AT519422A2 - Sports or therapy device - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a sports or therapy device (1) with seating (2) for the user, which (2) is provided on a swing (3), which swing (3) via a pendulum joint (5) about a pendulum axis (6). is held displaceable in front and back pendulum movement, with at least one, for supporting the legs of the user certain leg rest (21, 22), which is connected to the swing (3) and with a discarding or return device (7) for the return or spring-back of the discarding or return device (7) with at least one leg acting on the user serves and which is arranged at a distance from the swing (3). For the sports or therapy device (1) according to the invention is characteristic that the pendulum joint (5) via a pivot joint (8) on a stand (4) or on a support floor, wall or ceiling side held that the swing (3 ) with the seat (2) about the pivot joint (8) about a pivot axis (9) in laterally reciprocating pivotal movements movably on the stand (4) or on the support is held, and that the pivot axis (9) transversely to the pendulum axis (6 ) is arranged (see Figure 1).

Description

The invention relates to a sports or therapy device with a seat for the user, which is provided on a swing, which swing is held displaceable about a pendulum joint about a pendulum axis in front and back pendulum movements, with at least one, for supporting the legs of the user certain leg rest connected to the swing, and a discard or return means for returning or rebounding the discard or retractor with at least one leg engaging the user and spaced therefrom in front of the swing.

Applicant's EP 1 955 735 B1 already discloses a sports or therapeutic device of the type mentioned at the outset with seating for the user, which seat is movably held on a device stand. The previously known sports or therapeutic device has a discarding or return device, which serves to return or spring back of the discarding or returning device with at least one leg acting on the user. In an embodiment shown in Figure 7 of EP 1 955 735 B1, the seat is provided on a swing, which is held displaceable about a pendulum joint on the device stand about a pendulum axis in forward and backward oscillations. This discard or return device is designed as a trampoline, so that the users located on the seat can swing the swing in such a way that he repeatedly applied to the trampoline during the pendulum movements with his legs outstretched and supported on leg supports so that this trampoline in the trampoline facing away from the direction of the pendulum movement oriented impulse can impart to the user sitting on the seat opportunity. The alternation between repulsion and emergence on the elastic base formed by the trampoline, many positive effects are achievable, such as an increase in the power in the legs, an improvement of motor skills and sense of balance, as well as an excitation of the metabolism, the digestive organs, the lymphatic system and the cardiovascular system. Training on the previously known sports or therapy device spares the spine and joints of the user training on the trampoline of this sports and therapy device.

However, there is the object to improve a generic sports or therapy device so that favors the benefits of the training on this sports or therapeutic device for the user and, for example, its movement coordination even further improved.

The achievement of this object is in the sports or therapeutic device of the type mentioned in particular that the pendulum joint is held by a pivot joint that the swing with the seat over the pivot about a pivot axis in laterally directed back and forth pivotal movements is kept movable , And that the pivot axis is arranged transversely to the pendulum axis.

The present invention relates to a sports or therapy device, which among other things offer the user an improvement of motor skills and sense of balance while protecting the spine and joints of the user. The sports or therapy device according to the invention has a seat on which the user sits during the movement exercises. This seat is provided on a swing that can be held on the floor, wall or ceiling. The swing is held by a pendulum joint, by means of which the swing about a pendulum axis in forward and backward oscillations is displaceable. The sports or therapy device has a discard or return device, which serves to return or spring back of the discarding or return device with at least one leg acting on the user. The discarding or return device is arranged at a distance in front of the swing. In order to favor the positive effects of a training of the user on the sports or therapy device according to the invention even more and thereby additionally to increase the motor skills and the coordination ability of the user, the pendulum joint is held by a pivot joint. Thus, the pendulum joint enabled by the pendulum and directed back and forth about a pendulum axis pendulum movements are superimposed by oriented, caused by the pivot joint pivoting movements. In this case, the pivot axis is arranged according to the invention transversely to the pendulum axis. With the help of the sports or therapy device according to the invention, the achievable with a training of the user positive effects can be further increased and also the motor skills and the coordination ability of the user is further improved.

So that the user can perform his exercises virtually free in the room during training, and thus the user is not limited by the direction of movement of only one joint in his exercises, it is advantageous if the pivot axis is arranged approximately at right angles to the pendulum axis.

A particularly advantageous and stable embodiment according to the invention, which despite its mobility can also carry a high weight of a user, provides that the pivot joint has an articulated arm which is pivotally mounted about at least two spaced apart pivot bearing.

In order for the user located on the seat of the sports or therapy device to hit his targeted legs deliberately on the discard or return device, a corresponding distance between the seat bearing swing on the one hand and the discarding or return device on the other hand is necessary. In order to adapt this distance to the leg length of the respective user, it is advantageous if a carriage is slidably guided on the articulated arm and can be fixed in at least two sliding positions and when the carriage carries the pendulum joint.

