Foot massage apparatus
AssigneeShin-Young Ahn
InventorBoo-Hong Ahn
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Abstract
In a foot massage apparatus, a foot massage apparatus which is capable of performing various massages such as an acupressure massage, a cold-water massage, a hot-water massage, a liquid medicine medicine, etc. efficiently by jetting water to feet includes a bottom jet means installed inside a main body, an intermittent jet head jetting water at the upper surface and bottom surface intermittently, a upper casing combined with a lower casing so as to be angle-adjustable, an acupressure roller installed at a center portion of a footstool, an aromatic agent jet means and a hot-air drying means, a heater in stalled between a detachable water vessel and a pump, and an input tube for depositing ice, salt, various medicines, etc. into the detachable water vessel installed at a lower casing of the main body.
Claims12
In a foot massage apparatus massaging feet by inserting feet inside a main body having a upper casing and a lower casing, putting the feet on a footstool and jetting water from jet means installed inside the main body, an improvement in the jet means, comprising:
- a plurality of intermittence jet heads for massaging feet by jetting intermittently pressurized water current, the intermittence jet head including;
- a cylinder unit having an axial protrusion formed at the center portion and a pair of inlet holes formed at a peripheral wall for flowing pressurized water;
- an impeller installed at the axial protrusion of the cylinder unit and having a plurality of blades at the outer circumference of a hub as a vortex shape and a shutter plate formed at the upper portion in order to cover the part of the plurality of blades;
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- a nozzle cover combined with the cylinder unit with a screw and having a plurality of nozzles opened and closed by the shutter plate;
- said jet means further including;
- a bottom jet means installed at the inner bottom surface of the upper casing of the main body and including a plurality of cylinder-shaped recesses within a pair of virtual foot installation regions on the inner bottom surface of the upper casing, an intermittence jet head installed at each cylinder-shaped recess and a pressure water supply pipe connected to a pressure water chamber formed at the inner lower portion of the upper casing;
- a front jet means installed at the front of an inner upper surface of the upper casing of the main body and including an intermittence jet head combined with the upper end of a jet pipe connected to the pressure water supply pipe;
- a rear jet means installed at the rear of the inner upper casing of the main body and including an intermittence jet head combined with the upper end of the jet pipe connected to the pressure water supply pipe;
- wherein the main body comprises;
- a casing cover covering the upper casing which is hinge-combined with the lower casing so as to be rotatable;
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- an angle adjusting means adjusting an angle of the upper casing and having a fixation pipe fixed to the front end portion of a upper plate of the lower casing, an adjusting rod inserted inside the fixation pipe with a spring and having a hemisphere shaped upper end, a seat unit formed at the bottom front end of the upper casing and contact-supporting the adjusting rod and a set screw combined with the upper end of the fixation pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.