Device for exercising the hand and massaging other parts of the body

Abstract

A device comprising two rollers, mounted onto a frame comprised of two tubular bars set opposite to and parallel with each other into either end of a perpendicular central bar. Setting the two rollers onto this frame, which has the appearance of a broad capital “I”, involves each roller having a single thin metal rod fitted precisely through the center of their cores, thus creating spindle points. [In an alternative embodiment of the roller design, the spindles are two shorter rods set protruding perpendicularly from ‘lids’ which snap firmly onto a central cylinder.] The identical top and bottom bars of the “I” frame are hollow. Both house an identical set of internal components—a dowel pin/spring/dowel pin {in that order}. They fit snugly in their respective tube-bars, but not tightly, as they enjoy independent slidable action within when device is compressed { 10 }. Each of the four steel spindle points protrudes about one centimeter from either end of both rollers. These protrusions allow the rollers to ‘ride’ on the dowel pins at the four extremities of the “I” frame. All four extremities are sealed using small end-caps pressing spindles to dowel pins. [In an alternative embodiment of the tube-bar, a bevel-ended ‘closed sandwich’ design negates the use of any end-caps.] Each tube-bar has two 5 mm to 10 mm long narrow ‘nicks’ { 14 } precision-scored out from their undersides at either end, inline with each other, allowing the metal spindles their free inward clench travel. Each end-cap has a commensurate slot-hole { 16 } that aligns over these nicks when pressed home onto the tube-bars. [In an alternative embodiment of the tube-bar, the underside piece alone of the two-piece sandwich design has two 5 mm to 10 mm long narrow ‘nicks’ { 18 } for the spindle travel.] In relation to this alternative embodiment tube-bar underside piece: there is a narrow rectangular trough scored at it's midpoint, between and perpendicular to the two end-nicks. This small trough will snugly accommodate a commensurate-size anchor tab { 20 } that sits proud {slightly raised} inside either grip-end arc of an alternative embodiment center bar [FIG. 4 B].

I claim:  
     
         1 . In a hand-exerciser and body massager of the type comprising two rollers sitting rotatably, free to move in free-spin and guided-clench actions, onto a stylized capital “I” shaped frame consisting of two tubular bars affixed opposite each other upon a solid supporting central bar that sits parallel to and between the two rollers, which are secured in place by external end-caps.  
     
     
         2 . The hand-exerciser and body massager of  claim 1  wherein four spindle points protrude from the ends of the two rollers, those spindles created by a metal rod set through the circumcenter of each roller.  
     
     
         3 . The hand-exerciser and body massager of  claim 1  wherein said spindles rotate snugly at their four points of contact with the supporting “I” frame, those points being each dowel pin inside the four extremities of the two tubular bars.  
     
     
         4 . The hand-exerciser and body massager of  claim 3  wherein said dowel pins never touch, as each set of two dowels is separated inside their respective tube-bars by a spring.  
     
     
         5 . The hand-exerciser and body massager of  claim 3  wherein said tube-bar extremities each have a small elongated ‘nick’ hole wherein the rollers' spindles enjoy guided travel inwards to touch center bar.  
     
     
         6 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 5  wherein each of the four tube-bar extremities is sealed with a tight external end-cap.  
     
     
         7 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 6  wherein each end-cap has a commensurate size slot-like through-hole which will align over the tube-bars' elongated extremity ‘nick’ holes.  
     
     
         8 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 6  wherein the four end-caps serve to hold the two rollers via their spindles onto the sturdy aforementioned “I” frame construction, whereby a human can safely action the free-spin, hand-clench, foot massage uses and other uses of the device.  
     
     
         9 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 1  wherein the supporting center bar's two inner faces are concave, thus commensurate in arc dimension to ‘accept’ the rollers to be clenched into them.  
     
     
         10 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 1  wherein it's construction can be made of any plastics materials, metals, wood or glass, or from a combination of any of these materials.  
     
     
         11 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 1  wherein the end-caps are superfluous to the device if the alternative embodiment ‘enclosing sandwich’ design for the tube-bars is utilized.  
     
     
         12 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 1  wherein each tube-bar necessarily has to be inserted halfway along it's length into a round hole at either end of the supporting center bar, except when the alternative embodiment center bar comprising two ‘open’ grip ends is utilized.  
     
     
         13 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 12  wherein a tube-bar can thus simply snap into place upon the alternative embodiment center bar.  
     
     
         14 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 2  wherein the alternative embodiment roller design is of three pieces, one central cylinder capped at either end by two disk-like lids from which protrude {at their circumcenters} a short metal rod acting as a spindle.  
     
     
         15 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 1  wherein a separate handle may be attached to the device at the center bar whereby it's use as a body massager may be enhanced.  
     
     
         16 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 1  wherein any specially modified port on/in the device may allow for transmission of low-level electric pulses whereby the device is harnessed as a manual dynamo.  
     
     
         17 . The hand exerciser and body massager of  claim 1  substantially as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.