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US3797482A
US3797482A US00237341A US3797482DA US3797482A US 3797482 A US3797482 A US 3797482A US 00237341 A US00237341 A US 00237341A US 3797482D A US3797482D A US 3797482DA US 3797482 A US3797482 A US 3797482A
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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
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    • 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
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H33/02—Bathing devices for use with gas-containing liquid, or liquid in which gas is led or generated, e.g. carbon dioxide baths
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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
    • A61H33/00—Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes
    • A61H33/60—Components specifically designed for the therapeutic baths of groups A61H33/00
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  • massaging elements which emit jets or currents of water and are placed or fixed detachably or rigidly on the walls and/or the bottom of the bath or basin, and an assembly formed by means for supplying the bath with water.
  • The'eippaiams can be used equally for The treatment of invalids or of persons in perfect. health.
  • the present invention concerns apparatus utilized for effecting massage or douches under water and has for its object the provision of an apparatus permitting of effecting the massage or douche under water automatically without the intervention of a practitioner, a medical auxiliary or any other person.
  • the te'eia'niaiis'ar'ifiassage tinder water consists conventionally of a douche or jet, given under water, in a bath or a basin, by an operator such as a masseur or a medical auxiliary.
  • the water jet issuing from a fitting or a nozzle fixed to the end of a pipe, is directed manually by the operator towards the immersed body of the patient in accordance with more or less predetermined paths, for the purpose of varying the point of application of the jet, which is a function of the personal sensitivity of the patient, the part of the body treated, the complaint in question, etc.
  • the operator can furthermore modify, inter alia and according to the case to be treated, the pressure of the water, the
  • the present invention has for its object the provision of an automatic apparatus for under water massaging.
  • this apparatus the operator is replaced by an assembly of fixed, removable or movable massaging elements.
  • These elements incorporated in or simply added to a bath or basin, act by emission of single or multiple jets or water currents, whether or not mixed with gas, continuous or discontinuous or pulsating jets which may have any desired movement, and the form, composition and temperature of which can vary and are directed towards various parts of the patient immersed in the bath or basin.
  • This apparatus essentially comprises a bath or basin of variable forms and dimensions," one or more motor-pump groups permitting the utilisation of the water in a closed circuit, and massaging elements connected to water inlet circuits.
  • a programming apparatus can be provided which ensures the successive or simultaneous operation of certain or all of the massaging elements.
  • an air compressor or any analogous device is provided which permits the supply of gas to the liquid in the bath or basin.
  • FIG. Us a diagrammatic lateral view of a first embodiment of a bath equipped with massaging elements
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic sectional view along the III- -III in FIG. 2;
  • FIGS 1a, 2a and 3a represent respectively a lateral sectional view, a plan view and a view in section along A--A in FIG. 1a of another embodiment of a bath according to the invention
  • FIG. 4 is a view of the bath in the direction of the arrow F inFIG. 1;
  • FIG. 5 is a section along the lines J-J in FIG. 4;
  • FIG. 6 shows two directions of jets obtained by the reversal of the plates of the massaging elements
  • FIG. 7 represents a diagrammatic view of a water circulation circuit
  • FIG. 8 is a partial sectional view of a massaging element mounted in a bath
  • FIG 9 represents the arrangement of oblique nozzles in a massaging element
  • FIG. 10. is a plan view of the front face of a massaging element on which there are represented, by way of example, different fonns of jet outlet orifices;
  • FIG. 11 is a partial sectional view showing the arrangement of aball-joint jet in a massaging element
  • FIG. 12 is a partial perspective view of a massaging element sheath
  • FIG. 13 is a plan view of the plate equipped with jet outlet orifices and intended to be slipped into the sheath according to FIG. 12;
  • FIG. 14 represents a front elevation and a lateral elevation of one form of a movable massaging element
  • FIG. 15 represents the fastening of the massagingelement by means of a permanent magnet
  • FIG. 16 is a view similar to FIG. but represents the fastening of the massaging element by means of a suction cup;
  • FIG. 17 represents a sectional view of a bank of multiple injectors and FIG. 18 is a sectional view along the line BB in FIG. 17.
  • the automatic under water massage device is constituted essentially by a bath or basin, the massaging elements placed or fixed detachably or rigidly on the walls and/or the bottom of the bath and by an assembly formed by means for supplying the bath with water, by connection conduits and if appropriate by a system permitting of effecting diffusion of gas into the water of the basin.
  • the bath 1 can be an ordinary bath, a clover leaf or butterfly bath or a bath specially designed for the purpose of automatic massage under water.
