US1513475A - Massage appliance - Google Patents

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Oct. 28, 1924. 1,513,475

J. c. BELL MASSAGE APPLIANCE Filed March 1923 Patented Oct. 28, 1924. i v 1,513,475 r JOHN CORNELIUS BELL, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MASSAGE APPLIANCE.

Application filed March 6, 1923. Serial No. 623,232.

To all whom it may concern: curved upwards as at b. The other end of Be it known that I, JOHN CORNELIUS BELL, the frame is provided with a handle 0. d, d,

a citizen of the German Republic, residing at d are a plurality of spindles secured Baker Street, Portman Square, London, transversely across the frame a and on which 5 W. 1, England, have invented certain new are mounted the rollers e, e, e 'Each and useful Improvements in or Relating to spindle has mounted thereon two rollers ad- Massage Appliances, of which the following jacent one another in said frame and one is a specification. each on the outside edge thereof although 1' This invention relates to appliances for do not limit myself to the number of rollers 10 massaging the human body and to that type employed. v

of appliance comprising a plurality of rows The frame may be made in any convenient of rollers or balls mounted on spindles which size and any suitable number of rows of rollare secured to a flexible frame. ers may be provided. The rollers may be The object of the invention is to provide substantially spherical or substantially cylin 15 an improved construction of the above mendrical and may be composed of any suitable tioned type. material, for example, glass or other vit- To this end, a massage appliance con-' reous substance, stoneware, ivory, bone or structed in accordance with this invention the like. 7

comprises a plurality of rows of rollers Claim:

20 mounted on spindles arranged transversely A massage appliance comprising a frame across a resilient metal frame, said rollers made up of spaced and substantially parallel being disposed both inside and outside of substantially rigid resilient frame members said frame and said frame being provided connected at one end, a handle secured to with a handle rigidly attached thereto. this end, a plurality of spindles mounted 25 The said resilient frame is preferably comtransversely of said frame and extending posed of spring steel and one extremity therebeyond on both sides, globular rollers thereof may be curvedupwards. on each spindle between said frame mem- The invention will now be described with bers, and globular rollers freely mounted on reference to the accompanying drawing the ends of said spindles outside of said 30 which is a perspective view of one form of frame.

massage appliance constructed in accord In testimony whereof I have hereunto set ance with this invention. my hand.

The appliance consists of a rectangular frame a of spring steel, one end of which is JOHN CORNELIUS BELL.

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