IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR METHOD OF APPLYING MAGNETISH FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Penman Lyon, of 52, Ellington Street,
Barnsbury, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR METHOD OF APPLYING MAGNETISH FOR
CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 6th December 1875, and dated the 28th September 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Penman Lyon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th September 1875.
I, WILLIAM PENMAN LYON, of 52, Ellington Street, Barnsbury, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR METHOD OF APPLYING
MAGNETISM FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows :—
My Invention has reference in the first place to improvements on the
Invention described in the Specification of a Patent granted to me and
bearing date 5th June 1874, No. 1954, and consists in arranging or
grouping in the manner herein-after stated the magnets (which arc
incorporated with or applied to either special or ordinary fabrics) in

page_text: order to give them collectively such varying degrees of potency as may
be required. The magnets, composed of small metallic plates or wires
of suitable section, are arranged or grouped in or on the fabric in groups
of two's, three's, or higher numbers, and at varying short distances apart,
or in continuous groups. These magnets are intended to be so grouped
in a fabric specially woven for the purpose, or applied to an ordinary
fabric by means of adhesive substances, or inserted in pockets formed
and suitably arranged in the fabric.
My Invention consists in the second place in the manufacture of a
cloth with the warp or weft composed wholly or partially of fine steel
wire crossed by a weft or warp of cotton, woollen, or other fibrous
material; the fabric thus produced being cut into pieces of the required
size, and the wire portions of it magnetised.
My Invention consists in the third place in adapting and applying to
flesh brushes and other brushes magnetic tubes, rods, bars, or plates for
the purpose of rendering such brushes capable of conveying magnetic
currents to the parts of the body on which they are used. When tubes
are employed they are fixed in the stock of the brush, and portions
of the bristles or hairs are made to protrude through them, and when
rods, bars, or plates are used they are fixed in the stock at suitable
intervals among the hair, such rods, bars, or plates being shorter than
the bristles or hairs. These tubes, rods, bar, or plates may be rendered
magnetic as required either before or after they are fixed in the stock of
the brush.
My Invention consists in the fourth place in making the portions of
currycombs which contain the teeth thereof of steel or other suitable
metal rendered magnetic as required, or in inserting similar magnetic
pieces of metal between the rows of teeth, for the purpose of conveying
magnetic currents to the bodies of animals on which such combs are
used.
My Invention relates in the fifth place to the application of the
means of conveying magnetic currents to the floors of hospitals, con-
valescent homes, or rooms, also to cattle stalls or portions of ground
intended to be occupied by cattle, and consists in the adaptation and
application to such purposes of steel bars, wires, or ribbons rendered
magnetic as required, the opposite poles of which may be connected by
means of pieces of soft iron bars, wires, or ribbons which will act as
keepers, and aid in diffusing the magnetic currents as required. These

page_text: magnets and keepers are or may be arranged in parallel lines, and they
may be also connected transversely by bars, wires, or ribbons of soft iron
or other suitable metal, so as to form a kind of grating or magnetic
flooring, which may be laid on or fixed under the wood or other material
of a common floor; or parallel grooves may be formed in a wooden,
brick, or other floor, or in a portion of a field in which the said magnets
and keepers may be inserted and afterwards covered over with pitch,
cement, earth, or other suitable covering, so as to be kept in position
and not obstruct movement over the surface. Instead of bars or ribbons,
as above stated, horse-shoe magnets may be arranged on or under a floor
so as to answer the same purpose of conveying magnetic currents to the
bodies of persons or animals walking over or standing or lying on such
floors or ways. The steel and iron bars or ribbons may be galvanised or
electro-plated with zinc or other suitable metal.
My Invention consists in the sixth place in adapting and applying to
beds, sofas, chairs, footstools, and such like articles springs rendered
magnetic and arranged according to their polarities, or magnets in the
form of rods, bars, or ribbons of steel, which may be incorporated or
combined with rods, bars, or ribbons of soft iron adapted to act as
keepers for preserving and diffusing the magnetic power.
My Invention consists in the seventh place in adapting and applying
to respirators steel plates electro-plated with silver and rendered magnetic
in order that the oxygen of the atmosphere in passing between such
plates may take up a portion of their magnetism before it enters the
lungs of the wearer.
And my Invention consists in the last place in the preparation of
magnets terminating at one end in a half circle. Two of these being
joined by their opposing polarities will form a magnetic circuit, and will
be adapted for local application for the relief of pain.

