EA003916B1 - Massager - Google Patents

Abstract

1. A massager having 4 massage elements in the form of massage heads with curved convex surfaces contacting a massage zone, said heads are disposed at the ends of 4 oblong holders connected by the opposite ends to the heads, forming four working massager planes each of them is the tangent to the finite surfaces of three heads and intersects with other working surfaces forming an image tetrahedral pyramid, inside each of trihedral angle of which in the proximity of its apex one of massage heads is arranged, and inside the pyramid the area of the holders connection spaced from each of the working planes, characterized in that at least an additional massage member is fastened detachably or non-detachably on one massage head, said additional massage member having curved convex surface contacting a massage zone and having an axis arranged along the massage head holder axis, and/or at least one additional massage member having curved convex surface contacting a massage zone and having an axis perpendicular to one of the massager working planes. 2. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one massage head is hole has a hole arranged along its holder axis, and/or at least with one hole perpendicular to the massager working plane, and an additional massage member or each of them consists of a working tip with a contacting massage surface zone and of a tail element with which an additional massage member is fixed in a respective hole in the massage head. 3. The massager according to claim 2, characterized in that the tail element of an additional massage member and a hole in the massage head are threaded, while the additional massage member is screwed with the tail element into a hole in the massage head. 4. The massager according to claim 3, characterized in that a metal nut or a sleeve with an inner thread is pressed into the hole in the massage head into which the additional massage member is screwed with the tail element. 5. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that two, three or four additional massage members are fastened on at least one massage head, a connecting element is embedded into the massage head, said element consisting of two, three or four metal threaded pipes, the pipes are connected by their ends and being perpendicular to one of the massager working planes or being along the axis of the holder head, and the threaded tail element is screwed into the hole of respective pipe of said connecting element. 6. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one of massage heads is provided with a tail element arranged along the holder axis, and/or with at least one tail element perpendicular to one of the massager working planes, and an additional massage member or each of them is made with a dead hole by which it is fastened on a respective tail element on the massage head. 7. The massager according to claim 6, characterized in that the tail element in a massage head of an additional massage member and a hole in an additional massage member are made threaded, and the additional massage member is screwed with its hole on the tail element in the massage head. 8. The massager according to claim 7, characterized in that a metal nut or a sleeve with an inner thread is pressed into the hole in an additional massage member by which an additional massage member is screwed on the treaded tail element in the massage head. 9. The massager according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that an additional massage members or their working tips are made in the form of a spherical segment and/or a rounded cone. 10. The massager according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that at least part of the additional massage member with a contacting massage surface zone or several of them are made of metal or an alloy with useful biologic activity. 11. The massager according to claim 10, characterized in that the surface of an additional massage member contacting with the massage zone is coated with a one-layer or multi-layer coating by a material different than the massage member having useful biologic activity. 12. The massager according to claim 11, characterized in that the surface of an additional massage member contacting with the massage zone is not coated at its top exposing each of the coating layer. 13. The massager according to claim 10, characterized in that the coating is applied on the top of an additional massage member contacting with the massage zone. 14. The massager according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that at least part of the additional massage member with a contacting massage surface zone or several of them are made of wood. 15. The massager according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that at least part of the additional massage member with a contacting massage surface zone or several of them are made of a natural body with useful biologic activity. 16. The massager according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the additional massage member or several of them are made in the form of a permanent magnet. 17. The massager according to any one of claims 10 to 16, characterized in that the additional massage member or several of them consist of a holder made of metal or plastic and embedded an insert made of wood, metal or alloy, or of natural body with useful biologic activity in a processed or non-processed state, or in the form of a permanent magnet. 18. The massager according to claim 18, characterized in that the insert is provided with a hole through which a screw is passed screwed into the threaded hole in the holder bottom. 19. The massager according to any one of claims 10 to 18, characterized in that one part of additional massage members is non-detachable fastened, while the other is detachable-fastened on massage heads.

Description

The invention relates to massagers with several massage heads and can be used for carrying out physiotherapy procedures in medical, sports and rehabilitation institutions, as well as at home.

A massager with two spherical massage heads of different diameters and an elongated holder with a segment curved at an angle of 60-120 ° is known, one of the heads is located at the end of the holder and the second at the end of its curved segment (RF Patent No. 2040239, A 61H 15/00 1995).

This massager causes a small range of massage regimes, since it provides only the use of one or the other head separately. In addition, a single head can be used to treat only a small area of the patient’s massage zone, therefore a massage of the entire zone, if it has a large area, requires considerable time.

Also known is a massager with four spherical massage heads of three different diameters and an elongated body, with the first head mounted on one end of the body, the second and third heads of the same diameter on two holders parallel to the body axis on the other end of the body and the fourth on the holder perpendicular to the body axis (patent Of the Russian Federation No. 2042347, A 61N 15/00, 1995).

This massager provides a much larger range of massage modes, because it provides both the use of four heads separately, and the combined use of the first and fourth heads, or the second and third. The ability to share pairs of heads, in addition, allows heads to cover a large area of the massaged area of the patient's body and thereby reduces the duration of the massage of this area.

However, the range of massage modes is limited by the possibility of using the heads separately and sharing only two heads. In addition, the joint use of only two heads causes a significant duration of massage with a large area of the patient's body.

Also known massager in the form of three spherical massage heads with different diameters placed at the ends of three elongated holders located at angles of 120 ± 20 ° to each other in the same plane and interconnected by opposite ends of the heads (RF Patent No. 2063739, A 61N 15 / 00, 1996.).

In the specified massager, the surfaces of the three heads in contact with the massaged area of the patient’s body form a working plane tangent to these surfaces. Thus, the massager provides, along with the use of three heads separately (which can be made with different diameters) and the joint use of two massage heads (which gives three different combinations of pairs of heads) and the combined use of three heads when the massage device is in contact with the body being massaged. the plane formed by the surfaces of all three massage heads, which provides another massage technique that is qualitatively different from the modes of pair and separate use of the head to and, moreover, allowing to process in a single pass of the massager a large area of the massaged area of the patient’s body and thereby reducing the duration of the massage and reducing the masseur’s fatigue.

However, the presence of only three heads in the massager and the formation of heads of one working plane makes it possible to combine only three forms of using heads in one massager and limits the number of combinations of heads only to their use separately (three combinations), sharing two of three heads with parallel movement of each of three pairs of heads (three combinations) and moving each of the three pairs of heads one after the other (three combinations), as well as sharing all three heads (A combination of) that, in turn, limits the range of massage techniques and modes.

The closest on the totality of signs and the achieved result in accordance with the claimed invention is a massager with four massage elements in the form of spherical massage heads, placed at the ends of four ends of elongated holders connected by opposite heads, arranged to form four working planes of the massager, each of which is tangent to the surfaces three heads and intersects with other working surfaces with the formation of an imaginary four-sided pyramid, inside the One of the massage heads is located near the top of its three-sided corners, and inside the pyramid at a distance from each of the working planes is the junction of the holders, and at least one of the heads is made with a different diameter (US patent for industrial Sample No. 377100, I24-211, 1996).

Each of the four heads is located inside the triangular angle at one of the four vertices of the imaginary pyramid and therefore three separate areas of its surface refers to three working planes that are the edges of the imaginary pyramid, therefore, when all the massage heads with different diameters are performed, each of the working planes differs from other combination of heads for its size. In addition, it provides six different combinations for paired use of heads and four heads of different diameters for use separately. In this case, both when using heads individually, and when using two or three heads together, different sizes of heads provide different parameters of their effect on the tissue of the massage zone (i.e. pressure values on heads of tissue, shapes and sizes of contact surfaces of tissue with heads, since the parameters are functions not only of efforts on the massager, but also of the size of the head), which causes different tissue reactions to the effect of different heads, in particular, different shapes and sizes of tissue deformations in the places of its contact with the heads and various values of tension in the tissue, that is, various massage modes.

