Patent Application
20250049626
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The disclosure relates to back treatment apparatuses and more particularly pertains to a new back treatment apparatus for providing a surface for treating a user's back, such as by facilitating scrubbing, scratching, massaging, or heat treating the back.
The prior art describes myriad back treatment apparatuses which are mountable to a wall to facilitate treating a user's back by facilitating massaging or scratching the back. However, the prior art fails to describe such an apparatus which comprises a mount which includes a back engagement member which mounts to a frame and extends between a pair of lateral walls of the frame and which is engageable with the user's back. The prior art also fails to disclose such an apparatus with interchangeable back engagement members and in which the frame attaches to a wall via fasteners or suction cups or attaches to a column via a strap.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a frame comprising a rear wall, a first lateral wall, and a second lateral wall.
The rear wall is coupled to and extends between the first and second lateral walls, and each of the first and second lateral walls extends forwardly from the rear wall. A back engagement member is mounted to the frame and extends between the first and second lateral walls. The back engagement member is configured to abut a back of a user.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order 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. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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Each of a plurality of back engagement members 36 is interchangeably mountable to the frame 12 such that the back engagement member 36 is configured to abut a back 40 of a user 38. Each back engagement member 36 of the plurality of back engagement members 36 extends between the first and second lateral walls 16, 18 and engages a selected one of the plurality of first slots 24 and the associated second slot 26 when mounted to the frame 12. Each back engagement member 36 of the plurality of engagement members comprises at least one rod 42. The at least one rod 42 has a first hooked end 44 and a second hooked end 46. The first hooked end 44 engages the selected first slot 24 and the second hooked end 46 engages the associated second slot 26 when the back engagement member 36 is mounted to the frame 12. The at least one rod 42 has a rear side 48 which is concavely arcuate and faces the rear wall 14 when the back engagement member 36 is mounted to the frame 12.
The plurality of back engagement members 36 includes a sponge engagement member 50, a bath pouf engagement member 54, a ribbed roller engagement member 58, a spaced roller engagement member, a pair of massage gun engagement members, a spiked wheel engagement member, an exfoliating pad engagement member, and a heat transfer engagement member. The sponge engagement member 50 comprises a sponge 52 rotatably mounted around the at least one rod 42 of the sponge engagement member 50. The bath pouf engagement member 54 comprises a bath pouf 56 mounted around the at least one rod 42 of the bath pouf engagement member 54. “Bath pouf” as used in the specification and the claims refers to an article for cleaning and exfoliating skin comprising of a mesh net. Bath pouf are also commonly referred to as loofahs, though the term “loofah” can also refer to a tropical or subtropical vine, the fruit of which is commonly processed and used as a bathroom or kitchen sponge. The ribbed roller engagement member 58 comprises an elongated roller 60 and a plurality of ribs 62. The elongated roller 60 is rotatably mounted around and extends along the at least one rod 42 of the ribbed roller engagement member 58, and the plurality of ribs 62 is dispersed along a length of the elongated roller 60.
The spaced roller engagement member 64 comprises a pair of spaced rollers 66. each of which is rotatably mounted around the at least one rod 42 of the spaced roller engagement member 64. Each massage gun engagement member 68 of the pair of massage gun engagement members 68 has a clip 70 mounted to the at least one rod 42 of the massage gun engagement member 68 which has a C-shape and has a size such that the clip 70 is configured for grasping a handle 74 of a percussion massage gun 72. Some embodiments of the massage gun engagement member 68 may include only one rod 42. The spiked wheel engagement member 76 comprises a pair of spaced wheels 78, each of which is rotatably mounted around the at least one rod 42 of the spiked wheel engagement member 76. A plurality of pointed protrusions 80 is coupled to and extends radially outwardly from each one of the pair of spaced wheels 78.
