Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing weight resistance
Patent
1993-03-19
1995-09-05
Apley, Richard J.
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing weight resistance
482100, 482133, 482137, 482138, A63B 2106
Patent
active
054474809
ABSTRACT:
A weight lifting machine for performing a wide range of exercises, has a lift bar angularly adjustable for a starting lift position angularly upward or downward of a substantially horizontal position. An actuating bar is connected to the lift bar for movement therewith. First and second pulleys are movably mounted above and below the actuating bar such that the first pulley moves upwardly with the actuating bar and the second pulley moves downwardly with the actuating bar. The first pulley is prevented from moving downwardly when the second pulley is moved downwardly with the actuating bar and the second pulley is likewise prevented from moving upwardly when the first pulley is moved upwardly. A lift cable is threaded through the first and second pulleys such that movement of the lift bar in either direction lengthens the distance between the pulleys, thereby lifting a plate-type weight stack. The machine is also equipped with butterfly bars and a leg extension, with the lift bar, butterfly bars and leg extension all connected to the weight stack through a single lift cable.
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Apley Richard J.
Mulcahy John
O'Neil Michael A.
Schwartz Kay Lyn
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