Muted rhythm indicating exercisers

• US 4,480,828 A
• Filed: 05/10/1982
• Issued: 11/06/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/1980
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Harry P. Kifferstein
• Original Assignee: Harry P. Kifferstein
• Inventors: Kifferstein, Harry P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, Richard J.
• Application Number:
  US06/376,249
• Time in Patent Office: 911 Days
• Field of Search: 272/117, 272/123, 272/122, 272/124, 272/128, 272/67, 272/68, 272/70, 46/191, 46/193
• US Class Current: 482/74
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0633 without electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/04 for lower limbs training appliances for special sports A63B69/00; for the purpose of producing mechanical power F03G5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0686 Timers, rhythm indicators or pacing apparatus using electric or electronic means

Abstract

A rhythm indicating exercising device in the form of a generally tubular member having a preferably metallic mass or slug disposed freely slidable in the interior of the tubular member, each end of the tubular member being provided with an elastic, resilient end closure preventing the mass or slug from escaping from the tubular member. In use, one tubular member is grasped in one hand or, preferably, a pair of tubular members are held one in each hand of a person while walking and more particularly while engaged in aggressive exercise walking, that is while walking at a fast pace with extensive swinging of the arms back and forth. At the end of each forward and backward stroke of the arm, the mass or slug is forcibly propelled by inertia within the tubular member and caused to strike the corresponding end closure, thus producing a muted impact knocking sound helping the walker to maintain an effective rhythm and providing beneficial advantages in indicating proper exercising of the arms in addition to the legs.

Claims

1. An exercising device comprising an elongated circularly cylindrical tubular member of a convenient diameter and length to be gripped by a hand, a longitudinal bore of substantially constant diameter extending from end to end within said elongated tubular member, a freely movable single-piece weighted mass within said bore adapted to be displaceable from end to end therein, said single-piece weighted mass having at least one dimension greater than one-half the diameter of said elongated tubular member, and a pair of closure walls, each of said closure walls being disposed at an end of said bore and having a surfce for impacting by an end surface of said single-piece weighted mass, wherein at least one of the surfaces in mutual engagement upon impact by said single-piece weighted mass with said closure wall is made of an elastomeric material for emitting a single muted sound upon impact shock of said weighted mass with a closure wall and the length of said tubular member is less than about 160 mm.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein said weighted mass is a solid metallic elongated slug and said closure walls are made of elastomeric material.

3. The device of claim 2 wherein said cylindrical tubular member has a solid closure wall at each end thereof and a plug of elastomeric material forming a resilient cushion is disposed in said bore on a side of each of said closure walls.

4. The device of claim 2 further comprising a sleeve enclosing said cylindrical tubular member and wherein said cylindrical tubular member has an elastomeric closure wall at each end thereof, at least one of said elastomeric walls being integral with said sleeve enclosing said cylindrical tubular member.

5. The device of claim 4 wherein the other of said elastomeric closure walls is integral with a second sleeve enclosing said first mentioned sleeve.

6. The device of claim 4 wherein the other of said elastomeric closure walls is an elastomeric closure cap attached over an open end of said sleeve.

7. The device of claim 4 wherein the other of said elastomeric closure walls is a portion of said sleeve enclosing said cylindrical tubular member.

8. The device of claim 1 wherein said closure walls are solid and said weighted mass has an elastomeric cushion at least at each end thereof.

9. The device of claim 1 wherein said closure walls are each a closure cap attached at an open end of said bore.

10. The device of claim 9 wherein said closure cap is made of elastomeric material.

11. The device of claim 10 wherein said closure cap is removable, and further comprising a solid metallic disk insertable in each closure cap for optionally providing a solid closure wall for said bore.

12. The device of claim 1 wherein said tubular member is provided at each end with a removable and reversible closure cap, said closure cap being in the form of a tubular member having a solid partition wall, and an elastomeric pad disposed on one side of said solid wall.

13. An exercising device comprising an elongated circularly cylindrical tubular member of a convenient diameter and length to be gripped by a hand, a longitudinal bore of substantially constant diameter extending from end to end within said elongated tubular member, a freely movable single-piece weighted mass within said bore adapted to be displaceable from end to end therein, and a pair of closure walls, each of said closure walls being disposed at an end of said bore and having a surface for impacting by an end surface of said single-piece weighted mass, wherein the length of said tubular member is less than about 160 mm and the ratio of the length of said single-piece weighted mass to the length of the bore in said elongated tubular member between said closure walls is at most 4 to 7 and wherein at least one of the surfaces in mutual engagement upon impact by said weighted mass with said closure wall is made of an elastomeric material for emitting a single muted sound upon impact shock of said single-piece weighted mass with a closure wall.

14. The device of claim 13 wherein said weighted mass is a solid metallic elongated slug and said closure walls are made of elastomeric material.

15. The device of claim 14 wherein said cylindrical tubular member has a solid closure wall at each end thereof and a plug of elastomeric material forming a resilient cushion is disposed in said bore on a side of each of said closure walls.

16. The device of claim 14 further comprising a sleeve enclosing said cylindrical tubular member and wherein said cylindrical tubular member has an elastomeric closure wall at each end thereof, at least one of said elastomeric walls being integral with said sleeve enclosing said cylindrical tubular member.

17. The device of claim 16 wherein the other of said elastomeric closure walls is integral with a second sleeve enclosing said first mentioned sleeve.

18. The device of claim 16 wherein the other of said elastomeric closure walls is an elastomeric closure cap attached over an open end of said sleeve.

19. The device of claim 16 wherein the other of said elastomeric closure walls is a portion of said sleeve enclosing said cylindrical tubular member.

20. The device of claim 13 wherein said closure walls are solid and said weighted mass has an elastomeric cushion at least at each end thereof.

21. The device of claim 13 wherein said closure walls are each a closure cap attached at an open end of said bore.

22. The device of claim 21 wherein said closure cap is made of elastomeric material.

23. The device of claim 22 wherein said closure cap is removable, and further comprising a solid metallic disk insertable in each closure cap for optionally providing a solid closure wall for said bore.

24. The device of claim 13 wherein said tubular member is provided at each end with a removable and reversible closure cap, said closure cap being in the form of a tubular member having a solid partition wall, and an elastomeric pad disposed on one side of said solid wall.