Friction massage member

• US 4,067,325 A
• Filed: 09/07/1976
• Issued: 01/10/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Antoinette S. Olask
• Original Assignee: Antoinette S. Olask
• Inventors: Olask, Antoinette S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trapp, Lawrence W.
• Application Number:
  US05/720,554
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• Field of Search: 128/62, 128/63, 128/67, 128/65, 15/208, 15/209 C, 15/222, 15/227, 4/184
• US Class Current: 601/137
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 7/003 Hand-held or hand-driven devices

Abstract

A friction massage member in the form of a strap or mitten which includes a rubbing surface to be rubbed over the human body. The member is composed of strands knitted in a pattern defining a surface with high and low areas adjacent to one another and which strands are composed of a mixture of vegetable and animal fibers at a ratio of about 50% each and wherein the vegetable fiber component is about 50% sisal and 50% alfa and the animal hair is about 50% coarse animal hair, such as horse hair, and 50% fine animal hair, such as elephant hair.

Claims

1. A piece of cloth including means for gripping the same and which cloth is for use in massaging and cleaning the body and comprises a pattern of knitted strands which are each composed of an interwoven mixture of 50% animal hair and 50% of vegetable hair, said vegetable hair being about 50% sisal and about 50% alfa and said animal hair being about a) 50% animal hair selected from the class which includes horse hair and b) 50% animal hair selected from the class which includes elephant hair, and said animal hairs being bleached and mixed with said vegetable fiber prior to weaving the strands and knitting the material.

2. The device as set forth in claim 1 wherein the material is sanforized.

3. The device as set forth in claim 1 wherein the material is woven in the form of a mitten.

4. The device as set forth in claim 3 wherein the surface of the mitten includes a palm zone and the palm zone includes a pattern in relief comprising high and low areas and said high areas are a generally bumpy stitch.

5. The device as set forth in claim 1 wherein the device is woven into the form of a strap.