Bounce board to superimpose upon sports ball
A Bounce Board to Superimpose upon Sports Ball comprising the platform for an operator to stand on, the thrust acceptor to accept the thrust from the sports ball, the quick-release holder to hold the board by operator with feet or/and hands and the fastener for fastening the sports ball to the thrust acceptor. The board superimposes the sports ball. Doing bouncing exercise the operator bounces upon firm surface using the board and the sports ball fastened to the board as a tool to rebound off the surface. The sports ball is not a part of the board.
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BACKGRAUND OF THE INVENTIONObesity is incompatible with the ability of jumping or bouncing. Who likes to bounce or jump must not be obese. Thus, bouncing or jumping exercise is effective physiological and psychological remedy for fighting obesity since childhood. Also, jumping or bouncing makes stronger bones, joints and spinal column. Any apparatus for jumping or bouncing exercise has to be safe, easy to use while still providing enjoyment and the desirable physiological and psychological effect.
Pogo sticks have been long used for bouncing. They are known as enough safe apparatuses. But the operator of pogo stick, while bouncing, has to keep, at least, one-hand grip onto the upper end of the pogo stick, what essentially limits the freedom of the operator's body movements.
There is no such limitation to the operator of any of the apparatuses described in the U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,685,807 and 4,893,809. But, those apparatuses are not enough safe, easy to use and the specially made resilience is required, what diminishes the desire to use any of them. Here, resilience is something which is able to accumulate mechanical energy and give it back.
An inflatable flexible ball body of the apparatus of the U.S. Pat. No. 4,893,809 has to be properly inflated for being interlocked with a rigid annular plate, on which the operator stands. If the operator uses the apparatus with under-inflated ball body or the operator is too heavy, then the ball body unlocks from the plate and, as a result, the operator may sustain injuries.
In accordance to the sense of the U.S. Pat. No. 5,685,807 “Bouncing boot” the operator has to use two boots fastened one to each foot. The operator uses simultaneously two resilient bouncing elements, but one as with a pogo stick. Thus, the operator cannot have the same dynamical structure of bouncing as with a safe pogo stick. When the operator lands on one leg, the operator's landing foot has more than twice stronger twisting moment, than with pogo stick, and the fulcrum is not stable, as the foot is landing on a hemispherical body of the boot, which can rotate very easily. Thus, there is the substantially bigger probability of the dislocation of the landing operator's foot, than with a pogo stick.
There is no need to have the especially made resilience in order to use described here “Bounce Board to Superimpose upon Sports Ball”, because this board may be used when being superimposed upon the very common resilience, like sports ball. And the hands of the operator may be free. And, at any moment, the operator may free the feet from the board in a fraction of a second and land on them.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe invention “Bounce Board to Superimpose upon Sports Ball” is an apparatus with the primary purpose of bouncing exercise. A sports ball, which is a resilience, can accumulate mechanic energy and give it back. But it is impossible to bounce using a sports ball directly, as an operator would not be able to keep the balance. The board superimposed upon a sports ball allows an operator to keep balance while bouncing. The sports ball or the resilience is fastened to the board. The operator standing on the platform of the board is bouncing cyclically upon firm surface using the board and the sports ball or the resilience fastened to the board as the tool to rebound off the surface.
To make easier the use, the board has a quick-acting fastener or fasteners, for example, an adhesive tape or an elastic net or a vacuum sucker or suckers to grip onto one or many sports balls or resilient bodies. The sports ball or balls or resilience is not a part of the board. To make safer the use, the board has a quick-release holder or holders for an operator or operators be able to hold the board by its holder with the operator's foot or feet or/and hand or hands (the limb, hereafter). The board may be hold by the operator with feet only, leaving free the operator's arms, what makes the use of the board more enjoyable and effective.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING
Pogo stick is used for bouncing. But, the operator of pogo stick, while bouncing, has to hold onto the upper end of the pogo stick, what essentially limits the freedom of the operator's body movements. The apparatuses described in the U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,685,807 and 4,893,809 provide better freedom of the operator's body movements, but they are not enough safe, easy to use and the specially made resilience included in those apparatuses.
Bounce Board to Superimpose upon Sports Ball distinguishes from Pogo stick and the apparatuses described in the U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,685,807 and 4,893,809 in the next. The board does not include any resilience, but intended to be superimposed upon the very common resilience, like sports ball. And the hands of the operator using the board may be free. And, at any moment, the operator may free the feet from the board in a fraction of a second and land on them. Thus, the use of the board is safer, easier and provides the better freedom of the operator's body movements.