The distance between the swing on the one hand and the throw-back or return device on the other hand is particularly easy to adapt to a variety of leg lengths under different users when the carriage on the articulated arm in more than two sliding positions and preferably infinitely adjustable in any sliding positions.

A particularly advantageous and stable embodiment according to the invention provides that the swing is designed as a dimensionally stable frame and that on a side facing away from the pivot or pendulum joint frame portion, the seating is provided.

In order for a user to be able to carry out the training on the sports or therapy device according to the invention in the most comfortable possible training position, it is advantageous if the seat is designed as a seat having a seat and a backrest.

The convenience for the user during exercise can be further increased if the backrest is pivotable and fixable relative to the seat.

Since the user can hardly keep his legs permanently in a stretched position during training, a leg rest is necessary. So that this leg rest can make the pendulum movements of the user during the training, this leg rest is connected to the swing. In this case, a preferred embodiment according to the invention provides that the leg rest has at least one support arm held on the swing.

The user can angle his legs again and again during a pendulum movement in the direction of the throw-off or return device, in order to additionally reinforce the movement impulse exerted by this by stretching the legs after striking the discarding or retracting device, if a foot sling or the like on the support arm Foot recording is held. If the user's feet are each held in such a foot receptacle, the user can move his legs practically freely during the training, without the user at the same time having to perform the effort associated with a horizontal positioning of the legs.

It is particularly advantageous if in each case a support arm is provided on vertically oriented frame sections of the frame serving as a swing. Thus, a support arm are provided on the both sides of the user arranged and vertically oriented frame portions of the serving as a swing frame each having a support arm, said support arms each carry a particular designed as foot receptacle leg rest.

A preferred embodiment according to the invention, which offers the user the greatest possible freedom of movement during training, provides that the at least one support arm is connected to its associated foot receptacle via a cable or the like form-compliant connection, and that the formnachgiebige connection between the at least one Support arm and foot receptacle is formed at least in a portion of its longitudinal extent spring or rubber elastic. The connection between the support arm and the foot receptacle assigned to it can be designed in a form-yielding manner, for example, by a cable, a chain or the like. It is also possible that this connection between the support arm and its foot receptacle is accomplished solely by a correspondingly long tension spring or a corresponding rubber band. However, a preferred embodiment according to the invention provides that a portion of this resilient connection is accomplished by a rope and in particular a wire rope, which is connected to the foot receptacle via a tension spring or a rubber-elastic band.

A particularly simple embodiment according to the invention provides that the discard or return device is designed as a trampoline or at least has a trampoline.

In addition or instead, however, the discarding or returning device can also have at least one spring-elastic or rubber-elastic discard or return element.

In this case, a further embodiment according to the invention, with which the motion coordination and the motor skills of the user to be challenged and particularly increased, provides that the discarding or return device has at least two such spring or rubber elastic discard or return elements. The user can thus change from one to the other pendulum motion between the various discard or return elements, whereby the motor and the motion coordination of the user is additionally required in an advantageous manner.

In this case, a structurally particularly simple and advantageous embodiment according to the invention provides that the at least one discard or return element is designed as a ball-shaped or spherical-segment-shaped shaped body.

The swing of the sports or therapy device according to the invention can be held on the floor, wall or ceiling. Preferred embodiments according to the invention therefore provide that the sports or therapy device according to the invention comprises a stand or a carrier on which the swing is movably held. While the stand can be placed on a suitable floor or ground, a support can be attached to a wall or to the ceiling of a building.

In this case, a preferred embodiment according to the invention provides that the pendulum joint is held on the stand or on the carrier via the pivot joint.

The movements of the user during exercise can be made particularly free when the stand or the carrier has a gallows-shaped support arm, on the free arm end portion of the swing is articulated.

Further developments according to the invention will become apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments in conjunction with the claims and the drawings. The invention will be described in more detail below with reference to these preferred embodiments.

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Fig. 1 is a shown in a perspective side view sport or

Therapy device comprising a seat supported by a swing for the user, connected to the swing leg rest for supporting the legs of the user, and here designed as a trampoline Rückwurfoder return means for returning or rebounding of the discarding or return device with at least one leg serving the user,

2 shows the sports or therapy device of Figure 1 in a side view,

3 shows the sports or therapy device from FIGS. 1 and 2 in a rear view, wherein it can be clearly seen that the swing supporting the seat is held movably on a stand via a pendulum joint and a pivot joint in superimposed directions of movement, and FIG Further embodiment of a sports or therapy device, in which the discarding or rear-jump device is formed by at least one rubber-elastic and here ball-shaped discard or return element.

