Method and apparatus for therapy of skin tissue

• US 3,315,665 A
• Filed: 10/11/1963
• Issued: 04/25/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Norman A. Macleod
• Original Assignee: Norman A. Macleod
• Inventors: Macleod, Norman A.
• Application Number:
  US04/315,570
• Time in Patent Office: 1,292 Days
• US Class Current: 601/7
• 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 23/04 with hydraulic or pneumatic drive hydraulic or Pneumatic massages, A61H9/00; underwater massages, A61H33/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 9/005 Pneumatic massage
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 9/0071 by localized pressure, e.g. air streams or jets
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0408 Use-related aspects
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0476 Array electrodes (including any electrode arrangement with more than one electrode for at least one of the polarities)
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/26 Electromedical brushes; Electromedical massage devices massage devices in general A61H; Combs

Claims

2. AN APPLIANCE FOR THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT OF THE SKIN BY FLEXING THE SKIN TISSUES BY APPLYING ELEVATING AND DEPRESSING STRESSES THERETO COMPRISING AN APPLICATOR HAVING A PART ADAPTED FOR DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE SKIN TISSUE, SAID PART BEING CONFIGURATD TO HAVE SPACED AREAS FOR CONTACTING THE SKIN WITH DEPRESSED AREAS BETWEEN THE SPACED AREAS AND MEANS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY PRODUCE CONTIGUOUS AREAS THAT ARE DEPRESSED AND ELEVATED RELATIVE TO THE NORMAL LEVEL OF THE SKIN, SAID APPLICATOR BEING MOVABLE WHEREBY TO CAUSE SAID DEPRESSED AND ELEVATED AREAS TO TRANSVERSE LATERALLY AS RESPECTS THE SKIN.