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US1346724A
US1346724A US188923A US18892317A US1346724A US 1346724 A US1346724 A US 1346724A US 188923 A US188923 A US 188923A US 18892317 A US18892317 A US 18892317A US 1346724 A US1346724 A US 1346724A
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    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
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  • This invention has for its object to provide an improved apparatus for massaging the eyeballs for the purpose of curing certain errors of refraction.
  • the improved apparatus has been specially designed to ef feet the requisite operations upon the patient with great convenience, extreme accuracy and with great efficacity.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view'of the general arrangement of the apparatus.
  • Fig. 2 is a detail view in section on the line A-B of Fig. 1, illustrating the construction of one of the eye-pad supporting tubes.
  • the improved apparatus comprises as its essential parts for effecting ocular massage, two eye-pads adapted to ex ert the necessary pressure upon the eyeballs.
  • these eye-pads 1 consist of blocks of rubber.
  • the rear portion of these eyepads is made of hemispherical shape (as shown in Fig. 2), whereas the forward portion is slightly flattened over an area equivalent to the dimensions of the iris.
  • a rib 2 extending around the pad 1 is provided between the hemispherical and flattened portions.
  • Each eye-pad 1 is held in a cap 3 in which the hemispherical portion of the eye-pad is located.
  • the rib 2 engages in a groove formed in the cap and in the washer, and serves as a register mark for placing the eye-pads correctly inposition.
  • Each cap 3 is mounted on an externally screw-threaded stem 5 adapted to be screwed in a tube 6 which in its turn is adapted to be slid with a slight friction in a tube 7.
  • This method of mounting the parts allows of adjusting the positions of the eye-pad caps independently of each other, by screwing the stem 5 more or less in its tube 6.
  • the tubes 7 are fixed to slide blocks 8 adapted to slide along the transverse frame 9 that serves to support the several parts of the apparatus.
  • the transverse frame 9 forms a sort of very wide or open dihedral angle, so that the tubes 7 which are located at right angles to the sides of this dihedral angle, will thereby be caused to converge slightly at their ends on the side of the eyepads 1.
  • the cross-head 11 is fixed on a tube 12 adapted to slide freely on a rod or tube 13 fixed to the middle of the transverse frame 9.
  • Thetube 12 carries at its rear end a handle 14: shaped preferably as a bow as shown in the drawing. This handle is made sufficiently large to allow the operator to insert several of his fingers therein, for the purpose of producing the movement of the eye-pads 1 during the operation of the apparatus.
  • the cross-head 11 moves with it the tube 6 when no resistance is opposed to the movement of these tubes. When however the eye-pads 1 are prevented from moving, the cross-head 11 is capable of sliding without moving the tube 6 with it, the springs 10 being then compressed.
  • the tube 12 is made relatively long in order to relieve the operator of the fatigue which he would otherwise experience in standing while treating children with an apparatus fitted with a short tube 12.
  • the transverse frame 9 is provided at its center on the side opposite to where the rod or tube 13 is located, with a block 15 between the sides of which there is pivoted at 17 a nasal support or nose-piece 16.
  • the joint 17 of this nose-piece is designed in such a manner as to allow the said nosepiece to adapt itself freely to the nose of the patient irrespectively of the shape of that organ.
  • the side bars 18 are intended to be looped over the ears of the patient in the same way as the side bars of a pair of spectacles.
  • Acu ved member .19 is fixed at one end to the center of the transverse frame 9; it terminates at its free end in a pad 20 designed to bear against the back of the head of the patient and thus help in maintaining the apparatus in place during the treatment.
  • 21 is a handle for enabling the apparatus to be held by the operator; it is fixed by any suitable means to the middle of the V from said frame for bearing against the nose of the patient, eye pads for massaging the eyeballs of the patient, supports for said eye pads slidable in said frame, a common crosshead slidable in said eye pad supports, a spring between an abutment in each eye pad support and an abutment in said crosshead, a handle attached to said crosshead to enable the operator to operate same, and a handle attached to said transverse frame to enable the operator to hold the apparatus in position.
  • a cap inolosing approximately. the rear hemispherical half of said eye pad, an annular rib on said eye pad, and a ring screw- 1 ing on the front edge of said cap, engaging said rib, on said eye pad.
  • a transverse frame having its front face formed in the shape of'a very Wide or open dihedral angle, and relatively adjustable eye padsupports extending at right angles from the sides of said dihedral angular face, whereby said eye pad supportsare caused to converge slightly upon the eyes of the patient.

