Yoga brick

• US 8,052,587 B1
• Filed: 07/22/2010
• Issued: 11/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ying-Ching Wu
• Original Assignee: Ying-Ching Wu
• Inventors: Wu, Ying-Ching
• Primary Examiner(s): Thanh; Loan
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROLAND, DANIEL F
• Application Number:
  US12/841,231
• Time in Patent Office: 474 Days
• Field of Search: 482/98, 482106-109, 482/142, 482/148, 446/85, 446/106, 446/120, 446124-125, 446/476, 434/403, 527/831, 52605-607, D21/671, D21/694, 248/146, 248/148
• US Class Current: 482/148
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0458 Step exercisers without moving parts with movable steps A63B22/04

Abstract

A yoga brick includes first and second casings. Each of the first and second casings includes inner and outer faces spaced along a first axis, a peripheral wall extending between the inner and outer faces, and a first recessed portion formed in the outer face. The first recessed portion includes a wavy holding face having a plurality of anti-slipping ribs. Each of the first and second casings can further include a second recessed portion formed in the outer face thereof. The second recessed portion includes a wavy holding face having a plurality of anti-slipping ribs. The first and second casings can be engaged with each other with the first recessed portion of the first casing aligned with the second recessed portion of the second casing along the first axis and with the second recessed portion of the first casing aligned with the first recessed portion of the second casing along the first axis.

Claims

1. A yoga brick comprising first and second casings, with each of first and second casings including:

inner and outer faces spaced along a first axis;

a peripheral wall extending between the inner and outer faces; and

a first recessed portion formed in the outer face, with the first recessed portion including a wavy holding face having a plurality of anti-slipping ribs,

with each of the first and second casings including a second recessed portion formed in the outer face thereof, with the second recessed portion including a wavy holding face having a plurality of anti-slipping ribs,

with the first and second casings engageable with each other with the first recessed portion of the first casing aligned with the second recessed portion of the second casing along the first axis and with the second recessed portion of the first casing aligned with the first recessed portion of the second casing along the first axis,

with the peripheral wall of each of the first and second casings including an anti-slipping layer formed on an outer peripheral face of the peripheral wall, with the anti-slipping layer including a plurality of anti-slipping knurls.

2. A yoga brick as comprising first and second casings, with each of first and second casings including:

inner and outer faces spaced along a first axis;

a peripheral wall extending between the inner and outer faces; and

a first recessed portion formed in the outer face, with the first recessed portion including a wavy holding face having a plurality of anti-slipping ribs,

with each of the first and second casings including a second recessed portion formed in the outer face thereof, with the second recessed portion including a wavy holding face having a plurality of anti-slipping ribs,

with the first and second casings engageable with each other with the first recessed portion of the first casing aligned with the second recessed portion of the second casing along the first axis and with the second recessed portion of the first casing aligned with the first recessed portion of the second casing along the first axis,

with the peripheral wall of each of the first and second casings including two parallel, first sides spaced along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis and two parallel, second sides spaced along a third axis perpendicular to the first and second axes, with the holding face of each of the two first sides of each of the first and second casings spaced from one of the first sides of the peripheral wall, with at least one of the first and second casings including a third recessed portion formed in the outer face thereof, with the third recessed portion including a wavy holding wall spaced from one of the two second sides of the peripheral wall.

3. The yoga brick as claimed in claim 2, with each of the first and second casings including a lip extending along the first axis and extending from a middle of one of the two second sides of the peripheral wall thereof across a half of the second side, one of the two first sides of the peripheral wall thereof, and a half of another of the two second sides and terminating at a middle of the other second side, with the lip having two end faces, with each of the first and second casings further including an engaging groove formed in the inner face thereof and extending along the first axis and extending from one of the two end faces of the lip through another half of the second side of the peripheral wall thereof, another of the two first sides of the peripheral wall thereof, and another half of the other second side and terminating at another of the two end faces of the lip, with the lip of the first casing engaged in the engaging groove of the second casing, with the lip of the second casing engaged in the engaging groove of the first casing, with the two end faces of the lip of the first casing abutting two end walls of the engaging groove of the second casing, with the two end faces of the lip of the second casing abutting two end walls of the engaging groove of the first casing.

4. The yoga brick as claimed in claim 3, with the each of the first and second casings further including a space extending from the inner face towards but spaced from the outer face thereof along the first axis, with each of the first and second recessed portions of each of the first and second casings further including a lateral face and a bottom face extending between the lateral face and the holding face and extending perpendicularly to the first axis, with the lateral faces located intermediate the holding faces along the second axis, with the third recessed portion including a lateral wall and a bottom wall extending between the lateral wall and the holding wall, with the lateral wall of the third recessed portion located intermediate the lateral faces of the first and second recessed portions along the second axis.

5. The yoga brick as claimed in claim 4, with the bottom face of the first recessed portion of each of the first and second casings including a through-hole, with the bottom face of the second recessed portions of each of the first and second casings including a screw hole, with the yoga brick further comprising:

a first screw extending through the through-hole of the bottom face of the first recessed portion of the first casing into the screw hole of the bottom face of the second recessed portion of the second casing; and

a second screw extending through the through-hole of the bottom face of the first recessed portion of the second casing into the screw hole of the bottom face of the second recessed portion of the first casing.