Exercising rack and bar apparatus

• US 3,207,511 A
• Filed: 08/30/1962
• Issued: 09/21/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert C. Hoffman
• Original Assignee: Robert C. Hoffman
• Inventors: Hoffman, Robert C.
• Application Number:
  US04/220,377
• Time in Patent Office: 1,118 Days
• US Class Current: 482/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 1/00 Horizontal bars
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 17/00 Exercising apparatus combining several parts such as ladders, rods, beams, slides
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0023 for isometric exercising, i.e. substantial force variation without substantial muscle motion

Claims

1. AN EXERCISE APPARATUS COMPRISING A FIRST AND A SECOND PAIR OF UPRIGHTS, EACH OF SAID PAIRS INCLUDING A FORWARD AND A REAR UPRIGHT SPACED FROM EACH OTHER AND LYING IN A VERTICAL PLANE PARALLEL TO THE PLANE OF THE FORWARD AND REAR UPRIGHTS OF THE OPPOSITE PAIR, SAID PAIRS OF UPRIGHTS BEING LATERALLY SPACED FROM EACH OTHER TO PERMIT THE PERFORMANCE OF EXERCISES THEREBETWEEN, FIRST CONNECTION MEANS RIGIDLY SECURING THE LOWER END OF THE UPRIGHTS OF EACH PAIR TOGETHER, SAID FIRST CONNECTION MEANS OF EACH PAIR OF UPRIGHTS INCLUDING MEANS ADAPTING SAID FIRST CONNECTION MEANS FOR ATTACHMENT TO A FLOOR SURFACE, SECOND CONNECTION MEANS RIGIDLY SECURING THE UPPER ENDS OF EACH PAIR OF UPRIGHTS TO THE UPPER ENDS OF THE OTHER PAIR OF UPRIGHTS, MEANS FORMING PART OF SAID APPARATUS FOR RIGIDLY SECURING THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID UPRIGHTS TO A SURFACE ADJACENT SAID UPPER ENDS, A FIRST SET OF HOLES POSITIONED AT FRQUENT VERTICALLY-SPACED INTERVALS IN A CORRESPONDING ONE UPRIGHT OF EACH PAIR, SAID HOLES OF SAID ONE UPRIGHT OF EACH PAIR HAVING HORIZONTAL AXES EXTENDING IN HORIZONTAL PLANES CORRESPONDING TO THE PLANES OF THE AXES OF THE HOLES OF SAID ONE UPRIGHT OF THE OTHER PAIR, SAID SETS OF HOLES OF BOTH OF SAID ONE UPRIGHTS LYING IN A COMMON VERTICAL PLANE, WHEREBY AN EXERCISE BAR MAY BE SUPPORTED ADJACENT ITS OPPOSITE ENDS IN SELECTED VERTICAL POSITIONS IN THE HOLES OF SAID ONE UPRIGHT OF BOTH OF SAID PAIRS OF UPRIGHTS AND BE IMMOVABLE IN A VERTICAL PLANE WHEN SO SUPPORTED, A SECOND SET OF HOLES POSITIONED AT FREQUENT VERTICALL-SPACED INTERVALS IN SAID ONE UPRIGHT OF EACH PAIR AND HAVING AXES EXTENDING PERPENDICULARLY TO THE AXES OF SAID FIRST SET OF HOLES AND EXTENDING IN THE FRONT-REAR DIRECTION OF SAID APPARATUS, THE SECOND SET OF HOLES OF SAID ONE UPRIGHT OF EACH PAIR HAVING AXES LYING IN HORIZONTAL PLANES CORRESPONDING TO THE PLANES OF THE AXES OF THE SECOND SET OF HOLES OF THE OTHER SAID UPRIGHT, A THIRD SET OF HOLES FORMED IN THE OTHER UPRIGHT OF EACH PAIR AND HOROZINTALLY ALIGNED WITH THE SECOND SET OF HOLES OF SAID ONE UPRIGHT OF EACH PAIR, AND AT LEAST ONE PIN MEMBER POSITIONED IN CORRESPONDING HOLES OF THE SECOND AND THIRD SETS IN THE FORWARD AND REAR UPRIGHTS ON EACH OF THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID APPARATUS, WHEREBY AN EXERCISE BAR LYING IN THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID FORWARD AND REAR UPRIGHTS MAY HAVE ITS MOVEMENT IN A VERTICAL PLANE LIMITED BY SAID PIN MEMBERS.