Aerobic climbing step/bench
First Claim
1. An aerobic climbing step/bench device comprising a base, said base consisting of a horizontal platform having a periphery formed by opposite ends and intermediate sides with a downwardly extending apron, at least two sets of mounting members in said base, each of said sets of mounting members comprising at least one member associated with said base at opposite portions of said periphery, a leg for each of said sets of mounting members, each of said legs having complementary mounting members for sliding engagement with said mounting members whereby each of said legs may be selectively deteachably mounted to said base to provide said platform with at least two levels of height adjustability ranging from a low height when said apron is placed directly on a support surface and wherein there is at least one other height level in accordance with the selective mounting of said mounting members, each of said sets of mounting members comprising at least two vertically parallel members, said mounting members and complementary mounting members being selectively tracks and ridges or ridges and tracks, said mounting members being associated with the inner surface of said apron on said opposite intermediate sides thereof near the ends of said periphery, and said legs being inserted into the central portion of said base until said mounting members and complementary mounting members are aligned whereupon each of said legs may be in sliding engagement with said apron to slide each of said leg toward its respective end of said periphery.
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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.
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- 1. An aerobic climbing step/bench device comprising a base, said base consisting of a horizontal platform having a periphery formed by opposite ends and intermediate sides with a downwardly extending apron, at least two sets of mounting members in said base, each of said sets of mounting members comprising at least one member associated with said base at opposite portions of said periphery, a leg for each of said sets of mounting members, each of said legs having complementary mounting members for sliding engagement with said mounting members whereby each of said legs may be selectively deteachably mounted to said base to provide said platform with at least two levels of height adjustability ranging from a low height when said apron is placed directly on a support surface and wherein there is at least one other height level in accordance with the selective mounting of said mounting members, each of said sets of mounting members comprising at least two vertically parallel members, said mounting members and complementary mounting members being selectively tracks and ridges or ridges and tracks, said mounting members being associated with the inner surface of said apron on said opposite intermediate sides thereof near the ends of said periphery, and said legs being inserted into the central portion of said base until said mounting members and complementary mounting members are aligned whereupon each of said legs may be in sliding engagement with said apron to slide each of said leg toward its respective end of said periphery.
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10. An aerobic climbing step/bench device comprising a base, said base consisting of a horizontal platform having a periphery formed by opposite ends and intermediate sides with a downwardly extending apron, at least two sets of mounting members in said base, each of said sets of mounting members comprising at least one member associated with said base at opposite portions of said periphery, a leg for each of said sets of mounting members, each of said legs having complementary mounting members for sliding engagement with said mounting members whereby each of said legs may be selectively detachably mounted to said base to provide said platform with at least two levels of height adjustability ranging from a low height when said apron is placed directly on a support surface and wherein there is at least one other height level in accordance with the selective mounting of said mounting members, each of said sets of mounting members comprising at least two vertically parallel members, said mounting members and complementary mounting members being selectively tracks and ridges or ridges and tracks, said apron being an outer apron, and said base including an inner apron having walls parallel to and spaced from corresponding walls of said outer apron, said mounting members being on said walls of said inner apron and said outer apron, said outer apron having an opening in one of said intermediate walls and being closed at the opposite portion of its opposite intermediate wall whereby said legs may be mounted through said opening in said intermediate wall.
- 12. An aerobic climbing step/bench device comprising a base, said base consisting of the horizontal platform having a periphery formed by opposite ends an intermediate sides and said base having downwardly extending sides and a bottom surface, mounting members formed in said base by an opening forming two parallel walls upwardly from 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 is at least one other height level in accordance with said legs being mounted to said base, and said mounting members and complementary mounting members comprising ridges and tracks or tracks and ridges which are engaged with each other by a sliding movement of each of said legs between a respective set of said two parallel walls.
- 16. An aerobic climbing step/bench device comprising a base, said base consisting of a horizontal platform having a periphery formed by opposite ends and intermediate sides with a downwardly extending apron, said base having a pair of parallel generally vertically depending walls at opposite portions of said periphery, each of said pair of walls having inner surfaces disposed toward each other, at least one wall of each of said pair of walls being an inner surface of said apron, at least one of said inner surfaces of one of said pair of walls having mounting members in the form of tracks or ridges, a leg for each of said pair of walls, each of said legs having complementary mounting members in the form of tracks or ridges, at least one of said mounting and complementary mounting members being of elongated form, each of said legs being selectively detachably mounted to said base by slidably moving said leg with respect to its said pair of walls so that said mounting and complementary mounting members are in sliding engagement with each other to provide said platform with at least two levels of height adjustability ranging from a low height when said apron is placed directly on a support surface and wherein there is at least one other height level in accordance with the selective mounting of said mounting members, and said mounting and complementary mounting members being engaged by a sliding movement of said respective leg in a straight line direction.
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