Exerciser

• US 4,428,577 A
• Filed: 07/25/1979
• Issued: 01/31/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold Weingardt, Michael Croom
• Original Assignee: Harold Weingardt, Michael Croom
• Inventors: Weingardt, Wilfred W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kramer, Arnold W.
• Application Number:
  US06/060,810
• Time in Patent Office: 1,651 Days
• Field of Search: 272/135, 272/137, 272/143, 272/DIG. 4, 272/67, 272/68, 128/25 R, 128/63, 73/379, 73/380, 73/381, 35/29 R
• US Class Current: 482/126
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00043 Exercising devices consisting of a pair of user interfaces connected by flexible elements, e.g. two handles connected by elastic bands skipping ropes A63B5/20; resilient elements A63B21/02
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/026 Bars; Tubes; Leaf springs A63B21/023 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/045 having torsion or bending or flexion element

Abstract

An exercise device has a flexible steel blade with handles attached to each end and each handle having a plurality of hand grip members progressively outwardly spaced for hand engagement by the user with the flexible steel blade being enclosed in a foam rubber cloth covered cushion.

Claims

1. An exercise device comprising an elongated spring blade having first and second ends, first and second handle means respectively connected to said first and second ends of said elongated spring blade and protective cushion means enclosing said elongated spring blade for protecting the user against accidental injury thereby, wherein said elongated spring blade is a rectangular relatively thin metal blade, said first and second handle means each comprises a plurality of individual tubular hand grip members mounted on first and second support rods attached to each end of the elongated spring blade and extending parallel to and fixedly positioned with respect to each other and progressively spaced away from one end of said blade to which their respective first and second support rods are connected, said protective cushion means comprises a foam rubber pad encased in a protective fabric cover and further including a cushion cap member mounted on the outer end of each of said rod members.

2. An exercise device comprising an elongated spring blade having first and second ends, first and second handle means respectively connected to said first and second ends of said elongated spring blade and protective cushion means enclosing said elongated spring blade for protecting the user against accidental injury thereby, wherein said elongated spring blade comprises an elongated rectangular flexible steel blade, said first and second handle means each comprises a plurality of individual tubular parallel cylindrical hand grip members mounted on handle support means on each end of the elongated rectangular steel blade progressively spaced away from the end of said elongated rectangular steel blade, and said handle support means comprises two aluminum rods on each end of the elongated rectangular flexible steel blade and including a plurality of bolt members each extending between said two aluminum rods and an axial opening through each of said cylindrical hand grip members.

3. The invention of claim 2 wherein said protective cushion means comprises a foam rubber pad encased in a protective fabric cover and further including a cushion cap member mounted on the outer end of each of said aluminum rods.