US1127017A - High-frequency therapeutical apparatus. - Google Patents

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F. M. & M. H. KIDDER. HIGH FREQUENCY THERAPBUTIOAL APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 11, 1914.

1,127,017. Patented Feb.2, 1915.

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FRAN CIS M. KIDDER AND MILTON I-IJKIDIDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

lI-IIGH-FREQUENCY THERAPEUTICAL APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 191.5.

Application filed August 11, 1914. Serial N 0. 856,193.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, FRANCIS M. KIDDER and MILTON H. KIDDER, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved High-Frequency Therapeutical Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. I

This application has to deal with means whereby the flexible cord conductor that connects the apparatus with a lamp socket or other source of supply can be wound around the handle of the apparatus when the latter is not in use, so that the cord will be kept in a neat and orderly manner and not become entangled.

The invention has for its general objects to provide an improved handle for a therapeutical apparatus of the character referred to with a flexible supply cord, the handle having novel means on its ends whereby the cord when not in use can be wound around the handle lengthwise thereof, whereby the wire is prevented from kinking or becoming entangled.

With such objects in view and others which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises various novel featuresof construction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth with particularity in the following description and claims appended hereto.

, In; the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one embodiment of the invention and wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, Figure l is a perspective view of the apparatus when not in use; Fig. 2 is. a view showing the cord unwound from the apparatus and an electrode placed in the latter to render the apparatus ready for treatments; and Fig. 3 is an end view of the electrode-receiving end of the handle.

Referring to the drawing, A designates the handle of the apparatus which, as disclosed in the application hereinbefore referred to, contains an. induction coil, a transformer and condenser, whereby high frequency currents are produced which generate in the evacuated tube or electrode B, ultra-violet rays which are utilized in therapeutical treatments, such electrode being removably placed in one end of the handle A. Atthe opposite end of the handle a flexible and therefore means,

cord conductor G leads into the handle for connection with the electrical instrumentahties therein, and applied to the cord is an attaching plug D or equivalent means for fitting into a lamp or wall socket for connectlon with a current supply circuit. This cord is of suitable length to enable the apparatus to be manipulated in treating a patient, and when the apparatus is not in use the cord is detached fromthe lamp socket, forming the subject matter of the present 1nvention, is provided to enable the cord to be wound on the handle in a manner to prevent the cord conductor from kinking or entangling.

On one end of the handle are a pair of studs or members 1 and 2 disposed at opposite sides respectively of the socket 3 that receives the electrode, so that when the electrode is removed, these members 1 and 2 form a crotch into which the cord can be wound.

At the opposite end of the handle is a stud or member 4 and a cord conductor protector 5 which cooperates with the stud 4c to form a crotch or recess in which the cord conductor can be wound. These devices 4 and 5 are disposed at opposite sides of the key 6 which is used for varying the strength of the current used for treating, and the members 4 and 5 extend outwardly beyond the surface 7 of the key, so that the cord when wound on the handle, as shown in Fig. 1, will be prevented by the devices 4 and 5 from slipping laterally ofi? the handle. When the apparatus is not in use the cord is wound back and forth around the handle from end to end and the successive convothemembers and 5 at the opposite ends, whereby the cord is prevented from becoming entangled or kinked. The protector 5 is a helically wound wire forming a resilient tube or spring which is anchored to a base piece 8 fastened by screws or equivalent means 9 to the handle A, and its purpose is to prevent the wire from being abruptly bent directly at the handle and breaking. When the apparatus is to be used the cord conductor is unwound from the handle and the plug D is attached to a lamp socket and the electrode B is then placed in the socket 3 of the handle, whereupon the apparatus is ready for use.

It will be noted that as the members 1 40 whereby the members retain the conductor become broken,

left on the handle there is a talities for generating curative rays,

necessary to remove the electrode so that the cord can be entered between the Inernbers l and 2, and since the electrode must thus be removed thefphysician or'user will take spe- 1 cial care of the electrode so that it willnot greater likelihood of it being broken i-by reason' of it'fprojectingfi so far out'of the handle. v Q

- From the foregoing description taken in connection witlrthe accompanying drawing, the advantages of; the construction and method of operationwill be readily understood by thosefskllledin the art towhieh the invention appertains,.-and while we have described the apparatus which we now'conlfsider to'be the best e'mbodimentthereof we- ,desire to have it understood that theapparatus shown isfme'rely illustrative andthatsuch changes may be m'adewhen desired-S ts are withinthescope of the appendedlclaims i cord conductor ,being wound around the handle longitudinally and entered between the members at the ends of a the handle,

in? place.

1 2. A therapeutical ai ma1s ,,om isin I La handle adapted to 'removably hold an electrode, a cord conductor connected "with the handleHat-jone end, a flexible {protector fastened to the 'rhandle and through which co ies this pa e may be obtained f or but ifthe' electrode were means Within the the be dof he ha mentioned member 1s: 'fa'stene'd, and cord end of the handle, t can be wound longitudinally "of the handle and engagedbetween the said members," said tubular memberbeing flexibleto form "a-pro- 7 sides of five 22611115 each,

the cord conductor extends, a member 1 fits, -tened to the sa me end of the handle as is the protector and spaced from the latter,-

WherebyJthe cordcondhctor can be wound ber, and ineansat the opposite end ofthe handle "forretaining the wound cord cone ductor thereon. v a

3. A therapeutical apparatus comprising lat-handle, "flexible tubular 1nembero'n one fend of thehand1e,;a cord c'onductorextending through the tubular member, electrical handleitowhich'the fcord conductor is connected, afixedf member on dlefto which the firstconductor" engaging means on the opposite whereby the conductor teotor to'preventbreakage of the cord conductor'whereit enter sithehandlei around the handle longitudinally and entered between the protector and the {mem- V 4. A therapeuticalapparatus comprising i a handleprovidedwith a socket at oneend to receive an electrode, "a' currentsupply flexible conductor connected with the han- 1dle,and a' pair of members fixed on 'each end g of the handle andrextendingflongitudinally thereof 'for retaining the flexible "conductor when'wound longitudinally'of the handle, p "thesocket thereof,"whereby the "electrode must be removed-before the fiexithe members at one end being at opposite ble conductor can be wound on thehandle,

"said four members lying iin' the same plane with the-sides of*thehandle; Iii-testimony whereof we na'mesto thisspecificati'on in the presence of two 'subscribingwitnesses, Y t I c FRANCIS 'MJKIDDER.

Witnesses-E] 'O'H'ATTERfBRADWnYf I PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs;

and being disposed within-lines coincident I 'havesigned our MILTON HQKIDDER: v

by addressing the -Commissionerf:of Eatents, o "washingtominc." j x a

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