Patent ID: 6854465

Claim:
A mask support for continuous positive airway pressure comprising: a circumferential band adapted to encircle a head of a patient and to extend from a forehead of a patient to below an inion protrusion of an occipital bone of a patient; a medial band operably connected to the circumferential band at a forehead and at an inion protrusion of an occipital bone and passing over the approximate medial line of a patient's head; a biasing means support positioned on the medial band at a point from the apex of the skull to about the middle of a forehead and comprising at least two receiving slots; a biasing means comprising a continuous length of rigid material fanned into a loop with two lateral arms of equal size, the ends of the arms being inserted into the receiving slots of the biasing means support and the lateral arms extending horizontally to a point forward to a nose of a patient and at that point curved downward at an approximately 90° angle to form descending arms the descending arms of a length to form a loop to encircle a face mask.