Patent ID: 7410448

Claim:
A mechanical device for stimulating stomach muscles, comprising a belt-like element sized to be worn with a section thereof adjacent the stomach muscles of the wearer, said belt being associated with a motor and a power element for driving said motor, said motor being mechanically linked to means for intermittently tensioning at least said section to repeatedly intermittently press against the stomach muscles of the wearer in order to stimulate said muscles to contract as a reaction and in anticipation of said repeated intermittent contact, wherein said belt is provided with further segments having a plurality of spaced-apart sequential apertures, and said motor is attached to a sprocket wheel positioned to engage said sequential apertures provided in said further segments of said belt, the arrangement being such that said belt is repeatedly, intermittently displaceable between a first relaxed position and a second tensioned position by repeated clockwise and counter-clockwise rotation of said sprocket wheel.