Roller massaging apparatus with suction function

A manually operated massage apparatus comprising

• a casing containing an open chamber in the bottom section thereof, said chamber having a pair of opposed side walls, and a top wall,
• said side walls containing parallely aligned slots therein that extend along the chamber, said slots following the contour of the top wall of the chamber whereby the distance between the center lines of each slot and the top wall remains constant along the chamber,
• a pair of spaced apart roller, each of said roller being longitudinally mounted on shafts that are slidably contained within the slots so that the rollers may freely rotate, each of said rollers being mounted in close uniform proximity with the side walls and the top wall of the chamber at all times, the spacing between the rollers and the walls being such that at least a partial seal can be formed
• said casing further containing a conduit having an exit orifice that opens into the space between said rollers so that a reduced pressure is created in said space when the rollers are applied to the skin of a patient to produce a skin fold within the space between the rollers, and
• biasing means acting upon the rollers for urging the rollers apart into a first position and wherein the roller can move toward each other under the effect of suction being drawn in the chamber within the space between the rollers.