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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five,
in the thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Penman Lyon,
Her special licence that I, the said William Penman Lyon, my
executors, administrators and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Penman Lyon, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR METHOD
OF APPLYING MAGNETISM FOR CURATIVE AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon tho
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Penman Lyon,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Penman Lyon, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention of "Improvements in the Means or Method of
Applying Magnetism for Curative and other Purposes," has reference
in the first place to improvements on the Invention described in the
Specification of a Patent granted to me, and bearing date Fifth June,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (No. 1954), and consists
in arranging and grouping in the manner herein-after stated the magnets
(which are incorporated with or applied to either special or ordinary
fabrics) in order to give the magnets collectively such varying degrees
of potency, and to cause such distribution of magnetic influence as may
be required. For these purposes the magnets composed of small
metallic plates or wires of suitable section and length instead of being
arranged as heretofore singly or at such distances apart as to be incapable
of acting in combination so as to increase the magnetic influence locally

page_text: applied, are arranged in or on the maoric in groups or two's, threes, or
higher numbers, at distances varying from one-sixteenth to one-quarter
of an inch apart, or so as to be within the range of combined action.
These magnets so grouped are by preferenco applied to a fabric specially
prepared to receive them by being manufactured with "floats," or
threads thrown up on the surface so as to form loops through which the
magnets can be passed, in order that they may be thereby retained in
the fabrio, the magnets also having eyes formed in them if desired, by
means of which they can be more effectually secured in their respective
places in the fabric. The magnets so grouped may also be applied to
an ordinary fabric by means of an adhesive substance, or fixed to it by
sewing through eyes as above stated, or inserted in pockets formed and
suitably arranged for the purpose in the fabric. In all cases the object
of this part of my Invention is to produce a fabric containing magnets
of the kind stated arranged in groups in such a manner that the several
magnets composing each group may be near enough to each other to
admit of their combined local action when used in a magnetic appliance,
thereby affording facilities for regulating the magnetic potency of the
appliance, and distributing the same as required.
My Invention consists in the second place in the manufacture of a
cloth with the warp or weft composed wholly or partially of steel wire
more or less fine, as required, crossed by a weft or warp of cotton,
woollen, or other fibrous material, or by wire of other metal than steel
or iron, the fabric thus produced being cut into pieces of the required
size, and the steel portions of it magnetised for the purpose of being
made up into magnetic articles or appliances for curative purposes.
My Invention consists in the third place in adapting and applying to
flesh brushes, hair brushes, tooth brushes, and other brushes magnetic
tubes, rods, bars, or wires, for the purpose of rendering such brushes
capable of conveying magnetic currents to the parts of the body either of
men or animals on which they are used. The special feature in this part
of my Invention is the insertion in the stock of the brush of a number
of separate magnets in the form of short tubes, rods, bars, or wires, and
such an arrangement of these magnets as to number and relative
position as will serve to regulate the degree of magnetic potency in the
brush when used. When tubes are employed they are fixed in lates
stack of the brush, and being shorter than the bristles or hairs these
are made to protrude through them, the end of the tube from which

