Supporting device for waist or neck portion

• US 8,480,543 B1
• Filed: 08/30/2012
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Expectations LLC
• Original Assignee: Expectations LLC
• Inventors: Leier, Christopher Henry, Schultz, Howard Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): CONLEY, FREDRICK C
• Application Number:
  US13/598,820
• Time in Patent Office: 313 Days
• Field of Search: 563/2, 563/6, 564/0, 564/4, 563/0, 602/32, 602/36, 482/142, 482/140, 482/51
• US Class Current: 482/51
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2023/006 for stretching exercises
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00072 by changing the length of a lever
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/222 by overcoming gyroscopic forces, e.g. by turning the spin axis
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4007 to the chest region, e.g. to the back chest
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4009 to the waist
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4013 to the ankle
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4033 Handles, pedals, bars or platforms
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4049 Rotational movement
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0252 supine
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2210/50 Size reducing arrangements for stowing or transport
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/09 Adjustable dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/025 for the head or the neck

Abstract

A supporting device includes a planar member having two end portions and an outer peripheral portion, and a fastening device attached to the end portions of the planar member for adjusting and maintaining the planar member at a curved structure and for engaging with and supporting or massaging various portions of the user. The fastening device includes a flexible member for being coupled between the end portions of the planar member, a buckle attached to one end portion of the flexible member, and a locking member attached to the other end portion of the flexible member for attaching the flexible member to the end portions of the planar member.

Claims

1. A supporting device comprising:

a planar member including a first end portion and a second end portion, and an outer peripheral portion,

a fastening device attached to said first and said second end portions of said planar member for adjusting and maintaining said planar member at a curved structure, and

a table for supporting said planar member, said table including two apertures formed therein, and

said fastening device including a flexible member engaged through said apertures of said table for mounting said planar member to said table.

2. The supporting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fastening device includes a flexible member for being coupled between said first and said second end portions of said planar member, a buckle attached to a first end portion of said flexible member, and a locking member attached to a second end portion of said flexible member for attaching said flexible member to said first and said second end portions of said planar member.

3. The supporting device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said locking member is selected from a hook and loop fastening element.

4. The supporting device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said planar member includes a groove formed in each of said first and said second end portions of said planar member for engaging with said flexible member, and said flexible member of said fastening device is engaged through said grooves of said first and said second end portions of said planar member for maintaining said planar member at the curved structure.

5. The supporting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said planar member includes a plurality of openings formed through said planar member.

6. The supporting device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said openings of said planar member are extended from said first end portion toward said second end portion of said planar member for allowing an intermediate portion of said planar member to be curved upwardly.

7. The supporting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said planar member includes a plurality of orifices formed in said outer peripheral portion of said planar member.

8. The supporting device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a supporting stand for supporting said table.