Improvements in Electropathic Appliances.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 24th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Electropathic Appliances.
1, DANIEL WHITE, of 8 Weedington Road, Kentish Town, London N.W.,
Store Keeper do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
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The object of my invention is to manufacture improved electropathic appliances,
adapted to be worn in contact with the human body, for the cure of various
ailments.
My invention consists in the adaptation of perforated zinc plates, in and through
which plates copper wire is interlaced or otherwise combined therewith. The
plates of perforated zinc are cut to any convenient sizes, suitable to the part of the
body to which they are to be applied.; and one, two or more lengths of copper wire
is or are interlaced in and through the perforations of the zinc plate. When the
plate is made in the form of a band; the two ends of which are intended to be
temporarily joined by a buckle or otherwise, such joint is so made that metallic
contact is ensured, so as to keep the elements continuous.
These appliances may be more or less encased in any suitable material, ornamental
or otherwise.
Dated 20th November 1891.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Electropathic Appliances.
1, DANIEL WHITE, of 8 Weedington Road, Kentish Town, London, N.W.,
Store Keeper, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to manufacture improved electropathic appliances,
adapted to be worn in contact with the human body, for the cure of various
ailments.
My invention consists in the adaptation of perforated zinc plates, in and through
the perforations of which copper wire is interlaced, or otherwise combined there-
with.
The plates of perforated zinc are cut to any convenient sizes suitable to the parts
of the body, or to the garments, or other articles of wearing apparel to which they
are intended to be applied; and one, two, or more lengths of copper wire is or are
interlaced in and through the perforations of the zinc plate. When the plate is
made in the form of a band, the two ends of which are intended to be temporarily
joined by a buckle or otherwise, such joint is so made that metallic contact is
ensured, so as to keep the elements continuous.
These appliances may be more or less encased in any suitable material, ornamental
or otherwise.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 a section, (on the line 1-2) both drawn to an
enlarged scale, illustrating one method of combining the metals of zinc and copper,
in accordance with my invention.

page_text: a is a piece of zinc plate, perforated with a number of holes bb.
wires interlaced in and through the zinc plate as shown.
cc are copper
The copper wires may be otherwise laced or attached, and may be increased in
number.
My invention may be applied to hat and cap linings, corsets, boots and shoes,
stockings, belts, and various other articles of wearing apparel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In the construction of electropathic appliances, the application and use of a
perforated zinc plate, interlaced with, or otherwise combined with, copper wire,
substantially as lierein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The improvements in electropathic appliances, substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated
Awoust 1905
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.