YOGA ROPE WITH ANTI-SLIP STRUCTURES
A yoga rope with anti-slip structures includes a rope body, a first fastener assembly and at least one anti-slip structure. The rope body has a first operation end, a main portion and a second operation end orderly arranged in an extension direction. The first fastener assembly fixed to the first operation end is used for tying the main portion. The at least one anti-slip structure is attached to the rope body.
This application claims the benefit of Taiwan Patent Application Serial No. 109205111, filed Apr. 29, 2020, the subject matter of which is incorporated herein by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION (1) Field of the InventionThe invention relates to a yoga rope, and more particularly to a yoga rope with anti-slip structures.
(2) Description of the Prior ArtRecently, prevalence of social sports atmosphere has driven more and more people to start cultivating themselves sports or exercise habits. However, in facing versatile sports, most new people to sports usually tend to start with a gentler indoor exercise. Among gentle indoor exercises, yoga is undoubtedly a good choice. Yoga practice is relatively static, and needs only a yoga mat that occupies only a limited space. As such, population to practice yoga is increasing.
As described above, though yoga seems easy to people, yet teaching of professional teachers is still needed to exercise correctly. Hence, before practicing at home, majority of beginners usually learn basic yoga skills from teaching in sports centers, gyms or other specific yoga classes.
Generally speaking, since yoga mats are personal items, while in attending a yoga class, students need to prepare their own yoga mats. In other words, for each yoga class, a student would need to carry his/her own yoga mat from his/her own place to the class. Generally, to bring a yoga mat conveniently, a yoga rope is usually needed for tying one or two ends of the rolled yoga mat, and the yoga mat can be carried easier.
In addition, since practicing yoga includes an extension move, so the yoga rope, besides of a tying purpose, can be used to help the extension practice. However, for the yoga rope is generally woven from fibers, thus it can only provide a limited anti-slip performance. Such a formation of the yoga mat may be all right to provide sufficient frictions for tying the yoga mat, but is definitely yet to assist a yoga extension movement for insufficient anti-slipping thereof would unable to provide safety holding with hands. As a result, with insufficient holding between the yoga rope and user's hands, a rope-slipping accident may harm the user.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONIn view that the conventional yoga rope cannot provide sufficient anti-slip capability for assisting yoga practice, possible slipping off may be met while the yoga rope is used for extension movements. To avoid unexpected hurts therefrom, accordingly it is an object of the present invention to provide a yoga rope with anti-slip structures.
In this invention, a yoga rope with anti-slip structures includes a rope body, a first fastener assembly and at least one anti-slip structure. The rope body has a first operation end, a main portion and a second operation end orderly arranged in an extension direction. The first fastener assembly fixed to the first operation end is used for tying the main portion. The at least one anti-slip structure is attached to the rope body.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the at least one anti-slip structure is formed as at least one of a text graphics and a geometric shape.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the first fastener assembly includes two buckle rings.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the rope body has a first surface and a second surface, opposite to each other, both the first surface and the second surface extend throughout the first operation end, the main portion and the second operation end, and the at least one anti-slip structure is disposed to at least one of the first surface and the second surface. Preferably, the first surface includes a plurality of anti-slip sections and a plurality of interval sections, the plurality of anti-slip sections and the plurality of interval sections are arranged in an alternating manner, and the at least one anti-slip structure is attached to the plurality of anti-slip sections of the rope body.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the yoga rope with anti-slip structures further includes a second fastener assembly fixed to the second operation end for tying the main portion.
As stated, the present invention provides the anti-slip structures to the rope body so as to promote effectively the anti-slip performance of the rope body, and thus the engagement stability while the yoga rope is used for fixing the yoga mat or for assisting an extension movement can be enhanced.
All these objects are achieved by the method and the yoga rope with anti-slip structures described below.
The present invention will now be specified with reference to its preferred embodiment illustrated in the drawings, in which:
The invention disclosed herein is directed to a yoga rope with anti-slip structures. In the following description, numerous details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be appreciated by one skilled in the art that variations of these specific details are possible while still achieving the results of the present invention. In other instance, well-known components are not described in detail in order not to unnecessarily obscure the present invention.
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The rope body 1 has a first operation end 11, a main portion 12 and a second operation end 13, arranged orderly in an extension direction D1. The rope body 1 has two opposite surfaces; a first surface 14 and a second surface 15. Both the first surface 14 and the second surface 15 are extended across the first operation end 11, the main portion 12 and the second operation end 13. In this embodiment, the rope body 1 can be woven from cotton or polyester fibers.
The first fastener assembly 2 includes two buckle rings 21, 22 connected individually with the first operation end 11. In this embodiment, the two buckle rings 21, 22 are both metallic D-type buckle rings. In addition, the first operation end 11 is extended and then bent back to fix onto itself via forming a circle to connect each of the two buckle rings 21, 22, such that the two buckle rings 21, 22 can be individually connected fixedly with the first operation end 11. In a practical usage, the second operation end 13 can be introduced to penetrate through the two buckle rings 21, 22, then turn back to cross over one of the two buckle rings 21, 22, and penetrate again through another one thereof, such that the main portion 12 can be fixed to the first operation end 11, and a hole formed by the main portion 12 and the first operation end 11 can be used for tying the yoga mat.
