Improvements in or connected with massage and electro-therapeutical apparatus.

  • Paterson, David Robert
Date:
1902
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Improvements in or connected with massage and electro-therapeutical apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N” 2201 A.D.J902 Date of Application, 28ih Jan., 1902 Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct, 1902—Accepted, 15th Jan., 1903 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in or connected with Massage and Electro-therapeutical Apparatus. I, David Robert Paterson, of Langham Mount, Langham Road, Bowden, in the County of Chester Manager of a Limited Company, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: — 'Diis invention has reference to the massage and electro-therapeutical treat- ment of various local diseases, by certain improved apparatus and mode of operations hereafter described. I he apparatus or appliance, under this invention, which is used to act upon the Surface of the skin, consists of a rotary flagellator, in which the flagellating medium consists of flexible fine spines, some of which are of textile or analogous ^ ^ fibres or threads, and some of fine metal; and these latter are adapted to be • put in and out of connection with a suitable source of electrical supply; and furthermore, in the treatment and use of this apparatus it is adapted to be revolved at a very high speed. The rotary flagellator may be mounted in a similar manner to rotary brushes ^ 5 such as barliers use, and be driven by an electro-motor through a flexible shaft and gearing, in any suitable way; or, it may have a handle or handles, at right angles to its axis, and supporting the axis by suitable supports. The electrical current is supplied to the flagellating wires or conductors of the rotary appliance, by way of a handle or handles, or other suitable part, through suitable conductors extending between the source of supply and the terminals of the wires in the body of the appliance. In connection wdth this current supply, controlling means are employed, by which the intensity or quantity of current can be regulated, that is, increased or diminished at will; so that, while the apparatus is being used, varying current may be applied at any stage or stages of the treatment; and the strength of the current will be a weak one in most cases, and the supply will generally be separate from that for driving the motors, or reduced from a common source of supply. In some cases the degree of current being sunplied to the flagellating apparatus ' is made knowm to the user by the employment in the circuit of a sounding device, such as an electrically operated buzzer ” or bell. Further, in some cases, the current supplied to the flagellator apparatus may be of the alternating type of high frequency. In one form of rotary flagellating apparatus, the non-electric flexible flagel- dd lating spines may consist of silk or equivalent soft fibres, while the metal con¬ ducting spines may consist of very fine metal wire, and these will in some cases be distributed amongst the silk or like spines or fibres. Bv an apparatus so constructed, and running at a high speed, a gentle tittilating action and effect is produced, which together with the supply of 40 electricity, the degree or intensity of which can be varied readily at will—or [Price 8c^.]