Patent ID: 11969035
Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 3:
4. A method of wearing a face mask having a head strap and ear straps attached via free ends on each side of the face mask, each ear strap comprising a connector support element to allow removable attachment of the head strap, the method comprising the following steps:
in a first configuration, supporting the face mask on a user's face by the ear straps such that the ear straps are worn around the user's ears, wherein each connector support element comprises an ear base portion comprising a soft material and an aperture in a major surface of the ear base portion;
each of the ear base portions of the connector support elements comprises atop end, a bottom end, and a hollow cavity having a longitudinal length extending from the top end to the bottom end and a thickness, the hollow cavity configured to allow each ear strap to extend through the hollow cavity,
each of the ear base portions of the connector support elements is movable along a length of each ear strap to allow reconfiguration of a location of each of the connector support elements along the length of each ear strap, and
in a second configuration, removably attaching the head strap to each ear strap via the connector support elements, such that the face mask is supported by the head strap;
wherein the head strap comprises a magnetic projection at free ends and is removably attachable to the ear straps using magnetic interlocking via insertion of each magnetic projection into the aperture of the respective ear base portion in the thickness direction of the hollow cavity.