IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGNETIC APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR CURATIVE AND REMEDIAL PURPOSES."
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Lonsdale, of Mile End Road, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGNETIC APPARATUS
TO BE EMPLOYED FOR CURATIVE AND REMEDIAL PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Lonsdale at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd December 1878.
RICHARD LONSDALE, of Mile End Road, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MAGNETIC APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR CURATIVE AND REMEDIAL
PURPOSES."
This Invention consists in improvements in apparatus by means of which
magnetism may be advantageously applied to various parts of the human body for
the purpose of exercising curative and remedial effects.
Bar magnets consisting of strips of magnetised steel or iron are arranged longi-
tudinally within covers of cloth or other material in such a manner that the south
pole of each magnet is always opposite the north pole of the next. The strips of
steel or iron of which the magnets are formed are coated with tin, copper, or zinc,
such coating being deposited on the surfaces of the steel or iron by any known or
suitable process except that of electro-plating. The said coating, which is exceed-
ingly durable, prevents the deterioration of the magnets by oxidation, and the
consequent injury to the covering of cloth or other material.
When the apparatus
is intended to surround any part of the body or limbs the magnets are combined
and covered so as to form a belt, the ends of which when the same placed in the
desired position are secured to each other in any suitable manner, thus forming a
complete circuit. In cases in which the apparatus is applied to a portion of the
surface of the body, and which will not admit of the form of a belt being employed,
the magnets are arranged, by preference, longitudinally and parallel to each other
within a covering such as hereinbefore mentioned, so as to be readily adaptable to
the part of the body to which it is desired that it should be applied.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard Lonsdale in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd May
1879.
RICHARD LONSDALE, of Mile End Road, in the County of Middlesex.
"
IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MAGNETIC APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR CURATIVE AND REMEDIAL
PURPOSES."
My said Invention consists in improvements in apparatus by means of which
magnetism may be advantageously applied to various parts of the human body for
the purpose of exercising curative and remedial effects.
Bar magnets, consisting of strips of magnetised steel or iron, are arranged longi-
tudinally within covers of cloth or other material in such a manner that the south.
pole of each magnet is always opposite the north pole of the next. The strips of
steel or iron of which the magnets are formed are coated with tin, copper, or zinc,
such coating being deposited on the surfaces of the steel or iron by any known or
suitable process, except that of electro-plating. The said coating, which is exceed-
ingly durable, prevents the deterioration of the magnets by oxidation, and the
consequent injury to the covering of cloth or other material. When the apparatus
is intended to surround any part of the body or limbs the magnets are combined
and covered so as to form a belt, the ends of which, when the same is placed in the
"desired position, are secured to each other in any suitable manner, thus forming
a complete circuit. In cases in which the apparatus is applied to a portion of the
surface of the body, and which will not admit of the form of a belt being employed,
the magnets are arranged, by preference, longitudinally, and parallel to each other,
within a covering such as herein before mentioned, so as to be readily adaptable to
the part of the body to which it is desired that it should be applied.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which it is to be performed, I would observe in conclusion that what I
consider novel and original and therefore claim as constituting the Invention
secured to me by the said hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,―
The coating of strips of magnetised steel or iron with tin, copper, or zinc, and the
arrangement.and combination thereof, substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Lonsdale, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.
RICHP. LONSDALE. (L.S.)