Improvements in Portable Galvanic and Electro Magnetic Batteries for Medical Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Galvanic and Electro Magnetic Batteries
for Medical Purposes.
I ARTHUR LAKE FRY of 18 Ivydale Road Nunhead in the County of Surrey
Electrician do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and construction of
portable galvanic and electro magnetic batteries suitable for being carried in the
hand suspending around the neck or for being applied to various parts of the
human body for the purpose of healing and curing diseases of various kinds.
For this purpose I combine plates of any suitable metals which when in contact
with the skin or with a suitable exciting medium will set up a galvanic action and
into a hole or opening or around such plates I insert or apply either a permanent
magnet or a bar of soft iron having an insulated or covered wire wound around it
one end of the wire being placed in contact with the copper and the other with the
zinc plate when those metals are used.
The forms of the plates may he greatly varied but in practice I find that a
circular disc of copper and a star shaped plate of zinc let into or combined there-
with a very convenient and advantageous arrangement. The plates are cemented or
otherwise connected together so as to insulate the one from the other with the magnet
in the contre the surface of each being flush with the other.
1 1000
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Galvanic and Electro Magnetic Batteries
for Medical Purposes.
I ARTHUR LAKE FRY of 30 Argyle Terrace Penmarton Road Brockley in the
County of Kent 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 improvements in the arrangement and construction of 5
portable galvanic and electro magnetic batteries suitable for being carried in the hand
suspending around the neck or for being applied to various parts of the human body.
for the purpose of healing and curing diseases of various kinds.
For this purpose I combine plates of any suitable metals which when in contact
with the skin or with a suitable exciting medium will set up a galvanic action and 1
into a hole or opening or around such plates I insert or apply either a permanent
magnet or a bar of soft iron having an insulated or covered wire wound around it
one end of the wire being placed in contact with the copper and the other with the
zinc plate when those metals are used or with other negative or positive metals.
The forms of the plates may be greatly varied but in practice I find that a circular 1
disc of copper and a star shaped plate of zino let into or combined therewith a very
convenient and advantageous arrangement. The plates are cemented or otherwise
connected together so as to insulate the one from the other with the magnet in the
centre the surface of each being flush with the other.
And in order that my invention may be clearly understood and readily carried 2
into practice I will proceed to describe the drawings hereto annexed which show one
example of a portable galvano electro magnetic battery arranged and constructed in
accordance with my improvements.

page_text: It will be evident that the form shape and design of the several parts may be
greatly varied the same result and effect of such batteries still being produced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The improved construction of portable galvano electro magnetic batteries
applicable to medical and curative purposes the several parts being arranged and com-
bined substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings hereto annexed.
2. The improved arrangement construction and combination of parts forming a
portable galvano electro magnetic battery substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore described.