Exercise devices – Hand – wrist – or finger – Grip
Patent
1997-11-24
1999-09-07
Apley, Richard J.
Exercise devices
Hand, wrist, or finger
Grip
482127, A63B 2316, A63B 21045
Patent
active
059478713
ABSTRACT:
A hand grip exercise device consists of a resiliently flexible base sheet, preferably but not necessarily of stainless steel, having a length at least as wide as the palm of the hand to be exercised and having a cross section which, in its unflexed condition and taken in a plane transverse to the length of the base sheet, approximates the contour of the palm, forefingers and thumb of the hand to be exercised in a handshake position. A resiliently compressible pad is adhered to the convex surface of the base sheet so as to offer a comfortable, nonslipping gripping surface to the hand. The device further includes at least one additional resiliently flexible reinforcing sheet, also preferably but not necessarily of stainless steel, with a length not greater than the length of the base sheet and with a cross-section which, in an unflexed condition and taken in a plane transverse to its length, is concentrically snugly insertable into the base sheet cross-section. Most preferably, a plurality of substantially identical reinforcing sheets having a length not more than half the length of the base sheet is used so that reinforcing sheets can be inserted in concentric arrangement at any desired position along the length of the base sheet to increase the resistance applied over just a part of the hand or reinforcing sheets may be inserted in end-to-end arrangement to increase the resistance applied across the entire hand.
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The Gripp Brochure; Pro-Innovative Concepts, Inc. Phoenix, Arizona.
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Apley Richard J.
Catalano Frank J.
Gilcrease Bryan S.
Hwang Victor K.
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