Thoughts 23 Oct 2008 11:34 am
Instant Facemask
This is from Improbable Research Medical Review
U.S. patent #2033357 [NOTE inserted later: This was a typo. The correct patent number is 7,255,627.] was granted to Elena N. Bodnar of Hinsdale, Illinois, and Raphael C. Lee and Sandra Marijan of Chicago on August 14, 2007 for an “Garment device convertible to one or more facemasks.” Their intent, they say, is “to provide a garment which is operable to be converted into a facemask” and “to increase accessibility to facemasks.”
This is:
a garment device which converts into one or more facemasks. In one embodiment, the garment device is a bra or a brassiere garment. The bra has two cups…. The inner portions of the cups are disconnectable, and the outer portions of the cups are disconnectable. As such, the bra is separable into two halves. Each halve is securable to a user’s face to form a facemask….
If a country or a territory is facing an on-going threat of air contamination, there is a need for these individuals as well as regular civilians to have a higher degree of access to facemasks.
It’s also handy if you happen to rob banks for a living…. “No officer I don’t know how tall she was, but her facemask was a D-cup.”