Patent ID: 6368258
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A new and improved solo-stretch exercising system for therapeutically stretching the feet, ankles, and legs of a user comprising, in combination:a short strap having an interior surface and an exterior surface with a width of about 2 inches and a length of about 20.5 inches, the short strap having a first end with a stitched loop and having a second end with a stitched fold and with an intermediate extent between the ends, a first pile-type fastener on the exterior surface between the first end and the intermediate extent and a second pile-type fastener on the interior surface between the second end and the intermediate extent, the first and second pile-type fasteners adapted to be releasably coupled together whereby the short strap may form a loop of a size determined by the user to receive a shoe on a user's foot; a large buckle having parallel end plates with parallel first and second end cross pieces and a central cross piece between the end cross pieces and with the central cross piece parallel with and intermediate of the end cross pieces, the first end cross piece receiving the loop of the first end and the second end cross piece cooperable with the central cross piece for receiving there between the second end; a wide loop-shaped tab stitched to the second end cross piece and a narrow loop-shaped tab stitched to the second end, the tabs adapted to facilitate the positioning of the short strap around a shoe of a user's foot and to facilitate its removal; a long strap having a width of about 1 inch and a variable length of about between about 44 inches when contracted and about 82 inches when expanded, the long strap having a first end and a second end constituting handles with an intermediate extent stitched to the exterior surface of the short strap and with the first end and second end of the long strap being formed with loops; and two small buckles each having parallel end plates with parallel first and second end cross pieces and a central cross piece between the end plates and with the central cross piece parallel with and intermediate of the end cross pieces, the central cross piece of each small buckle receiving a loop at the end of the long strap and with a portion of the long strap winding through the spaces between the end cross pieces and the central cross piece for contracting and expanding purposes.