FIGS. 1 to 3 and 4 show a sports or therapy device in two embodiments 1, 10. Among other things, the sports or therapeutic devices according to FIGS. 1 to 4 are intended to offer the user an improvement in motor skills and sense of balance while at the same time protecting the spine and joints of the user. The sports or therapy devices 1, 10 have a seat 2, on which the user sits during the movement exercises. This seat 2 is provided on a swing 3, which is held on a stand 4. The swing 3 is held on the stand 4 via a pendulum joint 5, by means of which the swing 3 about a pendulum axis 6 in forward and backward oscillations is displaceable. The sports or therapeutic devices 1, 10 have a discarding or returning device 7, which serves for the discarding or spring-back of the discarding or returning device 7 with at least one leg acting on the user. As is clear from FIGS. 1, 2 and 4, this discarding or returning device 7 is arranged at a distance in front of the swing 3. In order to promote the positive effects of training of the user on the sports or therapeutic device 1,10 according to the invention even more and thereby to additionally increase the motor skills and the coordination ability of the user, the pendulum joint 5 is held on the stand 4 via a pivot joint 8. Thus, the allowed by the pendulum joint 5 and directed about the pendulum axis 6 back and forth pendulum movements are superimposed by a pivot axis 9 transverse thereto oriented pivoting movements, which pivoting movements laterally back and forth. In this case, the pivot axis 9 of the pivot joint 8 is arranged transversely to the pendulum axis 6 of the pendulum joint 5 and preferably at right angles thereto.

In the figures 1 to 4 it can be seen that the stand 4 has an example plate-shaped or - as here fork-shaped device base 11, on which a gallows-shaped support arm 12 protrudes. At the free arm end portion of this support arm 12, the swing 3 is articulated about the pendulum joint 5 and the pivot joint 8. From a comparison of Figures 1 to 4 it is clear that the pivot joint 8 has an articulated arm 13 which is pivotally mounted about at least two spaced apart pivot bearing 14, 15. On the articulated arm 13, a carriage 16 is displaceably guided, which can be fixed in at least two sliding positions and which carries the pendulum joint 5.

In the embodiments shown here, the carriage 16 on the articulated arm 13 is infinitely adjustable in any sliding positions by means of the locking lever 17.

The swing 3 is formed as a dimensionally stable frame. At a the swivel or. Pendulum joint 5, 8 facing away Rah-menabschnitt 18 of the swing 3 forming and substantially rectangular frame, the seat 2 is provided. This seat 2 is designed as a seat, which has a seat surface 19 and a backrest 20, which backrest 20 can be pivoted and fixed relative to the seat surface 19 here.

In particular, since a weak or even frail user is unable to keep his legs in an extended horizontal position during exercise, at least one leg rest 21, 22 is provided which is intended to support the legs of the user and is connected to the swing 3. The leg supports 21, 22 each have a support arm 24, 25 held on the swing 3, on which support arms 24, 25 a foot sling or similar foot receptacle 26 is held. In this foot 26, the user can put down his feet without the freedom of movement of the legs of the user would be significantly impaired during exercise. In the side views according to FIGS. 2 and 4, it can be seen that the support arms 24, 25 are provided on both sides of the user on a vertically oriented goods section 27, 28 of the frame serving as a swing 3. Between the support arms 24, 25 and their associated foot receptacles 26 a form-compliant connection is provided, which is formed by a wire rope or a chain 29, which at its end remote from the support arm 24, 25 end connected via a tension spring 30 with the foot receptacle 26 is.

In the sports or therapy device shown in Figures 1 to 3, the discarding or return device 7 is formed as a trampoline. This trampoline usually has an approximately centrally arranged jump cloth 31. The user swinging back and forth on the swing 3 and back and forth experiences a movement pulse oriented in the direction opposite to the throw-back or return device 7, when the user with his straight or angled legs on the discard or return device 7, for example on his jump cloth 31 , hits. Instead of such a trampoline but any other suitable discard or return device can be used, which can give the user a corresponding movement impulse, which maintain the pendulum and pivoting movements of the user on the swing 3. Thus, in the sports or therapeutic device 10 shown in Figure 4, the discard or retractor 7 is characterized by at least one spring or rubber elastic discard or return element 32, and preferably by at least two or - as here - by more than two such discard or return elements 32 formed. The at least one discarding or return element 32 can be designed as a spherical segment-shaped or - as here - as a ball-shaped molded body. In the sports or therapeutic device 10 shown in FIG. 4, the discarding and returning device 7 is formed by a multiplicity of such discard or return elements 32 configured as ball-shaped molded bodies. The user can thus either impinge on one or at least the other shaped body during his training, whereby the motor skills and movement coordination of the user is additionally trained.

