US652446A - Electromedical bath. - Google Patents

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No. 652,446. Patented June 26, wool. J. .1. STANGER. ELECTROMEDIGAL BATH. (Application filed A pr. 20,v 1900.)

(No Model.)

rim-W an v .MY/Qm UNITED S'rnns JOHANN JAKOB STANGER, OF ULM, GERMANY.

ELECTRON] EDICAL. BATH.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 652,446, dated June 26, 1900.

Application filed April 20, 1900.

' that the electric current can be concentrated or distributed in any place of the bath.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of the bath-tub. Fig. 2 is a cross-sec tion of the same. Fig. 3 shows the mannerin which the electrodes are fastened.

The bath-tub, Fig. 1, is of a trapezoidal shape and consists of wood or other isolating substance. The front wall a of the bath-tub is provided with a metal band I), to which one pole of the battery is fixed. A number of metal rods are fixed to the rim of the bathtub above this metal band I) in such a way that each can be turned on its hinge d. These metal rods can be switched on the metal band Z) by means of switch-levers g. On the opposite side of the bath-tub a metal rake 6, provided with as many teeth f as there are hingebars a, is also so hinged to the bath-tub that it can be turned up. To this rake the other pole is fixed.

For the purpose of conducting the current into the bath fluid electrodes h, reaching almost to the bottom of the tub, and consequently nearly equal in length to the depth of the tub, are movably arranged on the metal bars 0, as Well as on the metal teeth f of the rake 6. At their upper ends these electrodes are provided with a metal socket i, in the midst of which an oblong opening Z is arranged, through which the bars 0 fare passed. The metal socketsof the electrodes being provided with these oblong openings Z, through which bars 0 f may be passed, Fig. 8, the electrodes can be displaced, as well as laterally turned and fixed, by screw upon the bars. In this way the metal sockets 2' of the electrodes h are firmly pressed against the bars Serial No. 13,596. (No model.)

0 f, thereby insuring agood contact. As the electrodes can be displaced and turned 011 the conducting-bars c f, the intensity of the current can be changed in every place of the bath. Moreover, further variations in this re the bath without it being necessary that the metal parts of the electric equipment come into contact with the bath fluid, whereby decomposition might take place.

The current is conducted to the tub by a switchboard fastened to it. On said switchboard a rheostat, the handle of which can easily be turned by the person in the bath, is provided for regulating and adjusting the intensity of the current. In like manner a voltmeter and ampere-meter, as Well as a current-reverser and electric alarm,are arranged on the switchboard.

I claim- 1. In an electric bath, the combination of a bath-tub with a series of rods arranged on opposite sides thereof, switch-levers for throwing some of said rods in circuit,and electrodes supported upon said rods and projecting into the tub, substantially as specified.

2. In an electric bath, the combination of a bath-tub with a series of pivotally-movable rods arranged on opposite sides thereof, switch-levers for throwing some of said rods in circuit, and electrodes adj ustably supported by the rods and projecting into the tub, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHANN JAKOB STANGER.

Witnesses:

FLORENCE T. IVICDONALD, ANDREAS Sons.

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