EP2044920A1 - Appareil de massage - Google Patents

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EP2044920A1
EP2044920A1 EP08165580A EP08165580A EP2044920A1 EP 2044920 A1 EP2044920 A1 EP 2044920A1 EP 08165580 A EP08165580 A EP 08165580A EP 08165580 A EP08165580 A EP 08165580A EP 2044920 A1 EP2044920 A1 EP 2044920A1
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Costica Ungureanu
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H15/00—Massage by means of rollers, balls, e.g. inflatable, chains, or roller chains
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H15/00—Massage by means of rollers, balls, e.g. inflatable, chains, or roller chains
    • A61H2015/0007—Massage by means of rollers, balls, e.g. inflatable, chains, or roller chains with balls or rollers rotating about their own axis
    • A61H2015/0028—Massage by means of rollers, balls, e.g. inflatable, chains, or roller chains with balls or rollers rotating about their own axis disc-like, i.e. diameter substantially greater than width
    • A61H2015/0035—Massage by means of rollers, balls, e.g. inflatable, chains, or roller chains with balls or rollers rotating about their own axis disc-like, i.e. diameter substantially greater than width multiple on the same axis
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
    • A61H2205/00—Devices for specific parts of the body
    • A61H2205/12—Feet

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  • the present invention pertains to a massager, and especially to a massager in which respective dispositions of the massager are possible.
  • the present invention more readily facilitates respective dispositions of a massager.
  • the present invention provides for four respective dispositions of the massager: massage through using the massager as a whole; massage through taking a massage tool out of the massager; removing or replacing components of the massager tool; and cleaning some or all of the massager through taking the massage tool out of the massager.
  • a massager comprising massage-tool means for application of massage and support means for supporting said massage-tool means; and wherein, for respective dispositions of said massager, said massage-tool means and said support means are shaped and configured for said massage-tool means to be selectively supportable by, and removable from, said support means.
  • massager 1 comprises massage-tool means 2 for application of massage, and support means 3 for supporting massage-tool means 2.
  • Massage-tool means 2 comprises handle means 4 and releasably-securable axel-mounted massage-application contact means 5 such as cogged disks 6.
  • massage-tool means 2 and support means 3 are shaped and configured for massage-tool means 2 to be selectively supportable by, and removable from, support means 3. More specifically, support means 3 for supporting massage-tool means 2 comprises gap means 7 and massage-tool means 2 comprises a surface 8 corresponding to gap means 7.
  • Gap means 7 converges downwardly along support means 3, comprises curvilinear gap means having a side defined by an arm of a parabola and, indeed, comprises curvilinear gap means having two such sides that are symmetric to one another.
  • support means 3 comprises stabilizing means. More specifically, support means 3 comprises a skirt 9, a plurality of posts 10, a plurality off ribs 11, and a plurality of struts 12. Skirt 9 extends away from massager 1. Plurality of ribs 11 is perpendicular to prospective directions of the application of massage. Plurality of struts 12 comprises individual struts on respective sides of the massager 1, joining a pair of posts 10 that are on that same side of the massager 1 and being parallel to prospective directions of the application of massage.
  • each of the cogged disks 6 comprises a five-point star-shaped laminar member 13 having rounded points 14; a right-circular cylindrical laminar member 15 integral with, parallel to, and symmetric about the laminar member 13; and a right circular cylindrical opening 16 through the centre of each of the laminar member 13 and the laminar member 15.
  • the laminar member 13 and the laminar member 15 are each shaped and configured so that the rounded points 14 of immediately adjacent rows of cogged disks 6 can be spaced apart from one another such that the rounded points 14 of immediately adjacent rows of cogged disks 6 will not interfere with one another.
  • the laminar member 13 and the laminar member 15 are each 5 millimetres thick and made of polypropylene (commonly referred to as "PP") plastic and are mounted on three rods (not shown). Depending on the length of each rod (not shown), there are ten to fifteen cogged disks 6 per rod (not shown).
  • each of the three rods (not shown) is of T-302 stainless steel, is between 155 and 165 millimetres in length, and has an outside diameter off 4 millimetres.
  • Other parts of the massager 1 are preferably made by injection molding of a thermoplastic that combines the strength and rigidity of acrylonitrile and styrene polymers with the toughness of polybutadiene rubber.
  • Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (commonly referred to as "ABS"), is such a material, such that support means 3 is ABS and has walls at least 2 millimetres thick and such that handle means 4 is ABS and generally has walls at least 1.5 millimetres thick.
  • wall thickness of an inner component of the handle means 4 is greater than 1.5 millimetres in each region 17 around the ends of each of the three rods (not shown) and in each region 18 around where each of three screws (not shown) is to join an inner and an outer component of the handle means 4 to one another once those two components are fitted together.
