Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Exercising appliance
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-12
2001-09-18
DeMille, Danton D. (Department: 3764)
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Exercising appliance
C601S098000, C601S103000, C601S111000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06290660
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an automated means for providing percussion action to one's chest and more particularly pertains to a new automated chest percussor apparatus for dislodging and loosening pulmonary secretions in one's chest.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of an automated means for providing percussion action to one's chest is known in the prior art. More specifically, an automated means for providing percussion action to one's chest heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 4,508,107; U.S. Pat. No. 3,425,409; U.S. Pat. No. 4,887,594; U.S. Pat. No. 5,399,148; U.S. Pat. No. 4,429,688; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,769,800.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new automated chest percussor apparatus. The inventive device includes a rectangular housing mounted upon a pair of adjustable telescopic legs, and further includes a motor, a rotatable shaft connected to the motor, a first cam mounted to the rotatable shaft near the motor, a second cam mounted to near the end of the rotatable shaft away from the motor, a first bushing supported by a support bracket
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and supporting the rotatable shaft between the first and second cams, a first tubular member being connected to the first cam and being movably extended through a bottom wall of the housing, a second bushing supporting the first tubular member, a first flange member being securely attached to an upper end of the first tubular member, a first spring member being mounted about the first tubular member and disposed between the first flange member and the bottom wall of the housing, a first percussor member being adjustably threaded through a bottom end of the first tubular member, a second tubular member being connected to the second cam and being movably extended through a bottom wall of the housing, a third bushing supporting the second tubular member, a second flange member being securely attached to an upper end of the second tubular member, a second spring member being mounted about the second tubular member and disposed between the second flange member and the bottom wall of the housing, a second percussor member being adjustably threaded through a bottom end of the second tubular member, and a power and control source.
In these respects, the automated chest percussor apparatus according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of dislodging and loosening pulmonary secretions in one's chest.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of an automated means for providing percussion action to one's chest now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new automated chest percussor apparatus construction wherein the same can be utilized for dislodging and loosening pulmonary secretions in one's chest.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new automated chest percussor apparatus which has many of the advantages of the an automated means for providing percussion action to one's chest mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new automated chest percussor apparatus which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art an automated means for providing percussion action to one's chest, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises includes a rectangular housing mounted upon a pair of adjustable telescopic legs, and further includes a motor, a rotatable shaft connected to the motor, a first cam mounted to the rotatable shaft near the motor, a second cam mounted to near the end of the rotatable shaft away from the motor, a first bushing supported by a support bracket
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and supporting the rotatable shaft between the first and second cams, a first tubular member being connected to the first cam and being movably extended through a bottom wall of the housing, a second bushing supporting the first tubular member, a first flange member being securely attached to an upper end of the first tubular member, a first spring member being mounted about the first tubular member and disposed between the first flange member and the bottom wall of the housing, a first percussor member being adjustably threaded through a bottom end of the first tubular member, a second tubular member being connected to the second cam and being movably extended through a bottom wall of the housing, a third bushing supporting the second tubular member, a second flange member being securely attached to an upper end of the second tubular member, a second spring member being mounted about the second tubular member and disposed between the second flange member and the bottom wall of the housing, a second percussor member being adjustably threaded through a bottom end of the second tubular member, and a power and control source.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new automated chest percussor apparatus which has many of the advantages of the an automated means for providing percussion action to one's chest mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new automated chest percussor apparatus which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art an automated means for providing percussion action to one's chest, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new automated chest percussor apparatus wh
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