Articles of humanwear merchandise having magnetic structure for producing magnetic healing effects
OwnerRichard A. Lopez, Augustine C. Fonginventors
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Abstract
Humanwear merchandise is provided in the form of torso-worn garments, headgear and gear for body appendages. The merchandise includes magnetic structure that corresponds to acupressure points on the human torso, head and body appendages for effecting therapeutic magnetic exposure when worn by a human user. The magnet-containing humanwear merchandise includes: (1) several glove designs, (2) torso-worn garments, including T-shirts, pants, briefs, and brassieres, and (3) headgear and various gear for body appendages, including a facemask, a visored-headband, footwear, ankle/foot band support, wrist/hand band supports, finger band, neck band support, and localized elbow and knee support bands.
Claims16
An article of merchandise for human wear, said article comprising:
- a glove member, said glove member being manufactured from at least one layer of covering material;
- and
- a permanent magnet structural arrangement comprising at least one permanent magnet attached to said covering material, said permanent magnet member having a substantially thin structure and being magnetically oriented such that a preselected first polarity is directed to the interior of said glove member for contacting and exposing a human wearer to a magnetic field associated with said permanent magnet, at least one of said permanent magnets positioned to contact a back of a hand of a human wearer.
A therapeutic apparatus comprising:
- a) a glove member adapted to fit over a patient's hand;
- and,
- b) at least two permanent magnets, each of said at least two permanent magnets,
- 1) having a substantially thin structure and being circular in shape,
- 2) attached to said glove member,
- 3) contactable with said patient's hand when said patient's hand is placed within said glove member, and,
- 4) oriented such that a selected magnetic polarity is directed into said patient's hand.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.