US1326452A - Massaging device. - Google Patents

Description

F. JOHNSON.

MASSAGING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUGHZBI 1918.

1,326,452, Patented Dec. 30,1919.

ATTORNEY TTNTTED STATES PATENT UFFTOE.

FRANK JOHNSON, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MASSAGING DEVICE.

Application filed August 28, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Jonnsoxfa citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Massaging Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to means for softening the beard in shaving operations, and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which shall offer the desired smooth and slightly yielding surface while avoiding irritation of the skin.

Another important object is to provide means for conveniently grasping and operating such device, adapted also to contain a supply of shaving-cream or like semifluid soap which may be delivered to the massaging surface as required, and to serve as a receptacle for a shaving briish.

The invention consists in certain novel features and details of construction and arrangement by which the above objects are attained, to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and show an approved form of the invention.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the device.

Fig. is an axial section taken on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1, and partly in elevation.

Fig. 3 is a face view of the massaging disk.

Fig. 4 is an elevation of the receptacle for shaving-cream, removed from the holder.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

The massaging member must be a substance or material which will provide the required friction and not roughen or burn the skin unduly; it must also offer a smoothly rounded contour to avoid abrasion due to sharp corners or angles, and it should be light, and inclined to soften slightly when moistened.

Cork offers the best agency for this purpose, as on account of its peculiarly velvety texture and slightly yielding 'character it seems to cling to the beard and may be rubbed briskly upon the surface tobe treated, without irritating the skin.

In the drawings the cork is shown in the form of a circular disk A having a plane upper face cemented or otherwise secured to Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 34 1919.

Serial No. 251,781.

a block A of wood or other suitable material. which is threaded peripherally to screw into a threaded sheet-metal shell 13, or the cork may be threaded and screwed into the shell as will be understood. The lower face of the disk A is domed and preferably corrugated in one direction, the corrugations at having sufficient width to provide the required strength and rounded frictional area. 1

By grasping the shell B as a holder the disk may be rubbed upon the moistened or lathered skin as will be understood, the direction of movement being preferably transversely of the corrugations.

\Vithin the shell is received a cream tube or cylindrical receptacle C having a neck C extending through the block B and partially through the disk A. The receptacle is adapted to contain a supply of shavingcream M and the nozzle or neck 0 is closed by a removable plug C Exterior to the shell B and correspondingly threaded is a cap D of sheet metal adapted to screw telescopically upon the shell. It is closed at the top by a cover D permanently attached and having a central screw-threaded nipple D On the interior of the cap and depending from the under face of the cover is a hollow cylindrical plunger E adapted to enter the slightly flared mouth of the receptacle C and to serve as a piston in forcing the cream M through the nozzle C by the act of screwing the shell B into the cap D.

The interior of the plunger E is utilized as a chamber to contain the brush portion of a shavingbrush N which is held in place for convenient removal by engaging the threads on its neck N with the threaded nipple D thus protecting the brush portion and permitting the handle N to protrude axially of the cap and shell. The brush may be used in spreading the lather smoothly after the face has been massaged.

The cork massages the skin efliciently while the grooves between the corrugations a a spread the lather and maintain the desired moist condition of the skin during the softening operation.

Th mouth of the receptacle C may be stopped by a plug not shown, or other removable closure to be opened when the receptacle is inserted in the shell. It is shown as a removable chamber but it may be fixed in the shell, or inserted in the form of the Well-known collapsible tube; in any case the contents is ejected by the compression produced by the plunger E in the act of telescoping the shell and cap. The threads on these parts may be omitted and the shell and cap nicely fitted to telescope frictionally one Within th other.

Only one opening is shown in the disk A and receptacle C, Which delivers the cream centrally, but a plurality of such openings located as desired may be employed to distribute the cream over the surface of the disk.

I claim V 1. In a device of the character described. a disk of cork having an opening therethrough and of sufficient rigidity to maintain at all times its predetermined form, a

shell at one end of which said disk is affixed, a receptacle Within the shell, a plunger in the receptacle, and a cap having threaded engagement with the shell and carrying said plungerto force the contents of the receptacle through said disk.

2. A massaging device comprising a shell, a receptacle Within said shell, a neck extend 'ing from said receptacle, means for forcing the contents of the receptacle through said neck, a disk in said shell around said neck, and a circular disk of cork through Which said neck passes, said cork disk having its outer surface convened and transversely corrugated.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I aflix my signature.

FRANK JOHNSON.

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