Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing fluid resistance
Patent
1996-02-23
1998-06-16
Clark, Jeanne M.
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing fluid resistance
482 55, 482908, D21236, A63B 3108
Patent
active
057661162
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
SUMMARY
The present invention is directed to minimizing the disadvantages of known aquatic hand exercising devices.
According to the invention, there is provided a hand held aquatic exercising device. There is an elongated handle which has first end and a second end. Two hydroresistive elements which preferably are essentially cup-shaped are operatively connected at each opposite ends of the handle.
Each cup includes a radial axis extending from a base of the cup, and a transverse plane diametrically and transversely located over the rim of the cup. The handle provides a longitudinal axis.
The handle is preferably surrounded with a hand gripping element which facilitates rotation of the handle about the longitudinal axis. This facilitates rotation of the device about the longitudinal axis as the device is moved through water with the gripping element held in the palm of the hand. Selectively the hand gripping elements can also be locked in a fixed position relative to the handle.
In one form of the invention, the cup is moveable relative to the longitudinal axis and the transverse axis thereby being able to adopt multiple selected different positions relative to the elongated handle.
A crossbar extends over the rim of the cup, the crossbar including remote ends. The remote ends engage with ends of a stirrup. A stirrup is provided at each end of the handle. The stirrup is connected substantially midway along its length to the ends of the elongated handle.
In another preferred form of the invention, the elongated handle includes at each end an adjustable and lockable pivoting means, being ball and socket or swivel joint member. The cups which are selectively removable are connected with extensions such that the ball and socket member or swivel joint provides a swivel effect. The cups can thereby be set in different selected positions relative to the longitudinal axis of the elongated handle.
In a further form of the invention, the handle ends include T-piece at each end. The cups, which are selectively removable, can be attached to the T-piece so that the cups could be positioned either axially or transverse relative to the handle longitudinal axis.
In another form of the invention, the handle includes an elbow at each end. The elbow acts to secure the cups with their radial axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. The handle and gripping element are relatively rotatable about the longitudinal axis thereby facilitating alignment of the cups in the water as the device is moved through the water.
In yet a further preferred form of the invention the cups are selectively removable from the elongated handle. The cups can be connected and located with the handle in multiple modes. In one form, the cups are connected with the handle so that rims of each opposite cup is directed toward each other and the cups extend over the handle. In another form, the rim of one cup extends over the handle while the rim of a second cup extends longitudinally from the handle. In a further form, the cups are located with the handle so that the rims extend longitudinally away from the elongated handle.
In a further preferred aspect of the invention the cups are flexible and selectively reversible about the base of each cup, such that different relative positions can be adopted for each cup on the handle.
The invention is further described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a side view of one embodiment of the invention illustrating an elongated handle and a pair of cups. Each cup is located at each respective end of the elongated handle, the cups being in a first position relative to the elongated handle.
FIG. 2 is a different side view of the device illustrated in FIG. 1. The cups are located relative to the handle in a different position than shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a side view of the different embodiment of the device, having a pivoting connection in the elongated handle thereby permitting the cups to adopt a first position.
FIG. 4 is a different side view of the embodiment illust
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