Aerobic climbing step/bench

• US 5,184,987 A
• Filed: 05/10/1991
• Issued: 02/09/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William T. Wilkinson
• Original Assignee: William T. Wilkinson
• Inventors: Wilkinson, William T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilson, John J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TSO, LAURA K
• Application Number:
  US07/698,382
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• Field of Search: 482/52, 297/438, 297/439, 108/53.1, 108/53.3, 108/91, 108/43, 108/157, 248/188.2, 248/188.3, 248/188.9
• US Class Current: 482/52
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2210/50 Size reducing arrangements for stowing or transport
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/093 Height
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0458 Step exercisers without moving parts with movable steps A63B22/04

Abstract

An aerobic climbing step/bench includes a base in the form of a horizontal platform having a downwardly extending apron. Height adjustability is achieved by the use of detachable legs which are mounted to the base by the interengagement of mounting elements on each leg and complementary mounting elements on the base so that the legs can be slideably engaged in a locking position with the base and slideably detached from the base.

Claims

1. An aerobic climbing step/bench device comprising a base, said base consisting of the horizontal platform having a periphery formed by opposite ends and intermediate sides and said base having downwardly extending sides and a bottom surface, mounting members formed in said bottom surface at two spaced locations of said base, a first set of legs for each of said locations, each of said legs having a lower surface for resting on a support surface, each of aid first set of legs having complementary mounting members for detachable engagement with said mounting members of said base whereby said platform is provided with at least two levels of height adjustability wherein said device is capable of one height level when no leg is mounted to said base and said base is placed directly on a support surface and there are other height levels in accordance with sad legs being coplanar and being parallel to said horizontal platform when said legs are mounted to said base.

2. The device of claim 1 including at least one further set of legs, said first set of legs having mounting members and each of said further sets of legs having complementary mounting members for engagement with and below said first set of legs to provide further height levels in accordance with the number of sets of legs mounted to each other.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein said mounting members and complementary mounting members are posts and holes or holes and posts which comprise dislodgement preventing means for providing a positive support structure.

4. The device of claim 3 including at least one further set of legs, said first set of legs having mounting members and each of said further sets of legs having complementary mounting members for engagement with and below said first set of legs to provide further height levels in accordance with the number of sets of legs mounted to each other.

5. The device of claim 4 wherein said posts are on the upper surface of each of said legs, and said holes being in said bottom surface of said base and in said lower surface of each of said legs.

6. The device of claim 3 wherein said posts are on the upper surface of each of said legs, and said holes being in said bottom surface of said base.

7. The device of claim 1 wherein said bottom surface of said base is a continuous surface extending from one of said ends to the other of said ends.

8. The device of claim 1 wherein said legs are spaced from each other with said base spanning the open space between said legs when said legs are mounted to said base.

9. The device of claim 1 wherein each of said legs extends completely across said base from one of said intermediate sides to the other of said intermediate sides.

10. The device of claim 1 wherein each of said sets of legs includes at least one leg for each of said locations.

12. The device of claim 1 wherein said legs are distinct and separate from each other with an open space between said legs.

11. An aerobic climbing step/bench device comprising a base, said base consisting of the horizontal platform having a periphery formed by opposite ends and intermediate sides and said base having downwardly extending sides and a bottom surface, mounting members formed in said bottom surface at two spaced locations of said base, a first set of legs for each of said locations, each of said first set of legs having complementary mounting members for engagement with aid mounting members of said base whereby said platform is provided with at least two levels of height adjustability wherein there is one height level when no leg is mounted to said base and said base is placed directly on a support surface and there are other height levels in accordance with said legs being mounted to said base, said mounting members and complementary mounting members being posts and holes or holes and posts which comprise dislodgement preventing means for providing a positive support structure, and said posts being perpendicular to said platform.