Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Having common force transmitting support frame for user and...
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-18
2001-11-13
Yu, Mickey (Department: 3764)
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Having common force transmitting support frame for user and...
C482S052000, C482S100000, C482S103000, C482S142000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06315702
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to exercise machines and more particularly pertains to a new exercise machine for providing an efficient total body work out.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of exercise machines is known in the prior art. More specifically, exercise machines heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,236,406; 4,793,608; 5,716,308; 5,330,405; U.S. Des. Pat. No. 367,900; and U.S. Pat. No. 2,932,509.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new exercise machine. The inventive device includes a base. The base has a distal end, a proximal end, and a middle portion. A first vertical column is fixedly attached to the middle portion of the base. A second vertical column is fixedly attached to the base. The second column is located between the distal end of the base and the first column to form a space between the first and second columns. A guide column extends vertically from the base between the first column and the second column. A set of foot pedals is hingedly attached to the second column and extends outwardly toward the distal end of the base. A first set of two elongate bars is adjustably mounted to the first column. The bars each have a handle. A second set of two elongate bars is adjustably mounted to the first column. Two solid tubes extend diametrically from a mounting means. The tubes bend toward each other to a parallel position. The mounting means is adapted to be mounted to the second column. A pulley means is comprised of a first pulley and a second pulley. The first pulley is fixedly attached to an apex of the second column, and the second pulley is attached to the first column. A plurality of weights each have a bore therethrough. Each of the weights is housed on the guide column whereby the guide column travels through the bores in the weights. The weights are removably coupled to the guide column. An anchor is linked to the pulley means by a cable. The anchor is comprised of a first disc and a second disc. The cable is secured to the first disc and slides through the second disc. The discs each have a bore therethrough to receive a pin. A plurality of pins are comprised in sets of two wherein a first pin remains motionless during movement of the apparatus and wherein a second pin has movement in a direction parallel to the apparatus. The pins are located on the foot pedals, first set of elongate bars, and second set of elongate bars.
In these respects, the exercise machine according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing an efficient total body work out.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of exercise machines now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new exercise machine construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing an efficient total body work out.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new exercise machine apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the exercise machines mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new exercise machine which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art exercise machines, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a base. The base has a distal end, a proximal end, and a middle portion. A first vertical column is fixedly attached to the middle portion of the base. A second vertical column is fixedly attached to the base. The second column is located between the distal end of the base and the first column to form a space between the first and second columns. A guide column extends vertically from the base between the first column and the second column. A set of foot pedals is hingedly attached to the second column, each foot pedal extending in the direction of the distal end of the base. A first set of two elongate bars is adjustably mounted to the first column. The bars each have a handle. A second set of two elongate bars is adjustably mounted to the first column. Two solid tubes extend diametrically from a mounting means. The tubes bend toward each other to a parallel position. The mounting means is adapted to be mounted to the second column. A pulley means is comprised of a first pulley and a second pulley. The first pulley is fixedly attached to an apex of the second column, and the second pulley is attached to the first column. A plurality of weights each have a bore therethrough. Each of the weights is housed on the guide column whereby the guide column travels through the bores in the weights. The weights are removably coupled to the guide column. An anchor is linked to the pulley means by a cable. The anchor is comprised of a first disc and a second disc. The cable is secured to the first disc and slides through the second disc. The discs each have a bore therethrough to receive a pin. A plurality of pins are comprised in sets of two wherein a first pin remains motionless during movement of the apparatus and wherein a second pin has movement in a direction parallel to the apparatus. The pins are located on the foot pedals, first set of elongate bars, and second set of elongate bars.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new exercise machine apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the exercise machines mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new exercise machine which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested,
Hwang Victor K.
Yu Mickey
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