Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing weight resistance
Patent
1993-11-18
1994-08-02
Bahr, Robert
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing weight resistance
482 96, 482101, 482102, 482135, 482142, 482145, A63B 2106
Patent
active
053341201
ABSTRACT:
A Gravity Sled Exercise Machine wherein leveraged body forces act to overcome gravity to move a two piece body sled and client upward, along biangular support rails, from a horizontal to a vertical orientation. To support the torso during the change in spatial orientation, a fixed angle sled seat reciprocates in lineal motion on the lower of two differentially inclined rails. In concurrent action, the lower section of a back rest pivots on an axle at the rear of the seat, while its upper end rides via a pivot guide on the upper, more vertically inclined rail. That kinetic linkage produces a curvilinear motion that constantly repositions the sled and introduces variable resistance to the exercise cycle.
An arrangement of handrings, lines and pulleys provides the leverage for arm and upper body exercises, while Class I and II levers enable leg and lower body exercises. A flexible coupling attaches a leg lever assembly to either the static lower rail or to the moving sled seat. The rail attachment allows the arms and legs to work in concert, while the seat attachment places them in opposition.
Machine resistance is gravity controlled by body/sled weight, and rail angles, supplemented with an optional arrangement for adding weightedness to the sled.
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