Magnetic treatment clothing

• US 5,950,239 A
• Filed: 09/29/1997
• Issued: 09/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard Lopez
• Original Assignee: Richard Lopez
• Inventors: Lopez, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): VANATTA, AMY B
• Application Number:
  US08/940,079
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• Field of Search: 2/113, 2/114, 2/115, 2/69, 2/271, 2/118, 2/120, 2/122, 2/106, 2/109, 2/94, 600/15
• US Class Current: 2/115
• CPC Class Codes: A41B 9/00 Undergarments corsets A41C1/00; brassières A41C3/00
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 19/00 Gloves brush bodies shaped as gloves A46B5/04; gloves for washing the body A47K7/02; gloves for domestic washing or cleaning A47L13/18; surgical gloves A61B42/10; swimming gloves A63B31/02; as accessories for games or sports, e.g. baseball, boxing or golf gloves A63B71/14; gloves for glove-boxes B25J1/02
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2400/32 Therapeutic use
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 2400/324 Acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: A42B 1/24 with means for attaching articles thereto, e.g. memorandum tablets or mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 1/0054 provided with magnets, magnetic parts or magnetic substances
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 39/00 Devices for locating or stimulating specific reflex points of the body for physical therapy, e.g. acupuncture chiropodists' instruments A61B17/54; for radiation therapy A61N5/0619
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2/06 using magnetic fields produced by permanent magnets A61N2/12 takes precedence

Abstract

A therapeutic clothing which directs a polarity of a permanent magnet into selected locations of the human to assist in healing of the human body. The permanent magnets are preferably thin members and are positioned to contact the skin of the user. The articles of clothing include a wide variety of apparel including: shirts, gloves, trousers, socks, brassieres, and kneepads.

Claims

1. An article of clothing comprising:

a) a shirt having an interior and an exterior portion and adapted to be worn by a patient;

b) at least one permanent magnet attached to said shirt, each permanent magnet having a substantially thin structure and being magnetically oriented such that a preselected first polarity is directed to the interior of said shirt such that, when said shirt is worn by said patient, each permanent magnet contacts skin of the patient; and

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c) an adjustable flap secured to a collar of said shirt and holding one of said permanent magnets to contact, when said shirt is worn by a patient, an area of skin proximate to a sternum of said patient.

2. The article of clothing according to claim 1, wherein one of said at least one permanent magnets is moveable by said patient to contact an alternative location on said patient.

3. The article of clothing according to claim 1, wherein one of said permanent magnets is positioned to contact a base of a neck proximate to a spine of the patient.

4. An apparatus for treating human ailments comprising:

a) an article of clothing shaped as a shirt;

b) at least two permanent magnets, each of said permanent magnets having a first pole and a second pole and being attached to said article of clothing such that, when said article of clothing is worn by the patient, said first pole contacts skin of said patient, a first of said permanent magnets positioned to contact a base of a neck of the patient, a second of said permanent magnets positioned to contact skin proximate to a sternum of the patient; and

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c) an adjustable flap secured to article of clothing and holding one of said permanent magnets to contact, when said article of clothing is worn by a patient, skin of said patient.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said article of clothing includes means for moving, by said patient, one of said permanent magnets to contact an alternative location on said patient.