Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing resilient force resistance
Patent
1999-04-12
2000-11-07
Donnelly, Jerome
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing resilient force resistance
482904, 482 98, A63B 2102
Patent
active
061429198
ABSTRACT:
A physical exercising device having a handle to be grasped by an exercising person; an elongate frame having a plurality of attachment points disposed along the frame; an elastic resistance member having one end attached to the frame and another end; a fixed pulley fixedly attached to the frame and a detachable pulley detachably connectable to any one of said attachment points; a flexible wire threaded through the fixed pulley and the detachable pulley, having a first part in operative engagement with the other end of the elastic resistance member, and another part of the wire attachable to the handle for manually applying a stretching force to the elastic resistance member by the exercising person. The physical exercising device wherein the frame is composed of a vertical stem having an upper part and a top member extending away from the top part, and wherein the attachment points are disposed along the vertical stem and the top member. The physical exercising device may further include a floating third pulley attached to the other end of the elastic resistance member, and wherein the first part of the wire is threaded through the third pulley, and the flexible wire has a distal end away from the part of the wire attached to the handle, the distal end of the wire being fixedly attached to the frame for increasing the stretching force. The physical exercising device may include in the elastic resistance member at least one strand of elastic rubber or a coil spring P.
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