Mask for a nebulizer

A face mask providing fluid communication between an outlet of an apparatus for nebulizing medication and said face mask, and delivering mist or spray produced by said nebulizing apparatus to the nose and/or mouth of a patient wearing said face mask, and means for maintaining said nebulizer apparatus in a vertical position, said face mask comprising:

• a body defining a rearwardly opening cavity for receiving at least a portion of the face of a wearer of said mask and defining a forwardly disposed opening communicating with said cavity, said body having concaved annular sidewalls circumscribing said opening whereby a socket is defined at said opening;
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• a delivery conduit for establishing fluid communication between said outlet of said nebulizing apparatus and said cavity of said body, said conduit having first and second end portions and defining a passageway therethrough;
• said means for maintaining said nebulizing apparatus in a vertical position comprising said first end portion of said conduit defining a ball-like configuration rotatably received in said socket of said body whereby said conduit is rotatably secured to said body such that said nebulizing apparatus can be maintained in a vertical position independent of the position of a wearer of said mask, with said passageway in fluid communication with said cavity, and whereby said second end portion releasably engages said outlet of said nebulizing apparatus thereby placing said passageway in fluid communication with said nebulizing apparatus.