ROLLABLE FULCRUM BALANCING BOARD RECREATIONAL AND EXERCISE DEVICE PROVIDED WITH NON-LINEAR STABILIZATION FEATURES

• US 3,862,768 A
• Filed: 10/26/1970
• Issued: 01/28/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: England W
• Original Assignee: England W
• Inventors: ENGLAND W
• Application Number:
  US05/083,763
• Time in Patent Office: 1,555 Days
• US Class Current: 280/205
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2022/0033 Lower limbs performing together the same movement, e.g. on a single support element
• 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 22/18 with elements, i.e. platforms, having a circulating, nutating or rotating movement, generated by oscillating movement of the user, e.g. platforms wobbling on a centrally arranged spherical supporthoop exercising apparatus A63B19/00; eccentric weights put into orbital motion by nutating movement of the user A63B21/0608; pots rotating or rocking by moving the whole body A63G23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63G 23/00 Rotating or rocking pots , e.g. by moving the whole body rotating or rocking exercising for training agility or coordination of movements A63B22/14, A63B22/16, A63B22/18
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 1/00 Unicycles

Abstract

1. AN OMNI-DIRECTIONAL BALL AND HAT BALANCING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH NON-LINEAR STABILIZING FEATURES COMPRISING: A. A FREELY MOVING RIGID FULCRUMING SPHERE ADAPTED TO ROLL ACROSS A HORIZONTAL SURFACE; B. A RIGID AND GENERALLY CIRCULAR HAT SHAPED BALANCING BOARD ADAPTED TO BALANCE AND RIDE ON SAID FULCRUMING SPHERE, HAVING 1. A PROTUBERANT CENTER PORTION RESEMBLING THE CROWN OF A HAT AND OCCUPYING ABOUT HALF TO TWO THIRDS OF THE DIAMETER OF SAID HAT SHAPED BALANCING BOARD, 2. AN UPTURNED PERIPHERY AREA AT THE OUTER CIRCUMFERENCE OF SAID HAT SHAPED BALANCING BOARD RESEMBLING THE BRIM OF A MEXICAN SOMBRERO HAT AND FORMING AN ANNULAR FOOT POSITIONING TRENCH BETWEEN THE PROTUBERANT CENTER PORTION AND SAID UPTURNED BRIM; C. THE UNDERSURFACE OF SAID PROTUBERANT CENTER CROWN PORTION OF SAID HAT SHAPED BALANCING BOARD DEFINING A LONG ARC CONCAVE CIRCULAR CAVITY, THE SIDES OF WHICH GENTLY SLOPE AWAY FROM THE CENTRAL APEX OF SAID CONCAVE ENCLOSURE TO FORM A MOTION SHOWING SURFACE.

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