Complementary knee and wrist supports

• US 10,668,318 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2017
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Claudia Coe Wojcik
• Original Assignee: Claudia Coe Wojcik
• Inventors: Wojcik, Claudia Coe
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Throop, Myles A
• Application Number:
  US15/631,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20170368408A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,075 Days
• Field of Search: 5636, D6601
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 16/04 Prayer-stools; Kneeling stools; Kneeling supports hassocks or pouffes A47C3/16
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/061 for knees incorporating non-textile reinforcing elements, e.g. springs or stays, A61F5/0111; Patella supports
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/107 for wrist support incorporating non-textile reinforcing elements, e.g. springs or metal braces A61F5/0118; Compression devices for tennis elbow (epicondylitis)
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00047 Exercising devices not moving during use benches A63B21/4029; isometric exercising devices A63B21/0023; step exercisers A63B23/0458; walk exercisers A63B23/0464
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/028 made of material having high internal friction, e.g. rubber, steel wool, intended to be compressed resistance provided by plastic deformable materials A63B21/00189
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4037 Exercise mats for personal use, with or without hand-grips or foot-grips, e.g. for Yoga or supine floor exercises mats for absorbing shocks A63B6/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4039 contoured to fit to specific body parts, e.g. back, knee or neck support arrangements for attaching exercising apparatus to the user's body A63B21/4001; handles, pedals, bars or platforms A63B21/4033
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/093 Height

Abstract

An exercise support structure includes a knee support having a tiered recess with a bottom wall, a lower circular tier, and an upper egg-shaped tier; and a wrist support having a tiered support structure with a bottom wall, a lower egg-shaped tier and an upper circular tier, where the knee support and the wrist support are complementary in shape and are interfittingly received in mated relation to form a block. The edges of the tiers may be beveled, forming a smooth transition therebetween. The structure may be made from a soft, durable resilient material, such as foam, silicone gel, rubber, synthetic rubber, or organic tree sap.

Claims

1. A yoga block comprising:

a knee support having a top side and a bottom side, said top side having a tiered recess extending into the knee support, said tiered recess having a bottom wall and a lower circular tier cutout cooperating with the bottom wall to form an indentation capable of engaging and supporting a knee cap of a user, and said tiered recess further having an upper egg-shaped tier cutout, said egg-shaped tier cutout exposing a shelf adjacent said indentation, said shelf and said top side of said knee support cooperating to receive and support a shin of said user when said knee cap is positioned in said indentation; and

a wrist support having a top side and a bottom side, said bottom side having a tiered support structure extending outwardly from the wrist support, said tiered support structure having a lower egg-shaped tier layer forming a support shaped for engaging a wrist of said user, and said tiered support structure further having an upper circular tier layer forming a support shaped for engaging a palm of said user,

wherein the tiered recess of the knee support and the tiered support structure of the wrist support are complementary in shape and are interfittingly received in mated relation such that the knee support and the wrist support cooperate to form a yoga block.

2. The yoga block of claim 1, wherein the knee support and the wrist support each comprise a plurality of foam layers.

3. The yoga block of claim 1, wherein the knee support and the wrist support are unitarily molded of foam.

4. The yoga block of claim 1, wherein the circular tier cutout and upper egg-shaped tier cutout of the knee support have beveled edges, forming a gradual transition therebetween.

5. The yoga block of claim 4, wherein the circular tier layer and the upper egg-shaped tier layer of the wrist support have beveled edges, forming a gradual transition.

6. The yoga block of claim 1, wherein the circular tier layer and the upper egg-shaped tier layer of the wrist support have beveled edges, forming a gradual transition.

7. The yoga block of claim 1, wherein the tiered recess of the knee support and the tiered support structure of the wrist support are frictionally received in mated relation.

8. The yoga block of claim 5, wherein the tiered recess of the knee support and the tiered support structure of the wrist support are frictionally received in mated relation.