page_text: they protrude being rounded so as not to injure the skin when the brushi
is used. When short rods or bars are used they are formed with one
rounded end and one enlarged or flanged end, and they are inserted in
the stock of the brush by passing the rounded or smaller end through a
holo therein until the flange of the enlarged end is caused to fit into a
countersink made to receive it. After the several rods or bars have
been thus fitted in the said holes they are secured as usual by a picco of
wood fixed so as to cover the flanges of the rods or bars. When steel
wires are used they may be mixed with the bristles in the tufts or knots
thereof, and in numbers proportioned to the degree of magnetic potency
required, or the wires may be grouped or arranged in separate tufts or
knots, and these may be distributed in order to regulate the degree of
magnetic effect required in the brush. The said wires may be either of
the same length as the bristles or shorter, and they may be of any
required degree of fineness. The said tubes, rods, bars, or wires, may
be rendered magnetic as required, either before or after they are fixed
in the stock of the brush. Brushes constructed in the manner above
described will be thereby furnished with a number of permanent
magnets in the form of either tubes, rods, bars, or wires, capable of
acting with combined magnetic effect on the parts of bodies to which
they are or may be applied, such magnetic effect being distributed and
regulated in respect of its degree of potency as may be required.
My Invention consists, in the fourth place, in making the portions of
currycombs which contain the teeth thereof of steel or other suitable
metal rendered magnetic as required, or in inserting pieces of steel or
short bars or rods of steel rendered magnetic between the rows of teeth
or otherwise in the combs, so as to convey magnetic currents to the
bodies of animals on which such combs are used.
My Invention relates in the fifth place to the arranging of magnets in
connection with the floors, or matting, or other covering of the floors
or portions of the floors of hospitals, convalescent homes, or rooms, also
cattle stalls or portions of ground intended to be occupied by cattle,
and consists in the adaptation and application to such purposes of steel
bars, wires, rods, or ribbons of convenient or suitable length rendered
magnetic as required. The opposite poles of these magnets may be
connected by means of pieces of other material or metal, not being steel
or iron, which are or may be arranged in parallel lines, and they may
also be connected transversely by bars, wires, or ribbons of other suitable

page_text: metal or material, not being steel or iron, so as to form a kind of
grating or flooring conveying or giving out magnetic currents. This
grating or flooring may be laid on, or placed, or fixed under the wood
or other material of a common floor, or parallel grooves may be formed
in a wooden, brick, or other floor, or in a portion of a field, in which the
said magnets may be inserted, and afterwards covered over with pitch,
cement, earth, or other suitable covering, so as to keep the magnets in
position and not obstruct movement over the surface of the ground or
floor. The said wires, rods, bars, or ribbons, may be galvanized or
electro-plated with zinc or other suitable metal.
My Invention consists in the sixth place in adapting and applying to
beds, mattresses, couches, sofas, chairs, footstools, and such like articles,
steel springs rendered magnetic, or magnets in the form of steel wires,
rods, bars, or ribbons of suitable length, which are intended to be
incorporated or combined with wires, rods, bars, or ribbons of other
suitable metal or material in the construction of the said articles, or
formed into separate frames to be applied to the same. When
magnetized steel springs are used they are arranged according to their
polarities, that is to say, in such a manner that the north pole of one
spring shall be contiguous to the south pole of the spring nearest to it.
And when rods, bars, or ribbons are used, the steel magnets in this form
may be arranged according to their polarities by being placed in a
rectangular frame of brass or other suitable metal or material, with the
magnets extending across the open part of the frame, or the magnets
3 may be arranged in the frame in rows with the north poles of one row
opposite to the south poles of another row, thereby canstituting a loose
frame (with magnets in it) to be placed between a bed and palliasse or
otherwise as convenient; or instead of the said frames the said magnets
may be arranged in mattresses and coverlets. And the same arrangement
according to polarities may be adopted when the magnetised steel wires,
rods, bars, or ribbons are combined or incorporated with wires, rods,
bars, or ribbons, of brass or other suitable metal or material in the
structural framework of the bed, sofa, couch, chair, or other article.
The mode of arranging the said magnets according to their polarities
may be varied, and the magnetic potency distributed and regulated as
required.

page_text: other suitable metal, in order that the oxygen of the atmosphere in
passing between such plates or wires may take up a portion of their
magnetism before it enters the lungs of the wearer. My Invention
under this head does not relate to any special mode of constructing
respirators (which may be made as usual) but consists in the use therein
of magnetised plates or wires, in order to render the oxygen of the
atmosphere magnetic as far as practicable before it enters the lungs of
the wearer.
described.
Sixthly. The application of magnets in the manner described to floors 25
or coverings of floors, or to the ground of cattle sheds for curative
purposes, as herein-before described.
Seventhly. The manufacture of beds, couches, sofas, chairs, and such
like articles with magnetised springs or with magnets in the forms
stated applied to or incorporated in such manufacture, as herein-before 80
described.

page_text: stated, for the purpose of magnetising the oxygen of the atmosphere
received into the lungs of the wearer, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Penman Lyon, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-seventh day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six.
I
Witness,
WILLIAM SPENCE,
8, Quality Court,
Chancery Lane.
W. P. LYON. ·(L.S.)