Face-mask neck sash
View Patent ↗A method to manufacture a neck sash of elastic insulating material unitarily formed with a face-mask so as to contour and comfortably shelter the user's throat and upper sternum area against adverse weather conditions.
1. A method of fabricating a face-mask neck sash comprising the steps of:
Supplying a sheet of insulating and elastic textile material;
Positioning said sheet in a two-dimensional flat plane;
Supplying at least one cutting means and using the same to cut said flat sheet to form a two-dimensional flat filet for a face-mask also having a set of symmetrical peripheral edges and seam edges that substantially define a left neckpiece member half and a right neckpiece member half, where the filet is designed to be subsequently co-joined along the symmetrical seam edges to form a three-dimensional contoured face-mask structure having a neck sash sized and shaped to fit closely about the throat and upper sternum areas of a user, said neck sash having in three-dimensional structure terms, a top perimeter proximate and contoured along the intersection formed between the neck and the underside of the jaw, extending in width from about the rear of the left ear to about the rear of the right ear, and a bottom peripheral edge proximate and co-linear with the clavicle bones, extending in width to span the upper sternum area, and a left vertical peripheral edge extending in a substantially direct path leading between the distal ends of the top and bottom perimeter on the left side of the face, and a right vertical peripheral edge extending in a substantially direct path leading between the distal ends of the top and bottom perimeter on the right side of the face, and wherein said top perimeter seamlessly joins along a bottom perimeter of a face member to a snugly fitting face-mask, and
Manipulating said cut two-dimensional filet away from the remaining portions of the sheet;
Co-joining the left and right neckpiece member halves of the filet along the symmetry of the halves' seam edges to form of a three-dimensional contoured neck sash, and co-joining the appropriate seams edges of the face-mask; and
Supplying and adapting a securing means to secure the left and right neckpiece member halves together along their co-joined seam edges, and to secure the co-joined seam edges of the face-mask.