CONVERTIBLE BARREL EXERCISE APPARATUS

• US 20080004167A1
• Filed: 09/11/2007
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Balanced Body Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Balanced Body Incorporated
• Inventors: Endelman, Ken
• Granted Patent: US 7,563,217 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 482/142
• 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 21/4037 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 22/0087 with a seat or torso support moving during the exercise, e.g. reformers A63B22/0076 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0211 moving torso with immobilized lower limbs
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0233 Muscles of the back, e.g. by an extension of the body against a resistance, reverse crunch

Abstract

A barrel exercise apparatus in accordance with the present disclosure is a curved, partial barrel shaped body that has an upper curved surface having two portions with different radii of curvature. A removable step block may be included and may be attached to the barrel shaped body.

Claims

1. An exercise apparatus comprising:

a curved partial cylindrical barrel shaped body having a bottom surface, an upper curved surface, a first end face, a second end face, and a rear wall between the bottom surface and upper curved surface, said upper curved surface including a first cylindrical surface portion merging with a second cylindrical surface portion forming a continuous smooth curved surface, the first surface portion having a first radius of curvature about a first axis, the second surface portion having a second radius of curvature about a second axis parallel to the first axis, wherein the first radius of curvature is different from the second radius of curvature and the first and second axes together define a plane through a line of intersection of the first and second cylindrical surface portions, and said rear wall having at least one recess to form a tongue and groove configuration;

a removable step block having a bottom surface, a top surface, and an upright front wall between the bottom surface and the top surface, said upright front wall having at least one recess to form a mating complementary tongue and groove configuration to engage the tongue and groove configuration of the rear wall of the curved partial cylindrical barrel shaped body; and

said step block removably connected to the partial cylindrical barrel body through engagement of the tongue and groove configuration of the rear wall of the curved partial cylindrical barrel shaped body with the complementary tongue and groove configuration of the upright front wall of the step block.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the tongue and groove configuration removably connecting the upright front wall of the step block to the rear wall of the partial cylindrical barrel shaped body is a dovetail configuration.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the top surface of the step block forms a continuous smooth surface with the upper surface of the partial cylindrical barrel shaped body.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the first end face and the second end face each has a plurality of parallel spaced recesses extending perpendicular to the bottom surface defining a plurality of vertical ribs therebetween.

5. The device of claim 4 wherein each end face of the body each has a curved rim joining the end face to the upper curved surface of the body.