US942206A

US942206A - Massage apparatus.

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Publication number: US942206A
Application number: US46152308A
Authority: US
Inventors: Joseph W Jones
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1908-11-07
Filing date: 1908-11-07
Publication date: 1909-12-07
Anticipated expiration: 1926-12-07

Description

J. W. JONES.

MASSAGE APPARATUS. APPLIOATION FILED NOV. '1, 1908.

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Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

JOSEPH W. JONES, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

MASSAGE APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 7, 1908.

Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

serial no. 461,523.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. JONES, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of New York city, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Massage Apparatus, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification.

My invention relates to massage apparatus operated by electricity, particularly an apparatus of a portable nature.

The object of the invention is to provide a portable or hand apparatus that can be connected either to the ordinary electriclamp socket or to any convenient battery or other source of power; to provide an apparatus that shall be positively actuated in each direction; one in which the directlyactuated massage brush can be applied to the person of the patient; and especially an apparatus that shall be cheap and simple in construction and with its working-parts easy of access, durable in service, and not requiring any adjustment or the care of a skilled electrician.

The invention comprises one or more pairs of oppositely-disposed electro-magnets that alternate in positively actuating their common armature, together with suitable makeand-break devices; the mounting of the (interchangeable) massage brush directly upon the end of said positively-actuated armature; the form of casing employed for supporting and inclosing the parts; and the armature-bracket hereinafter disclosed.

The invention consists further in certain details of construction and arrangement hereinafter set forth and claimed.

My invention will vbe best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in whichv Figure 1 is a perspective of the apparatus with its cover in place; Fig. 2 is a front elevation, with the cover removed, the wiring being shown diagrammatically; Fig. 3 is a vertical section; Fig. 4 is a horizontal section; and Fig. 5 shows a detail.

The casing is made up of the main frame and its cover, with a handle. The main frame consists of a flat metal plate 1, having its ends 2 and 3 extending at right angles in substantially ]-shape. The cover is a similarly shaped plate 4, that engages the main frame transversely, its central portion being opposite and parallel to plate 1, and its end-pieces 4 extending between the sides of the end-pieces 2 and 3of the main frame. The frame and its cover thus provide the six sides of a substantially cubical box. The handle is shown as of metal tubing 5, inclosed at its lower end (except for an insulation plug for the leading-in wires); and secured at its upper end, as by a flange, to the lower plate 3 of the main frame. The plate 1 of the main frame is centrally apertured at 6; and the lower plate 3 of the frame has an opening to register with the bore of the hollow handle 5. The cover 4 is centrally apertured for the vibrating device; and preferably the cover is perforated to permit air-cooling of the parts when in operation, only a few of the perforations being indicated at 7 in Fig. 1. `Preferably the cover is sprung over the main frame where its resiliency retains it in place, the extremities of its end-pieces being slightly curved inwardly to engage at the rear of plates 2 and 3 of the main frame, as shown at 8 in Fig. 4.

9 and 10 indicate one or more pairs of oppositely arranged electro magnets. There are preferably two such pairs. Magnets 9 are secured to end-pieces 2 of the main frame, as by screws 11 passing into the spools of the electro-magnets; and magnetsV 10 are similarly secured to the lower endpieces 3 of the frame. The armaturebracket is composed of the ring 12 secured to plate 1 about the aperture 6, and having the oppositely-disposed standards 13--13,

extending outwardly in a horizontal plane, and another pair of standards 14 extending inwardly in a vertical plane. The armature-bracket is insulated from the frame by suitable material 15. The inner standards 14 carry insulated binding-

posts

16 and 17 respectively, whose ends constitute contactmembers or terminals. The armature-plate 18 is shown as pivoted at its rear between the outer standards 13 of the bracket, and extending through the aperture 6 so as to lie between the adjacent ends of the opposing magnets 9 and 10, while the forward end of the armature-plate extends through the central opening of the cover 4, and is threaded at 19 for securing the interchangeable massage brushes 20. l

21 and 22 are spring-contact members carried' on opposite sides of the armature plate, adjacent to the contact-members 1G and 17 respectively.

The wiring is illustrated in Fig. 2. It will be understood, of course, that the wires do not extend outside of the casing, but are merely so shown in this view for the sake of clearness. The leading-in wires 23 enter the end of the handle 5 at the insulating plug 24 (Fig. 1). In one of these wires 25, which for convenience may be regarded as the positive, is located the main switch, comprising the spring 26 that normally holds the switch open, and the push button 27 which protrudes through the handle 5. This positive Wire 25 divides at 28, to supply two circuits; one branch 29 leads to the windings of the lower magnets 10, and thence (by wire 30) to the upper binding-post 16 which constitutes the terminal of that circuit; while the other branch of the positive wire leads from the point 28 (by wire 31) to the windings of the upper magnets 9, and thence (by wire 32) to the lower binding-post 17, that constitutes the terminal of the other circuit. The remainder of either circuit would be from the upper spring-contact 21 or the lower spring-contact 22 (as the case may be), to the armature-plate 18, thence through its bracket to one of the standards 14, which latter is connected to the negative leading-in wire 33. The upper pair of contacts 16-21 constitutes the make-and-break device for the lower magnets 10; and in like manner, the lower pair of contacts 17-22 constitutes the make-and-break device for the upper magnets 9.

