Posture-aiding device

• US 5,860,896 A
• Filed: 12/29/1997
• Issued: 01/19/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Paula Mann
• Original Assignee: Paula Mann
• Inventors: Mann, Paula
• Primary Examiner(s): BROWNE, LYNNE HAMBLETON
• Application Number:
  US08/998,676
• Time in Patent Office: 386 Days
• Field of Search: 482/121, 482/122, 482/124, 482/126
• US Class Current: 482/122
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/026 Back straightening devices with shoulder braces to force back the shoulder to obtain a correct curvature of the spine for clavicle fractures A61F5/05808; restraining devices A61F5/37
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0004 Exercising devices moving as a whole during exercise bar bells or dumb bells A63B21/072; on wheels A63B22/20
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0552 Elastic ropes or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0555 Details of the rope or band, e.g. shape or colour coding
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4017 to the upper limbs
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4025 Resistance devices worn on the user's body A63B21/065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/02 posture
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0204 Standing on the feet
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0233 in 90/90 position, like on a chair
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0233 Muscles of the back, e.g. by an extension of the body against a resistance, reverse crunch

Abstract

A posture-aiding elastic band that is worn with the user'"'"'s upper arms inserted through loops formed at opposite ends of the band and with the length portions against each other, the band is stretched across the back of the user, which back width typically does not significantly vary among individuals so that one-size-fits-all and wherein there is urgency induced in the band due to the stretching which urges the upper arms or shoulders in movement into a vertical plane of the user'"'"'s back providing a favorable contribution to the user'"'"'s appearance and causing the user to develop a habit against slouching his/her shoulders and assuming a less desirable posture.

Claims

1. A method improving posture comprising the steps of forming a closed loop of stretch material, horizontally positioning a length portion of said closed loop flat against a back of a user, forming opposite left and right arm loops extending laterally on opposite sides of said flat length portion of said closed loop, positioning said left and right arm loops respectively upon a left and right upper arm of a user, and stretching said closed loop in a horizontal direction during said positioning thereof upon said user'"'"'s left and right upper arms, whereby said stretched closed loop manifests an urgency to return to said unstretched condition to obviate a slouching posture.