Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 3rd Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 26th Jan., 1887.
We THOMAS CASELY of 46 Camden Road in the County of Middlesex, Chemist and
Druggist, and ARTHUR THOMAS JAMES CUTMORE, of 2 Warren Street, Tottenham
Court Road in the same County, Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The chief object of this invention is to combine with a medicated plaster, a means for
giving off gentle electric or magnetic currents when the plaster is applied to the body
of the patient, and thereby setting up a double curative action. The invention also
applies to adhesive plasters which are unmedicated.
In carrying out our invention, we take any ordinary or approved porous or other
plaster, and we apply thereto thin bar magnets, which will have the effect of setting up
a magnetic action in the body of the patient; or instead of magnets, we substitute
metallic electrodes, connecting the same in pairs, so as to set up, through the moisture
of the body, an electrical action between the electrodes. By preference we propose to
use strips of zinc and copper, electrically connected by a fine wire.
The porous plaster, as generally sold, is covered at back and front with a thin gauzy
fabric, which prevents the adhesion of one plaster to the other when made up in
parcels.
We take a strip of fine woven fabric, and place upon it the magnets, or the pairs of
electrodes, measuring some two inches in length, more or less. These we arrange
parallel to each other, and at equal distances apart, and fix them in position by applying
thereto a second strip, which is secured to the first strip by the application of a suitable
adhesive material.
The magnetic or electrical strips thus prepared we apply to the back of the porous
plaster, causing a proper adhesion of the same together.
The compound plaster thus produced is applied, as usual, to any part of the body,
as desired, the muslin covering being first stripped from the face of the plaster.
We may remark that we do not limit ourselves to the use of any particular form for
the electrical, magnetic, or galvanic generators, but we shall, in general, prefer to
employ thin bars, or strips of metal, that being the form most convenient of
application.
ANIMAY

page_text: We THOMAS CASELY of 46 Camden Road in the County of Middlesex, Chemist
and Druggist, and ARTHUR THOMAS JAMES CUTMORE of 2, Warren Street, Tottenham
Court Road, in the same County, Chemist 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 :-
The chief object of this invention is to combine with a medicated plaster a means
for giving off gentle electric, galvanic, or magnetic currents, when the plaster is
applied to the body of the patient, and thereby setting up a double curative action.
The invention also applies to adhesive plasters which are unmedicated.
In carrying out our invention, we take any ordinary or approved porous or other
plaster, and we apply thereto thin bar magnets, which will have the effect of setting
up a magnetic action in the body of the patient.
Or instead of magnets, we substitute metallic electrodes, connecting the same in
pairs, so as to set up, through the moisture of the body, an electrical action between
the electrodes, or the electrical action may be produced by the application of an acid
to the electrodes.-When adopting this moilification, we by preference propose to use
strips of zinc and copper connected by a fine wire, or superposed in pairs.
The porous plaster, as generally sold, is mounted upon a piece of thin fabric, which
is then perforated with a number of holes, and is covered on the front with a thin
gauzy fabric, which prevents the adhesion of one plaster to the other, when made up in
parcels.
In preparing the adhesive plaster, we employ the perforated backing as above
mentioned, and we apply to the back thereof our improvement, as shown in the
accompanying drawing, which illustrates in plan view and cross section the construction
of our magnetic plaster.
a a indicate 2 groups of thin bar magnets applied to the linen back b, and covered
by a strip of linen fabric c, the adhesion of which to the back maintains the bar
magnets in position.
is the adhesive plaster.
In manufacturing our improved plaster, we take a strip of woven fabric b, and place
upon it the magnets a a, or it may be pairs of electrodes, measuring some two inches
in length, more or less. These we arrange parallel to each other, and at equal distances
apart, as shewn at Fig. 1, and fix them in position by applying thereto a second strip e;
which is secured to the first strip by any suitable adhesive inaterial.
The magnetic or electrical strips thus arranged we apply to the back of the porous
plaster d, causing a proper adhesion of the same together.
The compound plaster thus produced is applied as usual to any part of the body
as desired, the usual muslin covering or facing being first stripped froin the face of the
plaster.
We may remark that we do not limit ourselves to the use of any particular form or
material for the electrical, magnetic, or galvanic generators, but we shall in general

page_text: prefer to employ thin bars or strips of metal, that being the form most convenient of
application.
Fig. 3 shews a group of pairs of electrodes arranged in the manner we propose to
adopt when employing the same in connection with adhesive plasters, but we may
connect the electrodes in any other suitable or convenient manner, or we may super-
pose the electrodes in pairs. It will however be understood that the mode of
distributing the electrodes may vary, to suit the form of that part of the body to which
the plaster is to be applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :—
The application of adhesive plasters, whether medicated or otherwise, of bar magnets,
or pairs of electrodes, in the manner and for the purpose above described.