Massaging device system

• US 6,168,550 B1
• Filed: 02/25/1999
• Issued: 01/02/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Moussa Traore
• Original Assignee: Moussa Traore
• Inventors: Traore, Moussa
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Michael A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hamilton, Lalita M.
• Application Number:
  US09/258,324
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 482/47, 601/137, 601/113, 844/65
• US Class Current: 482/47
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2023/006 for stretching exercises
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/16 for hands or fingers for teaching typing G09B13/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 1/32 Whirling or spinning discs driven by twisted cords

Abstract

A massaging device system for massaging the hands and upper torso of a user. The massaging device system includes an elongate rod having a pair of opposite ends, and a plurality of finger grooves therein.

Claims

1. A massaging device system, comprising:

an elongate rod having a pair of opposite ends, and a longitudinal axis extending between said ends of said rod;

said rod having a plurality of finger grooves therein;

each of said finger grooves of said rod being adapted for receiving therein a portion of an associated finger of a hand of a user being extended generally perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said rod;

wherein said plurality of finger grooves comprises an inner pair of finger grooves and an outer pair of finger grooves for accommodating each adjacent finger of a user'"'"'s hand, said inner pair of finger grooves being positioned along said longitudinal axis of said rod between said outer pair of finger grooves such that one of said finger grooves of said outer pair of finger grooves is positioned closest towards one of said ends of said rod and the other of said finger grooves of said outer pair of finger grooves is positioned closest towards the other of said ends of said rod; and

wherein each finger groove of said inner pair of said finger grooves is located in a substantially diametrically opposite location of said rod from each finger groove of said outer pair of said finger grooves to position fingers on opposite sides of said rod.

2. The massaging device system of claim 1, wherein said rod has a generally circular transverse cross section taken in a plane substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said rod, wherein each of said finger grooves has a generally concave arcuate transverse cross section taken in a plane in which said longitudinal axis of said rod lies, and wherein said rod has a generally oval transverse cross section taken in plane substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said rod at each of said finger grooves.

3. The massaging device system of claim 2, wherein said rod has a length defined between said ends of said rod and an outer diameter defined substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said rod, wherein said length of said rod is greater than about ten times said diameter of said rod.

4. The massaging device system of claim 2, wherein said rod has a length defined between said ends of said rod and an outer diameter defined substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said rod, and wherein said length of said rod is about twelve times greater than said diameter of said rod.

5. The massaging device system of claim 1, wherein said rod has a plane dividing said rod into a pair of regions, said longitudinal axis of said rod lying in said plane dividing said rod into said pair of regions, wherein said inner pair of finger grooves are located in one of said regions of said rod, and wherein said outer pair of finger grooves are located in the other of said regions of said rod.

6. A massaging device system, comprising:

an elongate rod having a pair of opposite ends, and a longitudinal axis extending between said ends of said rod;

said rod having a generally circular transverse cross section taken in a plane substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said rod;

said rod having a length defined between said ends of said rod and an outer diameter defined substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said rod;

wherein said length of said rod is about twelve times greater than said diameter of said diameter of said rod;

wherein said length of said rod is about 6 inches and said diameter of said rod is about ½

inch;

a flexible loop of a flexible elongate member being coupled to one of said ends of said rod, said flexible loop being adapted for hanging said hand massaging device around the wrist of a user;

said rod having a plurality of finger grooves therein;

each of said finger grooves of said rod being adapted for receiving therein a portion of an associated finger of a hand of a user being extended generally perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said rod;

each of said finger grooves having a generally concave arcuate transverse cross section taken in a plane in which said longitudinal axis of said rod lies;

said rod having a generally oval transverse cross section taken in plane substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said rod at each of said finger grooves for accommodating each adjacent finder of a user'"'"'s hand;

said plurality of finger grooves comprising an inner pair of finger grooves and an outer pair of finger grooves;

said rod having a plane dividing said rod into a pair of generally semi-cylindrical regions, said longitudinal axis of said rod lying in said plane dividing said rod into said pair of regions;

said inner pair of finger grooves being located in one of said regions of said rod, said outer pair of finger grooves being located in the other of said regions of said rod;

said inner pair of finger grooves being positioned along said longitudinal axis of said rod between said outer pair of finger grooves such that one of said finger grooves of said outer pair of finger grooves is positioned closest towards one of said ends of said rod and the other of said finger grooves of said outer pair of finger grooves is positioned closest towards the other of said ends of said rod; and

said outer pair of finger grooves being adapted for receiving the index finger and the pinkie finger of the hand of the user, said inner pair of finger grooves being adapted for receiving the middle two fingers of the user'"'"'s hand.