Portable foot operated exercise device

• US 6,979,282 B1
• Filed: 12/10/2004
• Issued: 12/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ingenious Designs LLC (Qurate Retail Group (f/k/a Liberty Interactive Corporation))
• Original Assignee: Ingenious Designs LLC (Qurate Retail Group (f/k/a Liberty Interactive Corporation))
• Inventors: Mangano, Joy
• Primary Examiner(s): Crow, Stephen R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TAM M
• Application Number:
  US11/009,601
• Time in Patent Office: 382 Days
• Field of Search: 482/51, 482/71, 482/79, 482/80, 482/114, 482/115, 482121-124, 482146-148, 472/135, 472/136
• US Class Current: 482/51
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2209/00 Devices for avoiding blood stagnation, e.g. Deep Vein Thrombosis [DVT] devices
• 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 22/20 using rollers, wheels, castors or the like, e.g. gliding means, to be moved over the floor or other surface, e.g. guide tracks, during exercising
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0204 Standing on the feet
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0488 by spreading the legs

Abstract

A portable foot operated exercise device includes a somewhat elastic fabric base having spaced apart foot sleeves on an upper surface thereof and removable sliding pads on the lower surface thereof. According to the presently preferred embodiment, the base is made of NEOPRENE™, and two pairs of sliding pads are provided. One pair is made of hard plastic and the other pair is made of fleece or a fleece-like material. The pads are preferably provided with a VELCRO® backing and the base is preferably provided with mating VELCRO® on the lower surface beneath the foot sleeves.

Claims

1. A portable foot operated exercise device, comprising:

a fabric base having an upper side and a lower side;

two spaced apart foot sleeves located on said upper; and

two sliding pads removably coupled to said lower side;

wherein said fabric base is made of an elastic material, said lower side includes a plurality of VELCRO®

strips, and said sliding pads each have a plurality of VELCRO®

strips arranged to mate with the VELCRO®

strips on said lower side.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein:

said elastic material is NEOPRENE™

.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein:

said sliding pads are one of hard plastic and fleece.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein:

said sliding pads are hard plastic.

5. The device according to claim 3, wherein:

said sliding pads are fleece.

6. A portable foot operated exercise kit, comprising:

a fabric base having an upper side and a lower side;

two spaced apart foot sleeves located on said upper side; and

two pairs of sliding pads, each pair removably attachable to said lower side, one pair being made of a relatively hard material, the other pair being made of a relatively soft material;

wherein said fabric base is made of an elastic material, said lower side includes a plurality of VELCRO®

strips, and said sliding pads each have a plurality of VELCRO®

strips arranged to mate with the VELCRO®

strips on said lower side.

7. The kit according to claim 6, wherein:

said elastic material is NEOPRENE™

.

8. The kit according to claim 6, wherein:

one pair of said sliding pads are hard plastic and the other pair are fleece.

9. A portable foot operated exercise device, comprising:

a generally planar base mat having an upper side and a lower side;

two spaced apart foot sleeves located on said upper side; and

two sliding pads positioned generally beneath said foot sleeves, said base mat having a stretchable elastic web of stretching;

wherein said sliding pads are releasably coupled to said lower side of said mat disposed between said spaced-apart foot sleeves which afford resistance to stretching.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein:

said elastic web of material is NEOPRENE™

.

11. The device according to claim 10 wherein:

said lower side includes at least two spaced apart strips of mechanically interlocking fasteners; and

said sliding pads each have at least one strip of mechanically interlocking fasteners arranged to releasably mate with an opposite one of said strips on said lower side.

12. The device according to claim 11 wherein:

said sliding pads are selected from a group consisting of hard plastic and fleece.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein:

said sliding pads are hard plastic.

14. The device according to claim 12, wherein:

said sliding pads are fleece.