Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for the Simultaneous Shampooing or Massage of, and the Administration of Electricity to, the Human Body.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1895-Accepted, 10th Aug., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for the Simultaneous
Shampooing or Massage of, and the Administration of Electricity
to, the Human Body.
I, Director HEINRICH SIMONS, of Berlin, Germany, Potsdamerstrasse 20, 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 refers to appliances for the shampooing or massage of the human
body and at the same time applying electricity to the parts thus shampooed.
Some forms of these appliances are represented on the annexed drawing in
Figures 1 to 4.
For instance
Fig. 1 shows a pair of rubbers a and b, fitted with handles, and containing
3 rollers c, placed in a row, and intended for shampooing the nose, the corners of
the mouth, the chin, lips, and other parts of the human face.
Fig. 2 shows a pair of rubbers a¹ and 6', which are provided with rounded
projections cat their respective extremities.
Fig. 3 shows a pair of rubbers a and b the ends of which are each fitted with a
cylindrical roller c³, at one end and a globular roller ca, at the opposite end.
Fig. 4 represents a pair of rubbers a³ and 63. each carrying a roller c³, at
one end.
The rubbers shown in Fig. 2 are chiefly intended for the shampooing or massage
of the face, those shown in Fig. 3 are meant to shampoo the wrinkled parts under
the eyes, and also the eyelids, whereas the rubbers shown in Fig. 4 serve to
shampoo the forehead, nose, corners of the mouth, chin, lips and cheeks. All the
above forms of rubbers are also fitted with arrangements now to be described, for
electrifying (galvanizing) different parts of the human face above mentioned. To
obtain this end, the special parts of the rubbers constructed for shampooing, such
as balls, projections, rollers c, c¹, c, ca, and c³, are made of metal or other
electrically conductive material, whereas the handles a and b, a' b', a² bª, a³ b³, are
either covered with insulating material or they consist partly of such material.
All these handles, that is the shampooing appliances on same may be connected
with a source of electricity such as a galvanic battery on an induction coil, by
means of terminal screws and of the wires d and e.
Thus, if the parts to be shampooed are rubbed simultaneously with both rubbers,
such parts will not only be shampooed, but also electrified (galvanized). In place
of the second handle or rod, a metal electrode-plate can be used. The latter is
attached to the bandle a by the silk cord h, and is connected with the source of
electricity by means of the wire i. When using this form of rubber, the plate,
is applied to a given part of the head, whilst the part of the face under treatment,
is shampooed with the rubber a, the electric current is thus compelled to pass
through the head.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
A pair of shampooing rubbers, provided at their extremities with suitable
contrivances for the shampooing or massage of the human body, the latter made of

page_text: electrically conductive material, which may be connected with a source of
electricity, whereby one of said handles may be replaced by metal electrode plate,
all as herein duly set forth and particularly described.
Dated this 25th day of May 1895.
ROBERT KRAYN,
Agent for Applicant.