Patent ID: 7081073
Filing Date: 2006-07-25
Classification: A61H

Abstract:
1. A tilting inversion exerciser comprising: a base rotatably attached to a stand to support a user thereon, and being able to rotate at least 180 degrees to allow users to conduct inversion or suspension, or to allow users to straighten the spinal column, a foot retaining device attached to said base, to secure feet of the user to said base, said foot retaining device including a beam secured to said base, and having two fixed foot supports attached to said beam, a housing secured to said beam and a curved rack secured in said housing and having a plurality of teeth provided thereon, a lever including a first end rotatably attached to said housing of said beam with a pivot shaft, said lever including two movable foot supports attached thereto, and movable toward and away from said fixed foot supports of said beam by said lever for retaining the feet of the user between said lever and said beam, a pawl pivotally secured in said lever, said pawl rotatable to engage with said teeth of said rack in order to selectively lock said lever to said beam, and rotatable disengageable from said teeth of said rack to free said lever and to allow said lever to be rotated relative to said beam, means for controlling said pawl to engage and disengage from said teeth of said rack, said means for controlling includes a spring engaged on a rod, and engaged between a block and said pawl to bias said rod to rotate said pawl and to disengage said pawl form said teeth of a rack, a safety lock having an intermediate portion pivotally secured in said lever with a pivot pole, said lock including a tongue provided on one end thereof, and arranged to selectively engage with said teeth of said rack and to selectively secure said lever to said beam by gravity force, said safety lock is rotatable received in a notch of said block in order to limit the rotational movement of the safety lock relative to said block and said lever, and said safety lock further including another end having a weight greater than that of said tongue, in order to force said tongue to engage with said teeth of said rack by the gravity force, said beam of said foot retaining device includes a plurality of holes formed to adjustably secure said beam of said foot retaining device to said base, wherein each of said fixed foot supports of said foot retaining device includes a soft pad attached thereto for comfortably supporting the feet of the user, and said foot retaining device includes two foot pedals attached to said beam to stably support the feet of the user.