Multi-level aerobic step device

• US 5,651,753 A
• Filed: 04/23/1996
• Issued: 07/29/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William T. Wilkinson
• Original Assignee: William T. Wilkinson
• Inventors: Wilkinson, William T.
• Primary Examiner(s): DONNELLY, JEROME W
• Application Number:
  US08/636,426
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: 482/51, 482/52, 482/142, 482/907, 52/183, 248/188, 248/188.2, 248/346, 248/911, 297/438, 297/439, 211/207, 211/208, 108/11, 108/12, 108/19, 108/157
• US Class Current: 482/52
• 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 482/908 Adjustable

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 surface, a mounting block having a flat upper surface, readily detachable mounting structure for repeatedly selectively detachably mounting said mounting block to said upper surface of said base with a portion of said upper surface of said base being exposed, said exposed portion comprising support means of sufficient area to support the entire foot of a user to form a stepping unit having a lower surface which is adapted to be disposed on a floor whereby an aerobic exercise may be performed on said exposed portion, 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, said stepping sections being at different height elevations, and said readily detachable mounting structure permitting said mounting block to be repeatedly detached from said base to selectively expose the entire upper surface of said base for providing a variation of the aerobic exercise wherein said readily detachable mounting structure includes engageable fastening elements which are selectively disengageable without distortion of said fastening elements and wherein said fastening elements are separable from each other during detachment solely by a pulling movement of said fastening elements with respect to each other.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein said pulling movement comprises a sliding action of said fastening elements relative to each other.

3. The device of claim 1 including at least two of said mounting blocks mounted by said detachable mounting structure to said base to form at least three horizontally displaced spaced stepping surfaces.

4. The device of claim 3 wherein one of said stepping surfaces is a central portion of said exposed upper surface of said stepping unit which is at the lower elevation.

5. The device of claim 3 wherein one of said stepping surfaces is a central portion of said exposed upper surface of said stepping unit which is at the highest elevation.

6. The device of claim 3 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.

7. The device of claim 3 wherein said mounting structure is located at a plurality of different locations on said base to selectively vary the location where said mounting block is mounted to said base.

8. The device of claim 3 wherein said support means is of sufficient area to entirely support two side by side feet of the user.

9. The device of claim 3 wherein all of said stepping surfaces are at different elevations with respect to each other.

10. The device of claim 9 wherein one of said stepping surfaces is formed by mounting a plurality of vertically stacked mounting blocks to said base.

11. The device of claim 3 wherein said stepping surfaces are connected together by inclined sides.

12. The device of claim 3 including detachable legs detachably mounted to said unit, and said legs being nestable in said base during periods of non-use.

13. The device of claim 3 wherein each of said mounting blocks includes a pair of downwardly extending aprons which telescope over said base and are detachably coupled to said base.

14. The device of claim 1 including detachable legs mounted to said unit for providing height adjustability to said unit.

15. The device of claim 1 wherein said mounting structure is located at a plurality of different locations on said base to selectively vary the location where said mounting block is mounted to said base.

16. The device of claim 15 wherein said support means is of sufficient area to entirely support two side by side feet of the user.

17. The device of claim 15 wherein said base is hollow and open at its lower surface, and said mounting block being nestable in said base during periods of non-use.

18. The device of claim 17 including detachable legs detachably mounted to said unit, and said legs being nestable in said base during periods of non-use.

19. The device of claim 15 wherein said mounting block includes a pair of downwardly extending aprons which telescope over said base and are detachably coupled to said base.

20. The device of claim 15 wherein said base is of generally rectangular shape formed by two sets of generally parallel edges, and said exposed portion of said upper surface of said base extending completely across said upper surface of said base form one edge of one of said sets of generally parallel edges to the other of said edges.

21. The device of claim 1 wherein said base is of generally rectangular shape formed by two sets of generally parallel edges, and said exposed portion of said upper surface of said base extending completely across said upper surface of said base from one edge of one of said sets of generally parallel edges to the other of said edges.

22. The device of claim 1 wherein said base comprises two members which are slidably mounted toward and away from each other to create a space between said members when said members are moved away from each other, and said mounting block being mounted in said space.

23. The device of claim 1 wherein said base is hollow and open at its lower surface, and said mounting block being nestable in said base during periods of non-use.

24. The device of claim 1 including detachable legs detachably mounted to said unit, and said legs being nestable in said base during periods of non-use.

25. The device of claim 1 wherein said mounting structure comprises posts and holes.

26. The device of claim 1 wherein said mounting structure comprises tracks and grooves.

27. The device of claim 1 wherein said mounting block includes a pair of downwardly extending aprons which telescope over said base and are detachably coupled to said base.