The present invention relates to a protective wear, and more particularly to a positive-pressure protective wear which keeps an interior thereof under positive pressure over exterior air pressure to avoid invasion of exterior air.
For agricultural workers, pesticides are widely applied on their crops in order to keep pests and diseases away. A plenty of farmworkers apply pesticides on their own, which means they carry a pesticide barrel and arrive at a center of a farm field to spray the pesticides onto the crops. In this way, the farmworkers would be in contact with the pesticide vapor spread in the air. The harmful pesticide vapor may either fall on the farmworkers' skin or be breathed in by the farmworkers, thereby causing health risks.
A conventional protective wear is provided to solve the above-mentioned problem. When a farmworker puts on the conventional protective wear, the farmworker himself is covered by the conventional protective wear and isolated from the exterior air, so contact with the pesticide vapor may be avoided.
However, the conventional protective wear is made of impermeable material, so after working for a couple of hours in the conventional protective wear, the farmworker will feel sultry and uncomfortable as humidity accumulates in the conventional protective wear.
The main objective of the present invention is to provide positive-pressure protective wear with a ventilatory effect, so as to solve the problem of sultry and uncomfortable feel after a long-time wearing of the conventional protective wear.
An embodiment of the positive-pressure protective wear has a protective body and an air supply. The protective body has a clothing and a headgear connected with the clothing. The air supply is connected with the protective body and inputs gas into the protective body to keep the protective body under positive pressure.
Another embodiment of the positive-pressure protective wear has a headgear, an auxiliary component, and an air supply. The headgear is for wrapping a wearer's head and has a front cover and a rear cover. The rear cover is detachably mounted with the front cover and wraps the wearer's head together with the front cover when the rear cover is mounted with the front cover. The auxiliary component is connected with the headgear, and is configured to be securely mounted on the wearer's body to prevent the headgear falling off from the wearer's head. The air supply is connected with the headgear and inputs gas into the headgear to keep the headgear under positive pressure.
Other objectives, advantages and novel features of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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The clothing 11 may have a zipper, a hook-and-loop fastener, or the like on a side of the clothing 11, so a wearer may put on or take off the clothing 11 easily. The headgear 12 is connected with a top of the clothing 11 and is formed in the configuration of a bag for the wearer to extend his head into the headgear 12. An interior space of the clothing 11 and that of the headgear 12 fluidly communicate with each other. Furthermore, with reference to
The at least one pressure relief set 13 includes a pressure relief hole 131 and a shielding piece 132. The pressure relief hole 131 is disposed through the clothing 11 or the headgear 12 of the protective body 10, and in the first preferred embodiment of the present invention, the pressure relief hole 131 is disposed through the headgear 12. However, in other embodiments, the pressure relief hole 131 may be disposed on the clothing 11, e.g. on a sleeve of the clothing 11. The shielding piece 132 is connected to the clothing 11 or the headgear 12 of the protective body 10, and covers the pressure relief hole 131. The shielding piece 132 is connected to the clothing 11 or the headgear 12 at a location near the pressure relief hole 131.
When pressure inside the protective body 10 goes too high, gas/air may escape from the pressure relief hole 131 of the at least one pressure relief set 13, so the pressure inside the protective body 10 may be rebalanced.
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The ventilator 21 is fixed on a rear side near a bottom of the backboard, and is used for drawing gas. The connecting assembly 30 is mounted on the ventilator 21. The filtering assembly 22 is assembled onto the connecting assembly 30, and communicates with the ventilator 21 so air can pass therebetween. The tube 23 is connected with the ventilator 21 and the clothing 11 or the headgear 12 of the protective body 10.
In the first preferred embodiment of the present invention, with reference to
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The assembly base 31 has a center, two sides opposed to each other, a connecting portion 311, an installation groove 312, a ventilation opening 313, a sealing groove 314, and a sealing ring 315. One of the two sides of the assembly base 31 is mounted with the ventilator 21. The connecting portion 311 protrudes from the other one of the two sides of the assembly base 31, is formed in the shape of a ring, and thereby has an inner side. The installation groove 312 is formed on the inner side of the connecting portion 311. The ventilation opening 313 is disposed through the center of the assembly base 31, and communicates with the installation groove 312.
The sealing groove 314 is axially disposed on a bottom of the installation groove 312 and surrounds the ventilation opening 313. The sealing ring 315 is received in the sealing groove 314, and may be an O-ring.
Furthermore, the connecting portion 311 comprises at least one inward protrusion 316 and at least one outward protrusion 317. The at least one inward protrusion 316 radially and inwardly protrudes from a top of the connecting portion 311 and extends toward a center of the connecting portion 311. The at least one outward protrusion 317 radially and outwardly protrudes from the top of the connecting portion 311.
The interior component 32 is mounted with the assembly base 31 and has two surfaces opposed to each other, an interior containing groove 321, an interior engaging portion 322, and an interior through hole 323. The interior component 32 has two circular sidewalls 324, 325 protruding upwardly from one of the two surfaces of the interior component 32 instead of protruding toward the assembly base 31 at a radial spaced interval, and the interior containing groove 321 is formed between the two circular sidewalls 324, 325. The interior engaging portion 322 is formed on the other one of the two surfaces of the interior component 32. The interior engaging portion 322 extends into the installation groove 312 of the assembly base 31, and is engaged with the connecting portion 311 of the assembly base 31. The interior engaging portion 322 has at least one interior engaging protrusion 326 for engaging the at least one inward protrusion 316 of the connecting portion 311. The interior through hole 323 is disposed through a center of the interior component 32, is coaxial to the two circular sidewalls 324, 325, and communicates with the ventilation opening 313 of the assembly base 31. In the first preferred embodiment of the present invention, the connecting portion 311 has two said inward protrusions 316, and the interior engaging portion 322 has two said interior engaging protrusions 326 corresponding to the two inward protrusions 316. Moreover, when the interior component 32 is mounted with the assembly base 31, the interior component 32 abuts the sealing ring 315, so the sealing ring 315 can hamper radial fluid communication and avoid gas leak.
