Patent ID: 7774858

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 defining a first surface facing a forehead and cheekbones of the wearer's face, and a second surface facing away from the wearer's face, said mask having a center 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 said adhesive, the lower part of the perimeter forms a bottom edge of the mask is provided with a convex-concave-convex bottom edge having two convex parts forming projections offset from the center line of the mask, the mask extends along the contour of the wearer's face from the forehead to cheekbones and covers the wearer's face from the forehead to minimum a nose tip and the lower perimeter thereof extends above the mouth and free of a nose bone, and an expandable layer is provided between the adhesive strip and the shield, said expandable layer being provided with one or more pockets having at least one opening adjacent to the upper edge of the mask for filling the pockets and lifting the mask from the forehead.