MOTOR OPERATED VIBRATOR HAVING SOLAR TYPE MOTION

• US 3,580,246 A
• Filed: 11/22/1968
• Issued: 05/25/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dave O. Foreman
• Original Assignee: Dave O. Foreman
• Inventors: Foreman, Dave O.
• Application Number:
  US04/778,255
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• US Class Current: 601/72
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2023/0281 multiple masses driven by the same motor
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/0263 using rotating unbalanced masses

Abstract

Motor driven apparatus, for inducing vibratory action into a person'"'"''"'"'s body, comprised of a housing having a shaft rotatably journaled therein by spaced apart bearing means. Spaced apart eccentric weights placed near each bearing means and rigidly affixed to the shaft induces a circular vibratory motion in the extremities of the housing while the center of the housing remains relatively quiescent. A motor located apart from the housing rotatably drives the shaft by means of a flexible coupling member.

Claims

1. An apparatus for inducing vibratory action into an area of a person'"'"''"'"'s body comprising;

a motor, a shaft, spaced-apart journal means, an enclosure, a first and second eccentric weight;

means connecting said motor to said shaft to thereby impart rotational motion into said shaft;

said shaft being mounted within said enclosure by said journal means;

means affixing said first and second eccentric weights to said shaft, said first and second weights being spaced apart from each other with each said eccentric weight being located a spaced-apart distance along said shaft and between said journals;

said enclosure being in the form of a resilient elongated housing having said shaft axially aligned therewith; and

closure means at a terminal end of said enclosure for mounting said journal to said housing.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said closure means for mounting said journal includes resilient plugs within which said journal is located.

3. The improvement of claim 1 wherein said motor spaced apart from said enclosure with said shaft being connected to said motor by a flexible cable located within a protective housing.