Exercise devices – Involving user translation or physical simulation thereof – Bicycling
Patent
1997-11-06
1999-01-19
Apley, Richard J.
Exercise devices
Involving user translation or physical simulation thereof
Bicycling
482 51, A63B 6916, A63B 2704
Patent
active
058608958
ABSTRACT:
A folding collapsible step exercising machine including a base frame having a transverse front bar and transverse rear bar, a front upright pivoted to the transverse front bar of the base frame and locked in a vertical position by lock means, a driving wheel having a fixed wheel shaft revolvably supported on the base frame, a damping wheel turned with the driving wheel, two pedals, two rear pedal links respectively coupled between rear ends of the pedals and two opposite ends of the fixed wheel shaft of the driving wheel, two front pedal links having a respective bottom end pivoted to a front end of one pedal and a respective top end coupled to the front upright by a slip joint and a respective middle part fixedly mounted with a pivot, and two handlebars respectively turned about the pivots of the front pedal links and having a respective bottom end pivoted to the base frame, wherein two hexagonal end caps are respectively eccentrically coupled to two opposite ends of the transverse front bar of the base frame and turned thereabout, for permitting either of the six peripheral sides of each hexagonal end cap to be disposed in contact with the floor, so as to support the transverse front bar of the base frame in one of six different elevational positions.
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Apley Richard J.
LaMarca William
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