This non-provisional application claims the benefit of Provisional application No. 62/068,676 filed on Oct. 25, 2014, and this is the continue-in-parts application for Non-provisional application Ser. No. 14/874,455 filed on Oct. 4, 2015
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Barefoot massage has been practiced for more than two millennium years in China. At very beginning, barefoot massage is one kind of treatment for the lumbar vertebrate of human body. However, since this century, the barefoot massage extensively has been practiced for health care business. Recent research shows, many western massage therapists have been turned to barefoot massage, because the deep-tissue massage therapy is more popular, but it requires massage therapists perform vigorous massage by their wrists and thumbs. So the barefoot massage can replace hands-on massage with wrists and thumbs, to avoid the pain and the chronic injury to many massage therapists using such techniques.
However, up to now, there is no any ideal bar equipment to support the massage therapists' bodyweight and keep it in balance, in order to give the massage therapists' feet more freedom. Traditionally a pair of paralleled beams is permanently installed, positioned overhead the massage therapists, and is not readily to a desired height for use upon different surface or for use between users of varying stature. Moreover, the overhead situation typical of most such supports exerts stress on the user's arms during the performance of the massage, result in their barefoot massage operations not safe.
The present invention, therefore, has changed the way to support the user's bodyweight and keep it in balance, utilizing a pair of transverse grabbing bars below the users' chest: A. in the most situations, users' one foot standing, on foot working, only required to manually engaging the grabbing bars; B. in a few of situations, users prostrate upon the upper grabbing bar with their abdomen, and two hands grasp the lower grabbing bar, when users working with two feet. In this way, massage therapists are able to adjust the pressure on feet by two hands changing the angle between the body and the grabbing bar rack.
The present invention therefore, enables erection of a moveable barefoot massage grabbing bar rack across a massage table, bed, mat, or other raised surface or ground surface, whereby engagement of a pair of movable transverse bars to support body balance and their abdomen enables users to self-support themselves during a barefoot massage, taking a pair of independent vertical upright beams with right length first, and then choosing the height position of the grabbing bar assembly between three positions appropriate for use for varying stature. This grabbing bar rack is also easily to be moving forward and backward to change its positions during the performance of massage.
The present invention is lightweight, portable, erectable, and height expediently adjustable. This present invention thus relates to the massage arts—particularly ashiatsu, “walking-back-massage”, which totally replaces a pair of traditional paralleled beams permanently installed, positioned overhead the users, enables massage therapists provide barefoot massage to replace their hands-on massage.
This present invention is very simple and comprises only five independent assembled components. It is quickly to be assembled and disassembled by eight sets of screw-nuts securements. When disassembled, it can be put into a portable bag for later use.
Each of a pair of substantially triangular shaped bases includes a floor beam, a vertical upright beam, and two angular strut beams, made of aluminum alloy hollow square-shaped tube.
The floor beam is longitudinally disposed upon a ground surface in parallel with a patient lying at prone (or supine) position proximal thereto. The floor beam includes a pair of ends and midpoint equidistantly disposed between each of the pair of ends. The vertical upright beam is endwise disposed perpendicularly upon floor beam at the midpoint. Each of the pair of side struts is disposed on either side of the upright beam, conjoining the floor beam at the middle point of each half floor beam. Each of the pair of side struts supports the upright beam in perpendicular position at the floor beam midpoint.
The upper portion, or say attachment section, of the vertical upright beam of each of a pair of substantially triangular shaped bases mounted with the lower portion of each independent vertical upright beams, by a square-shaped-tube-telescope structure becomes a stand assembly, and can be secured together rigidly by two sets of special screw-nuts securements, to provide two selectable height positions.
And also the upper portions of each independent upright beam of a pair of stands assembly mounted with each of a pair of the vertical strut members of the grabbing bar assembly, by a square-shaped-tube-telescope structure, become an entire grabbing bar rack, and can be secured together rigidly by two pairs of special screw-nuts securements, and to provide two selectable height positions too, described subsequently in greater detail.
The grabbing bar assembly includes a pair of parallel bars endwise interconnected with each of a pair of vertical strut members. Each of the pair of parallel bars are contemplated to by cylindrically shaped with a round-shaped transverse cross-section conformable to grasping and manual engagement by a user and for support the user's abdomen when applying bodyweight to the bars. Each of the pair of parallel bars is oriented to span horizontally, vertically aligned, between the upper portions of the independent upright beams of each of the first and second side stands assembly. The present moveable barefoot massage grabbing bar rack, therefore, includes a first and second side stands assembly, positional in parallel array spaced apart and secured together by a grabbing bar assembly secuarbly fittable spanned therebetween.
The said independent vertical upright beam is a metal square-shaped tube, made of galvanized steel; its outside transverse cross section is a little smaller (one millimeter difference) than the inside transverse cross section of the aluminum alloy square-shaped tubes of both the substantial triangular shaped base and the substantial rectangular shaped grabbing bar assembly, so that the independent vertical upright beam is easily to slide in outer square-shaped tubes, to become square-shaped-tube-telescope structure. At each upper and lower portion of said independent vertical upright beam, there are four round holes three and one-half (3.5) inches apart serried vertically and to become two pairs of anchor points of a pair of odd number holes and a pair of even number holes respectively, and each anchor point of two round holes set apart seven inches. So that the interconnections of the independent vertical upright beam with both the substantial triangular shaped base and the substantial rectangular shaped grabbing bar assembly have two height positions for user's selection respectively, caused there are three height positions of the entire grabbing rack to fit the various heights of different users.
