COLD ROLLER MASSAGE BALL

• US 20150223970A1
• Filed: 08/14/2014
• Published: 08/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pro Performance Sports LLC (Denergy, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pro Performance Sports LLC (Denergy, Inc.)
• Inventors: Holland, Allen Keith
• Application Number:
  US14/459,486
• Publication Number:
  US 20150223970A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2007/0087 Hand-held applicators
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2007/108 Cold packs, i.e. devices to be cooled or frozen in refrigerator or freezing compartment
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 7/10 Cooling bags, e.g. ice-bags
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 15/00 Massage by means of rollers, balls, e.g. inflatable, chains, or roller chains
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2015/0042 Balls or spheres
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2015/0064 with freely rotating spheres
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0153 hand-held
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0214 cooled
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0257 by a heat accumulator, e.g. a sand or liquid reservoir
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0004 Exercising devices moving as a whole during exercise bar bells or dumb bells A63B21/072; on wheels A63B22/20
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 5/20 Skipping-ropes or similar devices rotating in a vertical plane
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/00 Training appliances or apparatus for special sports training of parachutists B64D23/00

Abstract

A massager includes a ball captive in a cup adapted to be used with or without a holder. The ball contains a thermal liquid which may be refrigerated or frozen to provide a cold rolling ball massage. The holder and the cup may be thermally insulating to protect the user'"'"'s hand from the cold temperature of the ball. The holder may have a bottom opening to allow the cup to be pushed out of the holder. Ridges on the holder may be used to provide an enhanced grip.

Claims

1. A massager comprising:

a holder;

a cup in a cup opening in the holder;

a ball rotatably supported by and retained in the cup, with the ball containing a thermal liquid.

2. The massager of claim 1 with the holder having a bottom opening to allow the cup to be pushed out of the cup opening, to remove the cup retaining the ball from the holder.

3. The massager of claim 1 with the holder and the cup comprising a thermal insulating material and the ball comprising a metal.

4. The massager of claim 3 wherein the ball is hollow and is substantially entirely filled with the thermal liquid.

5. The massager of claim 1 wherein the cup opening is cylindrical and further including ridges on an outer surface of the holder, with the ridges substantially parallel to a central axis of the cup opening.

6. The massager of claim 1 with the ball supported on an annular ball seat in the cup, and further including a plurality of radial gussets each having an inner end joined to the ball seat and an outer end joined to a cylindrical wall of the cup.

7. The massager of claim 1 with the ball retained in the cup via cup lip having a diameter less than the diameter of the ball.

8. The massager of claim 7 with the ball having a diameter of 2.5 to 15 cm.

9. The massager of claim 2 with the holder having a flat bottom surface and with the bottom opening having a conical taper centered on the flat bottom surface.

10. The massager of claim 2 further including a hub on a flat bottom surface of the cup, with the hub inserted into the bottom opening.

11. The massager of claim 1 with the ball comprising two hemispheres joined together at a seam line and a plugged fill hole on one of the hemispheres.

12. The massager of claim 1 with the cup adapted to be pressed into the holder and removed from the holder by hand.

13. The massager of claim 11 with the thermal liquid comprising water and propylene glycol.

14. The massager of claim 12 with the ball having a smooth spherical surface.

15. A massager comprising:

a holder having a flat bottom joined to cylindrical sidewalls forming a cylindrical cup opening, with the holder having a plurality of spaced apart ridges on an outer surface of the cylindrical sidewalls, and a center hole through the flat bottom;

a cup slidable into and out of the cup opening in the holder, with the cup having a ball seat on a cup bottom wall and cylindrical cup sidewalls, with a bottom end of the cylindrical cup sidewalls joined to the cup bottom wall, and with a cup lip at a top end of the cylindrical cup sidewalls;

a ball rotatably supported on the ball seat in the cup, and the ball retained in the cup via cup lip, wherein the ball is hollow and is substantially entirely filled with a thermal liquid, and the ball has a diameter greater than the cup lip.

16. The massager of claim 15 with the holder comprising rubber or plastic, the cup comprising plastic, and the ball comprising a metal.

17. The massager of claim 15 further including a plurality of radial gussets in the cup with each gusset having an inner end joined to the ball seat and an outer end joined to the cylindrical cup sidewall.

18. The massager of claim 15 with the thermal liquid comprising water and propylene glycol.

19. The massager of claim 15 with the ball comprising metal and having a smooth spherical surface.

20. The massager of claim 15 further including a hub on the cup bottom wall inserted into the center hole.