US 12,005,022 B2
Massage tool rotatably attachable to a reciprocating motor
Eddy Arnold Williams, Pocatello, ID (US)
Filed by Eddy Arnold Williams, Pocatello, ID (US)
Filed on Dec. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/083,955.
Application 18/083,955 is a continuation of application No. 16/968,866, granted, now 11,529,284, issued on Dec. 20, 2022, previously published as PCT/US2020/027432, filed on Apr. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/950,112, filed on Dec. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/830,698, filed on Apr. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0181417 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61H 23/02 (2006.01); A61H 23/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61H 23/0254 (2013.01) [A61H 2023/002 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0153 (2013.01); A61H 2201/149 (2013.01); A61H 2201/1678 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A massaging apparatus, comprising:
a hand-held reciprocating motor having a shaft configured to reciprocate along a stroke axis;
a rod having a proximal end couplable to the shaft to maintain the rod in axial alignment therewith, and one or more distal ends attaching one or more body followers symmetrically disposed about a plane passing through the stroke axis, each of the one or more body followers configured to contact a body surface of a patient; and
a swivel formed in the rod and configured to allow the rod to swivel around the stroke axis in response to the one or more body followers being translated against and around contours of the body surface.