Multi-level aerobic step device

• US 5,540,638 A
• Filed: 05/17/1995
• Issued: 07/30/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William T. Wilkinson
• Original Assignee: William T. Wilkinson
• Inventors: Wilkinson, William T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Donnelly, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US08/442,890
• Time in Patent Office: 440 Days
• Field of Search: 297/423.41, 297/423.44, 297/383, 108/53.1, 108/53.5, 108/143, 108/90.1, 108/97, 482/51-53
• 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 2225/093 Height
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0458 Step exercisers without moving parts with movable steps A63B22/04

Abstract

A multi-level aerobic step device includes a base having a flat upper surface. A mounting block is detachably mounted to the base with the mounting block also having a flat upper surface. When the mounting block and base are mounted together a unit is formed having an exposed upper surface which comprises at least a portion of the upper surfaces of each of the mounting block and base wherein the exposed portion of the mounting block upper surface is at a different height elevation than the height of the exposed portion of the base.

Claims

1. A multi-level aerobic stepping device comprising:

a base having a flat upper and lower surface and a longitudinal length, a mounting block having a flat upper surface, a flat lower surface and a longitudinal length, the longitudinal length of said mounting block being less than the longitudinal length of said base, aprons on the sides of said mounting block extending downwardly below said lower surface of said mounting block and being in contact with said base below said upper surface of said base, locking elements on said aprons and complementary locking elements disposed on and spaced along the length of said base, detachably mounting said mounting block on said upper surface of said base and for varying the mounting location of said mounting block along the length of said base,

thereby providing a stepping unit having a lower surface which is adapted to be disposed on a floor, said stepping unit having an exposed upper surface which comprises a plurality of stepping sections, one of said stepping sections being at least a portion of said upper surface of said mounting block and a second of said stepping sections being a portion of said upper surface of said base, said stepping sections being at different heights and of a size of sufficient area to support the entire foot of a user.

2. The device of claim 1 including at least two of said mounting blocks mounted to said base to form at least three spaced stepping surfaces.

3. The device of claim 2 wherein said base is hollow and open at its lower surface, and said mounting blocks being nestable in said base during periods of non-use.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein all of said surfaces are at different elevations with respect to each other.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein said locking elements comprise pins and holes formed in said base and said aprons.