CARRIAGE SIT BOX FOR REFORMER EXERCISE APPARATUS

• US 20180229071A1
• Filed: 02/16/2017
• Published: 08/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Balanced Body Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Balanced Body Incorporated
• Inventors: Endelman, Ken
• Granted Patent: US 10,245,462 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 9/002 with exercising means or having special therapeutic or ergonomic effects
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4027 Specific exercise interfaces chairs or stools with exercising means A47C9/002
• 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

Abstract

A sit box for use on a reformer exercise apparatus carriage is disclosed. The box is a unitary body having a rectangular flat top surface portion joining four curved portions. Each curved portion merges with one of an upright front wall, an upright back wall, an upright left side wall, and an upright right side wall. The walls terminate at a generally flat rectangular bottom parallel to the top surface portion. Each wall curves to merge with an adjacent wall. Each of the left and right side walls has an outwardly open vertical recess therein adjacent the front wall to receive within each recess one of a pair of shoulder stops projecting from the carriage.

Claims

1. A sit box for use on a carriage of a reformer exercise apparatus comprising:

a unitary block shaped body having a rectangular flat top surface portion merging via curved wall portions into an upright front wall, an upright back wall, an upright left side wall, and an upright right side wall, wherein the walls terminate at a flat bottom parallel to the top surface portion, and wherein the bottom has a plurality of spaced recesses including at least two spaced vertical recesses therein adjacent the front wall each adapted to receive therein one shoulder stop of a pair of shoulder stops projecting from a reformer exercise apparatus carriage when the sit box is positioned on the carriage.

2. The sit box according to claim 1 wherein each of the vertical recesses is outwardly open through one of the left and right side walls adjacent the front wall.

3. The sit box according to claim 1 wherein the vertical recesses are spaced from each other by at least one support rib extending from the bottom toward the top portion.

4. The sit box according to claim 1 wherein the vertical recesses are spaced from each other by two spaced support ribs extending from the bottom toward the top portion defining one of the spaced recesses.

5. The sit box according to claim 1 wherein the front wall and the back wall each has a cutaway portion forming a hand hold adjacent the bottom of the body.

6. The sit box according to claim 5 wherein each cutaway portion of the front wall and the back wall merges into one of the recesses extending from the bottom upward toward the top wall.

7. The sit box according to claim 6 wherein the bottom has a plurality of spaced recesses between the front and back walls each extending upward toward the top wall.

8. The sit box according to claim 2 wherein each of the outwardly open upright recesses in the side walls is tapered.

9. The sit box according to claim 1 wherein the flat top surface has a first plurality of spaced grooves therein parallel to the left and right side walls and a second plurality of spaced grooves parallel to the end walls.

10. The sit box according to claim 1 wherein each wall has a curved portion joining the flat top surface portion.

11. A sit box for use on a reformer exercise apparatus carriage comprising:

a unitary polymer body having a rectangular flat top surface portion and four curved portions each merging with one of an upright front wall, upright back wall, upright left side wall, and an upright right side wall, wherein the walls each terminate at a generally flat bottom parallel to the top surface portion, wherein the left and right side walls each has a vertical recess therein adjacent the front wall adapted to receive within each vertical recess one of a pair of shoulder stops extending upward from the carriage when the sit box is positioned on the carriage thereby capturing the sit box on the carriage.

12. The sit box according to claim 11 wherein the flat bottom includes a plurality of recesses each extending upward toward the top wall.

13. The sit box according to claim 11 wherein the vertical recesses are spaced from each other by at least one support rib extending from the bottom toward the top portion.

14. The sit box according to claim 12 wherein the vertical recesses are spaced from each other by two spaced support ribs extending from the bottom toward the top portion defining one of the tapered recesses.

15. The sit box according to claim 14 wherein the front wall and the back wall each has a cutaway portion forming a hand hold in the wall adjacent the bottom of the body.

16. The sit box according to claim 15 wherein the cutaway portion of the front wall and the back wall each merges into the one of the tapered recesses between the two spaced support ribs.

17. A sit box for use on a reformer exercise apparatus carriage comprising:

a unitary solid body having a rectangular flat top surface portion joining four curved portions each merging with one of an upright front wall, back wall, left side wall, and a right side wall, wherein the walls terminate at a generally flat rectangular bottom parallel to the top surface portion and wherein each wall curves to merge with an adjacent wall, wherein the left and right side walls each has an outwardly open upright vertical recess therein adjacent the front wall adapted to receive within each vertical recess one of a pair of shoulder stops projecting from the carriage.

18. The sit box according to claim 17 wherein the outwardly open vertical recesses are spaced from each other by at least one support rib extending from the bottom toward the top portion.

19. The sit box according to claim 18 wherein the vertical recesses are spaced from each other by two spaced support ribs extending from the bottom toward the top portion.

20. The sit box according to claim 19 wherein the bottom has a plurality of recesses extending upward toward the top portion forming a grid of vertical ribs therebetween and wherein each of the front and back walls has a cutout adjacent the bottom merging into one of the recesses forming a hand hold.