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Massage apparatus with sucking and mobilising action on skin tissue
| Details |
Inventors: Guitay, Louis-Paul;
Assignee: LPG Systems (FR)
Primary Examiner: DeMille; Danton D.
Assistant Examiner: Yu; Justine R.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Wall, Marjama, Bilinski & Burr
A massage device that includes a casing having a pair of opposed transverse walls and side walls to define an open bottom chamber. The bottom of the transverse walls having convex edges extending the length of the opening. At least one of the transverse walls being capable of moving toward and away from the opposing transverse wall and a suction device is arranged to draw air through the chamber and thus draw skin into said chamber when the device is applied to a patient's body. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION However, a solution has been found, and it is this which forms the subject of the present invention, which in a manner similar to the teachings of FR-A-901,787, makes it possible to perform massage by simple suction inside a chamber whose lower edges are convexly shaped, the suction forming a skin fold directly against the said edges of the chamber and which furthermore makes it possible to perform a massage of the "squeezing-rolling" type, as in the aforementioned apparatus making it possible to perform this type of massage, without having to resort to rotary elements in the form of rollers, the apparatus according to the invention enhancing the efficiency of the treatment by the fact that a frictional action is exerted on the surface of the skin fold which is formed, in addition to intermittent pinching of the latter.
Furthermore, the apparatus according to the invention is very compact, very simply designed, and easy to maintain.
It has a structure such that, in spite of its compactness, it makes it possible to take up a skin fold having a very large surface area.
Lastly, it has been observed that, when used, it was particularly easy to move over the patient's body.
Furthermore, according to a preferred embodiment, an apparatus of this type can be used equally well by exerting thrust or tension, and with the same efficiency in both directions.
As mentioned above, the apparatus according to the invention is advantageously designed for exerting a pulsating action on the skin fold.
An action of this type can be obtained, for example, by mounting the said apparatus at the inlet of a suction circuit including means making it possible to vary the air flow rate.
For example, a circuit of this type may include a solenoid valve produced in accordance with the teachings of patent WO 95/09596, which makes it possible to obtain not only all-or-nothing operation, but also a controlled flow rate of the air stream between two determined values, with the possibility of adjustment between the said values
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