Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing weight resistance
Patent
1994-04-20
1995-10-24
Apley, Richard J.
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing weight resistance
482106, A63B 21078, A63B 2100
Patent
active
054605881
ABSTRACT:
An anti-tipping device for the saddles of weight lifting benches for preventing accidental tipping of barbells with respect to the saddles, wherein an abutment is provided at the rear stem of each saddle of a weight lifting bench. The anti-tipping device has a guide surface having increasing inclination toward the base of the saddle and terminates in a concave surface spaced from the base on the order of at least the diameter of the bar, and having a radius of curvature at least that of the bar. The anti-tipping device is dimensioned to occlude less than half the distance between the front and rear stems of each saddle, so that the saddles will operate in a completely conventional manner in terms of selectively receiving the bar of barbells when the bar is kept adjacent the front stem, but interferingly abuts the bar when the bar is adjacent the rear stem, so that the barbell is prevented from tipping no matter what the weight disparity may be with respect to the two ends of the bar. In one variation of the anti-tipping device according to the present invention, the saddles are manufactured therewith. In another variation of the anti-tipping device according to the present invention, conventional saddles are retrofitted therewith.
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Apley Richard J.
Hwang Victor K.
Keefe Peter D.
Keefe Peter D.
Tate Glenn P.
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