Patent ID: 8458812

Claim:
A protective face mask comprising: an eye-protecting shield made essentially from a plastics material, the eye-protecting shield being dimensioned to cover at least the eye portions of a human wearer, the eye-protecting shield having a perimeter having an upper part and a lower part defining a first surface facing the wearer's face, and a second surface facing away from the wearer's face, said mask having a centre line; an adhesive forming an adhesive strip attached to the first surface of the eye-protecting shield for providing a substantially watertight and releasable sealing engagement between at least a portion of the perimeter forming an upper edge of the face mask and at least a portion of the skin of the wearer's face, wherein the upper part of the perimeter of the mask is provided with a continuous layer of adhesive along the perimeter, and the lower part of the perimeter of the mask is free of adhesive, the lower part of the perimeter forms a bottom edge of the mask and is provided with a convex-concave-convex bottom edge having two convex parts forming projections offset from the centre line of the mask and having a concave part, the mask extends along with the contour of the wearer's face from the forehead to cheekbones and the lower perimeter thereof extends to minimum the tip of the wearer's nose and no longer than a level of the wearer's mouth, and the convex-concave-convex bottom edge has two lowest points respectively at the two convex parts and a highest point in the concave part and between the two lowest points, and a distance between the highest point and each of the two lowest points is from 0.5 to 2 cm.