The plurality of anti-slip structures 3 are attached to the first surface 14 of the rope body 1 in a predetermined array distribution throughout the main portion 12 and the second operation end 13. In this embodiment, the anti-slip structures 3 can be made of a polymer material such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyurethane (PU), silicone or rubber. In addition, though the anti-slip structures 3 in this embodiment are formed by plural independent structures, each of which can be formed as, but not limited to, a round node. In some other embodiments, the anti-slip structure 3 can be formed to have a geometric rectangular profile, as a text graphics, or to any the like.
Based on the aforesaid descriptions, the anti-slip structures 3 are attached onto the first surface 14 of the rope body 1 throughout the main portion 12 and the second operation end 13. Thus, when the yoga rope with anti-slip structures 100 is introduced to tie the yoga mat (not shown in the figure, equivalent to the yoga mat 300 of
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Based on the aforesaid descriptions, a major difference between the rope body 1a and the rope body 1 is that the first surface 14a of the rope body 1a includes a plurality of anti-slip sections 141a (only one labeled in the figure) and a plurality of interval sections 142a (only one labeled in the figure), in which the anti-slip sections 141a and the interval sections 142 are arranged in an alternating manner, and the anti-slip structures 3a are only provided to the anti-slip sections 141a. In this embodiment, since only the anti-slip sections 141a of the yoga rope 100a are attached with anti-slip structures 3a, thus, in comparison to the first embodiment of the yoga rope with anti-slip structures 100, the arrangement of the anti-slip structures 3a over the yoga rope with anti-slip structures 100a can effectively reduce the manufacturing cost.
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In this embodiment, a specific mesh-point arrangement is applied for the anti-slip structures 3b to distribute over the first surface 14b, and each of the anti-slip structures 3b is formed as a text graphics consisted of an “s”, and “p” and a “d”, such that, besides of an anti-slip performance, the anti-slip structure 3b can serve as a commercial purpose through the text graphics.
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The rope body 1c has a first operation end 11c, a main portion 12c and a second operation end 13c, orderly arranged in an extension direction (though not labeled in the figure, but as a direction from the first operation end 11c to the second operation end 13c). In addition, the rope body 1c has two opposing surfaces, a first surface 14c and a second surface 15c. Both the first surface 14c and the second surface 15c are extended throughout the first operation end 11c, the main portion 12c and the second operation end 13c.
The first fastener assembly 2c includes two buckle rings 21c, 22c fixed independently to the same first operation end 11c. Similarly, the second fastener assembly 3c includes two buckle rings 31c, 32c fixed independently to the same second operation end 13c. In this embodiment, each of the first fastener assembly 2c and the second fastener assembly 3c are connected correspondingly with the main portion 12c according to a connection manner the same as that engaging the second operation end 13 and the first operation end 11 described in the aforesaid first embodiment. It shall be specifically explained that, since the rope body 1 of the first embodiment is provided with only one fastener assembly (i.e., the first fastener assembly 2 furnished to the first operation end 11, the second operation end 13 is provided to the first fastener assembly 2 in a detachable manner. However, in this embodiment, for the first operation end 11c and the second operation end 13c are provided to the first fastener assembly 2c and the second fastener assembly 3c, respectively, and also for the first fastener assembly 2c and the second fastener assembly 3c have been connected with the main portion 12c in advance, thus a tightening structure that enables the main portion 12c to connect the first fastener assembly 2c or the second fastener assembly 3c in an arbitrarily tightness can be formed. In particular, the anti-slip structures 4c are attached to the first surface 14c of the rope body 1c.
Based on the aforesaid descriptions, practically, before rings are separately applied to engage the first fastener assembly 2c and the second fastener assembly 3c respectively to the first operation end 11c and the second operation end 13c of the rope body 1c, the main portion 12c forms respective a fastening structure with each of the first fastener assembly 2c and the second fastener assembly 3c firstly, and then the first operation end 11c and the second operation end 13c are connected to the first fastener assembly 2c and the second fastener assembly 3c, respectively, via the rings.
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In summary, in comparison with the conventional yoga rope who is provided with limited anti-slip capability, the present invention provides the anti-slip structures to the rope body so as to promote effectively the anti-slip performance of the rope body, and thus the engagement stability while the yoga rope is used for fixing the yoga mat or for assisting an extension movement can be enhanced.
While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Claims
1. A yoga rope, comprising:
- a rope body, having a first operation end, a main portion and a second operation end arranged in an extension direction, also having a surface extending throughout the first operation end, the main portion and the second operation end, the surface being divided into a plurality of anti-slip sections and a plurality of interval sections arranged in an alternating manner;
- a first fastener assembly, fixed to the first operation end, used for tying the main portion; and
- at least one anti-slip structure, attached to each of the plurality of anti-slip sections of the rope body.
2. The yoga rope of claim 1, wherein the at least one anti-slip structure is formed as at least one of a text graphics and a geometric shape.
3. The yoga rope of claim 1, wherein the first fastener assembly includes two buckle rings.
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6. The yoga rope of claim 1, further including a second fastener assembly fixed to the second operation end for tying the main portion.
7. The yoga rope of claim 1, wherein the rope body is woven from cotton or polyester fibers, and the at least one anti-slip structure is made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyurethane (PU), silicone, or rubber.
Type: Application
Filed: Jun 4, 2020
Publication Date: Nov 4, 2021
Inventor: Shuo-Hsiu Johnny CHANG (Taipei City)
Application Number: 16/892,643