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US 2011/0237402 A1Published application
Manual exercise device for toning and tightening flaccid tissue surrounding an airway
OwnerJohn Murrayinventor
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Abstract
Manual exercise device that is comprised of a combination mouthpiece and top cap, a soft-rubber check-valve, a hard plastic hollow spherical bulb, and a soft plastic washer with a minuscule hole at its center held in position by an open-faced cap. A preferred embodiment affords a user a means through which to manually create and maintain a slowly depleting vacuum within the hard plastic bulb, exercising flaccid tissue and musculature in the process.
Claims5
A non-invasive exercise apparatus comprised of:
- a hard plastic sphere made of santoprene and polystyrene with threaded open orifices at opposite ends of the sphere;
- a rubber check-valve that sits snugly in the larger of the two threaded orifices;
- a plastic mouth piece that attaches to the larger threaded orifice by a threaded cap corresponding with threads on the orifice, covering the rubber check-valve;
- a threaded, open-face plastic cap that corresponds with the smaller threaded orifice;
- a soft plastic washer with a circumference of the inner-face of the. open-face plastic cap;
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- a minuscule hole that is positioned precisely at the center of the soft plastic washer.
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