Patent ID: 8359669

Claim:
A face mask comprising a first thin piece which is flexible, soft, and spreadable and adapted to cover at least from beneath a nose to a jaw of a user's head, a pair of second thin pieces which are flexible, soft, and spreadable and adapted to extend from cheeks to a back of the user's head, a pair of thin connecting pieces which are flexible, soft, and spreadable and elastically stretchable for connecting both left and right sides of the first thin piece and corresponding ends of the second thin pieces, each of the second thin pieces having a leading portion for mutual connection at the back of the user's head, wherein: the first thin piece and the second thin pieces are harder to stretch elastically than the connecting pieces, the face mask is further provided at its upper end with an upper edge member extending from the connecting piece to at least adjacent parts of the first thin piece and the second thin pieces, the upper edge member is harder to stretch elastically than the connecting pieces, the face mask has an upper side which is defined by respective upper ends of the first thin piece and the connecting pieces and the second thin pieces, and the upper side is straight or gently arched, and the upper edge member extends continuously along the upper side to function as a fastening band for putting the face mask on a user's face.