BATHTUB EXERCISE AUXILIARY APPARATUS
A bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus includes a housing trough, a sitting portion and an ancillary support installed on the housing trough. The housing trough has a surrounding wall, a bottom surface and an opening remote from the bottom surface. The sitting portion is connected to the bottom surface. The ancillary support has a plurality of connection posts fastening to the housing trough, at least one holding rack connecting vertically to the connection posts and at least one exercise rack connecting to the holding rack and straddling the opening. The apparatus provides a private aquatic exercise environment to allow a user to do exercises or stretching movements via the ancillary support installed on the housing trough to make user's body stronger or provide muscle rehabilitation therapy.
The present invention relates to an aquatic exercise equipment and particularly to a bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONAquatic therapy is a technique to relax user's body or provide muscle therapy. These days SPA is very popular that aims to stimulate blood circulation of users via warm water and improve metabolism. Some use the pressure of ejecting water to thrust selected portions of user's body to massage the muscles. Aquatic rehabilitation is another type of aquatic therapy. For instance, swimming is generally deemed a desirable exercise that can enhance muscle control and resilience. Swimming, incorporating with respiration in the water, can thrust user's body moving in the water to train coordination capability of the body. Clinical reports show that the buoyancy in the water can facilitate various types of rehabilitation without much stress and alleviate undesirable effects on other portions of the body. However, not everyone can swim. Moreover, for people who are undergoing rehabilitation from serious muscle injury, swimming is too difficult and not very practical.
In addition, swimming pools generally are open to public and accessible by many people. For people who are undergoing rehabilitation, swimming in such locations creates unnecessary exposure and could cause mental uneasiness and result in ill effect to rehabilitation, thus make people in need reluctant to do rehabilitation in the swimming pool. Furthermore, rehabilitative exercises doable in the swimming pool are limited and confined by the site, and special equipments or facilities cannot be deployed as desired to meet users' requirements.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe primary object of the present invention is to solve the problems of aquatic rehabilitation and exercises that are inconvenient and deficient in privacy.
To achieve the foregoing object, the present invention provides a bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus that includes a housing trough, a sitting portion and an ancillary support installed on the housing trough. The housing trough has a surrounding wall, a bottom surface and an opening remote from the bottom surface. The sitting portion is connected to the bottom surface. The ancillary support has a plurality of connection posts fastening to the housing trough, at least one holding rack connecting vertically to the connection posts and at least one exercise rack connecting to the holding rack and straddling the opening.
By means of the structure set forth above, the ancillary support installed on the housing trough allows users to do stretching exercise, muscle strengthening exercise or aquatic rehabilitation therapy in the water. The invention also is adaptable to bathtubs in general houses, and is easy to install and convenient to use, and also provides improved privacy.
The foregoing, as well as additional objects, features and advantages of the invention will be more readily apparent from the following detailed description, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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The ancillary support 30 includes a plurality of connection posts 31 fastening to the housing trough 10, at least one holding rack 32 connecting vertically to the connection posts 31 and at least one exercise rack 33 connecting to the holding rack 32 and straddling the opening 13. In this embodiment, the housing trough 10 is formed in a square shape. The connection posts 31 are positioned and fastened to the junctions of the closed holding wall 112b and first holding wall 111, and on the step portion 40. The holding rack 32 is located at one end of the connection posts 31 remote from the housing trough 10 and connected vertically to the connection posts 31. The holding rack 32 includes two first holding racks 321 and one second holding rack 322. The first holding racks 321 are parallel with the first holding wall 111 and located at two ends of the second holding wall 112. The exercise rack 33 straddles the opening 13 to connect vertically to the two first holding racks 321. Thereby, user 50 in the housing trough 10 can do exercises, stretching and rehabilitation activities through the exercise rack 33. The second holding rack 322 is parallel with the closed holding wall 112b. Through the holding rack 32, the structural strength of the entire ancillary support 30 can be enhanced to avoid damage. It is to be noted that the height of the connection posts 31 fastening to the housing trough 10 can be changed to adjust the holding rack 32 and exercise rack 33.
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The invention may further be incorporated with resilient facilities and buoyant articles to further enhance stretching of user's body and perform muscle exercises. The buoyant articles can aid upward floating of the user while using the exercise rack 33. On the other hand, through the exercise rack 33, resistance can be generated against a downward pressure while the user is sinking to aid exercise.
As a conclusion, by installing the ancillary support 30 on the housing trough 10 or 10a, the user 50 can do stretching, exercises and rehabilitation activities in the water, thus the invention is adaptable to the bathtubs used in the general houses, and also is easy to install and use and provides improved privacy. In addition, through the sitting portion 20 or 20a and the position adjustment portion 331, the location of the exercise rack 33 can be adjusted to better meet user's requirements. It provides significant improvements over the conventional techniques.
While the preferred embodiments of the invention have been set forth for the purpose of disclosure, modifications of the disclosed embodiments of the invention as well as other embodiments thereof may occur to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to cover all embodiments which do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention.
Claims
1. A bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus, comprising:
- a housing trough including a surrounding wall, a bottom surface and an opening remote from the bottom surface;
- a sitting portion connecting to the bottom surface; and
- an ancillary support which is installed on the housing trough and includes a plurality of connection posts fastening to the housing trough, at least one holding rack connecting vertically to the plurality of connection posts and at least one exercise rack connecting to the holding rack and straddling the opening.
2. The bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bottom surface of the housing trough is spaced from the opening at a distance ranged from 70 cm to 150 cm.
3. The bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus of claim 1, wherein the exercise rack is spaced from the opening at a distance ranged from 10 cm to 100 cm.
4. The bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus of claim 1, wherein the housing trough is formed in a square shape and includes two first holding walls opposing each other and two second holding walls perpendicular to the two first holding walls, the holding rack including two first holding racks parallel with the first holding walls, the exercise rack connecting vertically to the two first holding racks.
5. The bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus of claim 4, wherein the exercise rack includes two position adjustment portions at two ends thereof respectively located on the first holding rack.
6. The bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus of claim 4, wherein the two second holding walls are respectively an entry holding wall and a closed holding wall.
7. The bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus of claim 6, wherein the holding rack includes a second holding rack parallel with and opposing to the closed holding wall.
8. The bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus of claim 6 further including a step portion located at one side of the entry holding wall remote from the closed holding wall.
9. The bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus of claim 8, wherein the connection posts are fastened to the step portion and the closed holding wall.
10. The bathtub exercise auxiliary apparatus of claim 6, wherein the sitting portion is located at one side of the entry holding wall facing the closed holding wall.
Type: Application
Filed: Jan 26, 2012
Publication Date: Aug 1, 2013
Inventor: Chung-Pao LIN (Taichung City)
Application Number: 13/358,999
International Classification: A47K 3/02 (20060101);