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Exercise furniture

Exercise furniture description/claims

This is continuation application that claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 to a non-provisional application, application Ser. No. 11/645,906, filed Dec. 26, 2006, which is a regular application of a provisional application, application No. 60/754,822, filed Dec. 28, 2005.

1. Field of Invention

The present invention relates to furniture, and more particularly to exercise furniture which is capable of being rocked in repetitive manner for exercising a user's abdomen and enhancing blood circulation.

2. Description of Related Arts

A conventional recliner usually comprises a main frame and a supporting seat mounted on the main frame for a user to seat thereon. The main frame comprises two rocking leg frames each having a curved bottom surface for guiding a rocking movement of the recliner. When the user is seating on the recliner, he or she is adapted to exert a slight rocking force towards the main frame for generating a rocking movement of the recliner. This rocking movement usually imparts the user with a unique comfort when sitting on the recliner.

A major disadvantage of this kind of recliner is that it is sometimes regarded as luxury since recliners do not provide other functions except the provision of rocking movement. However, it cannot simply substitute conventional chairs because the leg frames of a recliner are different from that of a conventional chair. Since almost all recliners are bulky in size, many people think that they occupy too much space in their home with no significant practical use.

On the other hand, many people would like to install some forms of exercise equipments in their home so that they may exercise at home whenever they have time. As a result, they do not have to rely on fitness centers and may save considerable amount of money which should have paid to those fitness centers as membership fees.

A major disadvantage for this practice is that the exercise equipments are usually bulky in size and do not serve other functions. As a result, they are usually installed in a specific room separated from other parts of the user's house or apartment so that the user may do nothing else but exercise. This creates an extremely inflexible use of the user's home resources.

A main object of the present invention is to provide a kind of exercise furniture which is capable of being rocked in repetitive manner for exercising a user's abdomen and enhancing users' blood circulation.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of exercise furniture which simultaneously allows the user to rock thereon and to exercise his or her abdomen while generating the rocking movement.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of exercise furniture which concurrently allows the user to exercise in a convenient manner, and generates a rocking movement while the user is exercising. In other words, the present invention removes the inflexibility of conventional recliners and exercise equipments as mentioned above.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of exercise furniture which is capable of fitting into one's domestic environment so as to avoid unnecessary occupation of the user's home space.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of exercise furniture which does not involve complicated mechanical component so as to minimize the manufacturing cost as well as the ultimate selling price of the present invention. In other words, the present invention is value-for-money and optimal for widespread use.

Accordingly, in order to accomplish the above objects, the present invention provides an exercise furniture, comprising:

a rocking frame having a rocking base, and a recliner frame, which is supported by the rocking frame, comprising a back support and a seat support mounted to the back support to define a recliner angle therebetween, wherein the recliner frame is adapted for primarily exercising a user's abdomen when the back support is pivotally and repeatedly folded with the seat support to alter the recliner angle, so as to concurrently generate a rocking motion at the rocking base of the rocking frame.

These and other objectives, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, the accompanying drawings, and the appended claims.

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