Improvements relating to Electrical Belts, Corsets, and similar articles, and to Electrodes therefor.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 28th June, 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Electrical Belts, Corsets, and similar
articles, and to Electrodes therefor.
I, CORNELIUS BENNETT HARNESS, of 52 Oxford Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Consulting Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to electrical belts, corsets and similar appliances or
articles of wearing apparel, in which plates, electrodes or generators of copper
and zinc or of other suitable metals, are so arranged and connected that, when
placed in contact with the body of the wearer of the belt, corset or the like,
the insensible perspiration from the body will cause the generation of electric
currents and the flow of such currents through or around the body.
.
The said invention is advantageously applicable to the electrical appliances
and articles of wearing apparel of this kind or class described in the Specifica-
tions of the following former Letters Patent, viz. :—
No. 4881, dated 13th October 1883,
No. 13,491, dated 27th August 1890,
No. 19,744, dated 3rd December 1890, and
No. 15,733, dated 16th September 1891.
The object of the present invention is to provide for increasing the effect
produced by the perspiration from the body upon the plates, electrodes- or
generators.
"
For this purpose, holes are made through each of the said plates, electrodes
or generators, and at the back of the plate, electrode or generator is placed a
piece or disc of thin india-rubber or other suitable material which is impervious
to moisture. This material will arrest any moisture emanating from the body of
the wearer and passing through the holes in the said plate, electrode or generator,
and will, moreover, condense the moisture contained in the air passing through
the said holes from the body of the wearer.
With the plates, electrodes or generators hitherto employed, the action is con-
fined principally to the front of the same, or that surface thereof which is in
contact with the body, there being but very slight if any action at the back or
outer surface of the said plates, electrodes or generators. But, with the improved
plates, electrodes or generators provided with the waterproof material, both
surfaces are effectually brought into action.
.
The said plates, electrodes or generators together with the discs of india-
rubber or similar material are secured to the belt, corset or other article by
means of eyelets or rivets, or in any other convenient. manner.
Dated this 21st day of October '1891.
D.. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Electrical Belts, Corsets, and similar
artioles, and to Electrodes therefor.
I, CORNELIUS BENNETT HARNESS, of 52 Oxford Street in the County, of
Middlesex, Consulting 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 electrical belts, corsets, and similar appliances or
articles of wearing apparel in which electrodes, plates, or generators of copper
and zinc or of other suitable metals, are so arranged and connected that, when
placed in contact with the body of the wearer of the belt corset or the like,
the insensible perspiration from the body will cause the generation of electric
currents and the flow of such currents through or around the body.
The said invention is advantageously applicable to the electrical appliances
and articles of wearing apparel of this kind or class described in the Specifica-
tions of the following former Letters Patent viz.
No. 4881, dated 13th October 1883,
No. 13,491, dated 27th August 1890,
No. 19,744 dated 3rd December 1890 and
No. 15,733 dated 16th September 1891.
The object of the present invention is to provide for increasing the effect
produced by the perspiration from the body upon the plates, electrodes or
generators.
For this purpose holes are made through each of the said plates, electrodes
or generators, and at the back of the plate, electrode or generator is placed a
piece or disc of thin india-rubber or other suitable material which is impervious
to moisture. This material will arrest any moisture emanating from the body
of the wearer and passing through the holes in the said plate electrode or
generator and will moreover, condense the moisture contained in the air passing
through the said holes from the body of the wearer.
In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated one form of my said invention.
Figure 1 represents two circular plates electrodes or generators A. attached to
a piece of material B.
Figure 2 is a section on the line z, z Figure 1.
a indicates the holes through the plates, electrodes or generators, 6 the piece
or disc of india rubber or other suitable material and c an eyelet for connecting
the plate, electrode or generator to the belt, corset or other article. Dotted
lines indicate the wires for putting the several copper and several zinc plates
used in a belt, corset or other article in electrical icommunication with each
other.
My improved plates, electrodes or generators instead of being circular as
shown may be of any other convenient shape, such as square, oblong or triangular
as may be desired.
With the plates, electrodes or generators hitherto employed, the action is
confined principally to the front of the same or that surface thereof which is in
contact with the body there being but very slight if any action at the back or
outer surface of the said plates, electrodes or generators provided with the water-
proof material, both surfaces are effectually brought into action.
The said plates, electrodes or generators together with the discs of india-
rubber or similar material are secured to the belt, corset or other article by
means of eyelets or rivets or in any other convenient manner.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The use of india-rubber or other suitable waterproof material in com-.
bination with a perforated plate, electrode, or generator for the purpose above
specified.
Second. An electrical corset, belt or similar article provided with perforated
plates electrodes or generators and with pieces or discs of india-rubber or other
suitable material as herein described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of June 1892.
C. B. HARNESS.
D. Young & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.