US1634873A

US1634873A - Scalp-patting device

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Publication number: US1634873A
Application number: US753460A
Authority: US
Inventors: Thomas F Homan
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1924-12-02
Filing date: 1924-12-02
Publication date: 1927-07-05
Anticipated expiration: 1944-07-05

Description

5y T /F. HOMAN v scum PATTING mavxcn Filed Dec. 2. 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 (MEMO 16348 73 July -T. F. HOMAN SCALP PATTING DEVICE Filed Dec. 2. 1924 2 Sheets-Shet 2' Patented July 5, 1927.

1 QUNITE DQSTATES THOMAS F. HUMAN, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO.

SOALP-PATTING DEVICE.

Application filed December 2, 1924. Serial No. 753,460.

This invention has particular merit in the treatment of the scalp to bring about hair growth through the stimulation of the hair follicles by creating a restoration of the, natural circulation of life giving blood which furnishes the nourishment essential to normal growth of hair.

An object of my invention is to produce a device which will create the desired patting effect without manual manipulation of the scalp with its consequent injury to the hair, which will produce the desired effect in a most uniform manner over the entire scalp surface.

These and other objects are attained in the device described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a back view, illustrating in a somewhat diagrammatic manner, the device embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the device shown in Fig. 1. t

Fig. 3 is a fragmental transverse sectional view of the construction of the device.

Fig. 4: is asomewhat diagrammatic view of a modified form of construction differing from that shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view'of a device which may be utilized in the operation of my patting device to produce different results.

The material of which my improved patting device is made is preferably of rubber or other flexible or yielding material having waterproof characteristics so that it is nonporous. cap of head fitting formation which is quite snug. The outer material 8 is lined with a multitude of small ridges 9 asshown in Fig. 3. The arrangement of these ridges is best seen in the preferred form illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, in which the lines represent the ridges and the spaces between represent the channels. Covering the head is the main portion of the device with the channels 11 and 12 running from a channel 13 which extends around the edge of the device, back to and terminating ina channel 14 which the spine.

The construction is thatof a, skull 1follows the central line of parting of the iair.

This central channel, as well as several of the channels 11 at the bottom of the device, lead into a channel 15 which forms the termination of a coil channel 16 which lies against the back of the neck and down onto An entrance aperture 17 and an exit aperture 18 are provided for connection with tubing adapted to supply and drain off the water passing through thedevice.

In the modified form of my invention which is shown in Fig. 4, the circuitous path of the fluid passing through the channels is still further increased. Entrance and exit arrows are shown so thatthe path of the fluid may be traced. The view is for but a section of the device and is purely diagram matic, so that it may be understood that the multiplication of these sections is but a matter of design. In this form the circulation is rendered decidedly more broken in its path.

Fig. 3 shows the primary form of my invention in which the trickling pulsations of the current are morepronounced. This is accomplished by having inner walls to the device next to the scalp, these walls being in the form of flexible diaphragms 19 which move from the solid to the dotted line positions in response to the variations in fluid or air pulsations, thus serving to give the scalp a multitude of patting movements. cilitate this action the usual pulsator which is used by physicians and is illustrated in Fig. 5, is employed. The same device may be employed in using the other forms shown.

Having thus describedimy invention what I claim is: p

A scalp patting device consisting of a sheath of flexible, yielding and fluid impervious material adapted to fit the scalp por- To faoutside surface of the inner covering and arising upwardly from the bases 01 the stud walls to the underside of the outside covering, said arched flexible diaphragnis being normally away from the scalp and adapted to be forced downwardly and in contact with the scalp to produce a patting action and back again when the passages are subjected to fluid pressure and pulsating action, an inlet and outlet for the introduction and ex- 10 pulsion of fluids communicating with the passages at the opposite extremes of the sheath.

In witness whereof, I afiix my signature.

THOMAS F. HOMAN.