Improvements in Massage Apparatuses.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 10th Apr., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Massage Apparatuses.
I, DAGOBERT FALK, of 3 Ullrichswall Unna, Westphalia, in the German
Empire, Doctor of Medicine, 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:—
The invention relates to a new construction of massage apparatuses which admit
of the application of warmth and of electricity either simultaneously or separately.
The essence of the invention consists in constructing massage apparatuses
hollow and of a material which is a good conductor both of heat and of electricity
and which may either be filled with a material previously heated which possesses
high specific heat, or the whole apparatus after the introduction of the said
material in the cold condition may be heated, after which the apparatus may
be connected as required to a source of electricity giving a constant or induction
current.
In the accompanying drawing several suitable forms of such apparatuses are
illustrated.
Figure 1 shews a hollow body A of metal in the form of a smoothing iron
which can be filled through an opening a with sand, water, soda lye, shot,
metal filings or the like, which materials as already stated may have been
previously heated or be introduced in the cold state and heated by the external
application of heat. B is a terminal for the connection of a wire from the source
of electricity.
Figures 2 and 3 shew in view and in section respectively a globular massage
apparatus which is supported by means of projections d d¹ between the ends of a
metallic forked shaped holder E; the projection d' forms a screw capsule by which
the filling aperture is closed.
Figures 4 and 5 shew in view and section a similar globular apparatus, in which
the ball F is supported in an envelope G forming the ball-cover; the filling
opening is closed without causing a projection upon the surface of the ball by
means of the screw plug f, which is screwed into the filling aperture by means of a
little key f. The projection g of the envelope G is secured by means of the
screw to the handle H in such a manner that the ball with its pole axis can be
adjusted at any angle to the handle which is of importance in the massage of the
different parts of the body. The screw g¹ serves at the same time for the attachment
of the electric wire.
Figures 6 and 7 shew the arrangement of two balls on a single handle which are
otherwise formed as shewn in Figures 4 and 5. In place of the ball shewn in
Figures 2 and 3 a cylinder might also be employed, and in general the apparatuses
may receive various forms in order to obtain hollow massage apparatuses capable
of being heated from the inside or from the outside.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A massage apparatus capable of being heated consisting of a hollow body

page_text: the introduction of a filling material such as water, sand, filings or the like capable
of being heated either before or after its induction.
2. In a massage apparatus capable of being heated of the kind set forth in
Claim 1, the provision of terminals for the introduction in the same of an electric
current.
3. A. modification of the massage apparatus capable of being heated set forth in
Claims 1 and 2 consisting of a hollow rotary body which is revolvably supported
between the opposite and suitably formed ends of a forked holder.
4. A modification of the massage apparatus capable of being heated set forth in
Claims 1 and 2 consisting of a hollow ball supported in a cup shaped envelope wbich
envelope is provided with a handle, substantially as described.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.