HYDROTHERAPEUTIC MASSAGE DEVICE

• US 3,844,278 A
• Filed: 01/26/1973
• Issued: 10/29/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Benjamin Weider
• Original Assignee: Benjamin Weider
• Inventors: Weider, Benjamin
• Primary Examiner(s): Trapp, Lawrence W.
• Application Number:
  US05/327,023
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• Field of Search: 128/66,24.1,366,38-40,229
• US Class Current: 601/166
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 11/00 Belts, strips or combs for massage purposes
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1238 with hydraulic or pneumatic drive
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 35/002 Breast baths

Abstract

A massage device for the bust comprising a bell shaped housing having a bust supporting cage or basket within it. A rotor is provided with a plurality of jets or jet arms arranged for rotation in the space between the housing and the cage. The jets on the jet arms are oriented to provide for a massaging effect with a stream of water flowing therefrom, at the same time utilizing the jet streams for driving the arms rotatively. The directions of the streams from the arms are oriented at different angles to a plane parallel to the arm tangential to a frustoconical surface. Flow in one direction primarily acts to drive the arms rotatively while the flow in the other directions is utilized primarily for massage.

Claims

1. A hydrotherapeutic massage device, comprising:

a bell-shaped housing with a substantially frusto-conical basket for receiving a bust, said basket being disposed within said housing substantially coaxially with the same, said basket having an opening, a side portion, and a bottom portion; and

jet arms being substantially straight and being arranged for a rotary movement to circumscribe a substantially frusto-conical surface disposed between said housing and said side portion of the basket, said jet arms being provided with conduit means for connecting the same with a source of pressurized water, wherein at least one of said jet arms is provided with jets arranged to provide for at least two directions of water stream flowing from the arm, said directions being oriented at different angles with regard to a plane substantially parallel to said arm and tangent to said frusto-conical surface, whereby the flow in one of said directions can be utilized primarily for driving the arm, and the flow in the other of said directions can be utilized primarily for massage, said conduit means including a tubular conduit provided with a connector for connecting said tubular conduit to a tap, said tubular conduit being a hose and wherein said connector comprises;

a flexible tubular body, one end of said body being adapted to be fixed to said hose, the inner portion of said tubular body defining a plurality of coaxial substantially cylindrical sections disposed axially one after the other and increasing in diameter from said one end whereby the diameter of the section closest to said one end is smallest and that of the section most remote from said one end is largest, said connector including a flexible clamp means for securing the selected section of the connector to the tap, said connector also including an adapter having male and female threads at opposite ends to adapt to taps having either male or female threads.

2. A device as in claim 1, wherein said arms are each provided with at least two jets, said two jets being arranged to create two streams of water, said streams of water being oriented at different angles with regard to a plane parallel to said one of the arms and substantially tangent to said frusto-conical surface.

3. A device as in claim 2, wherein at least one of said two streams is oriented to drive said arm to circumscribe said frusto-conical surface.

4. A device as in claim 3, wherein both of the streams are oriented to drive said arm to circumscribe said frusto-conical surface.

5. A device as in claim 1, wherein each of the arms is provided with at least two jets.

6. A device as in claim 1, wherein at least the section having the largest diameter is arranged to be folded outwardly over the adjacent outer portion of the connector, whereby the inner surface of the largest diameter section is turned outwardly to receive said clamp means.

7. The invention defined in claim 1 including:

a tubular fitting connecting said conneCtor to said hose, said tubular fitting having a first end for insertion into said hose and a second end for insertion into said connector, said first fitting end having circumferential corrugations formed around its outer periphery for securing said first fitting end in said hose, said second fitting end having a groove defined around its outer periphery; and

a clamping ring for clamping around the outer periphery of the flexible tubular body of said connector to force its flexible body into the groove on said second fitting end thereby to clamp said connector thereon.