Patent ID: 7077128

Claim:
An eye-wear article for use with a respiratory mask provided with a head harness, the eye-wear article comprising: a flat piece of transparent polymeric material providing a visor portion, mask-engaging positioning means, and harness-engaging positioning means, wherein the harness-engaging positioning means can be disengaged from the head harness while the mask is being worn, to permit the eye-wear article to be removed from the line of sight of the wearer while still remaining engaged with the mask, without disturbing the position of the mask on the wearer's face and without affecting the respiratory protection provided by the mask; the mask-engaging positioning means and the harness-engaging positioning means being engageable, respectively, with the mask and with the head harness to cause the flat piece of polymeric material to adopt a curved configuration in which, when the mask is being worn, the piece of polymeric material extends from one side of the wearer's face to the other with the visor portion being located in front of the wearer's eyes; wherein the eye-wear article can be disengaged from the mask and/or the head harness while the mask is being worn, to permit the article to be removed from the line of sight of the wearer without disturbing the position of the mask on the wearer's face and without affecting the respiratory protection provided by the mask.