Thus, in contrast to the previous analogue, the prototype massager provides the possibility of using a significantly larger number of massage methods and modes.

However, in the prototype massager these possibilities were not fully exploited due to the following reasons. To the massager, there are requirements that exclude each other: on the one hand, it would be desirable to have a maximum of modes with different parameters of the effect of the heads on the massaged area, both when using the heads separately and when using two or three heads together, which requires a different shape perform each of the heads (for example, perform all heads with different sizes), and, on the other hand, are desirable modes with the same parameters impact of two or even three heads on massages the ruled zone when they are shared, which requires the same forms of two or even three heads. Although in the prototype massager each head has four separate areas of its surface, three of which are in contact with the massaged area when three massaging surfaces of the massager are used for massage, and the fourth is in contact with the massaged area when using the head separately, it cannot eliminate this contradiction, but allows only compromise solutions with the provision of some modes and the exclusion of others due to this. This is due to the fact that each massage head, although it has four separate areas of its surface, that is, in essence, separate massage elements, with which it can contact the massaged area of the patient’s body, however, since the head has a spherical surface, that is, the same the radii of curvature of all these areas, then the effects of these separate massage elements of the heads on the massaged area are the same as when using the head separately, and when using it together with one or two other handily. In addition, massage heads differ from each other in only one parameter size, since they are all made the same in other parameters: shape, materials and biological activity. All this significantly limits the number of different massage elements and their combinations when using two or three of them together and, as a result, significantly limits the range of massage modes that a massage prototype is able to provide.

The invention is based on the task of improving the massager by equipping it with additional massage elements fixed on the massage heads, which will increase the number of different massage elements as well as their combinations when using two or three of them together and, as a result, expand the range of massage methods and modes carried out using the massager.

The task is solved by the fact that in the massager with four massage elements in the form of massage heads with curvilinear convex surfaces in contact with the massage zone, located at the ends of four connected opposite ends of the ends of the elongated holders, and the holders with the heads are formed with the formation of four working planes of the massager, each of which is tangent to the surfaces of the three heads and intersects with other working surfaces with the formation of an imaginary tetrahedral the second pyramid, inside each of the three-sided corners of which, close to its top, is one of the massage heads, and inside the pyramid, at a distance from each of the working planes, there is a junction of holders, in accordance with the invention, at least one massage head is detachable or non-detachable fixed with a curved, convex, in contact with the area being massaged, an additional massage element with an axis located along the axis of the holder of the massage head, and / or at least one a convex curved contacting surface area massazhiruemoy additional massage member with an axis perpendicular to a working plane massager.

Performing one of the massage heads with an additional massage element coaxially to its holder allows an additional massage mode to be used when using the heads separately while maintaining the joint use of two or three heads unchanged. Performing one of the massage heads with an additional massage element, the axis of which is perpendicular to one of the working planes of the massager, provides at least one additional mode of using the heads separately and sharing three heads, as well as at least three additional modes of sharing two heads. At the same time, the additional massage elements may differ from the heads and from each other in shape, and since they are not made as one with the massage heads, they may be different from them and from each other in other parameters: materials and biological activity. Performing a larger number of heads with a large number of additional massage elements increases the number of massage elements of different parameters and their combinations when two or three of them are used together and, as a result, expands the range of massage methods and regimes carried out using the massager. The uninterrupted fixing of additional massage elements on the massage heads, for example, by pressing their shanks in the holes of the massage heads, causes simple manufacture of the massager, as well as reliable and simple use of it, but excludes the possibility of replacing some additional massage elements with other parameters, which limits the range of massage massages. methods and modes. The detachable fastening of the massage elements on the massage heads complicates the manufacturing technology of the massager and its use, but provides the opportunity to equip the massager with a set of replaceable additional massage elements, different in shape, size, materials, useful biological activity, and depending on the required massage mode those or other additional massage elements from this set. This gives a lot of possible combinations of massage elements, which makes the massager suitable for the implementation of any massage methods, including any massage modes, that is, it makes the massager versatile with respect to massage methods and modes.

It should be noted that the invention can be implemented with the achievement of the technical result specified in the task, both when the massage is performed symmetrical, that is, with the same angles between the holders of massage heads equal to 120 °, and when it is asymmetrical, that is, at different angles between the massage holders heads; as when performing the massage heads in contact with the area being massaged and the additional massage elements are spherical, and when they are oval or ellipsoidal.

It is advisable to perform at least one massage head with a hole located along the axis of its holder, and / or at least one hole perpendicular to the working plane of the massager, and the additional massage element or each of them consisting of a working tip with contacting with the surface being massaged and the shank, with which the additional massage element is fixed in the corresponding hole in the massage head. With the same shape and dimensions of the shanks, the working tips can have different shapes and sizes, which allows holes in massage heads with a small diameter and thereby weaken the massage heads to the least extent, and working tips with a large contact surface with the massage zone, down to the size contact surface of the massage head. This implementation of additional massage elements and massage heads provides a relatively simple connection, but when performing a single massage head with several additional massage elements, the presence of several holes in it can significantly weaken it.

In this case, the shank of the additional massage element, as well as the hole in the massage head, can be made threaded, and the shank of the additional massage element is screwed into the hole of the massage head. Such anchoring additional massage elements on the massage heads is more reliable and convenient, but also more difficult to manufacture. In addition, when performing a plastic massager, the thread in the head hole may not be sufficiently stable.

A metal nut or an inner threaded sleeve, into which an additional massage element is screwed in with its threaded shank, can be pressed into the hole in the massage head. Such fastening of the massage elements on the massage heads provides a stable thread in the holes of the heads, but at the same time complicates their design and manufacture, and also more weakens the massage heads with several holes in one head.

Inside, at least one of the massage heads, a connecting element can be embedded consisting of two, three or four connected ends of metal tubes with internal thread with the location of each of the tubes perpendicular to one of the working planes of the massager or along the axis of the head holder, and the threaded shank Each additional massage element is screwed into the hole of the corresponding tube of the connecting element. This allows you to fasten several additional massage elements on one head without loosening it, since the head material covers the connecting element with a clutch with its entire surface, but at the same time complicates the design and manufacture of the massager.

At least one of the massage heads can be made with at least one shank located along the axis of the holder or perpendicular to one of the working planes of the massager, and the additional massage element or each of them with a blind hole, with the additional massage element detachable or is inseparably fixed by this hole on the shank on the massage head. With the same shape and size of the shanks on the massage heads and holes in the additional massage elements, the latter can have various shapes and sizes up to the sizes of the heads with small holes in them, which eliminates the weakening of the massage heads and limits the weakening of the additional massage elements.

The hole in the additional massage element and the shank on the massage head can be made threaded, and the additional massage element is screwed with its hole on the shank in the massage head. Such anchoring additional massage elements on the massage heads is more reliable and convenient, but also more difficult to manufacture. In addition, when performing a plastic massager, the thread in the hole of the additional massage element is not strong enough.

A metal nut or an inner threaded sleeve can be pressed into the hole in the additional massage element, with which the additional massage element is screwed onto the threaded shank in the massage head. Such fastening massage elements on the heads ensures the stability of the thread in the holes of the massage elements, but at the same time complicates their design and manufacture, as well as weakens the massage elements.

Additional massage elements or their working tips can be made in the form of spherical segments and / or cylinders or cones with rounded ends. Each of these forms of execution of an additional massage element or its tip provides a different effect on the massaged area, for example, a cylindrical additional massage element forms a recess with the most steep sides and a spherical with a most gentle, which causes different shapes and sizes of deformations of the tissue of the massage zone and stresses in it.

