US684977A - Electric belt. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Oct. 22, l90l.

A CHRYSTAL.

ELECTRIC BELT.

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Patented Oct. 22, I901. A. CHRYSTAL.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREWCHRYSTAL, OF MARSHALL, MICHIGAN.

ELECTRIC BELT.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 684,977, dated October 22, 1901.

' Application filed August 19,1901. Serial No. 72,504. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW CHRYSTAL, a citizen of the United. States, residing at Marshall, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Belts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in medical electrical belts,and pertains more par= ticularly to that class of belts which are adapted to send a current of electricity through the body and the testicles in the treatment of acute and chronic diseases of Various kinds.

The main object of my invention is to provide a belt so arranged and constructed that a faradic current can be sent through the body andaseparate faradic current can be sent directly through from one testicle to the other.

Another object of my invention is provide an electrical belt in which there is an interrupted primary current, a secondary current, and a combined primary and secondary current.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a belt in which the current passing through the testicles can be readily increased by changing the different wires to the diflerent binding-posts of the induction-coil.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my device. Fig. 2 is a back view of the belt partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a back view of the belt, partly broken away, showing the contact-plates and their connections. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line 1 1, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view of the contact-plate and the screw connection carried by the wire. Fig. 6 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the suspensory electrodes, showing the sponge attached.

Referring now to the drawings, A represents a belt, preferably made of silk or like material and having its inner face lined with some insulating material, such as rubber, as shown at a. The said belt is adapted to pass around the waist and be fastened in the front by a buckle A, which may be of any desired form, but preferably that shown in the drawings. The inner face or insulating material a of the belt is provided at the back with the two electrodes G O, which are preferably cirend with outwardly-projecting lugs d andcl',

which are provided with transverse screwthreaded openings adapted to receive the screw-threaded connections carried by the ends of the wire running from the inductioncoil andthe suspensory,hereinaftermorefully described, and the plate D has one end provided with a lug (1 similar to those carried by the plate D.

The battery is represented by the letter E, which may be of any desired form and is connected to an ordinary induction-coil F, which is provided with a switch E and the removable core 1 whereby the current can be instantaneously out 01f by the switch or the current increased or diminished by pulling the core in or out, as is readily understood by those skilled in the art of electricity. The said induction-coil is provided with three binding-posts, numbered 1, 2, and 3, as clearly shown in Fig. l, and the purpose of which will be hereinafter more fully described. Con nected to the binding-post numbered 1 is a wire 6, having its opposite end passing between the outer silk facing of the belt and the inner insulating material a and having its extreme outer end extending through the insulating material and connected to the inner face of the electrode 0, whereby a smooth outer contactsurface is adapted to bear against the body. The binding-post numbered 2 has connected thereto a wire f, which has its outer end provided with a screw-thread ed connection K, which is adapted to enter the lug d, carried by the plate D, while the wire g, connected to the binding-post numbered 3, has its outer end passing between the inner insulating material a and the outer silk facing of the belt, connected to the inner face of the plate D at m, and continued on between the inner and outer facings and having the end extending through the inner insulating material a and connected with the inner face of the body-electrode C at the point a.

The suspensory consists of the ordinary gauze receptacle H of a shape to snugly fit the testicles, and adjustably secured to the upper edge thereof are upwardly-extending elastic straps 4 and 5, which pass up over the hips and have their upper ends provided with loops 6 and 7, adapted to receive the belt, whereby the said suspensory is supported. Secured to the lower portion of said suspensory are two elastic straps 8 and 9,whieh are adapted to pass between the legs and secured to therear portion of the belt in any desired manner and by means of which the gauze receptacle carrying the electrodes, hereinafter more fully described, is firmly held in contact with the testicles. The inner face of the gauze receptacle H has secured thereto two plates 10 and 11, so arranged that one of said plates will come opposite one testicle and the other plate opposite the other testicle. The said plates have openings near their outer edges and by means of which it is sewed to the gauze receptacle, and I preferably secure sponges to the said plates by means of the before-described openings. By having the sponges secured to the plates,the said sponges when wet will form a better contactpoint, as they will conform with the shape of the testicles.

The outer face of the plate 10 has secured thereto a wire 12, which extends out through the gauze and is of a length to allow the device to fit a large or small person. The opposite end of said wire 12 has a screw connection K secured thereto, which is adapted to screw into the lug (1 carried by the plate D, and the other plate 11, carried by the gauze receptacle, has a similar wire 13 secured thereto, and its other end carrying a screw connection K, which is adapted to enter the lug cl, carried by the plate (1.

By having the connections as above shown and described an interrupted primary current passes from the binding-posts l and 2 through the wires 9 and f, a secondary alone from binding-posts 2 and 3 through the wires f and g, and a combined primary and secondaryfrom the binding-posts 1 and 3 through the wires 6 and g.

hen it is desired to increase the current passing through the testicles, the wire 6 in the binding-post 1 is removed and placed in binding-post 2 and the wire f is placed in binding-post 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a belt, a suspensory and connections for sending an independent faradic current through said belt and suspensory, substantially as described.

2. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a belt, electrodes carried by said belt, a suspensory carried by the belt, electrodes carried by the suspensory, and connections adapted to send a separate independent current through the electrodes in the belt and suspensory, substantially as described.

3. An apparatus of the character described, the combination with a belt, of an inductioncoil, a battery connected thereto, a suspensory carried by said belt, electrodes carried by the belt and suspensory, and connections between the ind uction-coil and all of the electrodes, substantially as described.

4. An apparatus of the character described, com prising a belt, con tactplates carried thereby, outwardly-extending lugs carried by said plates and having transverse screw-threaded openings, and screw-threaded tips carried by -the wires and adapted to enter the openings in the said lugs, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a belt and battery connected thereto, of a suspensory carried thereby, oppositely-arranged electrodes carried by the suspensory, and flexible wires connecting said electrodes and belt, substantially as described.

6. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a belt, electrodes carried thereby, eontact-plates between said electrodes, batteries adjacent said belt, a wire connected thereto and the opposite end connected to one of the electrodes, a second wire connected to the batteries and one of said contactplates, a third wire having a connection with the batteries and the opposite end connected to the other contact-plate and the electrode, a suspensory carried by the belt, electrodes carried by the suspensory, and flexible wires c011- nected to the electrodes carried by the suspensory and the opposite ends connected to the contact-plates, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW CIIRYSTAL.

Vfitnesses:

James P. lloenns, HARRY MORGAN.

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