US1741313A

US1741313A - Medical appliance

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Publication number: US1741313A
Application number: US285290A
Authority: US
Inventors: Kelley William John
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1928-06-14
Filing date: 1928-06-14
Publication date: 1929-12-31
Anticipated expiration: 1946-12-31

Description

Dec. 31, 1929. w. J. KELLEY MEDICAL APFLImcE Filed June 14, 1928 herald:

Patented Dec. 31, 1929 UNETED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM JOHN KELLEY, F MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA MEDICAL APPLIANCE Application filed June 14,

bacteria which may have secured a lodgement therein.

To this end, my invention comprises a hollow metal conoid, through which the suns rays pass from the larger end to the smaller end of said conoid, where they are deflected in the direction of the diseased parts by a metal reflector which is set at an angle of about forty-five degrees with the axis of the conoid, and just outside the smaller end of the conoid; further, an eye-tube, the axis of which is parallel to the axis of the conoid, being so held and being connected to the conoid by an adjustable arm; and also comprising a plate and metal ear speculum which may be attached, by means of a clamp, to the conoid for treatment of the ear. I

Referring to the drawing forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of an appliance embodying my improvements. Figure 2 is a plan view of the appliance shown in Figure 1. Figure 3 is a front elevation of the plate and speculum for treatment of the ear; Figure 4c is a side elevation of the plate and speculum shown in Figure 3, and also a part of the conoid, showing them attached by means of a clamp, which is also shown, and in the position necessary for treatment of the ear. Figure 5 is an elevation of the simple clamp used in attaching the plate and speculum to the conoid.

The main body of this appliance consists of a hollow metal conoid 1, the larger end being cylindrical, carrying at its smaller end a metal reflector 2, for intercepting and defleeting the suns rays to the aflfected parts of throat and ear. The reflector is preferably set at an angle of about forty-five degrees with the axis of the conoid and is secured to a bent projection of the conoid by screws 12 12.

To the larger and cylindrical end of conoid 1, fitting snugly but not friction-tightly, is attached an adjustable metal arm of two pieces 3 and 6, held securely in adjustment by a clamp 4c, and set-screw 5. In each end 1928. Serial K012535390.

of the adjustable metal arm 3 and 6, a hole is drilled exactly parallel to the other but of different diameter. That end of the adjustable metal arm 3 and 6, having the larger hole fits about the larger and cylindrical end of the conoid 1, and is kept from slipping to the smaller end of the conoid 1, by means of a screw 10. j

In the smaller hole of the adjustable metal arm 3, and 6, is held snugly but not frictiontightly, a metal cylindrical tube 7 the position of which is secured by set-screw 8, and to the lower end of said tube is held a disc of colored glass 11. by means of an eye-piece 9, which is screwed to the end of the tube 7.

For application of the suns rays to the car, a small metal speculum 14, is secured by rivets 15 15, to a rigid plate 13. The plate 13 is held in proper position against the conoid 1, by a circular clamp 16, and a set-screw 17,

thus permitting the suns rays to be deflected directly from the reflector 2, through the speculum 1 1, to the eflected part of ear.

The user of the appliance can either sit or recline in the sunshine. For throat treatment, the smaller end of the conoid is placed in throat with reflector at proper depth and in proper. position. The eye-tube is then brought to the eye and sighted at the sun.

For ear treatment, the speculum is attached to the conoid, then the speculum is inserted in the ear canal and the eye-tube sighted at the sun. The adjustable arm permits convenient movement of the eye-tube to suit the position of the eye with respect to the location of the mouth or the ear. The axes of the eye-tube and the conoid being parallel, the suns rays pass directly down the barrel of the conoid while the eye-tube is sighted at the l/Vhen used for treatment of ear, a part u sun. of the rays thus intercepted by the metal refiector are thrown through a circular aperture in the plate to which the speculum is riveted, and straight through the barrel of the speculum to the diseased part.

I am aware that prior to my invention medical appliances for treatment of throat diseases by the suns rays have been made with -a conoid and also with an inclined reflector at the base of the conoid. I therefore do not claim such a combination broadly; but

I claim: 7

1. A medical appliance for the treatment of the throat or of the ear, comprising a conoidal shell and a reflector attached to said shell, and means for pointing the said conoidal shell directly at the sun by means of a cylindrical tube attached to said conoidal shell, the central axis of the saideylindrical tube being at all times parallel to the central axis of the said conoidal shell.

2. A medical appliance comprising a conoidal shell, a metal reflector supported obliquely just outside the smallerend of said shell, to intercept the suns rays cast through the interior length of said shell, and an eyetube, the axis of which is parallel to the axis of the shell, and Which is connected to the shell at its larger end by means of an adjustable arm.

3. A medical appliance comprising a conoidal shell, an eye-tube connected to the shell at its larger end by means of an adjust able arm and means for vdirecting the suns rays Within the ear of the user, said means consisting of a speculum Which may be attached to the smaller end of the conoidal shell at right angles to the axis of said shell and is thus held directly in front of the obliquely supported reflector.

4. A medical appliance comprising a co-- noidal shell, the larger end of Which is cylindrical, an oblique reflector at the smaller end of said shell, While at the larger end of said shell is connected an adjustable two-piece arm, in each end of Which is drilled a hole, these holes being parallel and of dilterent diameter, the end or" the arm having the large hole fitting snugly but not friction-tightly about the larger and cylindrical end of said shell, and the end of the arm having the small hole fitting. snugly but not frictiontightly about an eye-tube, said eye-tube being further secured to the arm by a set-screw in the arm, and a disc of colered glass which is held against one end of the eye-tube by means of an eye-piece Which is screwed about the same end of the eye-tube.

XVILLIAM JOHN KELLEY.