Massaging device

• US 5,725,483 A
• Filed: 02/22/1994
• Issued: 03/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Podolsky, Grigory
• Original Assignee: Podolsky, Grigory
• Inventors: Podolsky, Grigory
• Primary Examiner(s): DeMille, Danton D.
• Application Number:
  US08/199,669
• Time in Patent Office: 1,477 Days
• Field of Search: 601/87, 601/112-114, 601/17, 601/154, 601/159, 601/160, 601/134, 601/135, 601/94, 601/95, 601/15, 600/9
• US Class Current: 601/15
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/04 with reservoir or other means for supplying substances
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/10 with further special therapeutic means, e.g. electrotherapy, magneto therapy or radiation therapy, chromo therapy, infrared or ultraviolet therapy
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 7/005 hand-held
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2/00 Magnetotherapy

Abstract

A massaging device includes a plurality of displaceable massaging members mounted on a universal head, each of the massaging elements is rotatable about a respective orbit and movable toward and away from a center of the head head, and magnetic elements creating magnetic vortexes upon displacement of the massaging members.

Claims

1. A massaging device, comprising:

a housing formed with a hollow interior;

means forming a reservoir of a flowable substance in said housing;

pump means in said housing for pumping the substance along a path thereof;

a universal head on said housing and having a center axis;

a plurality of massaging elements formed with respective axes of symmetry extending parallel to the center axis;

actuating means in said housing for actuating said massaging elements and including a plurality of driven shafts rotatable about respective rotation axes extending parallel to said central head axis, each of said massaging elements being mounted rotatably fixedly on a respective driven shaft and having the respective axis of symmetry offset from a respective one of said axes of rotation, said massaging elements being displaceable along respective paths toward and away from said central axis between inner and outer positions and being adjacent one another in said inner position, and

magnetic means for generating magnetic vortexes upon displacement of said massaging members between said inner and outer positions.

2. The device defined in claim 1 wherein each of said massaging elements is a removable semi-sphere ball formed with a respective connecting means for connecting said balls with the respective shaft.

3. The device defined in claim 1 wherein said massaging elements are removable brushes formed with connecting means for removably connecting said brushes with said actuating means.

4. The device defined in claim 1 wherein said actuating means includes:

an electric source,

a motor connected with said source and formed with a driving shaft extending parallel to said axes of rotation,

a first pinion keyed to said driving shaft and having a first diameter,

a second pinion having a diameter larger than said first one and meshing with said first pinion, said second pinion being provided with an output shaft,

a third pinion mounted rotatably fixedly on said output shaft and having a diameter lesser than said first diameter, and

a plurality of fourth pinions mounted on the respective driven shafts and rotatable about said axes of rotation upon meshing said third pinion with said fourth pinions, so that said pinions form a reducer for decreasing a number of revolutions of said motor.

5. The device defined in claim 4 wherein said source is a battery or a rechargeable accumulator.

6. The device defined in claim 4 wherein said actuating means further comprising a double throw switch connected with said source and said motor and mounted on said housing.

7. The device defined in claim 1 wherein said pump means includes a pump provided with a downstream channel immersed in said reservoir and an upstream channel opening into a distributing channel extending transversely to said upstream channel, said distributing channel being provided with a plurality of branches opening outwardly.

8. The device defined in claim 7, further comprising a plurality of brushes formed with respective central openings, each of said openings being in a flow communication with a respective one of said branches.

9. The device defined in claim 1, further comprising a razor blade mounted pivotally on said housing about a pivot axis, said razor blade being provided with a 1ever mounted pivotally thereon between a working position and a rest position about a lever axis extending generally perpendicular to said pivot axis.

10. The device defined in claim 1 wherein said magnetic means includes said massaging members made of a magnetized material.

11. The device defined in claim 1, wherein said magnetic means includes a plurality of magnetic inserts mounted on said head and juxtaposed with respective massaging members to create said vortexes forming an overlapping magnetic zone in said inner position of the massaging elements.

12. The device defined in claim 1, wherein said massaging elements are formed with means for receiving said magnetic means which includes inserts made of a magnetizable material.