US2043114A - Massage apparatus - Google Patents
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- US2043114A US2043114A US676261A US67626133A US2043114A US 2043114 A US2043114 A US 2043114A US 676261 A US676261 A US 676261A US 67626133 A US67626133 A US 67626133A US 2043114 A US2043114 A US 2043114A
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
- A61H15/00—Massage by means of rollers, balls, e.g. inflatable, chains, or roller chains
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
- A61H15/00—Massage by means of rollers, balls, e.g. inflatable, chains, or roller chains
- A61H15/0078—Massage by means of rollers, balls, e.g. inflatable, chains, or roller chains power-driven
- A61H15/0085—Massage by means of rollers, balls, e.g. inflatable, chains, or roller chains power-driven hand-held
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- My invention relates to a massage apparatus which serves mechanically to impart to one or more freely rotatable massage bodies, e. g. balls, circular and swinging movements in various combinations. While the said bodies are making these movements the apparatus may be shifted by hand.
- freely rotatable massage bodies e. g. balls, circular and swinging movements in various combinations. While the said bodies are making these movements the apparatus may be shifted by hand.
- An object of the invention is to provide a massage apparatus by means of which many various massage treatments can be performed mechanically and effectively without injury to the patient, to replace hand massage.
- a massage apparatus comprising balls arranged to move in circles, wherein a rotary disc carrying the ball-holders can be held in such manner centrally that only the ball-holders execute a rotary movement.
- the pivot-pins of the ball-holders are firmly connected with levers which engage with a cam track and impart a swinging movement to the ball-holders.
- the shape of the cam track in the cam disc may determine the swinging movement of the ball-holders.
- the central shaft it may be clamped to a bushing fixed in the apparatus.
- the drive of the apparatus may be effected by a worm which meshes with two worm gears, on the axles of one of which is a spur gear which imparts movement to a gear wheel in the middle of the apparatus.
- FIG. 1 is a front elevation showing one form of massage apparatusaccording to the invention
- Figure 2 is a central transverse sectional elevation thereof
- Figure 3 is a front elevation showing part of a second form of apparatus according to the invention.
- Figure 4 is a central transverse sectional elevation thereof
- Figs. 5 and 6 are views of details of the apparatus shown in Fig. 4.
- the apparatus shown in Figures 1 and 2 comprises a cylindrical casing l containing a wheelshaped frame 2 formed with a lateral projecting hollow boss 3 wherein is journalled a driving shaft 4 and a handle member is received.
- Fixed in a central boss 5 of the frame 2 is a bushing 6, in which is journaled a hollow shaft 1, enclosing a shaft 8 of a rotary disc 9.
- the shaft 8 extends through the members 6 and 1 and has on its outer end a screw-thread carrying a nut I l locked by a screw I2.
- the rotary disc 9 has any desired number of bores l3, of which five are provided in the example, each containing a ball-holder l4 journaled therein.
- These ball-holders l4 have at their outer end an enlarged portion I5 having a hemispherical recess for receiving a rotatable ball l6 retained in position by a cap-screw or like retaining device. After removing the cap-screw, the ball can be removed from the holder, cleaned and replaced, or exchanged for another one.
- the head of the holder is displaced slightly away from the middle of its pivot-pin ll, so that as the holder rotates, the center of the ball will describe a small circle about the pivot l1,
- the hollow shaft 1 carries on its end near the disc 9 the sun-wheel or spur gear 20 aforesaid, and it also carries a spur gear 24 with which meshes a pinion 25.
- the latter is fast on the hub of one of the worm wheels 21 carried by pins 26 fast in the wheel-shaped frame 2.
- Meshing with the two worm gears 21 only one of which is shown in the drawing is a worm 28 which is fast on the driving shaft 4 rotatable in the bushings 30 in the lateral boss 3 and adapted to be driven in any convenient manner.
- the apparatus is used either with the ball-holders rotating each only about its own axis, or with the ball-holders thus rotating and also at the same time revolving about the central longitudinal axis of the shaft 8.
- the rotary disc 9 must be fixed.
- the nut II on the shaft 8 is tightened so that the shaft 8 with a ring 32 secured thereto is moved inwards toward the left in Fig. 2 into firm engagement with the inner end of the bushing B which is fast in the frame 2, whilst the nut H presses against the outer end of said bushing with the result that the two parts are clamped together and the shaft 8 and disc 9 are thereby held against rotation.
