ZELINSKI – KUMMANT end 1916 and later

The ZELINSKY – KUMMANT mask is a very simple design mask. It was developped at the end 1916 by the Chemist Professor Zelinsky and by the Rubber Industrial Kummant.

The hood face piece is made of thin chaped and glued rubber sheeting.

The glass eyepieces are glued on the facepiece.

As the mask haven’ t Tissot tubes, to avoid the mist on eyepieces a kind of glove finger is made between the eyepieces allowing to enter one finger into it returned inside the mask and demist the eyepieces as with a car windscreen wipper.

The filter was directly mounted on the mask and to avoid the exess weight of te filter, if was hung around the neck by a strap.

The first models haven’ t exhalation valve.

It was carried folded in a can used as cover to th filter.


	All Russian masks comming after are based on this hooded mask design up to the be gening of the nineties unless the civilian MOD – 08

UNKNOWN Probabely Russian ( about thirties )

This uncomplete mask is made of thick glued rubber sheets and partly moulded.

It takes the general Zelinsky – Kummant / BN 31 design with the finger horn between the eyepieces, unless the four large openings on the hood.

The eyepieces are the same as on on the BN 31 mask.