Aerobic step device

• US 5,169,360 A
• Filed: 10/16/1990
• Issued: 12/08/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Indian Industries Incorporated (Escalade Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Sports Step, Inc. (Authentic Brands Group, LLC)
• Inventors: Saunders, William J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thomas, L.
• Application Number:
  US07/598,099
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• Field of Search: 297/439, 297/461, 297/462, 248/188.2, 108/11, 108/12, 108/18, 108/19, 108/144, 108/146, 108/157, 108/159, 108/54.1, 482/52, 482/142, 482/908
• US Class Current: 482/52
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0458 Step exercisers without moving parts with movable steps A63B22/04
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/908 Adjustable

Abstract

An aerobic step device comprising a platform and a detachable leg assemblies for maintaining the platform at selected heights above a support surface. The platform has a skirt depending from the edges of a top, flat rectangular surface. Each leg assembly includes a pair of laterally extending arms, each of which have a protrusion which engages a selected one of at least a pair of slots that are provided on the inner surface of opposed sides of the skirt, the slots being longitudinally and vertically offset from each other. The height of the platform depends into which slot the protrusion is received into. Ribs and locking tabs depend from the underside of the top surface of the platform to engage respective channels and openings in the leg assemblies in order to stabilize the device in its operative positions.

Claims

1. An aerobic step device, comprising:

(a) a platform;

(b) a pair of leg assemblies for maintaining the platform at selected heights parallel to and above a support surface and providing the user with a stable platform capable of being repeatedly stood upon at each height; and

(c) means for detachably securing the leg assemblies to the platform comprising a protrusion and a slot for mating engagement with the protrusion and further comprising, for each of the selected heights, a surface on each of the leg assemblies which engages a corresponding surface on the platform.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the platform comprises a flat top surface, a pair of side walls depending from the opposed side edges of the top surface and a pair of end walls depending from the opposed end edges of the top surface wherein the protrusion is on the leg assembly and the slot is on the platform and wherein the bottom surfaces of the side edges and the side walls are in a common plane which is parallel to the top surface.

3. A device as claimed in claim 2 wherein he securing means comprises a pair of first slots and a pair of second slots, the first slots being longitudinally and vertically offset form the second slots, with the distance from the support surface to each of the first slots being a first height and the distance from the support surface to each of the second slots being a second height, whereby the platform is at a selected first or second height when the protrusion engages a selected first or second slot.

4. A device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the leg assemblies have a bottom portion which rests on the support surface, a main body portion extending upwardly from the bottom and a pair of arms extending laterally outwardly from the body portion, the protrusion being located on the digital ends of each of the arms.

5. A device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the platform further comprises a pair of opposed ribs longitudinally depending from the underside of the top surface and wherein the body portion of each leg assembly includes a pair of opposed, longitudinally extending channel members thereon which receive therein the ribs at first and second depths according to the respective position of the protrusion being received in a first or second slot.

6. A device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the body portion of each leg assembly includes a stepped profile forming a first lower level and a second upper level, wherein aligned recesses are formed in the body portion at the first and second levels and wherein the platform further comprises laterally aligned teeth members depending from the underside of the top surface adjacent the end walls, each of the teeth members being received within a complimentary recess according to the respective position of the protrusion being received in the first or second slot.

7. A device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the channel members are located on the second upper level of the body portion of each leg assembly.

8. A device as claimed in claim 6 and further comprising a locking tab projecting downwardly from the underside of the top surface adjacent each of the end walls and a first opening being defined through the first level and a second opening being defined through the second level and being in alignment with the first opening, the tab being received in a selected first or second opening according to the respective position of the protrusion being received in a first or second slot.

9. A device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the slots are horizontally disposed.

11. A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein said leg assemblies are horizontally slidable.

10. An aerobic step device, comprising:

(a) A platform comprising a flat top surface, a pair of side walls depending from the opposed side edges of the top surface and a pair of end walls depending from the opposed end edges of the top surface, the bottom of the side walls and side edges being in a plane which is parallel to the top surface;

(b) a leg assembly for maintaining the platform at selected heights above a support surface; and

(c) means for detachably securing the leg assembly to the platform comprising a first slot and a second slot on each of the interior surfaces of the side walls and which are longitudinally and vertically offset from each other and a pair of protrusions on the leg assembly for respective engagement with the slots, whereby the platform is at a selected first or second height when the protrusions engage selected first slots or second slots.

12. An aerobic step device, comprising:

(a) a platform;

(b) a pair of leg assemblies for maintaining the platform at selected heights parallel to and above a support surface and providing the user with a stable platform capable of being repeatedly stood upon at each height; and

(c) means for detachably securing the leg assemblies to the platform comprising a protrusion and a slot for mating engagement with the protrusion wherein the platform comprises a flat top surface, a pair of side walls depending from the opposed side edges of the top surface and a pair of end walls depending from the opposed end edges of the top surface wherein the protrusion is on the leg assembly and the slot is on the platform and wherein the bottom surfaces of the side edges and the side walls are in a common plane which is parallel to the top surface.