Device for delivery of resonant frequencies to treated muscles
First Claim
1. A muscle drumming device configured to deliver a repetitive percussive strike to muscles below a skin surface, the device comprising:
- a housing, a lower portion of the main housing enclosing;
a motor mounted in the housing and having or controlled to have a rotating shaft with a fixed rotational speed,a drive pulley mounted on the shaft,a driven pully having an integral triangularly shaped cam,a belt encircling the drive pulley and the driven pully, wherein the belt, the motor, the drive pully and the driven pully are altogether adapted to rotate the driven pulley at 16.6 cycles/sec,a plunger body mounted in the housing for reciprocal movement upon contact with the cam during each rotation of the driven pulley, anda plunger shaft mounted to the plunger body extending out of an opening in the housing, terminating in a resilient tip, and adapted to reciprocate and move laterally outward as a consequence of rotation of the driven pully the shaft rebounding off of a bumper.
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Abstract
A drumming device for delivering a repetitive percussive strike to muscles below a skin surface comprises a main housing enclosing an electric motor with a shaft having a fixed rotational speed, a drive pulley, a toothed belt encircling the drive pulley and a driven pulley with an integral cam mounted on the pulley such that the rotating shaft causes the driven pulley to rotate at a predetermined number of cycles per second, the assembly causing a repetitive, reciprocal movement of a plunger body a fixed distance and at 16.6 cycles/sec, the plunger movable in a downward direction following contact with the cam, such that the plunger reciprocates within the housing when the cam member contacts the plunger causing the plunger shaft to move laterally outward. When the massaging device is properly position in contact with the skin the moving plunger causes muscle spindles to vibrate at their resonant frequency.
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1. A muscle drumming device configured to deliver a repetitive percussive strike to muscles below a skin surface, the device comprising:
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a housing, a lower portion of the main housing enclosing; a motor mounted in the housing and having or controlled to have a rotating shaft with a fixed rotational speed, a drive pulley mounted on the shaft, a driven pully having an integral triangularly shaped cam, a belt encircling the drive pulley and the driven pully, wherein the belt, the motor, the drive pully and the driven pully are altogether adapted to rotate the driven pulley at 16.6 cycles/sec, a plunger body mounted in the housing for reciprocal movement upon contact with the cam during each rotation of the driven pulley, and a plunger shaft mounted to the plunger body extending out of an opening in the housing, terminating in a resilient tip, and adapted to reciprocate and move laterally outward as a consequence of rotation of the driven pully the shaft rebounding off of a bumper. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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