Improvements in Massage and Beating Apparatus for the Human Body.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1898-Accepted, 8th Oct., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Massage and Beating Apparatus for the Human
Body.
I, JOSEF SEMERAK, of Niederlossnitz, near Dresden, Saxony, Massage Instructor,
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:-
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This invention relates to a combined massage and beating apparatus comprising
a roller adapted to be rotated under a desired pressure over the body and to thereby
raise and release caoutchouc or other elastic hammers carried on spring tongues
or stems so that in operating the apparatus said hammers are caused to beɛt
alternately upon the part of the body under massage treatment.
In the accompanying drawing Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively a longitudinal
section and a plan of the apparatus of the invention with cover removed, and
Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views but with a modified means for regulating the
heaviness of blow of the hammers.
is a casing partly open underneath and formed of the two upright sides w
and sheet metal plate cover which takes over the sides and encloses them in the
manner and to the extent shewn in the drawing. are bolts connecting the
sides w.
The casing is of a size and shape suitable for holding in the hand, or it
can be provided with a special handle.
The roller is formed of small wheels a firmly connected together carried on a
spindle mounted in the sides of the casing, and provided with suitable grooved
rims for the reception of india rubber tyres. The roller thus formed projects out
of the bottom of the casing convenient for running it over, the body for massage
purposes.
a are pins in any suitable number fixed in different positions between, and
rigidly staying, the wheels of the roller. Opposite these pins are located spring
tongues c to each of which near its front end is fixed a hammer d preferably of,
or covered with, elastic material. Said hammers when in their bottom position
also project out of the bottom of the casing.
Of course, if preferred, the roller may have the form of a single wheel, instead
of several, with only one lifting pin ai and hammer instead of a number of the
same. Further each hammer may be operated by either one or more lifting pins
so as to give one or more blows from a hammer in the course of a revolution of
the roller.
When the apparatus is run upon the roller or wheels a in the direction shewn
by the arrows (Fig. 1), the pins ¹ successively impinge against the hammer
tongues and lift them with the corresponding hammers until the pins pass out
of range of the hammer tongues whereupon the hammers fall and give elastic
blows upon the body.
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For regulating the heaviness of blow of the hammers, the hammer tongues c
(Figs. 1, 2) are attached to a cross bar adapted to swing by end pins
bearings in the sides of the casing and provided with an arm having a threaded

page_text: orifice for the engagement of a set screw e adjustable in a slot e¹ in the side of
the casing concentric to the pins . According as the set screw is adjusted in
the slot e¹, the bar , through its arm 3, is also adjusted to cause the hammer
tongues to turn and project the hammer heads more or less out of the casing and
thus increase the strength of, or weaken their blows. The same end may be
attained by other means, for instance, as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4 where a cross
bar is arranged to slide at the ends in slots f provided in the sides w of the
casing and thus guide the bar over the hammer tongues e which when lifted by
the pins a bear against said bar and thus have their working length limited.
Seid bar is provided with, a screw threaded aperture and its adjustment is
effected from the outside of the casing by means of a hand screw h working
through said aperture and secured against displacement from its proper position
by a collar k on the same which is held between the cross bar and bracket I
attached to seid spring tongue carrying bar dª.
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. A massage and beating apparatus in which a roller a is run over the body
and in which one or more hammers is or are driven from said roller to strike
elastically upon the body; substantially as described and shewn.
2. A massage and beating apparatus of the kind referred to, characterised
by a casing open at bottom, a series of wheels a adapted to turn and projecting
from said casing, a number of spring hammer tongues c, furnished with soft
elastic hammer heads d and lifting pins a arranged between the wheels for lifting
and releasing the hammers successively when the apparatus is run over the body
under pressure, substantially as described and shewn.
3. A massage and beating apparatus of the kind referred to in which the
hammer tongues c are arranged on a bar adapted to turn in the casing band
to be held in a fixed adjusted position by means of a set screw e for the purpose
of regulating the heaviness of the hammer blows, substantially as described with
reference to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing.
4. A massage and beating apparatus of the kind referred to, in which a cross
bar is arranged to be adjustable over the spring hammer tongues c towards. and
away from the bar to which said tongues are attached, against which cross
bar the hammer tongues bear when pressed back, for the purpose of increasing
or diminishing the springing length of said tongues and thereby the striking
force of the same, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 3 and 4 of
the drawing.
T1 th: 97th, dar of Tuly 1898
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
15, Took's Court, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.