IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO ELECTRICAL SUSPENSORS OR SUSPENSORY BANDAGES
Year: 1884

page_text: I CORNELIUS BENNETT HARNESS of Clce House, Lavender Hill, Battersen, in the
County of Surrey, Electrician do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO ELECTRICAL SUSPENSORS OR SUSPENSORY
BANDAGES" to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to an improved electrical suspensor or suspensory bandage
designed to apply weak electric currents to the scrotum and generative organs for
curative purposes; but the said suspensor is sometimes so inade that it can be
connected with the terminals of a battery or other source of electricity and a
stronger current be passed through it.
My improved suspensor is either made with a series of plates, discs or pieces of
copper and zinc arranged alternately and electrically connected; or it is provided
with one or more batteries of any suitable description connected either in paralle!
or in series.
In carrying my said Invention into practice, according to one method I provide
a belt or band of any suitable material, at or near one end of which is the
suspensory bag. This bag may be secured to the belt or band by mean of buttons
or in any other convenient manner, and is provided with straps to pass between
the lower limbs of the wearer and be secured by buckles or the like to the said
belt or band at the rear or sides of the wearer, in the ordinary manner.
To this belt or band I attach a series of plates, discs or pieces of copper and zinc
arranged alternately; I usually secure these plates or discs to the band or belt by
means of eyelets or rivets. The said plates or discs are electrically connected, by
means of gold cord or other suitable conductors, with each other and with a series
of plates, discs, or pieces of copper or tin foil, or of copper and zinc arranged
alternately, which pieces are attached in any convenient manner to the interior of
the suspensory bag, and are included in the electric circuit of the belt or band, and
which act as distributors or diffusers of the current, or as current generators when
of copper and zinc arranged alternately.
In some cases, I provide means whereby the end plates or discs attached to the
belt or band, or conductors extending from the said plates or discs can be readily

page_text: connected to, or disconnected from, the poles or terminals of a battery or other
source of electricity. For this purpose I sometimes provide separate conductors
furnished at each extremity with a pin or rod adapted to enter a socket forming
one of the terminals of a battery or other source of electricity, or of the electric
circuit of the band or belt. Or the said conductors are furnished at each end with
a socket capable of being fitted upon a pin or rod forming the said terminal.
When I employ batteries in the said belt or band, they may be arranged so that
the insertion of one element will automatically connect the same with the adjacent
elements.
Dated this 27th day of March 1884.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
For the Applicant.

page_text: I, CORNELIUS BENNETT HARNESS, of Clee House, Lavender Hill, Battersea,
Surrey, Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND RELATING TO ELECTRICAL SUSPENSORS OR SUSPENSORY BANDAGES"
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My Invention relates to electrical suspensors or suspensory bandages for
facilitating the application of electric currents to the scrotum and generative
organs and to the lower part of the spine, for curative purposes.
My improved suspensor is either made with a series of plates, discs or pieces
which are electrically connected and are alternately of copper and zinc or other
two metals one of which is electro-positive to the other; or it is provided with one
or more batteries of any suitable description connected either in parallel or in
series; and with metal plates, discs or pieces to serve as electrodes; and in some
cases the said suspensor is provided with means whereby it can be connected with
the terminals of an extraneous or independent battery or other source of electricity,
so that a current of greater strength than that produced by its own generators can
be passed through it.
My Invention is illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of my electrical suspensor, and
Figure 2 is an elevation, drawn to an enlarged scale, shewing a portion of the
interior of the suspensory bag thereof.
The suspensor shewn in the Drawing has a belt or band a of any suitable
material, to which is secured, at or near one end thereof, the suspensory bag b.
This bag is preferably attached to the belt or band by means of buttons as shewn,
but it may be secured thereto in any other convenient manner. The said bag is
usually provided with straps c, or the like, to pass between the lower limbs and be
secured by buckles d or other suitable means to the said belt or band at the back
or sides of the wearer.
To the belt or band a are attached a series of plates, discs or pieces e, e¹, which
are alternately of copper and zinc, that is to say, the plates e are of copper and the
plates e¹ are of zinc. I may, however, employ for this purpose any other two
metals one of which is electro-positive to the other. I usually secure these plates,
discs or pieces to the band or belt by means of eyelets or rivets, but they may, if
desired, be sewn thereto or secured in any other convenient manner.
I attach two metal plates, discs or pieces f,fl, in any convenient manner to the
interior of the suspensory bag b. These pieces are usually made of the same kind
of metal and act as distributors or diffusers of the current, but they may, if desired,
be utilized as current generators by making the plate f of copper and the plate f¹
of zinc, or by employing in this manner other two metals one of which is
electro-positive to the other.
The plates, discs or pieces e, e¹, are electrically connected, by means of the metal
cord e or any other suitable conductor, with each other and with the plates, discs
or pieces f, f in the suspensory bag b.
When the said suspensor is in position upon the wearer, with the plates, discs or
pieces in contact with his skin, the perspiration or moisture of the body sets up
galvanic action in the said plates, discs or pieces.
If desired, I employ two series of small pieces of metal f, f', as shewn in
Figure 2, within the suspensory bag b, instead of the two plates, discs, or pieces
shewn in Figure 1.

page_text: In some cases, I provide means whereby the plates, discs or pieces at or near the
ends of the belt or band, or, conductors extending from the said plates, discs or
pieces, can be readily connected to, and disconnected from, the poles or terminals of
a battery or other extraneous or independent source of electricity. For this
purpose I use any suitable devices; in the Drawing I have shewn terminals g in
the form of sockets adapted to receive flexible conductors, such as those ordinarily
employed for similar purposes, which are furnished at their extremities with pins
or rods capable of being inserted in the said sockets or terminals g and in similar
sockets forming the terminals of the said battery or other source of electricity.
But any other form of terminals whereby a good electrical contact can be obtained
will serve my purpose.
When I employ batteries in the said belt or band, I prefer to provide means
whereby the insertion of one element will automatically connect the same with the
adjacent elements. For example, I may advantageously use the arrangement
described in the Specification of my former Letters Patent dated 13th October,
A.D. 1883, N° 4881.
If the belt is thus provided with batteries, or if it is merely designed to be used
in connection with an extraneous or independent battery or other source of
electricity, it is obvious that it will not be necessary to employ metals one of which
is electro-positive-to-the-other;-in-either-of-these-cases-I-prefer to use discs, plates
or pieces of one kind of metal as electrodes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declaro that what
I claim is :-
The improved electrical suspensor or suspensory bandage, with or without the
terminals for connection with an extraneous or independent source of electricity,
substantially as, and for the purposes, set forth.
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