- the ball-holders l4 then execute only a rotary movement each about its own axis, while the apparatus is shifted about manually.
- the disc 9 can rotate freely together with the shaft I more or less rapidly depending on the pressure exerted on the disc.
- the shaft 8 has a narrow axial bore 33 which permits a lubricant to be supplied from the outside to the hollow shaft 1 and through it to the bushing 6.
- the bore 33 may be continued further by a lateral duct 34 lying at right angles to it, so that lubricant can also be supplied to the bearings of the ball-holders.
- the bushings 39 carry on their outer ends collars 48 which make a sliding tight-joint with a cover plate 49, thereby enclosing the gearing dust-tight.
- a planet pinion 59 which meshes with the spur gear 38 and imparts its movement to the allotted bush.
- the apparatus is closed on the rear by the cover plate 3
- the massage apparatus may be driven in any convenient manner, as by means of worm spur, helical, bevel or like gearing; for example, an electric motor may drive a flexible shaft which can be connected with and disconnected from the driving shaft 4 of the apparatus in known manner.
- a massage device comprising a frame, a shaft rotatably mounted in said frame, a sun gear, means for driving said gun gear, a plurality of rotatable massage element holders carried by said shaft, a planet gear on each holder meshing with said sun gear, means whereby axial displacement of said shaft relative to said frame secures said shaft against rotation, and means for axially displacing said shaft.
- a massage device comprising a frame having a shouldered bearing, a shaft rotatably journaled in said bearing and having a shoulder to be urged against the shoulder of said bearing by axial displacement of the shaft thereby to secure the shaft against rotation, means for axially displacing said shaft, a plurality of rotatable massage element holders carried by said shaft, a planet gear on each holder, a sun gear with which said planet gears mesh, and means to drive said sun gear.
- a massage device as set forth in claim 2 in which the means for axially displacing the shaft comprises a nut threaded on the shaft against the bearing.
- a massage device comprising a sun gear, means for driving said sun gear, a rotatable disk coaxial with said sun gear, a plurality of bushings rotatably mounted in said disk with their axes parallel to and equidistantly spaced from the axis of said sun gear, a pinion on each bushing meshing with said sun gear, each bushing having an eccentric bore, a massage element carrying shaft journaled in the bore of each bushing, a fixed cam, and an arm on each massage element carrying shaft engaging said cam whereby said massage element carrying shafts are ro tated within their bushings by rotation of the disk relative to the cam.
- a massage device as set forth in claim 4 including means for releasably securing the disk against rotation.
- a massage device comprising a frame, a 7
- each of said plurality of shafts being mounted in said disk for longitudinal movement relative thereto, a massaging element on the outer end of each of said plurality of shafts, and means yieldably resisting inward movement of each of said plurality of shafts.
- a massage device comprising a rotatable disk, a plurality of bushings rotatably mounted in said disk with their axes parallel to and equally spaced from the axis of rotation of said disk,
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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CH2043114X | 1933-01-28 | ||
CH433985X | 1933-08-15 |
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CH (1) | CH172208A (es) |
FR (1) | FR777169A (es) |
GB (1) | GB433985A (es) |
Cited By (13)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US2500578A (en) * | 1946-11-18 | 1950-03-14 | William G Sawyer | Device for relaxing parts of the human body |
FR2325358A1 (fr) * | 1975-09-29 | 1977-04-22 | Bristol Myers Co | Dispositif de massage |
USRE30500E (en) * | 1978-08-18 | 1981-02-03 | Clairol Incorporated | Massage device |
US4526163A (en) * | 1982-09-30 | 1985-07-02 | Merle Fedders | Massager |