At least part of the additional massage element with a surface in contact with the massage zone or several of them can be made of metal or alloy with useful biological activity, which ensures a special effect of the massage element on the patient’s body, due to the characteristic biological activity of this metal or alloy also rubbing it into the skin.

On the surface of an additional massage element in contact with the massaged area, a single-layer or multi-layered coating can be applied from a material other than the massage element, which ensures the transfer of microelements directly from the outer coating layer, as well as due to diffusion from the inner coating layers and from the surface of the massage element.

At the same time, the surface of the additional massage element that is in contact with the massaged area can be exposed from the layers of the coating on its top with the exit to the outside of each of the layers of the coating. Since the surface of the additional massage element, which is the basis for the coating layers, and the coating layers are made of materials with different electrochemical potentials, galvanic microcurrents arise between the surface and each of the coating layers, as well as between the individual layers. This is due to the fact that the surface of the massage element exposed to the coating layers and the coating layers exiting to the outside of it act as electrodes, and the fluid in the patient's epidermis acts as an electrolyte. The presence of these galvanic microcurrents causes the electrical effect of the additional massage element on the massaged area of the patient's body and intensifies the transfer to the patient's body of trace elements from the base of the additional massage element and coating layers. In addition, relatively inexpensive solid and durable materials, such as steel, copper, brass, can be used as the basis for an additional massage element, and soft and / or expensive and / or rare metals, such as tin, gold, silver, and platinum, can be used for coatings.

The coating can be applied to the top of the surface of an additional massage element in contact with the zone being massaged, which gives great savings to expensive and / or rare metals.

At least part of the additional massage element with the surface in contact with the massage zone or several of them can be made of wood. Wood is a tropic, that is, material related to human tissues, so the effect of an additional massage element made of wood has a particularly useful massage effect.

At least part of the additional massage element with the surface in contact with the massage zone can be made from a natural body, for example, from amber, pearl, minerals, precious or semi-precious stones. Each type of natural bodies has its own structure and properties, in particular, weak radiation, as well as its own positive energy, which affects the patient's body in a special way. In addition, massage with natural bodies provides for the transfer of useful trace elements to the patient's body.

At least part of the additional massage element with the surface in contact with the massaged area or several of them can be made in the form of a permanent magnet, which provides, together with the mechanical one, a magnetic effect on the massaged area.

It is advisable to perform an additional massage element or a few of them consisting of a holder made of metal or plastic and an insert made of wood, a natural body or in the form of a permanent magnet fixed in it, which makes it possible to use small-sized inserts of fragile soft and hard-to-work materials. also savings used in the form of inserts of precious and rare materials.

In this case, the insert can be made with a hole through which a screw is screwed into a threaded hole in the bottom of the holder. This increases the reliability of fixing the insert in the holder and, in addition, provides additional electroplating and microelement effects of the screw head, if it is made of metal and also coated, especially of precious or rare material.

It is advisable that one part of the additional massage elements is integral, and the other is detachably fastened to the massage heads. The constant presence on the massage heads of some additional massage elements, which, for example, are provided by each of the massage methods or used to massage several areas of the patient's bodies, reduces the number of replacements of massage elements compared to the detachable fixing of them all, and the detachable fixing of other massage elements on the massage heads provides all the necessary massage regimes.

The essence of the invention is illustrated by drawings, where in FIG. 1 shows a massager with twelve additional massage elements, top view along the axis of the holder of one of the massage heads; in fig. 2 - the same, front view;

in fig. 3 - the massage head shown in FIG. 1, 2 massagers, depicted only with an additional massage element with an axis located along the axis of its holder, moreover, this element consists of a spherical working tip and a threaded shank, side view with a partial section along the axis of the holder of the massage head; in fig. 4 - the second massage head shown in FIG. 1, 2 massagers, depicted only with an additional massage element with an axis located along the axis of its holder, moreover, this element consists of a spherical working tip of a larger diameter and a rifled shank, side view with a partial section along the axis of the holder of the massage head; in fig. 5 - the third massage head shown in FIG. 1, 2 massagers, depicted only with an additional massage element with an axis located along the axis of its holder, moreover, this element consists of a conical working tip and a threaded shank, side view with a partial section along the axis of the holder of the massage head; in fig. 6 perpendicular to one working plane of the massager, three spherical additional massage elements on the three massage heads shown in FIG. 1, 2 massagers, front view in a direction parallel to the specified plane, with notches in the fixing points of additional massage elements; in fig. 7 - perpendicular to the second working plane of the massager, three cylindrical additional massage elements on the three massage heads shown in FIG. 1, 2 massagers, front view in a direction parallel to the specified plane, with notches in the fixing points of additional massage elements; in fig. 8 - three spherical additional massage elements perpendicular to the third working plane of the massager with protrusions on the surfaces in contact with the zone being massaged on the three massage heads shown in FIG. 1, 2 massagers, front view in a direction parallel to the specified plane, with notches in the fixing points of additional massage elements; in fig. 9 is a view along arrow A in FIG. 8 additional massage element depicted on it; in fig. 10 is a diagram of the effect on the massage zone of the massage head, side view in section; in fig. 11 is a diagram of the effect on the massaged area of the spherical additional massage element, side view in section; in fig. 12 diagram of action on the massaged area of the conical additional massage element, side view in section; in fig. 13 is a diagram of the effect on the massaged area of the cylindrical additional massage element, side view in section; in fig. 14 - additional massage element with a two-layer coating on the surface in contact with the massaged area, side view in section; in fig. 15 additional massage element with a three-layer coating on the surface in contact with the massaged area with each layer exposed on the top of this surface, side view in section; in fig. 16 - additional massage element with a single-layer coating on the top of the surface in contact with the area being massaged, side view in section; in fig. 17 - an additional massage element in the form of a holder with a wood insert pressed into it, side view in section; in fig. 18 - additional massage element in the form of a holder with a permanent magnet insert pressed into it, side view in section; in fig. 19 - an additional massage element in the form of a holder with a natural body insert pressed into it with useful biological activity, side view in section; in fig. 20 - an additional massage element in the form of a holder with a natural body insert pressed into it with useful biological activity, additionally fixed with a screw, side view in section; in fig. 21 - additional massage element in the form of a holder with a permanent magnet insert installed with the possibility of turning, side view in section; in fig. 22 - an additional massage element in the form of a holder with an insert in the form of a metal ball installed with the possibility of turning with side coatings applied on its surface, side view in section; in fig. 23 - massage head with three additional massage elements fixed in the connecting element, consisting of three tubes perpendicular to the three working planes of the massager, view in the direction parallel to the work plane of the massager, with an additional massage element perpendicular to this plane; in fig. 24 second massage head with three additional massage elements fixed in the connecting element consisting of three tubes perpendicular to the three working planes of the massager, view in the direction parallel to the same working plane of the massager, with a hole in the fixing point of the additional massage element perpendicular to this plane; in fig. 25 - massage head with a nut with a female thread pressed into the hole for an additional massage element and with an additional massage element, screwed a shank into this nut, front view in a direction parallel to the working plane of the massager, with a hole in the fixing point of the additional massage element; in fig. 26 - massage head with three threaded shanks and three additional massage elements, screwed with their threaded holes on these shanks, side view, with holes in the fixing points of additional massage elements; in fig. 27 - another massage head with three threaded shanks and three additional massage elements, screwed with their threaded holes on these shanks, side view; in fig. 28 - massage head with a metal threaded rod pressed into it and an additional massage element screwed with its threaded hole on this rod, side view, with a hole in the fixing point of the additional massage element; in fig. 29 - massage head with a threaded rod pressed into it and with an additional massage element with a metal nut pressed into its hole, into which the threaded rod is screwed in, side view, with a hole in the fixing point of the additional massage element; in fig. 30 - a massager with three additional massage elements perpendicular to one working plane, and an additional massage element mounted on the fourth head along the axis of its holder, front view in a direction parallel to the specified plane, with notches in the places of fixing additional massage elements; in fig. 31 - massager with one, fixed in the massage head an additional massage element located along the axis of the holder, front view, with a hole in the fixing point of the additional massage element; in fig. 32 - massager with one additional massage element fixed perpendicular to one of the working planes of the massager, front view in a direction parallel to this working plane of the massager, with a hole in the fixing point of the additional massage element.

