Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing resilient force resistance
Patent
1991-05-06
1992-08-25
Apley, Richard J.
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing resilient force resistance
482121, 482139, 482909, A63B 2102
Patent
active
051414813
ABSTRACT:
A portable muscle building and exercising apparatus wherein a helical compression coil spring is installed in a housing and can be stressed to different degrees by three loop-shaped handles two of which are to be held and pulled by the two hands and the third of which can be engaged and pulled by one or both feet of the user or affixed to a stationary part. The component which actually stresses the spring is a tensioning member having a conductive extension which can complete the circuit of a plug-shaped acoustic alarm when the spring stores a select amount of energy. The alarm can be moved to any one of a number of different positions in the path of movement of the extension of the tensioning member. The audible signal which is generated by the alarm indicates to the user that the selected degree of stress upon the spring has been reached as well as that such stress is maintained. The handles which are to be grasped by hands are connected to the ends of a variable-length rope which is trained over a pulley on the housing for the spring. When not in use, the plug-shaped alarm can be stored in a socket of the housing.
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Apley Richard J.
Kontler Peter K.
Reichard Lynne
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