Exercising apparatus

• US 4,718,663 A
• Filed: 02/05/1986
• Issued: 01/12/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Keith E. Shepherd
• Original Assignee: Keith E. Shepherd
• Inventors: Shepherd, Keith E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAHR, ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US06/826,351
• Time in Patent Office: 706 Days
• Field of Search: 272/67, 272/68, 272/116, 272/117, 272/118, 272/119, 272/122, 272/123, 272/134, 272/130
• US Class Current: 482/99
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0602 Fluids, e.g. water
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0628 for vertical array of weights

Abstract

Exercising apparatus comprises a main frame 1 providing a seat 3. A cable 7 leads from a bar to be raised or lowered by the arms or legs of the user, to a group of weight members 9 to be lifted. These weight members 9 comprise a closed rigid container with a filling opening allowing water or sand to be poured in to achieve a desired weight, the aperture then being closed by a cap. Each weight member is shaped at the sides to provide recesses to receive vertical guide tubes 10 and 11 and the undersurface of each weight member incorporates a guide slot for receipt of a locating rod which will be interconnected with a yoke 8 to which the cable 7 is attached, the arms of the yoke passing into passageways through each weight member 9.

Claims

1. An exercising apparatus comprising a support framework defined by guide rods extending upwardly in pairs on both sides of the framework, a carrying member having a pair of downwardly extending arms with aligned passageways defined therethrough at various heights, at least one locating rod for receipt within said passageways, weight members, each of which comprises a body in the form of a hollow container provided with a removable closure cap, and constructed from a rigid plastics material, each weight member being formed with side and end walls, a top surface and an underneath surface, passageways defined through from the one surface to the other for receipt of the pair of arms of the carrying member, recesses define at the sides of the body to accommodate the pairs of upwardly extending guide members, so that the weight member is positioned between the guide members and is stabilized thereby, and a guideway defined in the lower surface of each body for receipt of the locating rod which will be attached to the arms of the carrying member so as to support at least some of the weights, the carrying member, interconnected with at least some of the weight members by the locating rod, being attached to a lifting cable.

2. A weight member according to claim 1, wherein the guideway is defined by a groove running across the lower surface of the body.

3. An exercising apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the carrying member has rollers mounted thereon to run on the pairs of rods.

4. An exercising apparatus according to claim 1, including a handlebar device attached to the end of the lifting cable.

5. An exercising apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the handlebar device includes a reel, on which can be wound any excess length of the cable and having a locking pin for securing the reel in a desired condition.

6. An exercising apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the reel carries a loop within which is releasably attached a toggle at the free end of the cable.