Further, the four interconnections of the independent vertical upright beam and both the substantial triangular shaped base and the substantial rectangular shaped grabbing bar assembly are of four square-shaped-tube-telescope structures, that not only enable quick assembled and disassembled, and also allow users to have two or three pairs of independent vertical upright beams with different lengths, due to different raised surface or a ground surface, such as massage table or massage mat on the floor.
This present invention has a new idea for screw-nuts securement. The said screw-nuts securement is tightened in the hollow of outer aluminum alloy square-shaped tube, only inside surface of the outer square-shaped tube contacts the outside surface of independent upright beam, utilizing one copper tube-sets to go through the round hole of the wall of the outer square-shaped tube to transfer the pressure from the screw knob of the screw with shank onto the surface of the independent vertical upright beam, tightened by a set of screw and nuts, and washers, as well as said copper tube-sets.
Thus has been broadly outlined the more important features of the present moveable barefoot massage grabbing bar rack so that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated.
Objects of the present moveable barefoot massage grabbing bar rack, along with various novel features that characterize the invention are particularly pointed out in the claims forming a part of this disclosure. For better understanding of the moveable barefoot massage grabbing bar rack, its operating advantages and specific objects attained by its uses, refer to the accompanying drawings and description.
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular
The present moveable barefoot massage grabbing bar rack 10 has been devised to enable a user to perform barefoot massage upon a prone or supine position patient without requiring any grabbing bars permanent installation at any single location. The present moveable barefoot massage grabbing bar rack 10 comprises five independent components: the first side substantial triangular shaped base 20, the second side substantial triangular shaped base 50, these two substantial triangular shaped bases mounted with the lower portion of a pair of independent upright beams 30 to become the first and the second side stand assembly 40, 70, as well as the substantial rectangular shaped grabbing bar assembly 60 on the top.
Each of the first and second side substantial triangular shaped base 20, 50 includes a floor beam 20, the vertical upright beam 28 and a pair of angular strut members 26. The floor beam 20 includes a pair of ends 22 and a midpoint 24. The vertical upright beam 28 is disposed perpendicularly endwise at the midpoint 24 of the floor beam 20 to maintain the vertical upright beam 28 aloft vertically situated above the midpoint 24 of the floor beam 20. Each of the pair of strut members 26 is angularly disposed diagonally connecting the upright beam 28 to the floor beam 20 at the midpoint of each half floor beam. Each of the first and second side substantially triangular shaped base 20, 50 is therefore positional spaced apart with each of the associated vertical upright beams 28 disposed in parallel relation.
Moreover, each of the substantial triangular shaped base 20, 50 mounted with each lower portion of the independent vertical upright beam 30 becomes the first and the second side stands assembly 40, 70, and also therefore positional spaced apart with each of the associated independent upright beams 30 disposed in parallel relation.
The first and second stands assembly 40, 70 mounted with the pair of upright strut members 64 of grabbing bar assembly 60 become the entire grabbing bar rack 10. The grabbing bar assembly 60 is attachable to the upper portion 44 of the independent vertical upright beam 30 of each of the first and second side stands assembly 40, 70. When secured to each of the first and second side stands assembly 40, 70, the grabbing bar assembly 60 is disposed in a plane perpendicular to each floor beam 20. The grabbing bar assembly 60 thus fixes the first and second side stands assembly 40, 70 together to prevent toppling, shaking, securely spanning between each of said first and second side stands assembly 40, 70, because each of four square-shaped-tube-telescope, shown on
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The transverse cross-section of each of the pair of vertical strut members 64, however, as shown in
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It should be readily understood by anyone having skills in the pertinent art that additional means of securement of the grabbing bar assembly 60 with height relate to floor beams is adjustable between seven inches of 3 positions is contemplated as part of this disclosure.
The first and second side substantial triangular shaped bases 20, 50 are contemplated to be manufactured of aluminum alloy square-shaped tubes, and the grabbing bar assembly 60 of aluminum alloy square-shaped and round-shaped tubes, or another lightweight, hollow metal, whereby the weight of each of the first and second side substantial triangular shaped bases 20, 50 and the grabbing bar assembly is controllable within acceptable norms for portability yet tensile strength and rigidity is maintained capable of supporting an adult human prostrating on the grabbing bar assembly 60 when said grabbing bar assembly 60 is secured spanning between each of the first and second side stands assembly 40, 70. The independent upright beam 30 is made of galvanized steel square-shaped tube and has rigid supporting features.
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In an example embodiment contemplated herein, the length of the independent vertical upright beam 30 is changeable due to different raised surface or a ground surface, thus one set of moveable barefoot massage grabbing bar rack may include two or three pairs of independent vertical upright beams with different lengths.
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