Appeal No. 2003-1575 Page 5
Application No. 09/420,306
a given operating direction which extends transversely to the roller spindles. The
massaging apparatus further comprises a suction chamber in the area of the two
rollers, this suction chamber enclosing a suction space and comprising two transverse
walls, which extend substantially perpendicularly to the roller spindles, and two
longitudinal walls, which extend parallel to the roller spindles, are connected to the two
transverse walls, and each has a free end adjacent the circumferential surface of a
roller, this suction chamber being open in its area which faces a person's skin when
the rollers are applied to the skin of a person and is connected to a pump for the
transfer of air via an air-transfer connection, the pump--with the rollers applied to
the skin of a person--being capable of generating a partial vacuum in the suction
chamber in order to form a skin fold which is drawn into the suction chamber.
Figures 1-6 show a massaging apparatus in accordance with a first embodiment
of Bleeker's invention wherein both the forward roller 30 and the rearward roller 31 are
outside of the suction chamber 56. Figure 9 is a highly diagrammatic sectional view of
a massaging apparatus in accordance with another embodiment of Bleeker's invention
wherein the forward roller 30 is within the suction chamber 56 and the rearward roller
31 is outside the suction chamber 56. Figure 10 shows a highly diagrammatic sectional
view of a massaging apparatus in accordance with a further embodiment of Bleeker's
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