US1013824A - Massage-machine. - Google Patents

Description

W127? eases W Patented J an. 2, 1912.

WILLIS G. SHOCKEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MASSAGE-MACHINE.

Application filed July 15, 1910, Serial No. 572,146.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2,1912.

Renewed October 24, 1911. Serial No. 656,487.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIS G. SHocKEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Massage-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The apparatus of the present invention is designed for performing the work usually attributed to such machines, and more espe cially for the purpose of massaging cream and other facial applications into-the skin; and has for its object to produce a device which will be cheap and simple of construction; and which will be operated entirely by spring power, thus dispensing with the electrical connections or other complicated actuating devices usually employed with such articles. The mechanism is of such a nature that it may be inclosed within a casing of substantially small size and-easily carried from place to place, and the weight of the mechanism will be such that no inconvenience will be experienced in holding the apparatus during the massaging operation or in carrying it in a satchel or other receptacle when desired.

The apparatus of the present invention receives its vibratory motion through the contact of companion, oppositely extending arms attached to the massage instrument, with the serrated surface of a member which is actuated by means of a spring niotor acting in conjunction with a suitable train of gearing; and the massage instrument itself is of a resilient nature, so that the vibratory motion imparted thereto will be aug mented through the flexibility of the acting end of the massage instrument.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the completed device; Fig. 2 is a vertical section therethrough; Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a detail of the massage instrument and the oppositely extending arms thereof.

The device is inclosed within a casing 5, which is formed of companion sections of sheet metal of any suitable composition, each of which is in the form of a shallow cylindrical box, open at one end, the free ends of the sections adjoining at approxi mately the center of the device; and the sections are held together by means of suitable fasteners 6. Lying within the sections 5 are companion partition walls 7 and 8, each of which is secured to the respective section in which it lies, and each of which is held against movement within the sections through the medium of the fastening means 6. The partitions and sections cooperate to produce an inner chamber 9 and an outer chamber 10. It will, of course, be understood that the terms inner and outer as used are merely for the purpose of facilitating the description and are not necessarily a limitation on the construction. The inner chamber 9 serves as a housing for a ribbon spring 11, which is secured at one end 12 to one of the fastening members 6, and is attached at its other end 13 to a shaft 14, and the shaft extends outside of the casing and has aflixed upon its outer end a suitable grip or handle 15. As shown in Fig. 2, the shaft 14 is surrounded by a suitable metallic bushing 16, and the handle 15 is rigidly attached to this bushing, the connection between the handle and the shaft being efiected through the medium of a screwthreaded stem 17, which is provided with a suitable finger piece 18 upon the outer end thereof. This provides a connection whereby, when the stem 17 is fully inserted, as shown in Fig. 2, rotation of the handle 15 will impart rotation to the shaft 14, and thus wind up the spring 11; but when the stem 17 is withdrawn, so that its inner end lies free of the bushing 16, the shaft can then revolve independently of the handle and bushing; and, as the shaft rotates, by reason of the tension of the spring 11, the handle 15, which is grasped by the operator, will remain stationary, thus providing a suitable grip for the operator during the massaging operation.

Fixedly secured to the shaft 14 is a ratchet wheel 19, which is connected to a gear wheel 20 through the medium of a dog 21, and the gear wheel 20 meshes with a pinion 22 which is mounted upon a stub shaft 23. The pinion 22 is secured to a gear wheel 24, which meshes with a pinion 25 looselymounted upon the shaft 14 and fixedly secured to a disk 26, which has its edge formed with a plurality of teeth 27, producing a serration around the periphery thereof.

Pivotally mounted in the partition 8 and in the outer wall of one of the sections 5 is a stem 28, out from which project oppositely extending arms 29, each of which is provided at its end with a roller 30, these rollers being so positioned, as shown in Fig. 3, that when one is lying intermediate two of the teeth 27 the other is lying on top of one of the teeth, so that a constant rocking motion is imparted to the stem 28 as the disk 26 is revolved, such rocking motion being due to the alternate rising and falling of the ends of the arms 30, and as one of the ends is rising while the other is falling they Will never be acting in opposition to one another to minimize the effect of the rocking motion upon the stem.

As shown in Fig. 2, the gearing, serrated edge disk, and arms are all located within the chamber 10, and the stem 28 terminates in a massage member 31, which in the form shown comprises a cup-shaped receptacle formed of coil spring wire. instrument possesses in itself considerable resiliency and vibratory power, and hence, when the rocking motion of the stem 28 is imparted to this member, it will set it in vibration, and the ordinary vibration created therein will be augmented through the vibration of the spring metal of which it is composed, and thus a great efficiency of vibration will be obtained in the acting end of the instrument.

The movements of the disk 26 may be controlled through the manipulation of a finger piece 32, which may be of any usual and well known formation and serves to withdraw a locking pin 33 from engaging position between the teeth of the disk 26.

The operation will be understood from the foregoing, but briefly is as follows: The screw 17 is first turned into the position shown in Fig. 2, and the operator turns the handle 15, Winding up the spring 11. After the spring has been wound to the desired point, the screw 18 is withdrawn to permit of the rotation of the shaft 14 independent of the handle, and the finger piece is actuated to permit the disk'26 to be rotated through the expansion of the spring acting and driving the gear connection between the shaft 14: and the disk 26. As the disk is rotated, the serrated edge thereof will pass by the ends of the arms 29 and impart a vibratory motion to the stem 28, which in turn will vibrate the massage member 31. The instrument can be stopped at any time desired by merely releasing the finger piece 32.

I claim:

1. In a massage machine, the combination of a pivotally mounted funnel-shaped massage member composed of a spirally Wound resilient substance, a member having a ser- This form of.

rated edge in engagement with the massage member, and means operatively connected for actuating the serrated edge member, whereby the engagement thereof with the massage member will impart a vibratory movement to the latter, substantially as described.

2. I11 a massage machine, the combination of a pivotally mounted funnel-shaped massage member composed of a spirally wound resilient substance, a member having a serrated edge in engagement with the massage member, means operatively connected for actuating the serrated edge member, whereby the engagement thereof with the massage member will impart a vibratory movement to the latter, and means for controlling the movement of the serrated edge member, substantially as described.

3; In a massage machine, the combination of a casing, a pivotally mounted funnelshaped massage member composed of a spirally wound resilient substance mounted Within the casing and having its acting end extending outside of the casing, a member having a serrated edge, mounted within the casing and positioned tohave said edge in engagement with the massage member, whereby the actuation of the serrated edge member will impart a vibratory movement to the massage member, and tension actuated mechanism within the casing, operatively connected to the serrated edge member, for actuating the same, substantially as described.

4. In a massage machine, the combination of a casing, a pivotally mounted funnelshaped massage member composed of a spirally wound resilient substance mounted within the casing and having its acting end extending outside of the casing, a member having a serrated edge, mounted within the casing and positioned to have said edge in engagement with the massage member, whereby the actuation of the serrated edge member will impart a vibratory movement to the massage member, tension actuated mechanism within the casing, operatively connected to the serrated edge member, for actuating the same, and means for controlling the movement of the serrated edge member, substantially as described.

WVILLIS Gr. SHOCKEY.

W'it-nesses FRANCES M. Fnos'r, WM. P. BOND.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each,- by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C.

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