Undertaking
Patent
1981-01-13
1982-11-30
Pinkham, Richard C.
Undertaking
A63B 2106
Patent
active
043613233
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a pulling apparatus, intended for muscle training and comprising a substantially vertical stand, a stack of weights, a magazine for the weights, a rope, fixed to the magazine and laid over a suitable pulley or the like, and members for coupling the magazine to the desired number of weights.
Prior Art
Various types of such pulling apparatuses, which can be used for training a number of muscles in the body, are known. Since the weights are collected in some magazine-like device, the number of weights and thus the magnitude of the load can be altered as necessary.
In a previously known pulling apparatus, which can be regarded as the prior art, vertical plate guides or tunnels with longitudinal epoxy rails, against which the weights in the stack are intended to slide, are disposed in the vertical stand. In this case, the magazine is formed in principle of side plates, guided by the plate guides. In order to make it possible to introduce coupling members between the weights to bring up the required number, rubber plates are provided as spacing members. Experience has shown that these plates settled, and so the division between the weights altered with consequent problems.
The construction is thus comparatively complicated and therefore expensive and does not have a very satisfactory operation because of guiding and sliding problems.
The invention
These disadvantages are overcome in a pulling apparatus according to the invention, which is characterized in that the magazine has the form of a bottomless basket, in the side surfaces provided with holes disposed one above the other with a division corresponding to the spacing between the weights in the stack, and that the weights are provided with yoke-spaced components which on the one hand serve as guides between the weights and on the other hand form spacers between them.
Since the magazine is here closed even at the short sides, it can be controlled directly by the vertical legs of the stand, simply and with little friction.
A lifting plate, which serves as a coupling member and storage plate for the weights above it, which are to be lifted by means of the rope, can be pushed through the holes in the magazine, which are oblong, and between adjacent weights in the stack.
The pulling apparatus according to the invention is characterized primarily by three features: robust construction, low friction in the gudies of the magazine and simple design.
THE DRAWINGS
The invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pulling apparatus according to the invention and
FIG. 2 shows a weight magazine and a stack of weights for this pulling apparatus.
DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
As shown in FIG. 1 a simple stand 1, which is preferably welded together, comprises four vertical legs 2 and a crossbar 3 which, in the case shown, is provided with two rotatable pulleys 4 and 5, while a further pulley 6 is disposed in the lower portion of the stand.
A weight magazine 7 is guided by the legs 2 of the stand for vertical movement, at the back by means of lateral guides 8 and at the front by means of sliding studs 9 (FIG. 2). At its upper portion, the magazine is provided with a cross-piece 10 (omitted in FIG. 2) to which a rope 11 is fixed. This rope can run over the pulleys 4 and 6, as shown in FIG. 1, so that a vertically upwardly directed or more or less horizontal pull in the rope lifts the magazine 7. Alternatively, the rope can run over the two upper pulleys 4 and 5 so that a downward force in the rope causes the lifting of the magazine 7.
The magazine 7, which consists of two side walls and two short sides but does not have any bottom, is equipped in its side walls with a number of horizontal slots 12, disposed one above the other. A lifting plate 13, the length of which exceeds the width of the magazine, can be pushed into a pair of slots, which can be freely selected.
The magazine 7 is adapted to entrain one or more weig
REFERENCES:
patent: 848272 (1907-03-01), Thornley
Brown Laurence R.
Browne William R.
Pinkham Richard C.
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