Fluid handling – Processes – Cleaning – repairing – or assembling
Patent
1995-05-23
1996-04-23
Nilson, Robert G.
Fluid handling
Processes
Cleaning, repairing, or assembling
F16K 1516
Patent
active
055094368
ABSTRACT:
An exhalation valve 14 for a filtering face mask 10 has a flexible flap 24 that makes contact with a curved seal ridge 30 of a valve seat 26 when the valve 14 is in the closed position. The curvature of the seal ridge 30 corresponds to a deformation curve exhibited by the flexible flap 24 when secured as a cantilever at one end and exposed at its free portion to a uniform force and/or a force of at least the weight of the free portion of the flexible flap. A seal ridge curvature corresponding to a flexible flap exposed to uniform force allows the flexible flap 24 to exert a generally uniform pressure on the seal ridge to provide a good seal. A seal ridge curvature corresponding to a flexible flap exposed to a force of at least the weight of the flap's free portion allows the flexible flap 24 to be held in an abutting relationship to the seal ridge 30 under any static orientation by a minimum amount of force, thereby providing a face mask 10 with an extraordinary low pressure drop during an exhalation.
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Ferguson Anthony B.
Grannis Vaughn B.
Japuntich Daniel A.
Seppala Harold J.
Griswold Gary L.
Hanson Karl G.
Kirn Walter N.
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
Nilson Robert G.
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