Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing weight resistance
Patent
1994-03-29
1995-07-04
Apley, Richard J.
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing weight resistance
482103, 482137, A63B 2100
Patent
active
054295696
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention concerns a physical fitness training apparatus so constructed that it includes a framework which mostly comprises an upright main part, a training arm which projects out from the main part and may be rotated about a horizontal axis and has grips or suitable parts to be used by the person training, a loading arrangement and a flexible tie element with ancillary pulleys for load and motion transfer between the training arm and the loading arrangement.
There is a need for a physical fitness training apparatus which permits the user to perform many different exercises, preferably individually adapted, as according to height, strength and general level of fitness.. Previously this has required the installation of numerous differing training apparatus in an exercise room or similar area, such that the user can have an adequately broad and varied exercise programme. For instance, it thus far has been common to have separate training apparatus respectively for arm exercises involving pulling towards the body and pushing away from the body.
A vital purpose of this invention is to provide a physical fitness training apparatus which permits the execution of several different exercises, and which may be readily rearranged to suit that purpose and with adjustments to suit the individual user's wishes and needs.
According to the invention, these requirements have been fulfilled in an advantageous way in a new apparatus for physical fitness training, the new and distinctive features of which are stated in the patent claims.
With the combinations and adjustments possible according to the invention, physical fitness training with an apparatus may be considerably simplified, as well as be executed in less space than possible with conventional apparatus.
Other advantages and distinctive features of the physical fitness training apparatus according to the invention will be further described as follows with reference to the attached drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 comprises a schematic and partly transparent view of the interior of the apparatus according to the invention in a side view,
FIG. 2 is a top view of the apparatus of FIG. 1, and
FIG. 3 is a front view of the apparatus.
The physical fitness training apparatus shown here is built up on a longitudinal beam 1A with a transverse beam 1B for the support of seat 5. Seat 5 has a back support which may be folded down to form a bench-like support. The upright main module 1 on the frame contains devices including a loading arrangement in the form of a stack of weights 9 which in a normal way permit selecting loading according to the individual user and the exercise selected. The training arm with grips 3A and 3B is via a flexible tie element, usually a chain, connected to the upper end of weight stack 9. Choice of load, that is the number of weights, is itself recognized in that the free end of the chain 7B is fastened to a pin 8 arranged to be inserted through centrally-located, vertical holes through the weights of the stack 9. Horizontal holes, such as hole 9A in the uppermost weight of the stack, correspond to holes of equivalent mutual spacing diametrically through pin 8, such that transverse pin 10 permits selecting the number of weights corresponding to the suitable load for the exercise in question.
As explicitly shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the training arm comprises several parts, although it is obvious that other and perhaps simpler designs of a training arm could conceivably be used in a physical fitness training apparatus based on this invention. Two parallel arm parts 3C and 3D together can rotate about horizontal axis 20, in that arm part 3C has extension 3G inside main module 1. The axis of rotation 20 is in this case also shown inside the section of main module 1. As shown in FIG. 3, slots 13C and 13D in the front surface of main module 1 permit the training arm to move up and down in relation to a selected starting position.
At the outer ends of arm parts 3C and 3D, a transverse arm 3E is affixed, which after bends at approximately right angles at each e
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Evjenth Olaf
Gunnari Hans
Apley Richard J.
Mulcahy John
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