The operation is as follows: In the position shown in the main figures of the drawings, armature 18, on account of its own weight, rests upon the cores of the lower magnets 10, so that the lower make-andbreak device 17-22 is closed, while the upper make-and-break device 16-21 is open. Consequently, as soon as the main switch 26-27 is closed, the current can pass through the upper winding, but not through the lower. Upon closing the main switch, the upper magnets only are energized, and draw up the armature, which breaks the circuit at- 17-21 while closing at 16-21 the circuit of the lower magnets; thereupon, the upper magnets are denergized and the lower magnets energized, and the armature is drawn down,-and so on continuously. So long as main switch 26-27 is held closed, armature 18 is positively actuated up and down, carrying with it massage-device 20, preferably a cup or brush of soft rubber.

34-34; indicate oppositely-disposed standards mounted in the plates 2 and 3 respectively, and screw-threaded at their inner ends while 35-35 are split sleeves screw-threaded interiorly and engaging the respective posts, and carrying at their inner ends pads 36 of rubber, leather, etc. These pads serve as stops to cushion the strokes of the armatureplate 18, besides helping to give it a rebound. They are adjustable by means of the screw-threads.

Changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of parts and in the shape and manner of securing the casing, in the number of electro-magnets and in the manner of securing them, in the form of makeand-break devices illustrated and described, in the form of main switch, etc.; and partel of my invention may be used to the exclusion of other parts.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. An electric massage apparatus, comprising the combination, with a casing consisting of a centrally aperturcd plate having its ends extending at right angles therefrom and a second plate of similar shape engaging transversely thereof to complete the inclosure, of an electro-magnet carried by each of the plate-ends first mentioned, an insulated ring secured at the aperture before mentioned and having inwardly-extending standards carrying insulated binding-posts and having outwardly-extending standards, an armature-plate located between said electro-magnets and mounted at its outer end in the standards last-mentioned and having its free end extending to the central aperture in said second plate and adapted to carry a massage-device, a contact-member carried on said armatureplate adjacent to each binding-post, electrical connections from one of the leading-in wires to each of the electromagnets and thence to its nonadjacent binding-post, and an electrical connection from the other leading-in wire to said contact-members.

2. An electrical massage apparatus consisting of a substantially ]shaped main frame and a similarly-shaped cover interlocked therewith to form a casing, a tubular handle secured to the bottom of said plate, an armature-bracket secured about an aperture in the central portion of said plate and carrying binding-posts, an armature mounted in said armature-bracket and carrying at its other end a detachable massage-mush, one or more electro-magnets located on each side of said armature and secured to the respective ends of said frame, and suitablyconnected make-and-break devices for actuating said armature.

3. An electric apparatus comprising a casing consisting of a centrally-apertured plate having its two ends bent at right angles thereto and a similarly-shaped plate transversely engaging the first to inclose the interior, a handle for said casing secured to the bottom end of the first-named plate,- and located within said interior oppositelydisposed electro-magnets secured to the ends of the rst-named plate, an armaturebracket secured to the main portion of the first-named plate at the aperture aforesaid and having inwardly-extending standards supporting binding-posts, and an armature supported in said bracket and located between the electro-magnets and having its free end extending to the central aperture in the second plate aforesaid and carrying a massage-device, and means for makingand-breaking the circuit for each set of electro-magnets and thereby directing the current alternately from one set to the opposite set of magnets.

4. The combination, with one or more pairs of oppositely-disposed electro-magnets, a common armature vibrating between them and carrying on each side a contact-member, a massage-device carried by said armature, a binding-post adjacent to each contactmember, and wiring from each binding-post to the non-adjacent electro-magnet, of a casing therefor comprising two ]shaped plates transversely engaging each other, on one of which plates the before-mentioned parts are directly mounted, and a handle secured to said casing and carrying the leading-in wires and a main switch.

5. In an electrical apparatus, the armature-bracket consisting of a ring having a pair of diametrically-opposed standards eX- tending from one side thereof, and another pair of diametrically-opposed standards eX- tending from the other side of said ring, the plane of each pair being at right angles to the plane of the other pair.

6. In an electric massage apparatus, the

casing consisting of the two centrally-apertured and transversely-engaged metal plates of substantially ]shape, 1n combination with a handle rigidly secured to one of said plates.

7 A portable electrically-operated massage-apparatus, comprising a reciprocating armature-plate with a massage-tool carried at its outer end, adjustable pads or cushions for limiting the play of the said plate, an electro-magnet acting positively on each side of said plate, a suitable make-and-break device for each electro-magnet, and a casing 4supporting and surrounding the whole.

8. A portable electrically-operated inassage-apparatus, comprising a handle having the leading-in wires entering its lower end, a` switch therefor located in said handle, a casing secured to the upper end of said handle, a transversely-arranged vibratory-Inember projecting from one side of said easing and vibrating from side to side of its own axis, in the plane of the aXis of said handle, a massage-brush secured upon the free end of said member, oppositely-disposed electromagnets located within said casing and eX tending in the same direction as said handle, and suitable automatically-operated makeand-break devices for vibrating said member in the plane of the axis of said handle.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH W. JONES. Witnesses:

C. A. L. Massin, RALPH L. SCOTT.