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Overview: The document provides comprehensive information about the GVS Group, a prominent manufacturer of microfiltration devices, focusing on its Elipse® range of face masks. These masks are designed for diverse applications, including healthcare, automotive, and safety sectors.
Product Description: Elipse® masks are lightweight, ergonomic, and manufactured in the UK. They offer high visibility, compatibility with other protective gear, and feature replaceable filters with a minimum efficiency of 99.95% at 0.3 microns.
Design and Comfort: Constructed from hypo-allergenic materials, the masks ensure comfort for extended use. They fit snugly on the face without obstructing the user's field of vision or interfering with other protective equipment.
Filter Technology: Utilizing HESPA® filter media, the Elipse® masks provide high efficiency and low breathing resistance. The replaceable filters ensure prolonged mask life and effective protection against various pollutants.
Protection Levels: The document details different protection classes for dust, mists, fumes, gases, and vapors, specifying the efficiency and capacity of filters, including P1, P2, and P3 classes for dust and various classes for gas filters.
Face Fit Testing: It describes qualitative and quantitative methods for ensuring proper mask fit, emphasizing the importance of correct fitting to prevent unfiltered air leakage.
Applications: Suitable for industries such as mining, construction, and manufacturing, the masks provide protection against harmful substances like asbestos, silica dust, and toxic fumes.
Certifications: Elipse® masks and filters are CE certified and conform to relevant EN standards, ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
Technical Specifications: Detailed specifications include mask dimensions, weight, material composition, and storage life. Guidelines for selecting appropriate filters based on industry and contaminant type are also provided.
Specifications and Certifications: Masks conform to EN140:1998, filters to EN14387: (R D), and maintenance-free masks to EN405 (R D). All masks and filters are CE certified.
Filter Types and Protection:
  • A1P3 (R) & FFA1P3: Protects against organic gases and vapors with boiling points > 65°C.
  • B1P3: Protects against inorganic gases and vapors.
  • P3 Element: Protects against dust, metal fumes, oil and water mists, and microorganisms using HESPA technology.
Materials and Temperature Range: Masks and filters are made from hypo-allergenic, odorless, FDA-compatible materials, free from latex and silicone, operating within a temperature range of -5°C to +55°C.
Storage and Lifetime: The storage life for Elipse gas masks and filters is 3 years. Filters should be replaced when clogged or when the user detects contaminants.
Product Models and Packaging:
  • A1P3 Reusable Half Mask: Available in sizes S/M and M/L, packaged 10 per box.
  • B1P3 Reusable Half Mask: Available in sizes S/M and M/L, packaged 10 per box.
  • FFA1P3 Maintenance Free Half Mask: Available in sizes S/M and M/L, packaged 10 kits per box.
Elipse Mask Characteristics: Compact, lightweight design with low breathing resistance and enhanced headband retention. Filters offer protection against gases, vapors, dust, and mists up to 5,000 ppm.
Fields of Application: Suitable for industries such as mining, steel mills, pharmaceuticals, and shipyards, among others.
Elipse Integra Combined Eye and Respiratory Protection: Features a compact design with integrated eye protection, reducing compatibility issues and fogging. Certified to EN140:1998 and EN166 2.F.K.N.
Foldable Respirators: High-quality, foldable masks available with or without valves, conforming to EN 149:2001 + A1:2009. Designed for easy storage and individual packaging.
GVS Cup Mask Line: Features a low-profile, pre-formed design with a large exhalation valve. Reusable and metal-free, conforming to EN 149:2001 + A1:2009.
Description: The GVS Cup mask is designed with an ergonomic fit to eliminate the need for a nose clip, providing high filtration efficiency and comfort. It is lightweight and does not contain metal elements, reducing the risk of fogging goggles and ensuring low breathing resistance.
Advantages: The innovative design of the GVS half mask respirator simplifies fitting and enhances user comfort. The absence of a nose clip and metal elements, along with an exhaust valve, contributes to low breathing resistance.
Certification: The masks meet the European standard EN 149:2001 + A1:2009 with excellent results and are dolomite tested to D. The DME3031 Mask is certified as reusable (R) and comes in an individual bag.
Fields of Application: Suitable for protection against wood sanding dust, quartz dust, metal particles, polishing dust, chemical dust, clay dust, concrete dust, bacteria, viruses, and lighter radioactive dust.
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■ -----v. _ l j m 4 ■ ■ ■ i i ■ -i ■■ i i i 4 ■ ■ ■ - - r ■ » i - ■ ■ " r * lltltrlT/. The GVS Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of microfiltration devices. GVS Filter Technology produces a wide range of filters and components, including GVS innovative in-house filtration media development, covering many applications in the Healthcare, Life Sciences, Automotive, Appliance, Safety, Chemical & Carbon, Cosmetic and Building applications. GVS Safety Filtration division provides a custom design and manufacture capability in addition to an already extensive...

