Patent Application
20090217444
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a diving mask, and more particularly to a modified diving mask for improved comfort.
2. Description of Related Art
Diving masks are worn when observing objects or doing activities under water including snorkeling, scuba diving, free diving and spear fishing.
With reference to
However, the skirt (50) needs to be attached tightly to the diver's face to ensure a seal formed between the skirt (50) and a diver's face when wearing the diving mask. Thus, for divers with wide faces, the contact surface may press against corners of their eyes and make the divers feel uncomfortable, interfere with eyesight and therefore reduce safety of operation.
To overcome the shortcomings, the present invention provides a diving mask for a portable electronic device to obviate or mitigate the aforementioned problems.
The main objective of the present invention is to provide a diving mask that does not press corners of a diver's eyes, and ensures a diver experiences normal eyesight and comfort for improved safety.
To achieve the objective, the diving mask in accordance with present invention comprises a mask portion and a skirt.
The skirt is mounted securely with the mask portion, is a soft and resilient material such as plastic, rubber, silicone or the like and has an opening with a contact surface and further has at least two pads. The contact surface of the opening corresponds to and covers the diver's eyes and may further cover a diver's nose to prevent water from permeating the mask. The pads are a soft and resilient material including but not limited to plastic, rubber, silicon or the like, are attached to the contact surface of the opening of the skirt and respectively correspond to corners of the diver's eyes. Each pad may be an arch and defines a gap between the pad and the contact surface.
When the diver wears the diving mask, the pads closely bridge over the corners of the diver's eyes to avoid the eye corners being pressed. Meanwhile, the contact surface of opening of the skirt may still press tightly to a diver's face to ensure a seal is formed between the skirt and the diver's face and secure attachment of the diving mask and therefore, is comfortable and maintains regular vision for improved safety.
Other objectives, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
With reference to
The mask portion (10) has a solid lens frame, a pair of lenses (11) and a pair of strap mounts (12). The lens frame has two sides. The lenses (11) are securely mounted in the lens frame. The strap mounts (12) are respectively attached to the two sides of the lens frame (10).
The skirt (20) is sealably mounted securely around the mask portion (10), is made of soft and resilient material including but not limited to plastic, rubber, silicon and the like and has an opening (21) with a contact surface and at least two pads (22). The contact surface of the opening (21) corresponds to and cover a diver's eyes (30) to prevent water from permeating the mask when worn and has an optional nose portion corresponding to and covering a diver's nose and communicating with the opening (21) to allow underwater mask clearance. The pads (22) are made of soft and resilient material including, but not limited to plastic, rubber silicon and the like are oppositely attached to the contact surface of the opening (21), may be formed integrally on the contact surface of the skirt (20) or attached thereto and respectively correspond to corners of the diver's eye (30). Each pad (22) is an arch, corresponding to and bridging over the corner of the diver's eyes (30) to define a gap between the pad (22) and the contact surface.
With further reference to
With in such an arrangement, the diving mask ensures a diver experiences normal eyesight and comfort for improved safety.
Even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description together with details of the structure and function of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only. Changes may be made in detail especially in matters of shape, size and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.
