U.S. patent number 3,926,180 [Application Number 05/493,075] was granted by the patent office on 1975-12-16 for vibro-massaging apparatus.
Invention is credited to Claude Jean Virgile Zambelli.
United States Patent |
3,926,180 |
Zambelli |
December 16, 1975 |
Vibro-massaging apparatus
Abstract
A vibro-massaging apparatus having a housing with a body and
cover wrapped with an impermeable flexible casing suitable for
covering the housing beyond the seal between the body and the cover
proper, the junction between the casing and the body being
water-tight.
Inventors: |
Zambelli; Claude Jean Virgile
(Paris, FR) |
Family
ID: |
9123338 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/493,075 |
Filed: |
July 30, 1974 |
Foreign Application Priority Data
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Jul 30, 1973 [FR] |
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73.27853 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
601/46; 366/108;
366/129 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A61H
23/0254 (20130101); A61H 2201/0153 (20130101); A61H
2201/0111 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
A61H
23/02 (20060101); A61H 001/00 () |
Field of
Search: |
;128/32,33,41,34-36,24.2,65,66 ;259/1R,DIG.41,DIG.43
;310/50,87 |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Other References
RAS Enterprises, Inc.-Received in P.O. 7-1-71..
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Primary Examiner: Trapp; Lawrence W.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Browdy and Neimark
Claims
I claim:
1. A vibro-massaging apparatus comprising:
a housing consisting of a body and a cover, said body and said
cover joined together by a seal, said body including a massaging
face and a shoulder located between said seal of said body and said
cover; and
an impermeable flexible casing covering said housing beyond said
seal between said body and said cover, said casing having a roll
bordering an aperture of said casing which cooperates with said
shoulder and having a junction between said casing and said body
which is water-tight.
2. A vibro-massager according to claim 1, comprising an electrical
switch projecting from the body, characterized in that the casing
delimits a lodging for the switch.
3. A vibro-massaging apparatus comprising:
a housing consisting of a body and a cover, said body and said
cover joined together by a seal, said body including a massaging
face;
an impermeable flexible casing covering said housing beyond said
seal between said body and said cover and having a junction between
said casing and said body which is water tight; and
an electrical switch projecting from said body wherein said casing
delimits a lodging for said switch.
4. A vibro-massaging apparatus according to claim 3 further
including a handle depending from said casing.
5. A vibro-massaging apparatus according to claim 1 further
including a handle depending from said casing.
Description
The invention relates to a vibro-massaging apparatus.
Vibro-massaging apparatus are known which are used for body
massages, vibrations being produced by means of an electric motor
incorporated in the apparatus.
The question comes up of using such a vibro-massager in a bath or
under a shower or in sea water.
The solution which consists in making water-tight the various seals
contained in the apparatus leads to a complex manufacture and high
costs. As a matter of fact, such apparatus usually comprise a
housing made of two parts, one of which is the main part or body
whereas the other is the cover, and these parts should be easily
and quickly separated for changing the batteries which supply
power. Moreover, such apparatus comprise a control member, namely a
switch-button, which is to be actuated from outside and therefore
passes through the housing. Water-tightness of the cover and body
assembly is not easily obtained and the same applies to the
switch-button or the like traversing the parts.
The vibro-massager according to this invention is characterized in
that it comprises a rubber or like material container which by
cooperating with the body, preferably with a shoulder thereon,
ensures by its mere positioning tightness of the seals with respect
to the external medium.
The vibro-massager is made water-tight by a simple and economical
means without modifying its general structure.
The following description refers to the attached drawing in
which:
FIG. 1 is an elevational view partly in section of an apparatus
according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is an elevational view at 90.degree. from the first;
FIG. 3 is an elevational view of the apparatus, taken from the face
opposite to that of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a plan view.
The vibro-massager comprises a parallelepipedic housing 11 made of
a body 12 and a cover 13 connected by merely nesting one into the
other; in the housing is located the electric motor and the
batteries for supplying power to the motor: the face 14 of body 12
is provided for engagement with the part of the human body which is
to be massaged.
The body itself is made of two parts: a part 15 comprising face 14
and an adjacent part 16 of larger cross-section than part 15 and
connected to the latter by a shoulder 17.
An electric switch 19 with a push-button 20 projects from the
lateral face of part 16 of body 12.
The cover 13 has vertical faces 21 and 22 extending from the
vertical faces 23 and 24 of body 16, inclined faces 25 and 26 and
an upper face 27 parallel to face 14.
A rubber or like material container or wrapping 28 extends over
part 16 of the body and cover 13. It has parallel side faces 31,
32, parallel faces 33 and 34 perpendicular to the first ones,
inclined faces 35 and 36 and an upper face 37. The latter is
connected to a handle 38 with two branches 39 and 40 and a handle
bar 41. The container is formed with an aperture bordered with a
roll 42, and an appendix 44, the shape of which matches that of the
switch 19.
When the housing 12 is covered by container 28 and the roll thereof
is tightly applied to under the shoulder 17, part 16 of the
housing, the cover 13, as well as switch 19 are sealed from the
outside and water-tight, so that the so equipped apparatus can be
immersed in water without there being any risk of water penetration
into the housing 11 either through the seal 43 between the body 12
and the cover 13 or through a traversing hole of the push-button
switch 19,20.
The flexibility of the rubber sheet of which the housing is made
enables the pushing of the button 20 by pressing on the appendix
44. The impermeable container is conformed in accordance with the
shape of the housing which can be cylindrical or of any other
shape.
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