IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE APPLIANCES IN MAGNETO THERAPEUTICS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Edgar Wetton, of Cheltenham, in the
County of Gloucester, Journalist, for the Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS
IN PORTABLE APPLIANCES IN MAGNETO THERAPEUTICS."
Sealed the 14th January 1878, and dated the 22nd November 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Edgar Wetton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd November 1872.
I, CHARLES EDGAR WETTON, of Cheltenham, in the County of
Gloucester, Journalist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE APPLIANCES IN MAGNETO THERAPEUTICS,”
to be as follows:—
My Invention has for its object the adaptation of portable magnets för
application to various parts of the human body without the necessity of
covering or surrounding the metal of which they are 'composed with an
elastic or flexible material, as has been hitherto doñe. For this purpose
the portable magnet is made of any required form, and so as to give it
the required flexibility for convenience of application, and its outer

page_text: surface is covered or coated by the process of electro-plating with
various metals in order to prevent oxydation, thereby dispensing with the
need of any covering with a material such as india-rubber or gum, which
as is well known has a tendency to interfere with the due action of the
magnet by interrupting or weakening the magnetic current. A magnet
thus protected by electro-plating is not liable to be injuriously affected
by the emanations ("sensible" or "insensible"), of the human body to
which it may be applied, neither will it interfere with the natural action
of the skin, and it may be used either with or without any making up
material, and if preferred may be rendered ornamental.
The magnet is intended to be made for various appliances in the form
of a metallic webbing woven of the requisite width, and in such a
manner as to give it the required degree of flexibility, such metallic
webbing being electro-plated for the prevention of chemical action as
required. But my Invention is not confined to this form of magnetic
appliance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Edgar Wetton, in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th May 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
EDGAR WETTON, of Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent; bearing date the Twenty-second day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in
the thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Oharles Edgar Wetton,
Her special licence that I, the said Charles Edgar Wetton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Charles Edgar Wetton, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE APPLIANCES IN

page_text: MAGNETO THERAPEUTICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Charles Edgar Wetton, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Edgar Wetton, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement (that is to say):-
My Invention of "Improvements in Portable Appliances in Magneto
Therapeutics" has for its object the adaptation of portable magnets for
application to various parts of the human body without the necessity of
covering or surrounding the metal of which they are composed with an
elastic or flexible material, as has been hitherto done. For this purpose
the portable magnet is made of any required form so as to give it the
required flexibility for convenience of application, and its outer surface
is covered or coated by the process of electro-plating with various metals
in order to prevent oxydation, thereby dispensing with the need of any
covering with a material such as india-rubber or gum, which as is well
known has a tendency to interfere with the due action of the magnet by
interrupting or weakening the magnetic current. A magnet thus pro-
tected by electro-plating is not liable to be injuriously affected by
emanations "sensible” or "insensible" of the human body to which it
may be applied; neither will it interfere with the natural action of the
skin, and it may be used either with or without any making up material,
and if preferred may be rendered ornamental.
The magnet is intended to be made for various appliances in the form
of a metallic webbing woven of the requisite width and in such a manner
as to give it the required degree of flexibility, such metallic webbing
being electro-plated for the prevention of chemical action as required.
But my Invention is not confined to this form of magnetic appliance.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what I claim
as of my Invention is, the adaptation of portable magnets for application
to various parts of the human body by covering or coating the outer

page_text: surface of the flexible magnet by the process of electro-plating with
various metals, in order to prevent oxydation as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Edgar Wetton, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Twentieth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three
Witness,
W. A. JACKSON,
8, Quality Court,
Chancery Lane.
C. E. WETTON. (L.S.)