The massager (Fig. 1, 2) is made with four massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4, placed at the ends of four oblong holders 5, 6, 7, 8, connected by opposite heads 1, 2, 3, 4 ends, and the holders 5 6, 7, 8 with heads 1, 2, 3, 4 are located with the formation of four working planes 9, 10, 11, 12 of the massager, each of which is tangent to the surfaces of the three heads and intersects with other working surfaces with the formation of an imaginary tetrahedral pyramid , inside each of the three-sided corners of which is near each of its vertices 13, 14, 15 , 16 is located one of the massage heads

1, 2, 3, 4, and inside the pyramid at a distance from each of the working planes 9, 10, 11, 12 place 17 the connection holders 5, 6, 7, 8. The working plane 9 is tangent to the surfaces of the heads 1, 2, 3 and formed by the edges of 18, 19, 20 imaginary pyramids. The working plane 10 is tangent to the surfaces of the heads 1,

2, 4 and is formed by the edges 18, 21, 22 of the imaginary pyramid. The working plane 11 is tangent to the surfaces of the heads 1, 3, 4 and is formed by the edges 19, 21, 23 of the imaginary pyramid.

The working plane 12 is tangent to the surfaces of the heads 2, 3, 4 and is formed by the edges 20, 22, 23 of the imaginary pyramid.

All four massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 are spherical with the same diameter. Attached to the massager is a set of additional massage elements consisting of several groups, each of which contains several of the same shape, materials from which they are made, and the biological activity of additional massage elements, different in their length and diameters of the surfaces in contact with the area being massaged. end surfaces, each group consisting of several subgroups, each of which contains four completely identical massage elements. This creates an opportunity for each of the massage modes provided by the massage method to install on the massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 corresponding additional massage elements from this set, which provides many combinations of additional massage elements used separately, in pairs or three together.

From this set on the massage heads 1, 2, 3 can be detachably fixed, for example, the following additional massage elements. On massage heads 1, 2, 3 additional massage elements 24, 25, 26, axes 27, 28, 29 of which (Fig. 3, 4, 5) are located along axes 30, 31, 32 of their holders 5, 6, 7. On heads 1, 2, 4 - additional massage elements 33, 34, 35, axes 36, 37, 38 (Fig. 6) of which are perpendicular to the working plane 10 of the massager. On heads 1, 3, 4 - additional massage elements 39, 40, 41, axes 42, 43, 44 (fig. 7) of which are perpendicular to the working plane 11 of the massager. On heads 2, 3, 4 (fig. 8) there are additional massage elements 45 whose axes are perpendicular to the working plane 12. Heads 1, 2, 3 do not have additional massage elements with axes perpendicular to the working plane 9.

Massage heads 1, 2, 3 are made with threaded holes 46 located along the axes 3, 31, 32 of the holders 5, 6, 7 (Fig. 3, 4, 5), and additional massage elements 24, 25, 26 - with threaded shanks 47, which are screwed into the holes 46. The massage elements 24, 25 are spherical, that is, with working tips in the form of spherical segments, the diameters of which are smaller than the diameters of the heads 1, 2, and the diameter of the working tip of the massage element 24 is smaller than the diameter of the working tip of the massage element 25 . height of the tip ₂₄ minutes massage th element 24 and the height d of the tip ₂₅ of the massage element 25 is approximately equal to their radius. Additional massage element 26 is made conical, that is, with a working tip in the form of a cone with a rounded end. The height of the ₂₆ working tip of the massage element 26 is approximately equal to the height of the working tip of the massage element 25, and the radius r of its rounding is less than the radius of the working tip of the massage element 24.

Massage heads 1, 2, 4 are made with threaded holes 48 (Fig. 6), the axes of which are perpendicular to the working plane 10. Additional massage elements 33, 34, 35 are made identical in shape and size and consist of working tips in the form of spherical segments and shanks 49, with which the massage elements 33, 34, 35 are screwed into the holes 48 in the massage heads 1, 2, 4. The diameter of the working tips of the additional massage elements 33, 34, 35 is smaller than the diameter of the massage heads 1, 2, 4, and their height is approximately equal to their radius.

Massage heads 1, 3, 4 are made with threaded holes 50 (Fig. 7), the axes of which are perpendicular to the working plane 11. Additional massage elements 39, 40, 41 are made identical in shape and size and consist of working tips in the form of cylinders with rounded ends and the shanks 51, with which the massage elements 39, 40, 41 are fixed in the holes 50 in the massage heads 1, 3, 4. The diameter of the working tips of the additional massage elements 39, 40, 41 is smaller than the diameter of the massage heads 1, 3, 4, and height is approximately equal to their radius.

Massage heads 2, 3, 4 are made with threaded holes 52 (Fig. 8), the axes of which are perpendicular to the working plane 12. Additional massage elements 45 are made in the same shape and size and consist of working tips in the form of spherical segments and shanks 53, which massage the elements 45 are screwed into the holes 52 in the massage heads 2, 3, 4. The diameter of the working tips of the additional massage elements 45 is smaller than the diameter of the massage heads 2, 3, 4, and their height is approximately equal to their radius. The spherical surfaces of the working tips are made with protrusions 54 (Fig. 9).

All threaded holes 46, 48, 50, 52 in all the massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 are made of the same size, the threaded shanks 47, 49, 51, 53 of all the additional massage elements included in the kit also make it possible to fix any of the them in any threaded hole, that is, the complete interchangeability of additional massage elements.

The action on the massaged area by the area of the massage head 4 without the additional massage element when the holder 8 is perpendicular to the massaged area 55 (Fig. 10) provides the maximum contact area of the head 4 with this area and, as a result, the minimum pressure (i.e. minimum force per unit area of zone 55). This causes the minimum recess of the head 4 in the tissue of the massaged area 55 and, as a consequence, the minimum levels of deformation of the tissue of the massaged area 55 and stresses in it. The large radius of curvature of the head 4 causes a smooth deformation of the massaged area 55. Each of the massage heads 1, 2, 3 (Fig. 2) acts in the same way when they are used together, that is, when massaged by the working plane 9.

The effect of an additional massage element with a working tip in the form of a spherical segment, for example a massage element 24 (Fig. 11), with the same force on the massager provides a much greater pressure on the tissue and therefore a much larger recess in the tissue of zone 55 and, as a result, much larger levels of tissue deformation and stress in it. In the same way, each of the additional massage elements 33, 34, 35 (Fig. 6) acts upon massage with the working plane 10.

The action of the conical massage element, for example 26 (Fig. 12), moreover, causes the steeper sides of the recess in the tissue of the zone 55.

The action of the cylindrical massage element, for example 39 (FIG. 13), causes the steeper sides of the recess in the tissue of the zone 55 than the action of the conical massage element 26 shown in FIG. 12, or the spherical massage element 24 shown in FIG. 11. In the same way, each of the additional massage elements 33, 34, 35 (Fig. 7) acts upon massage with the working plane 11.

Additional massage element 45 when deepening into the patient's body creates a different picture of the effect on the zone being massaged, since the protrusions 54 on the element 45 significantly increase its roughness, which increases the friction force between the additional massage element 45 and the zone being massaged 55.