The at least one rod 42 of the exfoliating pad engagement member 82 comprises a plurality of vertically spaced rods 42, and the exfoliating pad engagement member 82 comprises a pad 84 which is mounted around each one of the plurality of vertically spaced rods 42 of the exfoliating pad engagement member 82. The pad 84 has an engagement surface 86 which faces away from the rear wall 14 of the frame 12 when the exfoliating pad engagement member 82 is mounted to the frame 12. The engagement surface 86 is textured such that the engagement surface 86 is configured for abrading the back 40 of the user 38. The at least one rod 42 of the heat transfer engagement member 88 also comprises a plurality of vertically spaced rods 42, and the heat transfer engagement member 88 comprises a body 90 which is mounted around each one of the plurality of vertically spaced rods 42 of the heat transfer engagement member 88. The body 90 comprises a heat transfer medium material configured for alternately heating and cooling the back 40 of the user 38. The heat transfer medium material may include a refrigerant gel or other conventional material which may be heated or cooled as desired such that the back 40 of the user 38 is heated or cooled respectively when the heat transfer engagement member 88 abuts the back 40.
A mount assembly 92 is selectively engageable with the frame 12 and is configured for mounting the frame 12 to one of an external wall 122 and a column. The rear wall 14 of the frame 12 has a plurality of mounting holes 94 extending therethrough for mounting the frame 12 to the mount assembly 92. The mounting holes 94 of the plurality of mounting holes 94 are vertically spaced from each other. The mount assembly 92 comprises a base 96, a plurality of pegs 98, and a plurality of suction cups 100. The plurality of pegs 98 is coupled to and extends away from a front surface 102 of the base 96. Each peg 98 of the plurality of pegs 98 is engageable with an associated one of the plurality of mounting holes 94 of the rear wall 14 of the frame 12 to mount the frame 12 to the mount assembly 92. Each peg 98 of the plurality of pegs 98 has a head 106 and a neck 108, the neck 108 is coupled to and extends between the head 106 and the base 96.
The base 96 has a pair of openings 110 extending therethrough, each of which has a size such that the opening 110 is configured for facilitating mounting the base 96 to the external wall 122. The base 96 also has a plurality of first apertures 112 and a plurality of second apertures 114 extending therethrough. The first apertures 112 are vertically spaced from each other and are positioned adjacent to a first lateral edge 116 of the base 96. The second apertures 114 are also vertically spaced from each other and are positioned adjacent to a second lateral edge 118 of the base 96. Each one of the plurality of first apertures 112 and each one of the plurality of second apertures 114 has a size such that the first and second apertures 112, 114 are configured for receiving a strap 120 therethrough to facilitate mounting the base 96 to the column via the strap 120. The base 96 is arcuately curved about a vertical axis positioned rearwardly of the base 96. The base 96 is symmetrically shaped about a central vertical plane of the base 96. The plurality of pegs 98 is aligned along the central vertical plane of the base 96.
Each one of the plurality of suction cups 100 is removably couplable via a threaded connection to a rear surface 104 of the base 96. The plurality of suction cups 100 is configured for applying a suction force to mount the base 96 to the external wall 122.
In use, the mount assembly 92 is secured to one of the external wall 122 or the column, and the frame 12 is mounted to the mount assembly 92. One or more selected back engagement members 36 are attached to the frame 12, and the user 38 positions the user's 38 back 40 in abutment with the one or more selected back engagement members 36 to treat the user's 38 back 40. In some cases, the user 38 maneuver's the back 40 along the back engagement member 36 to scrub the user's 38 back 40. The sponge 52 of the sponge engagement member 50 may be caused to roll along the user's 38 back 40 and may be used to spread soap across the user's 38 back 40. The bath pouf 56 of the bath pouf engagement member 54 may also be used to spread soap across the user's 38 back 40.
The elongated roller 60 of the ribbed roller engagement member 58 and the pair of spaced rollers 66 of the spaced roller engagement member 64 may be caused to roll along the user's 38 back 40 to massage the back 40. The pair of massage gun engagement members 68 may engage the user's 38 back 40 via the percussion massage gun 72. The pair of spaced wheels 78 of the spiked wheel engagement may be caused to roll across the user's 38 back 40 to urge the pointed protrusions 80 against the user's 38 back 40 to scratch the user's 38 back 40. The exfoliating pad engagement member 82 is used to exfoliate the user's 38 back 40. The heat transfer engagement member 88 is used to heat or cool the user's 38 back 40 as desired.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