  • each end of an inner component of a massage-tool means 2 has two rectangular openings 19 through it; above and aligned with each rectangular opening 19 there is a respective channel 20 which has a rectangular cross-section, which at its upper end is partly enclosed by a bracket 21, and which has a lower end 22 beveled interiorly towards an outer component of a massage-tool means 2 and downwardly towards the rectangular opening 19.
  • a largely interior component 23 of a massage-tool means 2 has two prongs 24.
  • Each prong 24 has at its lower end a beveled tooth 25.
  • Each beveled tooth 25 is to be flexed into interior space between the inner component of the handle means 4 and the outer component of the handle means 4.
  • Such flexing is to be by a lower end 22 of a channel 20: when a prong 24 is inserted downwardly through the upper end of a bracket 21, then out of the bottom of that bracket 21, and then farther along a channel 20, the flexing occurs by the beveled tooth 25 contacting and being pushed interiorly by the lower end 22 of a respective channel 20.
  • Each beveled tooth 25 is also shaped and configured such that when the largely interior component 23 is pushed down farther, the beveled tooth 25 then securely snaps into a respective rectangular opening 19.
  • Each prong 24 also has a protrusion 26 which is shaped and configured to securely fit inside a respective bracket 21.
  • each rod-securing protrusion 27 of largely interior component 23 is shaped and configured to securely fit a corresponding inner face of each region 17 around the ends of a respective one of the three rods (not shown) so as to secure each of the three rods (not shown).
  • releasably-securable means for securing the axel-mounted massage-application contact means comprises a tongue-and-groove join of an inner component of said massage-tool means 2 and a largely interior component 23 of said massage-tool means 2: a region 17, rectangular opening 19, channel 20, bracket 21, lower end 22, prong 24, beveled tooth 25, protrusion 26, and rod-securing protrusion 27.
  • a respective largely interior component 23 depicted in Figure 6 is to be slid into place in the manner described in the two immediately preceding paragraphs hereof. (Of the two largely interior components 23 depicted in Figure 7 , only the depiction of the largely interior component 23 in the right-hand side of Figure 7 has element numbers applied to it, as the depiction of the largely interior component 23 in the left-hand side of Figure 7 is not amenable to having element numbers applied to it.)
  • a disassembly tool 28 for use on the largely interior component 23 depicted in Figures 6 and 7 has an upper member 32, has a lower member 33, and is of a generally L-shaped cross-section.
  • the outer face of the disassembly tool 28 has a concavity 29 which is between the upper member 32 and the lower member 33, and which is shaped and configured to conform to the inner surface of the handle 4.
  • the outer face of the disassembly tool 28 also has a wedge-like opening 30 which is shaped and configured to conform to the lower part of the central one of the regions 17 of the handle 4.
  • the outer face of the disassembly tool 28 has protrusions 31 each of which is shaped and configured to be inserted into a respective rectangular opening 19.
  • any or all of the three rods (not shown) and the cogged disks 6 that are on them can be removed in order to clean some or all of the cogged disks 6, or to remove or replace cogged disks 6 such as with other cogged disks (not shown) having a different number or shape of points.
  • cleaning (or removal or replacement) has been completed, and releasably-securable axel-mounted massage-application contact means 5 such as cogged disks 6 and rods (not shown) have been put into the massage-tool means 2, each of the largely interior components 23 can then be reinserted and snapped back into place, in analogy with what is described in connection with Figure 6 .
  • each of the posts 10 is capped by a knob (not shown) made of a thermoplastic polymer such as polyvinyl chloride (commonly referred to as "PVC").
  • PVC polyvinyl chloride
  • Massage through taking the massage-tool means 2 out of the support means 3 of the massager 1, can be effected on a variety of body parts of a user or of another, by lifting the massage-tool means 2 out of the support means 3 of the massager 1 and by the user then applying the rounded points 14 of the cogged disks 6 to such body parts, to cause the cogged disks 6 to rotate about each of the three rods (not shown).
  • Removing or replacing components of the massage-tool means 2 can especially be effected through removing both largely interior components 23, then removing and replacing releasably-securable axel-mounted massage-application contact means 5 such as cogged disks 6 and rods (not shown), and then reinserting each of the largely interior components 23 and snapping each of the largely interior components 23 back into place.
  • Cleaning some of all of the massager 1 through taking the massage-tool means 2 out of the support means 3 of the massager 1 can especially be effected by lifting the massage-tool means 2 out of the support means 3 of the massager 1 and by rinsing either or both of the support means 3 and the cogged disks 6 with water; indeed, the materials used to construct the massager 1 also facilitate using the massager 1 in water.

