POSTURE CONTROL AND CORRECTING DEVICE

• US 3,582,935 A
• Filed: 10/24/1968
• Issued: 06/01/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard L. Verhaeghe
• Original Assignee: Richard L. Verhaeghe
• Inventors: Verhaeghe, Richard L.
• Application Number:
  US04/770,336
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0244 with signalling or indicating means, e.g. of incorrect posture, for deep-breathing exercises

Abstract

A body encircling belt having a housed motor (electromagnetic, spring or other) of minimal size fixedly mounted thereon having a body contacting triggering device connected to and controlling its operation, said device being operable with the imparting of thrust or other appropriate movement thereto from its body contacted portion to activate the motor, and with discontinuance of thrust or appropriate movement thereto, to deactivate it, and a signal means connected to and operable by the activated motor.

Claims

1. A posture control and correcting device comprising, a. a torsion encircling belt, b. a body mounted on the belt having an opening therein, c. an angularly formed spring switch arm mounted at one end thereof on a portion of the body adjacent said opening with its remaining portion spanning the opening and extended therethrough in outward and substantially horizontally spaced relation to the body, d. a triggering plate mounted on said remaining portion of the arm in spaced relation to the body, e. an electric contact on a portion of the body engageable, at times, by the free end portion of the spring switch arm, f. an electromagnetic motor signal mounted on the body electrically connected to said contact, and said switch arm, and, g. a casing engaged over the body and electromagnetic motor.

2. A posture control and correcting device comprising:

a. a torso encircling belt comprised of relatively spaced sections jointed by a stretchable link, b. a body mounted on one belt section, c. an electromagnetic motor signal mounted on the body, d. a switch for energizing and deenergizing the motor on the body, and e. nonstretchable means spanning the stretchable link connected at one end to said switch and the other to the relatively spaced belt section.

3. The structure of claim 2 modified to the extent that an elastic splicing interconnects the relatively spaced sections and that nonelastic means span said elastic splicing, one end of which is connected to the switch and the other to the relatively spaced belt sections.

4. The structure of claim 2 modified to the extent that the relatively spaced belt sections are joined beyond the body by stretchable linkage.