Hand manipulated roller massage tool

• US 4,989,585 A
• Filed: 04/03/1989
• Issued: 02/05/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lawrence F. Auker
• Original Assignee: Lawrence F. Auker
• Inventors: Auker, Lawrence F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Burr, Edgar S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Malvaso, Lisa E.
• Application Number:
  US07/332,671
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• Field of Search: 128/57, 128/44, 128/67, 15/104 R, 366/129
• US Class Current: 601/118
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 15/0092 hand-held A61H15/0085 takes precedence

Abstract

The disclosure is directed to two different embodiments of a roller massage tool. In one embodiment a "Y" shaped body includes a handle with a rotatable shaft extending between the adjacent distal ends of the "Y" and a rotatable handle member positioned on the single leg of the "Y". The rotatable shaft carries a pair of resilient non-rotatable balls thereon. In use the balls are rotated against the portion of the users body for massaging that portion. The device may be suspended by a rope or the like to a fixed object and the user can rub a portion of their body against the resilient balls. In the other embodiment a straight shaft extends through the diameter of the resilient balls. The resilient balls are centered and fixedly positioned on the shaft and rotatable handles are positioned on each distal end of the shaft. This second embodiment operates in the same manner as the first and is generally used with both hands rather than one as in the first embodiment.

Claims

1. A hand held massage device comprising:

a "Y" shaped body portion, having two legs terminating in free ends formed as eyes to form a gap therebetween, a single stem, a shaft connecting said free ends and received in said eyes, a pair of resilient spheres positioned on said shaft across the gap of the "Y" which rotate together relative to the "Y" shaped body portion and a handle grip member surrounding the single stem of the "Y" shaped body, said handle grip member being rotatable relative to said "Y" shaped body member.

2. The invention as defined in claim 1 wherein said body portion is formed from a continuous length of steel rod.

3. The invention as defined in claim 1 wherein said resilient spheres have various selected degrees of resiliency.

4. A hand held massage device comprising:

a central shaft segment, a pair of abutted resilient spheres fixed in position on said central shaft segment;

a pair of end shaft segments one of which threadedly engages each end of said central shaft segment;

the diameter of said central shaft segment being greater than the diameter of said end shaft segments; and

a rotatable handle grip rotatably positioned on each one of said pair of end shaft segments for relative rotation therewith whereby when said spheres are rolled across a body area of a person said hand grips do not rotate therewith.