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l. ROGER.
APPARATUS FOR MASSAGING THE EYES.
' APPLICATION man AUG.30, 1917.
1,346,724. Patented July 1.339% A I Fig.1
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOSEPH ROGER, OF PARIS, FRANCE.
APPARATUS FOR MASSAGING THE EYES.
T 0 all whom it'mag concern:
Be it known that I, Josnrrr ROGER, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at No. 39 Rue Marboeuf, Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Massaging. the Eyes, of which the following is a specification.
This invention has for its object to provide an improved apparatus for massaging the eyeballs for the purpose of curing certain errors of refraction. The improved apparatus has been specially designed to ef feet the requisite operations upon the patient with great convenience, extreme accuracy and with great efficacity.
An embodiment of this invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a perspective view'of the general arrangement of the apparatus, and
Fig. 2 is a detail view in section on the line A-B of Fig. 1, illustrating the construction of one of the eye-pad supporting tubes.
As shown, the improved apparatus comprises as its essential parts for effecting ocular massage, two eye-pads adapted to ex ert the necessary pressure upon the eyeballs. In the improved apparatus according to this invention these eye-pads 1 consist of blocks of rubber. The rear portion of these eyepads is made of hemispherical shape (as shown in Fig. 2), whereas the forward portion is slightly flattened over an area equivalent to the dimensions of the iris. A rib 2 extending around the pad 1 is provided between the hemispherical and flattened portions.
Each eye-pad 1 is held in a cap 3 in which the hemispherical portion of the eye-pad is located. 4: is a washer adapted to be screwed upon the said cap for the purpose of fixing the eye-pad in its lodgment. The rib 2 engages in a groove formed in the cap and in the washer, and serves as a register mark for placing the eye-pads correctly inposition.
Each cap 3 is mounted on an externally screw-threaded stem 5 adapted to be screwed in a tube 6 which in its turn is adapted to be slid with a slight friction in a tube 7. This method of mounting the partsallows of adjusting the positions of the eye-pad caps independently of each other, by screwing the stem 5 more or less in its tube 6.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented July 13, 1920.
Application filed August 30, 1917. Serial No. 188,923.
The tubes 7 are fixed to slide blocks 8 adapted to slide along the transverse frame 9 that serves to support the several parts of the apparatus.
As shown in Fig. 1, the transverse frame 9 forms a sort of very wide or open dihedral angle, so that the tubes 7 which are located at right angles to the sides of this dihedral angle, will thereby be caused to converge slightly at their ends on the side of the eyepads 1.
10 are coiled springs located in the usual manner in the tubes 7 these springs bear at one end against the rear end of the respective tube 6, and at their other end against the front face of the cross-head 11.
' The cross-head 11 is fixed on a tube 12 adapted to slide freely on a rod or tube 13 fixed to the middle of the transverse frame 9. Thetube 12 carries at its rear end a handle 14: shaped preferably as a bow as shown in the drawing. This handle is made sufficiently large to allow the operator to insert several of his fingers therein, for the purpose of producing the movement of the eye-pads 1 during the operation of the apparatus. The cross-head 11 moves with it the tube 6 when no resistance is opposed to the movement of these tubes. When however the eye-pads 1 are prevented from moving, the cross-head 11 is capable of sliding without moving the tube 6 with it, the springs 10 being then compressed.
The tube 12 is made relatively long in order to relieve the operator of the fatigue which he would otherwise experience in standing while treating children with an apparatus fitted with a short tube 12.
The transverse frame 9 is provided at its center on the side opposite to where the rod or tube 13 is located, with a block 15 between the sides of which there is pivoted at 17 a nasal support or nose-piece 16. The joint 17 of this nose-piece is designed in such a manner as to allow the said nosepiece to adapt itself freely to the nose of the patient irrespectively of the shape of that organ.
To the ends of the transverse frame 9 there are fixed side bars 18 terminating in curved portions similar to the hooked side bars of certain spectacles. The side bars 18 are intended to be looped over the ears of the patient in the same way as the side bars of a pair of spectacles.
Acu ved member .19 is fixed at one end to the center of the transverse frame 9; it terminates at its free end in a pad 20 designed to bear against the back of the head of the patient and thus help in maintaining the apparatus in place during the treatment.
21 is a handle for enabling the apparatus to be held by the operator; it is fixed by any suitable means to the middle of the V from said frame for bearing against the nose of the patient, eye pads for massaging the eyeballs of the patient, supports for said eye pads slidable in said frame, a common crosshead slidable in said eye pad supports, a spring between an abutment in each eye pad support and an abutment in said crosshead, a handle attached to said crosshead to enable the operator to operate same, and a handle attached to said transverse frame to enable the operator to hold the apparatus in position.
2. In an apparatus for massaging the eyes, the combination ofran eye pad of elastic material and of hemispherical form,
with a flattened front surface corresponding in area and location with the iris of the eye, a cap inolosing approximately. the rear hemispherical half of said eye pad, an annular rib on said eye pad, and a ring screw- 1 ing on the front edge of said cap, engaging said rib, on said eye pad.
3. In an apparatus for massaging the eyes, the combination of a transverse frame having its front face formed in the shape of'a very Wide or open dihedral angle, and relatively adjustable eye padsupports extending at right angles from the sides of said dihedral angular face, whereby said eye pad supportsare caused to converge slightly upon the eyes of the patient.
In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the of two subscribing witnesses. V 1
' J OSEEH ROGER.
WVitnesses CHAS. P. PREssLY, MIGUEL ZEROL.
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US2726442A (en) * 1949-01-15 1955-12-13 Raymond V Miller Skin tensioning accessory for dry shavers
US2726443A (en) * 1949-02-23 1955-12-13 Miller Raymond Vernon Skin tensioning accessory for shavers
US20030195438A1 (en) * 2002-04-12 2003-10-16 Petillo Phillip J. Method and apparatus to treat glaucoma
US20110087138A1 (en) * 2008-05-30 2011-04-14 The Regents Of The University Of Colorado, A Body Corporate Non-invasive device for lowering intraocular pressure
US9308126B2 (en) 2010-11-29 2016-04-12 The Regents Of The University Of Colorado, A Body Corporate Non-invasive devices and methods for lowering intra-ocular pressure

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2726442A (en) * 1949-01-15 1955-12-13 Raymond V Miller Skin tensioning accessory for dry shavers
US2726443A (en) * 1949-02-23 1955-12-13 Miller Raymond Vernon Skin tensioning accessory for shavers
US20030195438A1 (en) * 2002-04-12 2003-10-16 Petillo Phillip J. Method and apparatus to treat glaucoma
US20110087138A1 (en) * 2008-05-30 2011-04-14 The Regents Of The University Of Colorado, A Body Corporate Non-invasive device for lowering intraocular pressure
US9308126B2 (en) 2010-11-29 2016-04-12 The Regents Of The University Of Colorado, A Body Corporate Non-invasive devices and methods for lowering intra-ocular pressure

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