Patent Application
20150045191
The present invention relates to a medicine ball system where a user of a medicine ball is able to adjust the amount of weights utilized with the medicine ball.
Generally, medicine balls were used in gym facilities in order to provide aerobic exercise to a person when the ball is thrown or caught. Typically, medicine balls are relatively heavy and have considerable mass in order to produce optimum expenditure of energy when the ball is in use. The mass is generally provided by surrounding a heavy object with a fibrous material such as loose cotton batting or wadded pieces of cloth. The outside of the ball is generally composed of sections of leather, cloth, rubber or plastic stitched together to form a spherical covering around the heavy, padded central mass. The outside of the ball is soft and pliable so that it can be grasped more easily when being thrown or caught.
The problem with this type of medicine ball is that it would often be necessary to have many different medicine balls in a gym or home to accommodate different expenditures of energy. For example, there may be a need for a 2 pound medicine ball, 4 pound medicine ball or 6 pound medicine ball to expend various amounts of energy in a gym or home, which adds clutter to the gym or home.
There is a need for a medicine ball system that allows a person to use only one medicine ball in a limited amount of space in a gym or a home instead of a number of medicine balls so that the medicine balls don't add clutter to the gym or home.
The present invention has been accomplished in view of the above-mentioned technical background, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a medicine ball.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, A medicine ball system is disclosed. The system includes a medicine ball and a closure cover configured to receive the medicine ball. The closure cover device includes weighted material that increases the weight of the medicine ball.
In another preferred embodiment of the invention, a method for making a medicine ball system. The method includes: providing a medicine ball; and inserting the medicine ball into a closure cover, where the closure cover includes weighted material that increases a weight of the medicine ball.
In yet another preferred embodiment of the invention, a ball system is disclosed. The ball system includes a ball and a closure cover configured to receive the ball, wherein the weighted closure cover includes weighted material that increases the weight of the ball.
These and other advantages of the present invention will become more apparent as the following description is read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
The presently preferred embodiments of the invention are described with reference to the drawings, where like components are identified with the same numerals. The descriptions of the preferred embodiments are exemplary and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
The utilization of the liquid gels, sand or bb pellets inside the internal portion 103b of the closure cover 103 increases the weight of a 5 pound medicine ball to a 7 pound Medicine ball based on the 2 pound closure cover 103 or a 9 pound Medicine ball based on the 4 pound closure cover 103 where the 5 pound medicine ball will be placed inside the closure cover 103.
The closure cover 103 has a larger size than a typical medicine ball 101 in order to encapsulate the medicine ball 101 or retain the medicine ball 101 inside the closure cover 103. The closure cover 103 includes a typical zipper 103A to hold and retain the medicine ball 101 inside of the weighted closure cover 103 to form the medicine ball system 100. In another embodiment, the zipper 103a may be any type of closure mechanism such as a string enclosure or Velcro enclosure to retain the medicine ball 101 in the weighted closure cover 103.
The utilization of the liquid gels, sand or bb pellets inside the internal portion 203b of the closure cover 203 increases the weight of a ball by adding the extra weight of the closure cover 203 by 1-10 pounds depending on the weight of the closure cover.
The closure cover 203 has a larger size than a typical ball 201 in order to encapsulate the ball 201 or retain the ball 201 inside the closure cover 203. The closure cover 203 includes a typical zipper 203A to hold and retain the ball 201 inside of the weighted closure cover 203 to form the ball system 200. In another embodiment, the zipper 203a may be any type of closure mechanism such as a string enclosure or Velcro enclosure to retain the medicine ball 201 in the weighted closure cover 203.
This invention provides an improved medicine ball, where a person utilizing the medicine ball or any type of ball is able to utilize a closure device to encapsulate a medicine ball or the ball. The closure device encapsulates the medicine ball or ball, where the closure device is utilized to safely increase the weight of the medicine ball or ball without the need for a person to change the medicine ball or ball to increase the weight of the medicine ball or ball that helps to prevent clutter from occurring in a gym or home.
Although the present invention has been described above in terms of specific embodiments, many modifications and variations of this invention can be made as will be obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art, without departing from its spirit and scope as set forth in the following claims.
