); A62B 18/10 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A face mask receptacle device comprising:
a valve comprising at least one slit;
a body portion surrounding the valve; and
an anchor portion;
wherein at least one of the body portion or anchor portion is elastic;
wherein the body portion and the anchor portion are inseparable by being integrally formed as one continuous piece;
wherein the one continuous piece is configured to protrude through a hole of the face mask that, in an assembled configuration, the body portion and the at least one slit are in an exterior region of the face mask and the anchor portion is in an interior region of the face mask;
wherein the valve is configured to receive a drinking, feeding or inhalation instrument therethrough; and
wherein the valve is structurally concave in a non-deformed state prior to receiving the drinking, feeding or inhalation instrument therethrough.