FIG. 2, 6, 7, 8 thin dashed lines show the deformations of the tissue of the patient being massaged 55 when massaged by working planes 9, 10, 11, 12 of the massager.

Additional massage elements of any of the above shapes and sizes can be made of wood of various species. The use of such massage elements is especially useful since wood has a cellular structure and is tropic in its energy and composition to living organisms.

Additional massage elements of any of the above-described shapes and sizes can be made of metal with useful biological activity, such as copper, nickel, iron, silver, chromium, gold, cobalt, vanadium, beryllium, platinum, palladium, strontium, tellurium, or from their alloys . When massaging with such a massage element or two or three of them, along with the mechanical effect, there is a specific effect on the patient’s body, due to the characteristic biological activity of this metal or alloy, as well as its rubbing into the skin, i.e. other microelement or trace elements.

A two-layer coating with layers 58 and 59 of different metals with useful biological activity can be applied to the final surface 56 in contact with the massaged area 56 (FIG. 14) of an additional massage element 57 made of metal or alloy. During a massage with such a massage element, the microelement is transferred to the patient's body mainly from the outer layer 58, and also due to diffusion from the inner layer 59 and the basis of the massage element 57.

A three-layer coating with layers 62, 63, 64 made of various metals with useful biological activity can be applied to the final surface 60 of an additional massage element 61 (Fig. 15) made of metal, with the surface 60 exposed from layers 62, 63, 64 of the coating on top of 65 with the exit of each of these layers. Since the final surface 60 of the massage element 61 and the layers 62, 63, 64 of the coating are made of materials with different electrochemical potentials, during a massage with such a massage element, the surface 60 of the massage element 61 and the layers 62, 63, 64 of the coating contact with the zone being massaged, which ensures the emergence of electroplating microcurrents in the tissue of the massage zone between the surface 60 of the element 61 exposed from the coatings and each of the layers 62, 63, 64, as well as between the individual layers of the coating. This is due to the fact that the surface 60 and the layers 62, 63, 64 of the coating act as electrodes, and the fluid in the patient's epidermis acts as the electrolyte. The presence of these galvanic microcurrents causes the electrical effect of the massage element 61 on the massaged area of the patient's body and intensifies the transfer of trace elements from the surface 60 and the layers 62, 63, 64 to the patient's body.

Made from a metal or alloy, for example from steel, an additional massage element (FIG. 16) can be made with a layer 67 of a rare or precious metal coating applied to the top of its final surface 66. When massaging with such a massage element, the base of the massage element 65 and the cover layer 67 are in contact with the massage zone, which provides galvanic microcurrents between the base of the element 65 and the layer 67 in the tissue of the massage zone, as well as the transfer of trace elements from the base of the element 65 and the cover layer 67, reinforced by these microcurrents .

Additional massage elements of any of the above-described shapes and sizes can be made from natural bodies with useful biological activity. Such natural bodies can be amber, pearls, minerals, in particular jade, malachite, lapis lazuli, precious and semiprecious stones. Natural bodies can be used in both the treated and the untreated state. Each type of natural body has its own structure and properties, in particular, weak radiation, as well as its own positive energy, which in a special way influences the patient's body. In addition, massage with natural bodies provides for the transfer of useful trace elements to the patient's body.

Materials that are soft and / or difficult to work, as well as precious and rare, should be used in additional massage elements, which consist of a holder made of metal or plastic and an insert fixed in it from one of the above materials. For example, an additional massage element may consist of a holder 68 made of metal or plastic with a threaded shank 69 and a wood insert 70 fixed in it (FIG. 17), an insert 71 in the form of a permanent magnet (FIG. 18) or an insert 72 from a natural body in the raw state (Fig. 19). In this case, the insert 73 can be made with a hole 74 (FIG. 20), through which a screw 75 with a head 76 is threaded, screwed into a threaded hole 77 in the holder 78. This increases the reliability of fixing the insert in the holder and, in addition, provides additional galvanic and microelement effect of the head 76 of the screw 75, if it is made of metal and, moreover, coated, especially of precious or rare material.

A spherical insert 79 (FIG. 21), for example, in the form of a permanent magnet, is mounted in the holder 80 with the possibility of free turning. To do this, it is mounted in the cavity of the holder 80 at a depth of more than half its diameter and fixed from falling out by a holding ring 81, which is placed between the insert 79 and the inner surface of the cavity of the holder 80 and glued with the outer surface to the inner surface of this cavity. When moving the insert 79 along the massaged area, it rotates in the cavity of the holder 80, which ensures deformation of the tissue of the massaged area without friction between it and the insert 79, and also creates an effect of an alternating magnetic field on the fabric of the massaged area. The insert 79 may also be made of wood, a natural body, or a metal or alloy with useful biological activity.

The insert 82 (FIG. 22) is made with coating zones 83 on the entire surface of the same or different metals and is installed with the possibility of turning in the holder 84 with the retaining ring 85. When the insert 82 moves along the massage zone, it turns in the cavity of the holder 84, which provides deformation of the tissue of the massaged zone without friction between it and the insert 82, and also creates the impact of an alternating electric field, which is formed by galvanic microcurrents in the tissue of the massage zone between the coverage areas 83 and the insert core 82, and the same between different zones 83 of the coating, if they are applied from different metals.

The massager is made of plastic by injection molding using a mold that is detachable along planes, corresponding, for example, to 10 planes perpendicular to the working plane, in which the edges 21, 22 and 23 of the imaginary pyramid are located (Fig. 1, 2). Holes 46, 48, 50, 52 in the massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 for the shanks 47, 49, 51, 53 additional massage elements 24, 25, 26, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41, 45 perform when casting or drilled in massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 cast massager. Additional massage elements are also made from plastic by casting, in particular under pressure.

The massager works as follows.

For the implementation of all or part of the modes provided by the selected massage method, additional massage elements are screwed into threaded holes 46, 48, 50, 52 (Fig. 3-8), for example the massage elements shown in FIG. one,

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The head 4 and also shown in FIG. 3, 4, 5 additional massage elements 24, 25, 26 are used separately for massage and self-massage of biologically active points and muscle groups located in hard-to-reach places (for example, intercostal muscles, muscles of the hand and foot), small joints of the arms and legs, places pain points for neuralgia, places of thickening on the skin and subcutaneous tissue and in general those areas of the body where there are any pathological deposits. The head 4 and the massage elements 24, 25, 26 move the underlying skin deep into the tissue. To do this, install the massager in such a way that the holder 5, 6, 7 or 8 is located perpendicular or slightly oblique to the surface of the massaged area of the body, and create the necessary pressure on the massager, vibrating the head, turning it around its axis or giving the massager reciprocating motion . At the same time, the microcurrent of blood is sharply increased, and the grinding of escudates, which are displaced from microvessels, and microcurrents of blood are washed out to lymphatic vessels. To ensure maximum recess in the tissue of the patient’s body (which is especially preferable when massaging patients with a developed muscle layer), a conical additional massage element 26 of the head 1 is used. have smaller areas of contact with the tissue of the zone being massaged. To ensure minimal recess (which is preferable for massage and self-massage of the thigh, calf zone, lower leg, shoulder), use the head 4, which does not have an additional massage element coaxial with the holder 8.

