US 12,409,919 B2
Breathable mask for snorkeling
Chih-Cheng Shiue, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to QBAS CO., LTD., Taipei (TW)
Filed by QBAS Co., Ltd., Taipei (TW)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/900,472.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/326,418, filed on Apr. 1, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/305,938, filed on Feb. 2, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/297,084, filed on Jan. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/239,597, filed on Sep. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0083382 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. B63C 11/16 (2006.01); A63B 33/00 (2006.01); B63C 11/12 (2006.01)
CPC B63C 11/16 (2013.01) [A63B 33/002 (2013.01); B63C 2011/125 (2013.01); B63C 2011/128 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A breathable mask, comprising a body and a breathing tube, the body having an interior capable of being in fluid communication with the breathing tube; the body including:
a main frame, having a lens frame and a mouth frame which extends downward from the lens frame, and defines a nose frame together with the lens frame; the mouth frame being in fluid communication with an outside;
a lens module having a transparent lens portion corresponding to a shape of the lens frame;
a water sealing skirt, formed with an eye skirt, a nose skirt, and a mouth skirt; wherein the eye skirt has a skirt frame formed on a front thereof and corresponding to a shape of the transparent lens portion;
a purge valve insert;
wherein the transparent lens portion and the skirt frame are jointly waterproof and embedded in the lens frame, and the nose skirt protrudes outward from the nose frame; and wherein the purge valve insert is sandwiched between and directly attached to both the mouth skirt and mouth frame, thereby the mouth skirt is adapted to be in one-way fluid communication with the outside through the mouth frame;
whereby when wearing the breathable mask, a user's eyes, nose and mouth are respectively accommodated in the eye skirt, the nose skirt and the mouth skirt, and a rear edge of the water sealing skirt continuously and closely fits a user's face along an outer periphery of the user's eyes, the nose, and the mouth.