Improvements in and relating to light bath couches and massage sofas / [Robert Otto].

  • Otto, Robert.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Improvements in and relating to light bath couches and massage sofas / [Robert Otto]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N“ 14,991 A.D. 1901 Date of Application, 23rd July, 1901 Complete Specification Left, 23rd Apr., 1902—Accepted, 29th May, 1902 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in and Relating to Light Bath Couches and Massage Sofas. I, Robert Otto, Works Manager, of 124 Koepenickerstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows : — This invention for improvements in and relating to light bath couches and o massage sofas has for its object to provide a light bath couch (bed or settee) standing on feet and provided with an openwork reclining surface which consists preferably of a frame on which seat-bottom woven work is stretched. A head rest is hinged to one end of this reclining surface and can be made in the same way and of the same material as the reclining surface itself. Id The framework of the couch proper and two other frames are provided beneath the frame of the reclining surface, and between these two other frames electric incandescent lamps are arranged all round the underside of the middle frame in an inclined position, in such a manner, that they are out of reach of any drops of sweat falling from the patient. The sweat is caught by a convex tray of metal, 1 h so shaped and polished, varnished or enamelled on its upper surface that it can reflect the rays of the inclined electric lamps upwards. By this means, the patient’s body is bathed in the light from underneath, in that the light rays are able to pass through the openings in the woven work of the reclining surface and so impinge on the body. The top side of the frame of the 20 reclining surface is provided along its longer sides with socket grooves into which the lower edges of the sides of the upper light bath arrangement project. This latter—of any suitable and known construction—forms an arched roof over the patient’s body, and is also provided on its inside surface with electric incan¬ descent lamps. It may have a window for purposes of observation and the 2a entrance of light rays in any suitable position and is open at the head end but is closed at the foot end of the couch by means of a transverse end wall. In order that this upper light bath arrangement may be the more easily put in place or removed it is best made in two parts divided transversely. Each of these parts is provided at the top with a handle to assist in lifting off, carrying about, and 3b so on. The above described light bath couch enables the body to be exposed to the light coming from beneath and from above simultaneously, and is therefore of extreme efficiency, and moreover, it may be employed as a massage sofa, the upper light bath arrangement being removed, which can be warmed by switching od m the underneath lamps. In this way the great objection to massage sofas, namely, that the body of the patient gets cold during the massage treatment, is successfullv overcome. Dated this 23rd day of July, 1901. WHEATLEY A MACKENZIE. 40 40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C. Agents. [ Price 8r/.]