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INNOVATIVE DESIGN, COMPACT PROFILE, REPLACEABLE FILTERS, HYPO-ALLERGENIC MATERIALS FOR A uNIQuE kIND of coMFoRT, HEPA EFFIcIENcY protection, Low BREAThING Resistance • SOFT - LIGHT - RESISTANT The Elipse® range of face masks, designed, developed and made in the UK by GVS, represent a major advance in mask design. As one of the lightest on the market in its class, its ergonomic shape provides maximum visibility to wearers, can safely be worn with goggles, helmets and hearing protection, and the ability to replace filters extends the mask's overall working life.These compact profile masks are made...

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Indications for the choice of respiratory protection devices are based on current knowledge. Before each use of the ELIPSE® respirator devices, the buyer and user must ensure that the masks and filters used are those specified for the type of pollutant and its concentrations. The ultimate responsibility concerning selection and use of products lies solely with the buyer and user. • • • TYPES OF FILTERS Dust filters are able to retain airborne particulates and are offered in various constructions, which enhance the filter's characteristics with use of various types of filter material with different...

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Protection against particulate (dust, mists and toxic fumes) ADUST' dust forms when a solid material is broken down into tiny fragments. ' The finer the dust, the higher the risk. . mists are tiny droplets that are formed from liquid materials by atomisation ■ and condensation processes, such as spray painting. , fumes are formed when a solid material is vaporised by the high heat. ' The vapour cools quickly and condenses into very fine particles. Respiratory filters have 3 classes of protection in EN143 with increasing efficiency, normally expressed with a Nominal Protection Factor (NPF) which...

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Guide to choosing respiratory and filters INDUSTRY HARMFUL SUBSTANCE / RISK Suggested Filter P3 nuisance A1P3 Grain Dust Pesticides Paint Vapor until Automotive 5000ppm Silica Dust Paint Vapor until 1000ppm Construction Asbestos Moulds Concrete Dust Stone Dust Aggregate Dust Building Materials Wood Dust Cement Dust Poultry Food Powders (Dairy) Glass Fibres Cyclohexane Composite Fibres Solvants Lead Fumes Manufacturing Chlorine Formaldehyde Sulfuric Acid (gas only) Sulfuric Acid (powder) Amonia based chemicals Coal Dust Mining Silica Dust Metal (any) Welding and Metal Industry Painted metal (repair)...

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Suggested Filter is the responsibility of the user to choose the adequate protection for the workplace .. - . .. 1 ■ For more detailed information please contact your sales advisor locally.

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ELIPSE DUST MASK - P3 with replaceable filters for dust, fumes and mists • • • DESCRIPTION Compact, lightweight and flexible design which adapts perfectly to the face and offers a full range of vision without interfering with other eye or ear protections which users choose to wear. Large central non-return valve which allows for a reduction of the user's breathing resistance and moisture build-up inside the mask to a minimum. Lightweight, non-slip strap that is easily adjusted in 4 positions for improved comfort and to allow safe use even in high humidity or wet Mask conforms to EN140: 1998 conditions....

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ELIPSE DUST MASK CHARACTERISTICS Dimensions Mask: 93 x 1 28 x 1 1 0 mm Filter: 1 2 x 94 x 50 mm Weight Mask + Filter: 132 g Mask body: 97,6 g Filter only 17,2 g each Material: Mask: Medical grade TPE (Silicon free). Filters: Mechanical type HESPA Synthetic media with TPE over molded / encapsulated. Filters are water repellant and re-usable. Lifetime: Filters can be used until clogging and when the wearer feels uncomfortable. The lifetime will depends on the concentration in the workplace and the activity level. The filtration level will stay constant and superior at 99,95% all along the usage. The...

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dust procection micron size tested dolomite test cost savings Please contact your GVS representative for a cost saving demonstration www.gvs.com

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ELIPSE LOW PROFILE COMBINED GAS & PARTICULATE MASK Compact, lightweight and flexible design which adapts perfectly to the face and offers a full range of visibility without interfering with other eye or ear protections which users choose to wear. Large central non-return valve which allows for a reduction of the user’s breathing resistance and keeps moisture build-up inside the mask to a minimum. Lightweight, non-slip strap that is easily adjusted in 4 positions for improved comfort and to allow safe use even in high - A1P3 (R) & FFA1P3: For protection against certain organic gases humidity or...

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ELIPSE LOW PROfiLE GAS MASK CHARACTERISTiCS Dimensions Mask: 93 x 1 28 x 1 40 mm Filter: 48,5 x 94,5 x 60 mm Weight Mask + Filter: 257,7 g Mask body: 97,6 g Filter only 83 g each Material: Mask: Medical grade TPE (Silicon free). Filters: • Activated carbon with ABS shell. • Mechanical type HESPA Synthetic media with with TPE over mould / encapsulation. Lifetime: Filters can be used until fully clogged and the wearer feels uncomfortable or until the activated carbon is exhausted and the wearer can smell / taste the contaminant. The lifetime will depend on the concentration in the workplace and the...

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