Portable multi-purpose rack for use on exercise equipment

• US 5,085,427 A
• Filed: 03/20/1990
• Issued: 02/04/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Finnish Line Products Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Finnish Line Products Incorporated
• Inventors: Finn, Bruce
• Primary Examiner(s): Crow, Stephen R.
• Application Number:
  US07/496,865
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 272/69, 272/93, 248/441.1, 248/444.1, 248/445, 248/447.1, 248/450
• US Class Current: 482/148
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 23/02 releasably mounted on the bedstead or another item of furniture
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/00 Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training or athletic performances

Abstract

A portable multi-purpose rack for use on exercise equipment is disclosed, having a transparent substantially planer surface with flanges extending at opposite angles from each end. The first flange is mounted upon the upper edge of the digital display of a piece of exercise equipment and the planer surface placed directly upon the digital display. The bottom flange forms a lip which holds a book or other object thereon so that the user of the exercise equipment may place an object or book directly upon the portable multi-purpose rack without obstructing the view of the display screen.

Claims

1. A system for supporting articles including reading materials or the like on exercise equipment comprising:

a piece of exercise equipment having a display screen thereon;

a portable rack mounted on the display screen, said rack comprising;

a transparent planar surface having an upper end, a lower end, an underside and a topside;

a first flange protruding from the upper end of the planar surface in a first direction, said first flange and said upper end being connected by a first corner area;

a second flange protruding from the lower end of the planar surface in a second direction, said second flange and said lower end being connected by a second corner area wherein the underside of the transparent planar surface between the second corner area and the first corner area is a flat surface;

the first flange being mounted over the upper edge of the display screen of the piece of exercise equipment and the underside of the transparent planar surface contacting the surface area of the display screen, and the second flange and topside of the planar surface are capable of supporting a book or similar article thereon.

2. A system for supporting articles on exercise equipment according to claim 11 wherein the flat surface and first and second flanges are made of a single piece of substantially transparent plastic.

3. A system for supporting articles on exercise equipment according to claim 2 wherein the first flange extends at an angle of between seventy degrees and ninety-five degrees from the substantially transparent flat planer surface.

4. A system for supporting articles on exercise equipment according to claim 3 wherein the corners of the first flange and second flange are rounded.

5. A system for supporting articles on exercise equipment according to claim 4 wherein the first flange extends at an angle of eighty-seven degrees from the flat planar surface.

6. A system for supporting articles on exercise equipment according to claim 5 wherein both the first flange and second flange extend at an angle of eighty-seven degrees from the flat planer surface.

7. A system for supporting articles on exercise equipment according to claim 2 wherein the single piece of transparent plastic is either one of Plexi-glass or Lexan.