Heads 1-4 are also used in pairs. For massage and self-massage of long muscles and muscle groups of the leg, thigh, forearm, shoulder, deltoid muscles, paravertebral muscle groups share any pair of massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4, having a plane formed by the corresponding pair of holders perpendicular or inclined to the massage zone so that the heads were in contact with her surface areas located between the additional massage elements, and giving the massager reciprocating motion. For example, the plane formed by the holders 5 and 6 of the heads 1 and 2 is perpendicular to the massage zone so that it contacts the surface portion of the head 1 between the additional massage elements 24 and 33 (Fig. 1, 2), as well as the surface of the head 2 between the additional massage elements 25 and 34. Heads 1 and 2 are moved in a direction perpendicular to a straight line drawn between their centers, with these sections of heads 1 and 2 having the same effect on the tissue of the zone being massaged, ensuring uniform pressure affection of skeletal muscle tendons. Heads 1 and 2 can also be moved one after the other, and for each pass of the massager each item in the path of movement of a pair of heads gives in to massage twice. The use of these areas of pairs of heads 1 and 2 provides the most gentle massage mode, since they have the maximum area of contact with the tissue of the massage zone and therefore cause the least deformation of this fabric and stresses in it. A similar result is provided by the joint use of the parts of heads 1 and 2, 1 and 4, which are free from additional massage elements, as well as 2 and 4 by inclining the working plane 9 at an acute angle to the area being massaged. More rigid massage regimes provide for the joint use of additional massage elements on pairs of heads by tilting the working planes 10, 11 or 12 to the area being massaged. Sharing the use of pairs of massage heads is also useful when performing a segmental massage of the spine and surrounding muscles. Massage with the joint use of two heads eliminates electrostatic tension in the skin and subcutaneous tissue, which leads to a decrease in vascular tone, the resumption of outflow of tissue fluid from the cells, improving the processes of diffusion through the skin of nourishing therapeutic substances.

The combined use of three heads allows for massage and self-massage of large areas of the body, that is, massage and self-massage of wide muscles and large muscle groups, such as the widest back muscle, shoulder muscles, large and small pectoral muscles, sciatic muscles, hip joints, scalp. In this case, the massager is informed of circular or reciprocating movements. Massage by the working plane 9 (Fig. 2) provides the softest mode, since the areas of the massage heads 1, 2, 3 without additional massage elements, that is, areas with the maximum radius of curvature of the surfaces, contact the massaged area. A significantly more rigid regime is provided by massage by the working plane 10 (Fig. 6), since spherical additional massage elements 33, 34, 35 of heads 1, 2, 4 are in contact with the zone being massaged. Using the working plane 11 gives even more rigid mode (Fig. 7) in which cylindrical additional massage elements 39, 40, 41 are in contact with the massaged area, and the most rigid mode is provided by massage by working plane 12 (Fig. 8), in which additional massage elements 45 of heads 2, 3, 4 are in contact with the massaged area the protrusions 54 on the spherical end surfaces of the massage elements 45. The use of any of the working planes 9, 10, 11, 12 provides modes with the same effects of the areas of the three massage heads on the zone being massaged, but different in stiffness.

Physiotherapy procedures are carried out by mechanical dosed effects in the form of strokes, pressure, rubbing, superficial and deep kneading of muscles, as well as vibration through fabric, clothing, or directly onto the exposed massage zone.

The presence in each of the working planes 9, 10, 11, 12 of the massager of the same massage elements (heads 1, 2, 3 in the plane 9 (Fig. 2), additional massage elements 33, 34, 35 in the plane 10 (Fig. 6), The elements 39, 40, 41 in the plane 11 (Fig. 7) and the elements 45 in the plane 12 (Fig. 8) provide four different massage modes with the same mechanical effects of the massage elements on the tissue of the massage zone during the implementation of each of these modes. If the selected massage method also provides for modes with different mechanical effects on the massaged area of each of the three massage elements fixed on the three massage heads when they are used together, that is, operating in the same working plane, then different massage elements, for example spherical, are fixed on these heads massage element on one head, conical - on the second and cylindrical - on the third, or on three jointly operating massage heads are fixed in the same form, but different in size massage elements.

If the massage method involves the use of modes in which, along with the mechanical effects of the massage elements, other types of effects should also be carried out, then additional massage elements made from different materials and having different types of useful biological activity are installed on the heads 1, 2, 4, as well as different in shape and / or size (massage elements made of different metals or alloys, with or without coating, of wood, natural bodies or in the form of permanent magnets). Such different combinations of massage elements are possible that are installed in the plane 10 to ensure the same effects on the zone being massaged: three identical metal massage elements 57, or 61, or 65 with the coatings shown in FIG. 14, or 15, or 16; three identical massage elements with a wood insert 70 shown in FIG. 17; three identical massage elements with an insert 71 in the form of a permanent magnet, shown in FIG. 18, etc. Such different combinations of massage elements are possible, which are installed in plane 10 to provide different types of effects on the zone being massaged: shown in FIG. 15 metal massage element 61 on the head 1 with a three-layer coating with the exposure of each layer on top of the final surface; shown in FIG. 18 massage element on the head 2 with an insert 71 in the form of a permanent magnet; shown in FIG. 21 massage element on the head 4 with a rotating insert 79 in the form of a permanent magnet; shown in FIG. 19 massage element on the head 1 with an insert 72 of amber; massage element with an insert similar to the insert 72, on the head 1 of lapis lazuli, etc.

Inside one of the massage heads 1, 2, 3, for example the head 1, a connecting element 86 (FIG. 23) may be laid, consisting of three metal pipe 87, 88, 89 connected by ends with an internal thread, with the pipe 87 located perpendicular to the working plane 10 massager, tube 88 - perpendicular to the working plane 11, and the tube

- along the axis of the holder 5 of the head 1. Additional massage elements from the kit attached to the massager, for example shown in FIG. 1, 2, the elements 24, 33, 39, are screwed by threaded shanks 47, 49, 51, respectively, to the holes in the tubes 87, 88, 89. The same connecting elements 86 can also be laid in the heads 2 and 3 for screwing into the tubes 87, 88, 89 additional massage elements, such as those shown in FIG. 1, 2, elements 25, 34, 26, 40, 45. A connecting element 90 (FIG. 24) with internal threads 91, 92, 93 connected to its ends can be laid in the massage head 4, these pipes being perpendicular to the working planes 10 , 11, 12 respectively. Additional massage elements, for example elements 35, 41, 45, shown in FIG. 1, 2. Laying the connecting elements 86 and into the heads 1, 2, 3, 4 allows you to attach several additional massage elements to one head without loosening it, since the material of each head covers the connecting element with adhesion to its entire surface, but at the same time complicates the design and the manufacture of the massager.

In each of the holes shown in FIG. 1, 2 massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4, for example, shown in FIG. 3, the hole 46 in the head 1 can be pressed into a metal nut or sleeve 94 with an internal thread (FIG. 25), and an additional massage element from the kit attached to the massager, for example shown in FIG. 1-3 element 24, screwed threaded shank 47 in this nut or sleeve. Such fastening massage elements on the heads provides a stable thread in the holes of the heads, but more weakens the massage heads with several holes in one head, although it reduces the length of the holes due to a stronger connection between the shanks of the massage elements and nuts or bushings.

Each of the massage heads 1, 2, 3, for example the head 1, can be made with a threaded shank 95 (Fig. 26) located along the axis 30 of the holder 5, and the same with the shank 95 two threaded shanks 96 perpendicular to the working planes 10, 11 massager, and additional massage elements, such as shown in FIG. 1, 2, the elements 24, 33, 39 are made with the same blind threaded holes 97, with which they are screwed onto the threaded shanks 95 and 96 on the massage head 1. The massage head 4 (FIG. 27) is made with three threaded shanks 96 perpendicular to the working plane to the bones 10, 11, 12 of the massager, onto which additional massage elements, for example shown in FIG. 1 elements 35, 41, 45. Such anchoring of additional massage elements on the massage heads eliminates the weakening of the latter. The holes 97 in the massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 can be pressed into threaded rods 99 made of metal or alloy, such as steel, and the massage elements are screwed with their blind threaded holes 46, 48, 50, 52 on the rod 99, as shown in fig. 28 for the massage element 24 on the head 1. The rods 99 have a strong thread that strengthens the connection between the heads and the additional massage elements.

