A combined massaging and magneto-electric machine : amended specification.

  • Burks, Fred
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: A combined massaging and magneto-electric machine : amended specification. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Combined Massaging and Magneto-electric Machine. Whilst preferring the arrangement of gear wheels afoiesaid foi driving the armature, other and suitable means may be employed. Also m place of a metal roller any other and suitable massaging device may be used. there may also be more than one roller to one machine, or more than one magnet to one rollei. It will now be seen that by this invention a magneto-elec tuc massaging machine is provided which is entirely self-contained, no batteiles being needed and therefore no connecting wires being present, and the machine combining in one article the massaging tool and generator. Dated this 13th day of July, 1901). For the Applicant, JOHN O. WILSON A Co., Chartered Latent Agents, 55, Market Street, Manchester. 10 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED). A Combined Massaging and Magneto-electric Machine. 15 I, Ered Burks, of 37, Port Street, Manchester, Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement; — This invention relates to a self-contained and portable magneto-electric massaging machine of the type in which a roller is mounted m a suitable frame 20 with a handle attached and, in use, rotates a magneto-electric machine to pro¬ duce an intermittent current which passes through the roller and through the part being massaged back to the machine. Such machines usually have the magneto-electric apparatus located within and driven by the roller. T his invention has for its object an improved arrangement and construction 25 of su cli magneto-electric massaging machines. According to the invention use is, by preference, made of a magneto-electric machine similar to that covered by Application No. 8189 A.D. 1909, or of a like machine, and use is also, by preference, made of a roller, the axis of which is carried by extensions of the plates or bearings of the armature axis. 3*0 To one of the poles of the magnet is applied two spring contact plates, one of which extends to and presses upon the periphery of the roller and the other of which is bifurcated and presses upon the commutator and circuit breaker of the armature. Hie roller is insulated from its axis. Upon the roller axis is a large gear 35 wheel and upon the armature axis is a small gear wheel. Meshing with the iwo wheels is a further and medium sized wheel carried by a stud 011 the arma¬ ture and roller bearing plate. In using the improved machine the magnet part of the machine is taken hold of 111 one hand and the roller applied to the part to be massaged. The roller is then simultaneously pressed and rolled to and fro over the affected part thereby causing the roller to revolve and through the gear wheels rotate the armature of the machine and generate the desired electric current, Owino- to the roller being in circuit with the commutator and circuit breaker the pressing <>t tlio 1 oiler against the body and the grasping of the magnet in the hand completes the circuit. W ifL the machine thus made and used the current is felt in the hand hold ing the moment as well as in the part under treatment. To cause Z emi 77 1° m '7 w pai1 llntle1' treatment the roller is made in two parts Which although fastened together are insulated from each other. 1 6Q 40 45