Improvements connected with Electric Belts and Bands for Curative Purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1893—Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Electric Belts and Bands for Curative
Purposes.
I, NOAH MITCHELL, of 194 Regent Street, County of London, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to improvements connected with electric belts and bands
for curative purposes.
To carry my invention into practice, I sew or otherwise affix a Pulvermacher,
or other electric chain, or a series of elements to constitute a chain upon a canvas
or other flexible belt and preferably at the back portion of say, a belly band or
girth, and other chains of the same or of a different kind to the front portions, so
as to leave the elastic side parts free. The chains are provided with end pole
plates of the grip or snap kind, these have loops for connecting them together by
means of twisted, spun, helically coiled, or other flexible lengths of wire for
maintaining the electric circuit between the elements. The extreme ends of the
battery have the usual covered or exposed discs for touching the required parts
of the body. The chains can be covered by a flap or flaps after saturation or
moistening and to concentrate the current to the end discs...
The main feature of the invention is the means of utilizing the Pulvermacher
and like chains and bands to body belts, abdominal belts, back supports, chest
expanders, and in the case of leg, arm, or head bands or bandages, the elasticity
of the belt or band is preserved to give free motion to the body without affecting
the fit of the article, the flexible and elastic connection ensuring the continuity of
the current through the number of chains employed.
The invention though specially intended with small elements and chains for
human beings; is equally useful with larger elements and chains for application to
animals.
The flexible elastic connections may be free or enclosed in some insulating
substance.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Noah Mitchell.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Electric Belts and Bands for Curative
Purposes.
I, NOAH MITCHELL, of 194 Regent Street, County of London, Engineer, 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 connected with electric belts and bands
for curative purposes.
To carry my invention into practice, and as shown by the annexed drawings,
Figures 1 and 2, I sew, or otherwise affix a Pulvermacher, or other electric band,
or a series of elements A, A, to constitute a chain or band- upon a canvas, or
other flexible belt B and preferably at the back portion of, say, a belly band or
girth, and other bands or chains of the same, or of a different kind to the front
portions, so as to leave the elastic side parts free. The chains or bands are

page_text: provided with end pole plates C, C, to be in touch, if at the front, as at Figure 2.
The bands or chains are connected together by means of twisted, spun, helically
coiled, or other flexible lengths of wire D, D, for maintaining the electric circuit
between sets of the elements. The extreme ends of the battery have the usual
covered or exposed discs E, E, for touching the required parts of the body. The
bands or chains can be covered by a flap or flaps after saturation or moistening,
to concentrate the current to the end discs.
The main feature of the invention is the means of utilising the Pulvermacher
and like chains and bands to body belts, abdominal belts, back supports, chest
expanders, and in the case of leg, arm, or head bands or bandages. The elastic
portions F, F, of the belt or band is preserved to give free motion to the body
without affecting the fit of the article, the flexible and elastic connection Ď
ensuring the continuity of the current through the number of bands or chains
employed.
The invention though specially intended with small elements and chains for
human beings, is equally useful with larger elements and chains for application to
animals.
The flexible elastic connections D, D, may be free or enclosed in some insulating
substance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Combining medico electric chain or band elements in the body of a belt by
spun or curled conducting wires in the elastic parts thereof substantially in the
inanner shown on the drawings, and as described for the purposes set forth.
2. The employment of helically spun, or other like wires in or on the elastic
portions of a body belt as means for connecting electric elements affixed in or to
the leather or canvas portions of such a belt, as set forth.
The 4th day of November 1899.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Noah Mitchell.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Noah Mitchell.