Mechanical gum massager
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1. A mechanical gum massaging device which comprises:
- a vibratory mechanism suitable for holding in the user'"'"'s hand and adapted to produce cyclical movement about the longitudinal axis of said mechanism when thus held;
a vibrating shank free at one end and attached at the other end to said vibratory mechanism with a portion of its longitudinal axis generally coinciding with the longitudinal axis of the vibratory mechanism, the transverse cross sectional dimensions of said vibrating shank being smaller than those of said vibratory mechanism, the free end of said shank tracing a generally elliptical path in a first plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said vibratory mechanism when said device is held in the user'"'"'s hand during operation of the device, said elliptical path having a major axis and a minor axis;
a resilient stimulator element mounted at the free end of said shank, the longitudinal axis of the operative portion of said stimulator element extending outwardly from said vibratory mechanism in a direction such that a second plane containing said direction and the longitudinal axis of said vibratory mechanism is substantially perpendicular to the major axis of said elliptical path, said shank being free of any other stimulator element facing said first mentioned stimulator element in opposed relationship thereto; and
means for actuating said vibratory mechanism.
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Abstract
A mechanical gum massaging device in which the stimulating or massaging element is caused to move (a) in a generally elliptical path, with (b) the plane of said path being substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the device, and (c) the operative portion of the stimulator element extending outwardly from the device in a direction such that the plane containing said direction and the longitudinal axis of the device is substantially perpendicular to the major axis of said generally elliptical path.
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23 Claims
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1. A mechanical gum massaging device which comprises:
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a vibratory mechanism suitable for holding in the user'"'"'s hand and adapted to produce cyclical movement about the longitudinal axis of said mechanism when thus held; a vibrating shank free at one end and attached at the other end to said vibratory mechanism with a portion of its longitudinal axis generally coinciding with the longitudinal axis of the vibratory mechanism, the transverse cross sectional dimensions of said vibrating shank being smaller than those of said vibratory mechanism, the free end of said shank tracing a generally elliptical path in a first plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said vibratory mechanism when said device is held in the user'"'"'s hand during operation of the device, said elliptical path having a major axis and a minor axis; a resilient stimulator element mounted at the free end of said shank, the longitudinal axis of the operative portion of said stimulator element extending outwardly from said vibratory mechanism in a direction such that a second plane containing said direction and the longitudinal axis of said vibratory mechanism is substantially perpendicular to the major axis of said elliptical path, said shank being free of any other stimulator element facing said first mentioned stimulator element in opposed relationship thereto; and means for actuating said vibratory mechanism. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A mechanical gum massaging device which comprises:
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a vibratory mechanism including drive means, a rotatable shaft extending outwardly from said drive means, an eccentric flywheel carried by said shaft at its outer end, and a tubular casing suitable for holding in the user'"'"'s hand, said drive means, rotatable shaft, and flywheel being enclosed in said casing with the drive means rigidly secured to the interior wall of the casing, said vibratory mechanism producing cyclical movement about the longitudinal axis of said mechanism when said casing is held in the user'"'"'s hand; a vibrating shank free at one end and attached at the other end to said tubular casing with a portion of its longitudinal axis generally coinciding with the longitudinal axis of the vibratory mechanism, the transverse cross-sectional dimensions of said vibrating shank being smaller than those of said vibratory mechanism; a resilient stimulator element mounted at the free end of said shank, the longitudinal axis of the operative portion of said stimulator element extending outwardly from said vibratory mechanism in a direction approximately 135°
to the longitudinal axis of said vibratory mechanism, said stimulator element having an extreme outer end having a conical shape to give said extreme end flexibility, the portion of said shank whose longitudinal axis coincides generally with the longitudinal axis of said vibratory mechanism having a transverse dimension, measured in a first plane containing the longitudinal axis of the operative portion of the stimulator element and the longitudinal axis of the vibratory mechanism in a direction normal to the longitudinal axis of the vibratory mechanism, that is approximately three times as large as the transverse dimension of said shank portion measured normal to said first plane, said shank being free of any other stimulator element facing said first mentioned stimulator element in opposed relationship thereto,whereby when said device is operated while being held in the user'"'"'s hand the free end of said shank traces a generally elliptical path in a second plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said vibratory mechanism, the major axis of said elliptical path being substantially perpendicular to said first mentioned plane.
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