Foot exerciser

A device for exercising a person's foot; the device including a stand for placement upon a floor, the stand supporting a freely rotatable roller across which the person rolls his foot, and the device, in one design including roller eccentricity adjustability.

This invention relates generally to exercising apparatus. More specifically 
it relates to a device for exercising feet. 
It is well known that exercising the body is beneficial for good health, 
and exercising of the feet is essential for prevention and also cure of 
muscular aches in the feet. More feet problems occur as a person gets 
older and tends to become more sedentary and does less walking. 
It is an object of the present invention to provide a foot exerciser which 
allows a person to exercise the feet while sitting in a chair, the 
exerciser massaging the feet so as to improve the muscle tone and blood 
circulation thereof so as to keep the feet in good health or improve them 
from any existing foot problems.

Referring now to the drawing in greater detail and more particularly to 
FIGS. 2 and 3 thereof, at this time, the reference numeral 10 represents a 
foot exerciser according to the present invention, wherein there is a 
stand 11 that freely supports a roller 12 across which a foot 13 of a 
person may be rolled so as to exercise the same. The stand is comprised of 
two inverted, generally U-shaped legs 14 made of wood and which are held 
together by two wooden cross bars 15, so that a foot 16 at each opposite 
end of each leg may rest upon a floor. A spindle 17 is supported 
horizontally between the legs, and the roller is fitted on the spindle. 
The roller may be made of solid wood. Alternately it may additionally be 
covered by any material that may be beneficial for massaging purposes, if 
preferred. 
In operative use, a person seated on either a chair or rocking chair, 
simply rolls each foot across the roller as shown in FIG. 3 so to massage 
the foot. Sufficient space between the roller and the cross bars allows 
placing the foot under the roller in case an upper side thereof is wished 
to be massaged, while the other foot holds down the exerciser by bearing 
against one of the crossbars. 
The device may be made wide enough so that both feet may roll across the 
roller at a same time, as preferred by a manufacturer. 
The foot exerciser 18, shown in FIGS. 1,4 and 5 utilizes a same stand 11, 
however it includes a roller 19 which may be eccentrically adjusted while 
it rolls for a variation in the massaging action. The roller is adjustably 
supported at each end on a screw 20 supported in a hole 21 of the stand 
leg, the screw engaging a generally rectangular block 22 slidable in a 
generally rectangular hole 23 inside the roller, each hole 23 being 
angularly inclined respective to the roller longitudinal axis, and both 
holes being angled toward a common same point, as shown in FIG. 4. An 
outer end 24 of each screw protrudes outwardly from the leg 14 and is 
knurlled so as to be easily rotated between the fingers in order to slide 
the block on the screw and thus move the roller eccenrically respective to 
an axis extending through the two screws. When the blocks are at the 
positions shown in FIG. 4, the roller axis is a same as the screw axis, 
however as the blocks are moved toward the screw ends, the roller then 
rotates eccentrically respective to the screw axis, for producing the 
massaging variation.