ADJUSTABLE FOOT RESTS

• US 3,653,715 A
• Filed: 08/11/1970
• Issued: 04/04/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fritz Drabert, Klaus Geffers
• Original Assignee: Fritz Drabert, Klaus Geffers
• Inventors: Drabert, Fritz, Geffers, Klaus
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/062,903
• Time in Patent Office: 602 Days
• Field of Search: 47c/912 297/180,439,461,462 108/4,116,133,144 248/188.2,423,396,439
• US Class Current: 297/423.45
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 16/025 adjustable, swivelling, rocking

Abstract

A foot rest includes a platform for receiving a person'"'"''"'"'s feet and the platform has legs which are adjustable to vary the height and inclination of the platform. The legs can be fixed in any selected position by U-shaped pivotal members which engage in one of a selected number of grooves.

Claims

1. A foot rest comprising a sheet-material casing open at the bottom, the top face of which is arranged to support the user'"'"''"'"'s feet, two leg members pivoted within the interior of the casing so that they can be pivoted independently out of the casing to selected positions to produce various height and slope settings of the top face, two pivotal members, one pivoted to each said leg, means rigid with the casing defining two sets of grooves, each said pivotal member being engageable with a selected groove of a corresponding said set, and means biasing each said leg member towards the interior of the casing so that the pivotal members cannot become dislodged from a selected one of the respective grooves. Pg,8

2. A foot rest according to claim 1 in which the top face of the casing has a recess, said rest further comprising an insert member for closing the recess so as to provide an unbroken surface for the user'"'"''"'"'s feet.

3. A foot rest according to claim 1 comprising a cross-bar which can be set to various positions on the top face of the casing.