In a blind hole in each of the additional massage elements, for example, in the hole 46 in the massage element 24, a metal nut or sleeve 100 with an internal thread can be pressed (Fig. 29), with which the massage element 24 is screwed onto the threaded rod 99 pressed into the hole 97. The metal nut or sleeve 100 has a strong thread that strengthens the connection between the heads and the additional massage elements, especially when screwing the nuts or sleeves 100 onto the threaded rods 99.

Additional massage elements can be fixed in the massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 by their establishment with tension in the holes in the massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 with the possibility of replacing them with other massage elements. This provides a simpler technology for the manufacture of additional massage elements, but their fixing in the massage heads is not sufficiently reliable, since high tension causes the possibility of damage to the shanks or holes for them when replacing additional massage elements and their wear during these replacements, and low tension is not a strong enough connection. between additional massage elements and massage heads.

A massager with detachable fastening of additional massage elements on massage heads and a set of these elements attached to it with different shapes and sizes, materials and biological activity is complex in design and manufacture and therefore expensive, but it has, however, a number of positive qualities. The possibility of fixing, depending on the parameters of the massage zones and the modes provided by the massage method, on the massage heads of various massage elements from the set attached to the massager, of different shapes, sizes, materials of which they are made, and the type of biological activity, makes the massager suitable for many massage methods designed to massage different areas of the human body with different parameters and providing different massage modes, while this massager is It is sufficient for the implementation of any massage method and eliminates the need to use other massagers. All this causes the versatility of the massager regarding massage methods and modes. The possibility of fixing twelve massage elements on the massage heads together eliminates the need to replace the massage elements with others in the process of implementing massage methods for which previously fixed massage elements is sufficient, or causes a small number of replacements for massage elements when implementing some massage methods for which the previously fixed massage elements are not enough

Additional massage elements can be made with smooth shanks 47, 49, 51, 53 (Fig. 3-8), and massage heads - with smooth holes 46, 48, 50 52, in which additional massage elements can be pressed by their own shanks to form permanent connection between these elements and massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4. Additional massage elements can be made with smooth blind holes 97 (Fig. 26, 27), and massage heads with smooth shanks 95, 96 or smooth rods 99 (Fig 28, 29), which may be Additional massage elements are connected with their holes with the formation of a permanent connection between the massage heads and additional massage elements. A massager with permanent fixing of additional massage elements on the massage heads is simpler to manufacture and use and therefore cheaper, but a limited number of massage elements fixed on it causes a limited range of massage methods and modes that can be performed with its use, and with a wide range of massage elements. methods and modes that can be carried out by a masseur, such a massager should be used in combination with other massagers.

It is advisable that one part of the most frequently used additional massage elements, since they are necessary for the most used massage modes (for example, the modes provided by each of the massage methods or used for massage of several areas of the patient's body), are fixed non-detachably on the massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 , and the other part to fasten on the massage heads detachably. For example, it is possible to permanently fasten additional massage elements 33, 34, 35 perpendicular to the working plane 10 (fig. 1, 2) on heads 1, 2, 3 and additional massage elements 39, 40, 41 perpendicular to the working plane 11 to heads 1, 3 , 4, and in the holes of the heads 2, 3, 4, perpendicular to the working plane 12, as well as in the holes of the heads 1, 2, 3, directed along the axes of the holders 5, 6, 7, additional massage elements needed for the corresponding massage modes should be detachable from attached to the massager kit. The constant presence of additional massage elements 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41 on the massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 ensures the implementation of the most commonly used massage modes, which reduces the number of replacements of massage elements as compared to releasable fastening them all, and detachable fastening other massage elements from the kit provides the other necessary massage regimes.

The massager can be made with four holes in each of the four massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4, in which additional massage elements can be detachably or non-detachably fixed by the shanks. Or it can be made with four shanks on each of the four massage heads.

1, 2, 3, 4, on which additional massage elements can be detachably or permanently fastened with their holes. This massager eliminates the need to replace massage elements in the process of implementing more massage methods or reduce the number of replacements, but at the same time is more complex in design and manufacturing and, thus, more expensive and also more difficult to use.

In a simpler form of execution of the massager with replaceable additional massage elements, massage heads 1, 2 are made (Fig. 30) with the same diameter exceeding the diameter of the heads 3, 4. Heads 1,

2, 3, forming the working plane 9 of the massager, are made with perpendicular to this plane the same in all sizes threaded holes 101, and the massage head 4 with a threaded hole 102, the same with threaded holes 101 and located along axis 28 of its holder 8. A set is attached to the massager additional massage elements, consisting of several groups, each of which contains several of the same shape, materials of which they are made, and the biological activity of additional massage elements, different along their length and diameters of the surfaces in contact with the zone being massaged, that is, the end surfaces, each group consisting of several subgroups, each of which contains three completely identical massage elements. This creates an opportunity for each of the massage modes provided by any massage method to install on the massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 the corresponding additional massage elements from this kit, which gives many combinations of additional massage elements used individually, in pairs or three right away From this set on massage heads 1, 2, 3, for example, identical additional massage elements 103, 104, 105 are fastened, each of which consists of a holder 106 with a threaded shank 107 and an insert 108 pressed into the holder 106 from a natural body with useful biological activity . The additional massage elements 103, 104, 105 are screwed with their threaded shanks 107 into the threaded holes 101 in the massage heads 1, 2, 3. The massage head 4 is fixed, for example, an additional massage element 109 with a conical working tip 110 and a threaded shank 111, which it screwed into the hole 102 in the massage head 4.

The massager works as follows.

For a part of the modes provided by the selected massage method, additional massage elements are screwed into the threaded holes 101 and 102 with threaded shanks.

Heads 1, 2, 3, especially additional massage elements fixed in head 4, for example element 108, are used separately for massage and self-massage of biologically active and pain points, as well as muscle groups located in hard-to-reach places. Massage heads give a minimal depression in the fabric of the massage zone. To provide a significant indentation into the body tissue of the patient (which is especially preferable when massaging patients with a developed muscular layer), spherical or cylindrical additional massage elements are used, as well as conical additional massage elements of various sizes similar to element 108.

Heads 1-4 are also used in pairs. The use of pairs of heads 1 and 2 provides a mode with the same intensity effects of both heads on the zone being massaged, and the softest mode, since these heads have a maximum contact area with the tissue of the zone being massaged and therefore cause the least deformation of this fabric and stress in it. More stringent massage regimes, and also with the same effects of both heads on the zone being massaged, ensures joint use of heads 3 and 4. Such joint use of pairs of massage heads is especially useful for a segmental massage of the spine and surrounding muscles. The combined use of pairs of massage heads 1 and 3, or 2 and 4, or 1 and 4 provides modes with different intensity effects of both heads on the zone being massaged.

When used together, the three heads of the massage work surfaces 10, 11, 12 provides a soft massage modes. More rigid regimes are provided by massage with working plane 9 when fixing additional massage elements on heads 1, 2, 3 with radii of curvature smaller than the radii of massage heads. If the massage method involves the use of modes in which, along with the mechanical effects of the massage elements, other types of effects should also be implemented, then heads 1, 2, 3 establish additional massage elements made of different materials and having different types of useful biological activity, as well as different in shape and / or size (massage elements made of different metals or alloys, with or without coating, of wood, natural bodies or in the form of permanent magnets).

