Improvements in Electro-medical Appliances.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by SOPHIA HETHERINGTON-CARRUTHERS, of
137, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Gentle-
woman.]
Improvements in Electro-medical Appliances.
I, PHILIP ARTHUR NEWTON, of "The Office for Patents" 6 Breams Buildings
Chancery Lane, in the County of London Patent Agent, 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 is for the purpose of utilizing an induced current for electro
medical purposes and consists essentially of three parts 1, a single cell or a battery,
of any suitable design or construction:-2. of an induction or intensity coil :-3 of
any suitable textile fabric into which strips or bands, consisting of any suitable
number of metallic fibres or filaments that would act as electrical conductors, have
been previously placed or woven. The fabric may be made into towels belts, knee
caps, corsets, stockings, bandages, sheets, or other articles that are brought into
immediate contact with the flesh of the wearer or patient.
In the accompanying drawings, the form into which the fabric is made up is that
of a narrow friction towel.
A, is the electric or voltaic cell, which may be of any suitable design or
construction. The one shewn in the drawings consists of a carbon containing
vessel or element B. The element C is perforated longitudinally at c, to allow of
the escape of any gas that may be formed in the cell owing to the action of the
oxydising agent that may be employed. D D' are metallic caps on the cell, and
are connected with the primary wire of the induction coil E by links d. d
Plates e. form the terminals of the secondary wire of the induction coil E, and are
in metallic contact with the metallic fibres or filaments that are placed on or woven
into the towel G. These metallic fibres or filaments are arranged in strips or bands
shewn at F F¹, in the drawings. The metallic strips or bands are insulated from
one another by the ordinary textile fabric of which the article is composed. Each
strip or band will therefore consist of a number of electrical conductors. When
the towel is brought into contact with the flesh of the patient the secondary circuit
will be closed, between the strips or bands, through the body of the patient. In
the drawings two strips or bands only are shewn, but a number of sets of two strips
or bands may be employed. One end of a friction towel only is shewn in the
drawings the cell and induction coil being made up in a convenient form of handle,
the other end of the towel (not shewn in the drawings,) being provided with a
dummy handle. It is obvious that the induction coil, and cell or battery, may be
placed in any convenient position apart from the towel, and communication
established by means of suitable conductors.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed (as communicated to me
from abroad) I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In electro medical appliances, a suitable textile fabric into which has been
placed or woven two or more metallic strips or bands in combination with an
induction coil and suitable cell battery or other generator of electricity as herein
specified.
2. In electro-medical appliances, a suitable textile fabric, in combination with pairs
of metallic strips or bands. that are placed on or woven into the fabric. each strip or

page_text: band being insulated from the next adjacent strip or band by the material of which
the fabric is composed, as herein specified.
3. In electro-medical appliances, a suitable textile fabric, in combination with
pairs of metallic strips or bands that are placed on or woven into the fabric, each
strip or band being insulated from the next adjacent strip or band by the material
of which the fabric is composed, & with means whereby each strip or band may be
placed in electrical communication with an induction coil as herein set forth.
4. In electro-medical applications, such as that described, perforating the central
element longitudinally, to permit of the escape of gas from the cell as herein set
forth.
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NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.

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