Bounce Board to Superimpose upon Sports Ball (the board, hereafter) (1) (
The board includes:
- (a) platform (6) (
FIG. 2-6 , 8-12, 14-27, 36-38) having upper side and under side; - (b) the holder (4) (
FIG. 19-26 , 36-38) attached to the upper side of the platform, and- (I) the holder is held with the limb by the operator (
FIG. 28-32 , 34, 39), or/and - (II) the holder clasps the board to the limb of the operator (
FIGS. 29, 33 ), and - (III) the holder is of such a construction that the operator can take the limb off the board in a fraction of a second from the holder by means of a simple motion of the limb (
FIG. 28-34 , 39);
- (I) the holder is held with the limb by the operator (
- (c) thrust acceptor or acceptors (the acceptor, hereafter) (7) (
FIG. 2-6 , 8-12, 14-27, 36, 37) mounted on the under side of the platform, and- (I) the acceptor is put on the resilience and
- (II) the acceptor accepts the thrust from the resilience, and
- (III) the acceptor prevents any shift of the resilience on whole, along the board, but allows deformation of the resilience and
- (V) the acceptor may coincide with the platform partially (
FIG. 2-6 , 8-12, 14-18, 23, 24, 27) or on whole (FIG. 23-26 , 35-39) and - (IV) the work surface of the acceptor may be plated with the elastic or/and adhesive material (24) (
FIG. 22 ) strengthening friction or cohesion with the resilience and
- (d) fastener or fasteners (the fasteners, hereafter) (23) (
FIG. 14-18 , 36-38) or the fastener made as the sucker or suckers (the sucker, hereafter) (2) (FIG. 2-6 , 8-12, 19-27), attached to the platform, and- (I) the sucker, by means of sucking, fastens the resilience to the acceptor, and
- (II) the acceptor may coincide with the sucker partially (
FIG. 19, 20 ) or on whole and - (III) the sucker may have work surface platted with the elastic or/and adhesive material (25) (
FIG.20 ) strengthening airproof qualities of the contact with the resilience and - (IV) the sucker is of a permanent action induced by a vacuum pump (
FIG. 27 ) or/and - (V) the sucker is of the cyclical action induced by the operator squeezing cyclically the resilience between the acceptor and the surface upon which the operator cyclically bounces.
If the sucker is of permanent action, then air is expelled from the inner volume (9) (
If the sucker is of cyclical action, then air begins to be expelled through non-return valve (10) (
The shape of the acceptor may be a conoid (11) (
The body of the sucker may be the body of the acceptor (2, 7) (
The sucker may have a non-return valve or valves (10) (
The holder may consist of a frame (19) (
Claims
1. A bounce board comprising:
- a) a platform having upper side and under side and suitable for an operator or operators to stand on upper side of the platform;
- b) a quick-release holder or quick-release holders attached to the upper side of the platform and suitable for the operator or the operators to hold with feet directly or/and with hands via mechanical link;
- c) a thrust acceptor or thrust acceptors attached to under side of the platform and suitable to accept thrust from a resilience or resiliencies without allowing its or their shift or shifts along the platform;
- d) a quick-acting fastener or quick-acting fasteners attached to the under side of the platform and suitable to fasten the resilience or the resiliencies to the thrust acceptor or the acceptors.
2. A bounce board in accordance with claim 1, wherein the board has connectors or a connector for a mechanical link or/and electric wire or electric wires.
3. A bounce board in accordance with claim 1, wherein any or some or every of the thrust acceptors or the thrust acceptor coincides with the platform partially or on whole.
4. A bounce board in accordance with claim 1, wherein the work surface of any or some or every of the thrust acceptors or the thrust acceptor is a conoid.
5. A bounce board in accordance with claim 1, wherein the work surface of any or some or every of the thrust acceptors or the thrust acceptor plated partially or as a whole with elastic or/and adhesive material.
6. A bounce board in accordance with claim 1, wherein any or some or every of the quick-release holders or the quick-release holder comprises an elastic cushion or elastic cushions suitable for the operators or the operator to squeeze said cushion or cushions with feet.
7. A bounce board in accordance with claim 1, wherein any or some or every of the quick-release holders or the holder comprises a detail or details suitable for the operators or the operator to hold with feet.
8. A bounce board in accordance with claim 1, wherein any or some or every of the fasteners or the fastener is a vacuum sucker or vacuum suckers.
9. A bounce board in accordance with claim 8, wherein any or some or every of the thrust acceptors or thrust acceptor coincides with the vacuum sucker partially or on whole.
10. A bounce board in accordance with claim 8, wherein the work surface of any or some or every of the vacuum suckers or the vacuum sucker is a conoid.
11. A bounce board in accordance with claim 8, wherein the work surface of any or some or every of the vacuum suckers or the vacuum sucker plated partially or as a whole with elastic or/and adhesive material.
12. A bounce board in accordance with claim 8, wherein the inner volume of any or some or every of the vacuum suckers or the vacuum sucker is connected to the outside through a non-return valve or non-return valves.
13. A bounce board in accordance with claim 8, wherein the board has a vacuum pump or vacuum pumps to pump out air from the inner volume of the vacuum sucker or any or some or every of the vacuum suckers.
14. A bounce board in accordance with claim 13, wherein any or some or every of the vacuum pumps or the vacuum pump uses energy from bouncing by the operator or the operators.
15. A bounce board in accordance with claim 13, wherein any or some or every of the vacuum pumps or the vacuum pump feeds on a source of electric energy mounted on/or into the board.
Type: Application
Filed: Mar 25, 2005
Publication Date: Sep 28, 2006
Inventor: Boris Karpachev (Auburndale, MA)
Application Number: 11/090,085
International Classification: A63B 25/08 (20060101); A63B 22/16 (20060101); A63B 26/00 (20060101);