  • the massaging elements are preferably fixed on the walls and/or the bottom of the bath in a detachable manner by means of rods, suction cups, magnets or the like.
  • the bath When the bath is specially designed it can comprise on its inner walls, for the purpose of placing the patient into the most appropriate position to ensure muscular relaxation and into the most favourable position so that the jets of water currents can be directed towards his body with the maximum of therapeutic efficiency, arm rests 2, 3, bosses or bulges intended to direct or deviate the jets or currents or to create eddies, and by way of example recesses 4, 5, 6 in which the massaging elements are fixed.
  • the massaging elements are constituted, as shown by the various Figures, especially by sheaths 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 (FIGS. 1 to 6 and 12) and/or by casings 13, 14 (FIGS. 1, 7, 8 and 14).
  • the sheaths forming massaging elements can for example be of rectangular section (FIG. 12) or oval section and comprise on one or more of their faces an aperture 15 equipped with slideways l6, 16. These slideways 16, 16' are intended to receive plates 17 carrying nozzles adapted to the direction and the form of the necessary water jet.
  • nozzles can be constituted by holes 18, by slots 19 perpendicular to the front face of the massaging element or oblique in relation to this face, by flat oblique tubes 20, by cylindrical nozzles 21, by ball joint jets 22 or by any other outlet orifice.
  • outlet orifices of the plates 17 can be equipped with slats, cross-bars or nozzles with rotating or movable elements.
  • the massaging elements which are constituted by sheaths or simple tubes for distribution of the water and/or gas, likewise can be fitted either fixedly or detachably on the external faces of the bath or basin, the massaging jets being projected to the interior of the bath or basin through orifices provided in the walls thereof and closable if desired, for example by sliding flaps, the essential principle always being that of creating in the bath an assembly of suitably oriented water jets or currents effecting the massaging of the patient.
  • the massaging elements can be realised in the form of round, oval, rectangular casings or casings of any other form.
  • the casing 23 is fitted in an orifice formed in the wall 24 of the bath, the front face of the casing being closed by a plate 25, with interposition of a packing 26.
  • the casing 23 can be equipped with one or more fixed or ball joint jets 22 or with a nozzle with a rotating element, or with a device effecting a pulsatory character of the jet, in this case the plate 25 being removed.
  • detachable massaging elements are preferably used which are constituted for example by casings 26 (FIG. 14) or by sheaths supplied laterally by means of flexible or semirigid pipes 27, elements fixed to the wall or bottom of the bath by one or more permanent magnets 28 (FIG. 15) or by one or more suction cups 29 (FIG. 16).
  • the orifices of the nozzles or jets can be connected directly, without the provision of a casing, to orifices provided in the walls or bottom of the bath or basin.
  • the massaging elements can be constituted by simple perforated tubes fixed on the internal walls of the bath or basin.
  • FIGS. 17 and 18 represent an embodiment of a bank of multiple injectors.
  • this bank is constituted by a collector 47 of variable form and dimensions, connected to the water inputs, and by a sole piece 48 fast with the collector and comprising a bore 49 connected either to atmosphere or to a pressure source such as a gas bottle.
  • the sole piece 48 is provided with several piercings 50 opening on one side into the collector 47 and on the other side to atmosphere to form or receive the ejection nozzles.
  • the piercings 50 are preferably inclined so as to obtain jets directed towards the human body in a centripetal direction in relation to the heart, that is to say in the direction of venous circulation.
  • Each of the piercings 50 is connected to the bore 49 by a piercing 51.
  • this bank it is possible to obtain massaging jets constituted by water alone or by a mixture of water and air or gas, by connecting the bore 49 to atmosphere or to a gas source.
  • the air or gas can be mixed with the water either by pressure, by equipping the orifice of the bore 49 with a compressor or analogous device, or by suction by adopting for the piercings 50, in their section included between the piercing 51 and the outlet orifice, a larger diameter than that of their section between the piercing 51 and the orifice in contact with the collector 47.
  • the assembly for supplying the automatic massaging elements comprises, apart from the basin or bath 1, either a plug 30 or a fixed strainer situated at the lower part of the bath, or in any other regionof the bath, and an overflow pipe 31, a reservoir 32, a pump 33 which delivers the circulating water possibly to elements 34, 35, 36
  • a distributor 37 connected by conduits to the different massaging elements fixed in the bath.
  • a hose nozzle 38 for possible manual treatment can also be provided on the distributor 37.