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CA 2599605 CA2599605A1 (fr) 2007-08-31 2007-08-31 Appareil de massage
US11/979,765 US20090124942A1 (en) 2007-11-08 2007-11-08 Massager

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP3065689A4 (fr) * 2013-11-08 2017-05-17 SRT Performance Pty Ltd. Dispositif pour masser un utilisateur

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US3672358A (en) * 1970-12-02 1972-06-27 Eugene J Majewski Massage device
US3756224A (en) * 1972-01-17 1973-09-04 R Laymon Mechanical muscle massager
US4010743A (en) * 1976-03-30 1977-03-08 Ron Fitzsimons Foot massager
CA1101285A (fr) 1978-05-26 1981-05-19 Kerry Mccauley Traduction non-disponible
CA1245926A (fr) 1985-07-30 1988-12-06 William M. Quam Appareil pour le massage et le support de la voute plantaire
US4832006A (en) * 1985-10-11 1989-05-23 Sander Kirsch Massage apparatus
WO2001039716A2 (fr) * 1999-12-03 2001-06-07 Fitness Works, Inc. Appareil de massage du dos par acupressure
US20070129654A1 (en) * 2005-10-13 2007-06-07 Anderson James Jr Therapeutic roller

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3672358A (en) * 1970-12-02 1972-06-27 Eugene J Majewski Massage device
US3756224A (en) * 1972-01-17 1973-09-04 R Laymon Mechanical muscle massager
US4010743A (en) * 1976-03-30 1977-03-08 Ron Fitzsimons Foot massager
CA1055542A (fr) 1976-03-30 1979-05-29 Ron Fitzsimons Appareil de massage de la plante des pieds
CA1101285A (fr) 1978-05-26 1981-05-19 Kerry Mccauley Traduction non-disponible
CA1245926A (fr) 1985-07-30 1988-12-06 William M. Quam Appareil pour le massage et le support de la voute plantaire
US4832006A (en) * 1985-10-11 1989-05-23 Sander Kirsch Massage apparatus
WO2001039716A2 (fr) * 1999-12-03 2001-06-07 Fitness Works, Inc. Appareil de massage du dos par acupressure
US20070129654A1 (en) * 2005-10-13 2007-06-07 Anderson James Jr Therapeutic roller

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP3065689A4 (fr) * 2013-11-08 2017-05-17 SRT Performance Pty Ltd. Dispositif pour masser un utilisateur

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