Talk:Mechanical filter (respirator)
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Merge discussion
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The various different standards are pretty paralel, and stuff about how exhalation valves work and what purposes the masks are used for are applicable worldwide, regardless of the local name of the applicable national standard. I suggest merging all the filtering facepiece respirator info to one
OK, no comment after a dozen days; I'm going to do it. HLHJ (talk) 03:50, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
- @N95 mask to the new title rather than doing a copy-paste move. This would have reduced the number of redirects with extensive edit histories and talk pages, which is undesirable. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 04:59, 17 August 2020 (UTC)]
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- Yes, you're right, John P. Sadowski (NIOSH). That was foolish of me. If I hadn't been merging two articles I certainly would have done it that way, but I didn't think. Is there any way to retroactively get the same effect, without making a complete mess of the edit histories? HLHJ (talk) 05:06, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
- See Talk:N95 mask before making a request, to see what the outcome of that discussion is. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 05:19, 17 August 2020 (UTC)]
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Leftover content
I'm not sure where, if anywhere, this patent list from the merged N95 article should go:
== Selected patents ==
- US patent 3333585, Robert J Barghini, Walter M Westberg, Patrick H Carey Jr, "Cold weather face mask", published 1967-08-01, issued 1967-08-01, assigned to 3M Co
- US patent 3971373A, David L. Braun, "Particle-loaded microfiber sheet product and respirators made therefrom", published 1976-07-27, issued 1976-07-27, assigned to 3M Co
- US patent 4215682A, Donald A. Kubik & Charles I. Davis, "Melt-blown fibrous electrets", published 1980-08-05, issued 1980-08-05, assigned to 3M Co
- US patent 4536440A, Harvey J. Berg, "Molded fibrous filtration products", published 1985-08-20, issued 1985-08-20, assigned to 3M Co
- US patent 4807619, James F. Dyrud, Harvey J. Berg, Alice C. Murray, "Resilient shape-retaining fibrous filtration face mask", published 1989-02-28, issued 1989-02-28, assigned to 3M Co
- US patent 4850347, Martin R. Skov, "Face mask", published 1989-07-25, issued 1989-07-25, assigned to Moldex Metric Inc
- US patent 4856509, Jerome H. Lemelson, "Face mask and method", published 1989-08-15, issued 1989-08-15
- US patent 5307796A, Joseph P. Kronzer, Roger J. Stumo, James F. Dyrud, Harvey J. Berg, "Methods of forming fibrous filtration face masks", published 1994-05-03, issued 1994-05-03, assigned to 3M Co
Ideas welcome. HLHJ (talk) 04:24, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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Fractional collection efficiency
While that graph is very nice and intuitively understandable, the reduction to 0.5 at about 0.3 microns is a bit misleading, as typical respirators like N95 or FFP2 do only drop to 0.95 or 0.94 and higher quality ones like N99 or FFP3 only drop to 0.99. I would suggest changing the scale on the graph into 0.9 to 1.0, so the drop would end up at about 0.95 like it's the case with N95 respirators. 2A02:8071:283:1780:4923:D756:6E77:A498 (talk) 17:10, 4 May 2023 (UTC)