Swinging implement for simulating rowing exercises

• US 20050101450A1
• Filed: 12/16/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Federico Gramaccioni
• Original Assignee: Federico Gramaccioni
• Inventors: Gramaccioni, Federico
• Application Number:
  US11/014,568
• Publication Number:
  US 20050101450A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 482/72
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2022/0079 with a pulling cable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/225 with flywheels
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/0076 Rowing machines for conditioning the cardio-vascular system seats moving during exercise A63B22/0087; training appliances for rowing or sculling on boats A63B69/06
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/16 Platforms for rocking motion about a horizontal axis , e.g. axis through the middle of the platform; Balancing drums; Balancing boards or the like exercising apparatus with cantilevered support elements pivoting about an axis A63B22/0056; other exercising apparatus for improving balance A63B26/003
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 26/003 for improving balance or equilibrium balance beams A63B4/00; apparatus for rope dancing A63B7/08; balancing drums, balancing boards or the like A63B22/16

Abstract

A swinging implement for simulating a rowing exercise comprises a supporting framework, which can be caused to bear on a floor by supporting elements, and including a seat plane, which can freely slide along the supporting framework, characterized in that said swinging implement comprises moreover swinging means for causing said supporting framework to swing with respect to a floor, thereby inducing a user to search equilibrium conditions during the exercise.

Claims

1. A swinging implement designed for simulating a rowing exercise, comprising a supporting framework, adapted to bear on a floor through supporting elements, and including a seating plane, which can freely slide along said supporting framework, a flywheel arranged at a horizontal position in order to lower the center of mass of the user and athlete-implement assembly;

wherein said swinging implement further comprises swinging means for allowing said supporting framework to swing about said floor, thereby inducing an implement user to search to hold an equilibrium condition during the exercise, said swinging means comprise curved bases rigid with said supporting framework, and said curved bases comprise extension elements designed for preventing the implement user from following as a center of mass of said implement is exceeded .

2. A swinging implement, according to claim 1, wherein said supporting framework, to which the remaining part of said implement is coupled, is connected through articulated joints to said bases, and that said articulated joints provide said swinging means, thereby the two bases are rigid with the bearing ground, while allowing the implement to swing with respect to said ground.

3. A swinging implement, according to claim 1, wherein said implement comprises brackets which, by bearing on springs rigid with said bases, provide the implement user or athlete with an aid for holding a centered position, while operating as a limit elements for the swinging movements of said implement with respect to an axis constituted by pivot pins.