Additional massage elements 103, 104, 105, 109 can be fixed in massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 by placing them with tension into holes 101 and 102 in massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4 with the possibility of replacing them with other massage elements .

A massager with a set of mutually secured in the openings 101 and 102 of various additional massage elements is equally versatile with respect to massage methods and modes, as shown in FIG. 1, 2, but, in contrast, the use of this massager for the implementation of massage methods, involving many different modes, requires many replacements of massage elements.

Additional massage elements 103, 104, 105, 109 or any other elements can be permanently fixed in the massage heads 1, 2, 3, 4, just as in the previously described massager. The massager with permanent attachment of additional massage elements on the massage heads is easier to manufacture and use, but it can be used to implement massage techniques that provide a significantly limited range of massage modes, or to implement massage methods with a wide range of massage modes, but in combination with other massagers.

The massager can be made with only one threaded hole 112 (Fig. 31) in the massage head 4, the axis of which is located along the axis of the holder 8 of the head 4, and is equipped with a set of additional massage elements with working tips of different shapes and sizes and the same sized threaded shanks. For each of the massage modes of the biologically active or painful points of the patients' bodies in the hole 112, a certain additional massage element from the kit is fixed, for example a massage element 113 with a spherical tip 114 and a threaded shank 115 with which it is screwed into the hole 112. This massager is suitable for ordinary massage methods carried out with the use of the prototype massager, and additionally for the implementation of various massage regimes of biologically active or painful points of the bodies of patients with different and parameters massazhiruemyh zones (from adults with large surface areas and massazhiruemyh developed muscles and small children).

A similar massager (as shown in Fig. 31) can be made with one smooth hole, the axis of which is directed along the axis of the head holder 1 and in which an additional massage element, for example, with a tapered tip, is pressed by the shank. This massager is suitable for conventional massage methods, carried out using the prototype massager, and additionally for the implementation of a single massage mode of biologically active or painful points of patients' bodies.

The massager can be made only with a threaded shank 116 (Fig. 32), for example, in a massage head 1, the axis of which is perpendicular to the axis of the holder 5 of the head 1, and equipped with a set of additional massage elements with working tips of different shapes and sizes made of various materials and with different biological activity and with the same size threaded holes. The specified additional massage element, for example massage element 117 with a holder 118, in which a threaded hole 119 is made, and a permanent magnet 120 pressed into it, is screwed with an opening 119 onto the shank 116. This massager is suitable for conventional massage methods performed using a prototype massage device, and additionally for the implementation of various massage modes with the joint use of heads 2, 3 and any of the additional massage elements from the kit, for example, element 117.

A similar massager (as shown in Fig. 32) can be performed with one smooth shank on the head 1, the axis of which is perpendicular to the axis of the head holder 1 and on which an additional massage element, for example, coated on its top surface in contact with the massaged area, is pressed by its opening. This massager is suitable for conventional massage methods performed using the prototype massaging device, and additionally for performing a single massage mode with the joint use of heads 2, 3 and an additional massage element on the head 1, which provides, along with the mechanical effect on the massaged area, the effect of a galvanic microcurrent in its tissue between the metal of the massage element and the metal of the coating on top of its surface in contact with the area being massaged.

Thus, the claimed invention provides a wide range of forms for performing additional massage elements and their location on one or several massage heads, from simple-shaped massage elements to massage elements with inserts, from massage elements made of the same material as the massager, to massage elements with multi-layer coatings, as well as forms of massagers, from a massager with one massage element, non-detachable fixed on one massage head, to massagers with several detachable fixed on several massage heads with additional massage elements. All this allows massagers with different levels of complexity of design and manufacturing and, thus, cost, and with different levels of versatility regarding various massage methods and modes, from massagers of the simplest design, suitable for simple massage methods, providing a limited range of massage modes, to the most complex massagers with sets of replaceable additional massage elements suitable for the implementation of any of the most complex massage methods, provide boiling the widest range of massage modes.

Claims (19)

1. A massager with four massage elements in the form of massage heads with curved, convex, surfaces in contact with the massage area, located at the ends of four ends of elongated holders connected to opposite heads, the holders with heads being located to form four working planes of the massager, each of which is tangent to the surfaces of three heads and intersects with other working surfaces with the formation of an imaginary tetrahedral pyramid, inside each of the three of the angles of which one of the massage heads is located near its top, and inside the pyramid, away from each of the working planes, is the junction of the holders, characterized in that at least one massage head is detachably or indivisibly fixed made with a curved, convex, an additional massage element with an axis in contact with the massaged area with an axis located along the axis of the massage head holder, and / or at least one made with a curved, convex, contacting ma sazhiruemoy additional surface area massage element with an axis perpendicular to a working plane massager. 2. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one massage head is made with a hole located along the axis of its holder, and / or with at least one hole perpendicular to the working plane of the massager, and an additional massage element or each of them consists of a working tip with a surface in contact with the massage area and a shank, with which an additional massage element is fixed in the corresponding hole in the massage head. 3. The massager according to claim 2, characterized in that the shank of the additional massage element and the hole in the massage head are threaded, and the additional massage element is screwed into the hole in the massage head. 4. The massager according to claim 3, characterized in that a metal nut or sleeve with a female thread is pressed into the hole in the massage head, into which an additional massage element is screwed into its shank. 5. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one massage head secures two, or three, or four additional massage elements, wherein a connecting element consisting of two, three or four connected by ends is laid inside the massage head metal tubes with a female thread with the location of each tube perpendicular to one of the working planes of the massager or along the axis of the head holder, and the threaded shank of each additional massage element is screwed into the hole of the corresponding cutting of the connecting element. 6. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one of the massage heads is made with a shank located along the axis of the holder, and / or with at least one shank perpendicular to one of the working planes of the massager, and additional massage element or each of them with a blind hole, with which it is fixed on the corresponding shank on the massage head. 7. The massager according to claim 6, characterized in that the shank in the massage head and the hole in the additional massage element are threaded, and the additional massage element is screwed with its hole on the shank in the massage head. 8. The massager according to claim 7, characterized in that a metal nut or sleeve with a female thread is pressed into the hole in the additional massage element, with which an additional massage element is screwed onto the threaded shank in the massage head. 9. Massager according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the additional massage elements or their working tips are made in the form of spherical segments and / or cylinders or cones with rounded ends. 10. Massager according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that at least a portion of the additional massage element with a surface in contact with the massaged area or several of them is made of metal or alloy with useful biological activity. 11. The massager according to claim 10, characterized in that the surface of the additional massage element in contact with the massaged area is coated with a single layer or multilayer coating of a material other than the massage element with useful biological activity. 12. The massager according to claim 11, characterized in that the surface of the additional massage element in contact with the massaged area is exposed from the coating layers at its apex with the exit of each of the coating layers. 13. The massager according to claim 10, characterized in that the coating is applied to the top of the surface of the additional massage element in contact with the massaged area. 14. A massager according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that at least a portion of the additional massage element with a surface in contact with a massage area or several of them is made of wood. 15. A massager according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that at least a portion of the additional massage element with a surface in contact with the massaged area or several of them is made of a natural body with useful biological activity. 16. The massager according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that at least part of the additional massage element with a surface in contact with the massaged area or several of them is made in the form of a permanent magnet. 17. Massager according to any one of paragraphs.10-16, characterized in that the additional massage element or several of them consist of a holder made of metal or plastic and an insert of metal or alloy or wood or a natural body with a useful biological activity in the processed or unprocessed state, or in the form of a permanent magnet. 18. The massager according to claim 17, characterized in that the insert is made with an opening through which a screw is passed, screwed into the threaded hole in the bottom of the holder. 19. The massager according to any one of paragraphs.10-18, characterized in that one part of the additional massage elements is one-piece, and the other is detachably fixed to the massage heads.