  • each conduit can be equipped with a cock permitting manual selection of the massaging elements to be put into action.
  • the setting in action of the various massaging elements can be effected by means of an automatic program selector which will perfectly ensure the treatment adapted to each patient and the exact repetition of a specific treatment.
  • an air or gas compressor to the supply assembly there may be added an air or gas compressor, completed or replaced if appropriate by a compressed gas or air bottle, in order to create a mixture of air or gas in the water in the massaging liquid jet.
  • the arrangement of the massaging elements in the basin or bath must be effected, according to the complaint of the patient to be treated, so that the result is on the one hand a specific, local and precise action upon certain selected anatomical regions, upon which the massage will bear in accentuated manner, and on the other hand a general massaging action due to the turbulence of the water created by the interaction of the water jets or currents and/or by the shapes of the bath.
  • the bottom of the bath or basin is shaped so as to form a central elevation defining two channels for the reception of the lower members of the patient.
  • the massage under water can be effected by jets issuing from pipes fixed externally and directly upon series of orifices provided in the walls of the bath or basin, with a single pipe on each side and a double pipe in the hollow formed by the central elevation.
  • the axis of the nozzles of these sheaths or of the pipes is directed towards the other end of the bath so as to form an acute angle with the patients leg, which provides the water current thus rising along the lower members of the patient with an action favourable to the return blood circulation.
  • seriesof massaging elements are provided in the back of the bath, for example in the form of sheaths 11, 12 separated by a cushion 39 upon which the patients body rests.
  • Massaging of the hips and of the buttocks can be effected by massaging elements for example in the form of casings fitted on the walls and bottom of the bath and comprising outlet orifices in order to obtain well specified jets.
  • the bath 1 can comprise on the one hand, at the level of the lower members, two elevations 40, 40' separated by a central part 41, on the other hand two arm rests 42, 42, and finally two bosses 43, 43' serving to support the patients back.
  • nozzles 45 equipped with ejection nozzles on each side of the bosses 43, 43', and for the purpose of treatment of the hips and buttocks it is possible to fix nozzles 46, for example three in number on each side, beneath the arm rests 42, 42 in the vicinity of the bottom of the bath.
  • the automatic massaging apparatus can be constituted by a bath perforated with multiple orifices or series of orifices emitting water jets or currents suitably directed towards the patient, which orifices are supplied through conduits external to the walls of the bath.
  • These orifices can be grilled or equipped with single or multiple, orientable or non-orientable slats.
  • They can be in the form of more or less elongated slots, likewise superposed or not, for example in the form of a douche called fish tail emitting one or more water jets in flattened form.
  • jets or nozzles of various types and may comprise movable internal elements ensuring a particular form of the jet, a pulsatory character, a discontinuity, or a rotating direction, or they may be the atomizer type.
  • the nozzles likewise can be isolated, grouped or aligned. They may comprise articulations permitting of directing the jet, for example orientable ball joint nozzles.
  • the massaging devices can be constituted by movable elements to which a reciprocating oscillating movement is imparted in a specific plane, orany movement in two planes, obtained by a system of cams, in order thus to cause the water jet or current to describe a specific trajectory.
  • the device according to the invention can be used in a particularly interesting manner especially for the treatment or rheumatic complaints, after-effects of traumatism, fractures, for the rehabilitation of accident victims, for blood circulation troubles, or for patients in perfect health for example as a preparatory action or restorative in the training of sports participants.
  • An automatic device for underwater massage comprising a tub adapted to receive a human body, massaging elements emitting water jets and secured to the walls of the tub, means to supply water to said jets, the tub having arm rests for a users arms, a portion of the bottom of the tub being elevated at the level of the users lower members, and protuberances on the walls of the tub for altering the paths of the jets of water.
  • An automatic device for underwater massage comprising a tub adapted to receive a human body, massaging elements emitting water jets and secured to the walls of the tub, the tub having a raised divider that fits between the legs of the user, and water jets carried by the divider and oppositely outwardly directed.
  • a device as claimed in claim 3 having a plurality of elongated members extending along the length of the back of the user and having a plurality of water outlets to said members, and divider means separating said elongated members.
  • said water jets comprising elongated conduits having a multiplicity of openings therethrough spaced along the length thereof.

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US4150665A (en) * 1977-03-04 1979-04-24 Wolfson Harris P Heater for hot tubs and storage tanks
US4249522A (en) * 1978-06-20 1981-02-10 Bain Ultra Quebec Inc. Hydromassage apparatus
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