This product is called office gym exercise kit.
As you may instantly know by the title, it's for exercising in your office. In your cube, you can transform your workspace into a gym. The kit provides a full range of arm leg and back exercises. It states that all you need is a chair to get exercise done.
To further describe, office gym kit is a portable exercise kit. It is capable of attaching about a chair post and chair back support to provide workout for the user. "User's body will be wrapped around the post and under the base of the chair then secured such that the flexible body remains in place around chair post." Furthermore, "Both the flexible body and flexible band have retainers attached thereon. Several elastic straps are included in the kit. The elastic straps may be fastened to the flexible body and flexible band by latching onto the retainers. The user then exercises by extending the elastic straps with arms, legs or the like."
This sounds more practical than other silly patents that we have seen so far, both in class and on the web. Everyone seems to be working out now days to stay healthy. And the reason for making this product and making it patented seems to be somewhat of a good idea. For prior art, I have seen cases in which the companies sell products that can be easily done with household product. But, I have not seen anything that can be used in the office itself. As with usage, it seems that one could really use this if he or she was in the office alone. Or, if the worker is self-employed, this could actually be alternative to real gym. It would save time and money. However, when you are working with others, it will be difficult to actually use this because it will make you look like a fool. Also, I feel that this is a fast track to getting fired. Do note that this is specifically made for office/job environment. Would you use this while working?
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7137935.PN.&OS=PN/7137935&RS=PN/7137935
This is a practical patent. As for prior art, any home gym equipment made for portability or compactness might qualify, and there are plenty of those out there.
ReplyDeleteThe idea is practical for home usage, but I don't see a person doing this on a regular basis on their work. Would you say that this is practical patent? Also, I wouldn't think a normal worker would attach this at his work and workout while working. Although I believe it's silly, I agree why you would think it's practical.
DeleteI also came across this patent during my research on silly patents. I was not really sure why it fell under this category. It seems to me to be fairly practical and a product that the masses could use in their home or office space. I do think that it does make the user look ridiculous, particularly if they were to use it in their work setting. However, to make a product like this without making the user look ridiculous is a tall task.
ReplyDeleteI think it's not practical in general sense that normal worker cannot use this while working. Even though I did think it was more practical(as mentioned above), I thought it was silly because one cannot work while doing this, right?
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