Aerobic climbing step/bench

• US 5,118,096 A
• Filed: 06/21/1991
• Issued: 06/02/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David R. Schiff, Eric A. Schneider, Peter W. Bressler, Pietr Lincov, William T. Wilkinson
• Original Assignee: David R. Schiff, Eric A. Schneider, Peter W. Bressler, Pietr Lincov, William T. Wilkinson
• Inventors: Schiff, David R., Schneider, Eric A., Bressler, Peter W., Lincov, Pietr, Wilkinson, William T.
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Connor, Cary E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TSO, LAURA K
• Application Number:
  US07/718,754
• Time in Patent Office: 347 Days
• Field of Search: 297/175, 297/423, 297/424, 297/438, 297/439, 297/445, 297/461, 108/11, 108/12, 108/19, 108/155-157, 108/159, 248/188, 248/188.2, 248/188.8, 248/911, 403/3, 211/207, 211/208, 272/70, 272/144, 272/DIG. 4
• US Class Current: 482/52
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 3/20 Chairs or stools with vertically-adjustable seats tables with variable height A47B9/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2210/50 Size reducing arrangements for stowing or transport
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0458 Step exercisers without moving parts with movable steps A63B22/04
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/911 Plural, selectively usable, support engaging means

Abstract

An exercise step/bench for aerobic climbing and dance includes a base in the form of a horizontal platform having a downwardly and outwardly extending apron. A leg is reverseably mounted against the apron at each corner of the platform. The reverseable mounting of the legs permits height adjustment in accordance with the orientation of each leg.

Claims

1. An exercise device for use in aerobic step climbing routines/programs comprising a base, said base consisting of a horizontal platform having opposite ends and intermediate sides with a downwardly extending apron extending from each of said ends and sides, a corner where each of said ends is joined to each of said sides, at least one leg mounted to said base at each of said ends, each of said legs including a long flat side and an adjacent short flat side and having an edge opposite each of said sides, each of said legs being detachably mounted so as to be movable from an active position to a stored condition, each of said legs having mounting structure for cooperating with complementary mounting structure on said apron to selectively reversibly mount said legs to said apron whereby the overall height of said platform may be adjusted in accordance with the selective mounting of said legs to said apron, said mounting structure comprising channels in edges located generally perpendicular to each other on each of said legs, and each of said channels being formed in an edge opposite a respective one of said sides.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein each of said legs has the shape of an inverted L comprising a pair of extensions joined to each other, and one of said channels being formed in a respective one of said extensions.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein each of said legs is formed of block like shape having a curved surface remote from said flat sides, and said channels being formed in said curved surface.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein said apron is snugly received in a respective one of said channels.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein each of said legs rests against and supports the underside of said platform.

6. The device of claim 1 including mounting means on the undersurface of said base for mounting said legs to said undersurface of said base within the periphery of said apron when said legs are in their stored condition.

7. The device of claim 1 wherein said device has height adjustability from about 4 inches when no legs are mounted to said apron to 12 inches.

8. The device of claim 1 wherein one of said legs is mounted to each of said corners.