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The exterior component 33 is mounted with the assembly base 31, surrounds the interior component 32, and has two surfaces opposed to each other, a flange 330, an exterior containing groove 331, an exterior engaging portion 332, and a through hole 333. The flange 330 extends from an edge of the exterior engaging portion 33, and protrudes upwardly from one of the two surfaces of the exterior component 33 instead of protruding toward the interior component 32 or the assembly base 31. The exterior containing groove 331 is formed inside the flange 330 on the same surface of the exterior component 33. The exterior engaging portion 332 is formed on the other one of the two surfaces of the exterior component 33, and is engaged with the connecting portion 311 of the assembly base 31. The exterior engaging portion 332 has at least one exterior engaging protrusion 334 for engaging the at least one outward protrusion 317 of the connecting portion 311. The through hole 333 is disposed through the exterior component 33, is coaxial to the flange 330, and communicates with the ventilation opening 313 of the assembly base 31 (indirectly when the interior component 32 is mounted with the assembly base 31). Moreover, the through hole 333 is large enough so that the interior component 32 is configured to pass through the through hole 333. In the first preferred embodiment of the present invention, the connecting portion 311 has two said outward protrusions 317, and the exterior engaging portion 332 has two said exterior engaging protrusions 334 corresponding to the two said outward protrusions 317.
Furthermore, the exterior component 33 is mounted with the assembly base 31 via the two exterior engaging protrusions 334 of the exterior component 33 and the two outward protrusions 317 of the assembly base 31. The interior component 32 is mounted with the assembly base 31 via the two interior engaging protrusions 326 of the interior component 32 and the two inward protrusions 316 of the assembly base 31. The connecting assembly 30 may further comprise a sealing component 34. The sealing component 34 is located between the interior component 32 and the exterior component 33 and abuts the two components 32, 33, so air cannot pass through a subtle gap formed between the assembly base 31 and the exterior component 33.
In other embodiments, the interior component 32 and the exterior component 33 may be respectively mounted with the assembly base 31 by threading.
In addition, with reference to
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A second preferred embodiment of the present invention is shown in
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In addition, the headgear 40 of the second preferred embodiment has said pressure relief sets 13 and said fastener 111 of the positive-pressure protective wear of the first preferred embodiment. The pressure relief sets 13 are disposed on the front cover 41 at a spaced interval, and the fastener 111 is disposed on the rear cover 42. Therefore, filtered air may enter the headgear 40 at the rear cover 42 and leave the headgear 40 at the front cover 41 via the pressure relief sets 13. However, positions of the pressure relief sets 13 and the fastener 111 may be changed if necessary.
The headgear 40 further comprises two extending sheets 44, 45 and two sealing elements 46. The two extending sheets 44, 45 are respectively connected with the front cover 41 and the rear cover 42, and each one of the two extending sheets 44, 45 has a receiving groove 441, 451. Each one of the two sealing elements 46 is disposed in the receiving groove 441, 451 of a respective one of the two extending sheets 44, 45, and the two sealing elements 46 jointly surround the wearer's neck airtightly, so as to isolate space in the headgear 40. The two sealing elements 46 may be foaming or elastic material, such as a sponge.
The auxiliary component 50 is connected with the headgear 40 and is configured to be securely mounted on the wearer's body to prevent the headgear 40 from falling off from the wearer's head. In the second preferred embodiment, the auxiliary component 50 is a half-plate structure that presses on the two extending sheets 44, 45 of the headgear 40. Through hook-and-loop fasteners, buttons, or the like, the auxiliary component 50 may be connected with the extending sheets 44, 45 of the headgear 40. Furthermore, parts of the half-plate structure are located under the wearer's armpits, so the auxiliary component 50 can provide a positioning effect on the headgear 40. In other words, when the headgear 40 is about to be taken off from the wearer, the auxiliary component 50 will be raised by the two extending sheets 44, 45. However, the auxiliary component 50 will be eventually stuck by the wearer's arms, so the headgear 40 cannot fall off. Other body parts of the wearer may provide the sticking effect, and thereby can be used for wearing the auxiliary component 50. In the second preferred embodiment, the auxiliary component 50 is composed of two pieces of cloth, and the two pieces of cloth can be mounted by hook-and-loop fasteners, binding, or zippers.
With the aforementioned technical characteristics, the positive-pressure protective wear of the present invention has the following advantages. The air supply 20 can consistently provide fresh and clean air into the headgear 12, 40 and/or the clothing 11, and thereby keeps the protective body 10 (or the headgear 40) under positive pressure so as to ventilate and reject the harmful air with pesticide vapor. To sum up, the present invention ensures the wearer's health and provides a comfortable working environment for the farmworkers. Furthermore, the positive-pressure protective wear is light in heaviness and easy to be worn. Besides farming use, the positive-pressure protective wear may be provided for medical use or be used in an environment suffering heavy sand and dust, or air pollution, so as to protect the wearer from respiratory problems.
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 features of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only. Changes may be made in the details, 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.
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