Multipurpose exercising apparatus

• US 6,740,008 B1
• Filed: 05/21/2003
• Issued: 05/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Keith Mirchandani, Wei-Teh Ho
• Original Assignee: Keith Mirchandani, Wei-Teh Ho
• Inventors: Mirchandani, Keith, Ho, Wei-Teh
• Primary Examiner(s): Lucchesi, Nicholas D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAKER, LORI LYNN
• Application Number:
  US10/442,365
• Time in Patent Office: 370 Days
• Field of Search: 482/126, 482/79, 482/140, 482/120, 482/91, 482/121, 482/122, 482/123, 482/129-130, 482/77, 482/148, 482/907, 482/142, 482/132-135, 473/569, 473/423-430, 273/118, 601/23, 601/27, 601/28, 472/127, 472/134, 472/135, 248/562, 248/599, 297/452.1, 297/452.41, 297/452.17
• US Class Current: 482/34
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2022/0033 Lower limbs performing together the same movement, e.g. on a single support element
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/027 using player's own weight, e.g. on a platform
• 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 21/0442 Anchored at one end only, the other end being manipulated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0552 Elastic ropes or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/18 with elements, i.e. platforms, having a circulating, nutating or rotating movement, generated by oscillating movement of the user, e.g. platforms wobbling on a centrally arranged spherical supporthoop exercising apparatus A63B19/00; eccentric weights put into orbital motion by nutating movement of the user A63B21/0608; pots rotating or rocking by moving the whole body A63G23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0204 Standing on the feet
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0228 Sitting on the buttocks
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0242 Lying down

Abstract

A multipurpose exercising apparatus is constructed to include a plastic flat base frame positionable on a flat surface, the base frame having a plurality of eyes spaced around the periphery thereof, a semispherical shell made from polyurethane and covered on the base frame, the semispherical shell having a plurality of raised portions over the outer surface thereof for imparting a massaging effect to the user using the multipurpose exercising apparatus, and a plurality of elastic pull cords selectively fastened to the eyes of the base frame for pulling by the user.

Claims

1. A multipurpose exercising apparatus comprising:

a plastic flat base frame positionable on a flat surface, said base frame comprising a plurality of eyes spaced around the periphery thereof;

a semispherical shell made from polyurethane and covered on said base frame, said semispherical shell having a plurality of raised portions over an outer surface thereof for imparting a massaging effect to the user using the multipurpose exercising apparatus; and

a plurality of elastic pull cords selectively fastened to said eyes of said base frame for pulling by the user.

2. The multipurpose exercising apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said base frame comprises a plurality of mounting grooves on the inside and a plurality of mounting holes around the periphery for the mounting of said semispherical shell.