US4858600A (en) * | 1987-07-22 | 1989-08-22 | General Ideas & Products Ltd. | Massaging appliance |
US5662593A (en) * | 1995-12-22 | 1997-09-02 | T. Top (1994) Ltd. | Massaging appliance and cream dispenser unit therefor |
US5725483A (en) * | 1994-02-22 | 1998-03-10 | Podolsky; Grigory | Massaging device |
WO1998031321A1 (en) | 1997-01-16 | 1998-07-23 | Jones Rick E | Combined massage, acupressure and biomagnetic therapy apparatus |
WO2001039717A1 (es) * | 1999-12-01 | 2001-06-07 | S.O.R. Internacional, Sa. | Cabezal aplicador para aparato de estetica y electromedicina |
US20160256348A1 (en) * | 2013-10-17 | 2016-09-08 | Seb S.A. | Massage Device with at Least One Massage Head Having Eccentric Rotation |
US20160279017A1 (en) * | 2015-03-23 | 2016-09-29 | Recoup Fitness LLC | Roller therapy device |
US10105280B2 (en) | 2014-12-17 | 2018-10-23 | Koninklijke Philips N.V. | Massaging device |
RU2820068C1 (ru) * | 2023-10-26 | 2024-05-28 | София Посредникова | Массажер для проведения самомассажа областей тела, имеющих миофасциальный болевой синдром |
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FR2606632B1 (fr) * | 1986-11-19 | 1991-12-06 | Skovajsa Joseph | Dispositif de massage perfectionne a mouvement orbital |
US5685827A (en) * | 1992-12-14 | 1997-11-11 | Daito Electric Machine Industry Company Limited | Roller massaging device |
RU2489133C2 (ru) * | 2012-02-24 | 2013-08-10 | Николай Антонович Потапов | Устройство для самомассажа аван 21-22 |
RU2677788C2 (ru) * | 2014-12-25 | 2019-01-21 | Конинклейке Филипс Н.В. | Массажное устройство |
CN110973935A (zh) * | 2019-12-28 | 2020-04-10 | 和也健康科技有限公司 | 一种保健枕头 |
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- 1933-06-17 US US676261A patent/US2043114A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1933-08-15 CH CH172208D patent/CH172208A/de unknown
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- 1934-07-09 GB GB20085/34A patent/GB433985A/en not_active Expired
- 1934-08-14 FR FR777169D patent/FR777169A/fr not_active Expired
Cited By (17)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US2500578A (en) * | 1946-11-18 | 1950-03-14 | William G Sawyer | Device for relaxing parts of the human body |
FR2325358A1 (fr) * | 1975-09-29 | 1977-04-22 | Bristol Myers Co | Dispositif de massage |
USRE30500E (en) * | 1978-08-18 | 1981-02-03 | Clairol Incorporated | Massage device |
US4526163A (en) * | 1982-09-30 | 1985-07-02 | Merle Fedders | Massager |
US4858600A (en) * | 1987-07-22 | 1989-08-22 | General Ideas & Products Ltd. | Massaging appliance |
US5725483A (en) * | 1994-02-22 | 1998-03-10 | Podolsky; Grigory | Massaging device |
US5662593A (en) * | 1995-12-22 | 1997-09-02 | T. Top (1994) Ltd. | Massaging appliance and cream dispenser unit therefor |
US6102875A (en) * | 1997-01-16 | 2000-08-15 | Jones; Rick E. | Apparatus for combined application of massage, accupressure and biomagnetic therapy |
WO1998031321A1 (en) | 1997-01-16 | 1998-07-23 | Jones Rick E | Combined massage, acupressure and biomagnetic therapy apparatus |
WO2001039717A1 (es) * | 1999-12-01 | 2001-06-07 | S.O.R. Internacional, Sa. | Cabezal aplicador para aparato de estetica y electromedicina |
US20160256348A1 (en) * | 2013-10-17 | 2016-09-08 | Seb S.A. | Massage Device with at Least One Massage Head Having Eccentric Rotation |
US10492980B2 (en) * | 2013-10-17 | 2019-12-03 | Seb S.A. | Massage device with at least one massage head having eccentric rotation |
US10105280B2 (en) | 2014-12-17 | 2018-10-23 | Koninklijke Philips N.V. | Massaging device |
US20160279017A1 (en) * | 2015-03-23 | 2016-09-29 | Recoup Fitness LLC | Roller therapy device |
USD870908S1 (en) | 2015-03-23 | 2019-12-24 | Recoup Fitness LLC | Roller therapy device |
RU2820979C2 (ru) * | 2022-02-20 | 2024-06-14 | Общество С Ограниченной Ответственностью "Спектриа" | Устройство для массажа (варианты) |
RU2820068C1 (ru) * | 2023-10-26 | 2024-05-28 | София Посредникова | Массажер для проведения самомассажа областей тела, имеющих миофасциальный болевой синдром |
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FR777169A (fr) | 1935-02-13 |
BE404724A (es) | |
CH172208A (de) | 1934-09-30 |
GB433985A (en) | 1935-08-23 |
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