Footrest

• US 4,678,234 A
• Filed: 03/17/1986
• Issued: 07/07/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ian G. Wilson
• Original Assignee: Ian G. Wilson
• Inventors: Wilson, Ian G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chen, Jose V.
• Application Number:
  US06/840,520
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 297/439, 297/438, 297/424, 297/423, 108/53.1, 108/53.3, 108/53.5, 108/91, 108/150, 248/188.2, 248/188.9, 74/564
• US Class Current: 297/423.45
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 16/025 adjustable, swivelling, rocking

Abstract

A footrest providing for selective height and inclination adjustment and comprising a foot platform formed integrally with depending legs having chamfered outer ends and detachable foot plates to support the platform from a floor with an inclination from a rear edge to a forward edge, alternative foot plates having a chamfered face may be provided to modify the inclination of the platform and are reversible so as to increase or decrease the inclination as desired, spacing pieces attachable between the foot plates and the legs for selection of height of the platform, and means for storing beneath the platform the foot plates and spacing pieces not selected for use.

Claims

1. A footrest comprising a foot member, a body portion composed of moulded thermoplastic material and having a platform integrally formed with a pair of legs depending at opposite sides from said platform and each having a chamfered outer end to support the platform from a floor surface at a downward inclination from a rearward edge to a forward edge thereof, a plurality of spacing pieces having moulded thermoplastic bodies of identical form and having a two-part thread connecting means and a hole, said connecting means and hole equally offset from, and at opposite sides of, a center point of said body, thereby allowing stacking of a selected number of said spacing pieces with one part of said connecting means of one spacing piece passing through said hole of an adjacent spacing piece and receiving the second part of said connecting means for fastening of said spacing pieces together, a projecting stud at the outer end of each of said legs for insertion through the hole in a selected one of said spacing pieces for fastening thereto by a nut, and said foot member detachably connected beneath each of said legs and any selected number of spacing pieces, said spacing pieces detachably connected between each of said foot members and its respective leg.

2. A footrest as claimed in claim 1, further comprising individual means for said connection of said foot members and said spacing pieces, each of said individual means including a threaded stud and a nut therefor with either one of said stud and nut being fixed with respect to one of said spacing pieces.

3. A footrest as claimed in claim 2, wherein each of said spacing pieces has one of said threaded studs fixed thereon and a hole for entry of a stud of an adjacent one of said spacing pieces, said stud and hole being equally offset to opposite sides of a centre point of said spacing piece, whereby in assembling a stack of said spacing pieces alternate ones of said spacing pieces in the stack are rotated 180°

about their centre points from the remainder of said spacing pieces.

4. A footrest as claimed in claim 1, wherein means is provided beneath the body portion to attach for storage between said legs those of said spacing pieces not in use.

5. A footrest as claimed in claim 4, wherein said attaching means is at least one mounting stud embedded in and depending from the underside of said platform.

6. A footrest as claimed in claim 1, wherein means is provided between said legs and on the underside of said platform to attach thereto for storage those of said spacing pieces not selected for use.

7. A footrest as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said foot members has a body with a depending skirt with a chamfered outer end, and has two holes equally offset to opposite sides of the centre line of said body, whereby said foot member can be connected to increase or decrease the downward inclination of said platform.

8. A footrest as claimed in claim 7, wherein the outer end of said legs are chamfered at an angle of 12.5°

, and the chamfer at the outer end of said foot member is 2.5°

.

9. A footrest as claimed in claim 7, wherein said legs are open at their outer end, said spacing pieces have an array of apertures arranged around and within their periphery, and the foot member and all of said spacing pieces have a similar array of depending lugs within the confines of their periphery, whereby in assembly tight nesting of said lugs within the outer end of the legs or within said apertures occurs.