IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGNETIC APPLIANCES AND GARMENTS
Year: 1879

page_text: "
LETTERS PATENT to Lewis Mathews Becker, of Peckham, in the County
of Surrey, Engineer, for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGNETIC
APPLIANCES AND GARMENTS."
ealed the 25th July 1879, and dated the 29th January 1879
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lewis Mathews Becker
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th January 1879.
LEWIS MATHEWS BECKER, of Peckham, in the County of Surrey, Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGNETIC APPLIANCES AND GARMENTS."
This Invention relates to improvements in magnetic appliances and garments for
the cure, prevention, or relief of complaints or diseases, the object of the improve-
ments being to render such appliances or garments more simple and easy to use or
wear than hitherto and to increase their efficiency.
I
Hitherto it has been the practice to make such appliances and garments with the
magnets permanently fixed thereto or therein. Now by my improvements the
magnets are removeable at will, so that the wearer of the appliance or garment can
remove, or replace, or alter the currents of the magnets as circumstances may render
expedient.
In carrying out my Invention I form the appliance, such, for example, as a belt
or a lung invigorator, with a number of purses, satchels, interstices, or pockets suit-
ably arranged, such purses, satchels, interstices, or pockets serving to receive the
magnets, which are enclosed in cases for that purpose.
By this arrangement it will be easily understood that any one or more or all of
the magnets may be removed according to the effect required, the temperature of
the body and the nature of the complaint or disease to be cured, prevented,
or relieved, which has not heretofore been done by the appliances hitherto
constructed.
Further, my improvements allow of all the magnets being removed without
it being necessary to take off or discontinue wearing the appliance or garment.

page_text: It will also be understood that my improvements allow of the magnets being
_placed so as to produce either a horizontal, or vertical, or other direction of current,
which is frequently of great importance. My improvements are also applicable to
garments such as drawers, ladies petticoats, or other under clothing, the purses
or pockets-being-suitably-arranged for receiving the magnets enclosed in their cases;
-and-it-will-be-understood-that.as.the magnets are removeable at will, as hereinbefore
described, the said garments may be washed or cleansed in the usual manner, which
is not the case when the magnets-are-permanently-fixed-thereto.-
,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Lewis Mathews Becker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th July 1879.
. LEWIS MATHEWS BECKER, of Peckham, in the County of Surrey, Engineer.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGNETIC APPLIANCES AND GARMENTS."
This Invention relates to improvements in magnetic appliances and garments for
the prevention, relief, and cure of complaints or diseases, the object of the improve-
ments being to render such appliances or garments more simple and easy to use or
wear than hitherto and to increase their efficiency.
Hitherto it has been the practice to make such appliances and garments with
magnets permanently fixed thereto or therein. Now by my improvements the
magnets are removeable at will, so that the wearer of the appliance or garment can
remove, or replace, or alter the currents of the magnets as circumstances may render
expedient.
In carrying out my Invention I form the appliance, such, for example, as a belt
or a lung invigorator, with a number of purses, satchels, interstices, or pockets suit-
ably arranged, such purses, satchels, interstices, or pockets serving to receive the
magnets, which are enclosed in cases for that purpose.
But to make my Invention better understood I will proceed to describe the same
by reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which Figure 1 is an elevation, and
Figure 2 a section of a spine band constructed according to my improvements.
a, a, is the outside band, formed of any suitable material. In this band a I form
any suitable number of purses, satchels, interstices or pockets b, and in these purses,
satchels, interstices, or pockets I place the cases c containing the magnets. One of
these cases is shewn detached in Figure 3, the dotted lines shewing the magnets,
which are enclosed between two pieces of leather or other suitable material forming
the case, and connected together by any suitable cement so as to keep the magnets
in position and true to the poles of magnetism. The arrow on the case indicates
the direction of the current.
By this arrangement it will be easily understood that any one or more or all of
the cases containing the magnets may be removed according to the effect required,
the temperature of the body and the nature of the complaint or disease to be pre-
vented, relieved, or cured, which has not heretofore been done by the appliances
hitherto constructed, and by this improved system greater magnetic power over the
body is diffused and ensured.
Further, my improvements allow of all the magnets being removed without it
being necessary to take off or discontinue wearing the appliance or garment
itself.
It will also be understood that my improvements allow of the magnets being
placed so as to produce either a horizontal, or vertical, or other direction of current,
which is of great importance. My improvements are also applicable to garments
such as pants, drawers, ladies' petticoats, waistcoats, or other under clothing, the
purses or pockets being suitably arranged for receiving the magnets enclosed in
their cases, and it will be understood that as the magnets are removeable at will, as
hereinbefore described, the said garments may be washed or cleansed in the usual
manner, which is not the case when the magnets are permanently fixed thereto or
therein.
Having thus described my said Invention and the manner of carrying the same
into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
details herein laid down and shewn in the Drawing, as the same may be varied,
and will depend on the nature of the appliance or garment, but what I do
claim is,
Firstly. Magnetic appliances and garments having a number of suitably arranged

page_text: purses, satchels, interstices, or pockets in which are placed cases containing magnets,
substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described, and repre-
sented in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. In magnetic appliances and garments I claim the cases e containing
magnets, as.and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
-In-witness-whereof,-I,-the-said Lewis Mathews Becker, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty eighth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand-eight-hundred-and-seventy-nine..