With the help of the stand 4 used here, the sports or therapy device 1, 10 according to the invention can be set up on a floor or the like suitable substrate. But it is also possible that instead of the stand 4, a carrier not shown here is provided with which the swing 3 of the sports or therapeutic device 1, 10 according to the invention can be attached to the wall or ceiling of a building. On the stand 4 or the carrier, the swing 3 is held movable. For this purpose, the pendulum joint 5 is movably held by the pivot joint 8 on the stand 4 or on the support.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 Sports or therapeutic device (according to FIGS. 1 to 3) 2 seat 3 swing 4 stand 5 pendulum joint 6 pendulum axis 7 discard or return device 8 pivot joint 9 pivot axis 10 sports or therapy device (according to FIG. 4) 11 device foot 12 support arm 13 articulated arm 14 Swivel bearing 15 Swivel bearing 16 Slide 17 Locking lever 18 Frame section 19 Seat 20 Backrest 21 Leg rest 22 Leg rest 24 Support arm 25 Support arm 26 Foot receptacle 27 (vertically oriented) Frame section 28 (vertically oriented) Frame section 29 Chain 30 Tension spring 31 Jump cloth 32 Discard or return element

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claims 1. sports or therapeutic device (1, 10) with a seat (2) for the user, which (2) on a swing (3) is provided, which swing (3) via a pendulum joint (5) about a pendulum axis (6 ) is held displaceable in forward and backward oscillations, with at least one, for supporting the legs of the user certain leg rest (21, 22), which (21, 22) is connected to the swing (3), and with a discard or Return device (7), which (7) serves to return or spring back of the discard or return device (7) with at least one leg acting user and which is arranged at a distance in front of the swing (3), characterized in that the pendulum joint ( 5) is held by a pivot joint (8) that the swing (3) with the seat (2) about the pivot joint (8) about a pivot axis (9) is held movable in laterally reciprocating pivotal movements and that the pivot axis ( 9) across the pend Elachse (6) is arranged. 2. sports or therapy device according to claim 1, characterized in that the pivot axis (9) is arranged approximately at right angles to the pendulum axis (6). 3. sports or therapy device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the pivot joint (8) has an articulated arm (13) which is pivotally mounted about at least two spaced apart pivot bearing (14, 15). 4. sports or therapy device according to claim 3, characterized in that on the articulated arm (13) a carriage (16) guided displaceably and in at least two sliding positions can be fixed, and that the carriage (16) carries the pendulum joint (5). 5. sports or therapy device according to claim 4, characterized in that the carriage (16) on the articulated arm (13) can be fixed in more than two sliding positions and preferably continuously in any sliding positions. 6. Sports or therapy device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the swing (3) is designed as a dimensionally stable frame and that on a the pivot or pendulum joint (8; 5) facing away from the frame portion (18), the seating (2) is provided. 7. sports or therapy device according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the seat (2) is designed as a seat having a seat surface (19) and a Rückenlehen (20). 8. sports or therapy device according to claim 7, characterized in that the backrest (20) relative to the seat surface (19) is pivotable and fixable. 9. sports or therapy device according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the leg rest (21,22) has at least one, on the swing (3) held support arm (24, 25). 10. sports or therapy device according to claim 9, characterized in that on the support arm (24, 25) a foot loop or the like foot receptacle (26) is held. 11. Sports or therapy device according to claim 9 or 10, characterized in that in each case a support arm (24, 25) is provided on vertically oriented frame sections (27, 28) of the frame serving as a swing (3). 12. Sports or therapy device according to claim 10 or 11, characterized in that the at least one support arm (24, 25) with its associated foot receptacle (26) via a cable, a chain (29) or the like form-fitting connection is connected, and that the form-compliant connection between the at least one support arm (24, 25) and the foot receptacle (26) is spring-elastic or rubber-elastic at least in a portion of its longitudinal extent. 13. Sports or therapy device according to one of claims 1 to 12, characterized in that the discarding or return device (7) is designed as a trampoline or has a trampoline. 14. Sports or therapy device according to one of claims 1 to 13, characterized in that the discarding or return device (7) has at least one spring or rubber-elastic discard or return element (32). 15. sports or therapy device according to claim 14, characterized in that the at least one discarding or return element (32) is designed as a ball or spherical segment-shaped body. 16. Sports or therapy device according to one of claims 1 to 15, characterized in that the sports or therapy device has a stand (4) or a carrier on which the swing (3) is movably held. 17. sports or therapeutic device according to claim 16, characterized in that the pendulum joint (5) via the pivot joint (8) is held on the stand (4) or on the carrier. 18. Sports or therapy device according to claim 16 or 17, characterized in that the stand (4) or the carrier has a gallows-shaped support arm (12), at the free arm end portion of the swing (3) is articulated.