Gripping power training device

• US 5,527,240 A
• Filed: 07/19/1995
• Issued: 06/18/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chun N. Chen
• Original Assignee: Chun N. Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Chun N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Crow, Stephen R.
• Application Number:
  US08/504,151
• Time in Patent Office: 335 Days
• Field of Search: 482/44, 482/49, 482/111, 482/112, 482/148, 482/45, 482/46, 482/50
• US Class Current: 482/44
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0087 of the piston-cylinder type using hydraulic piston-cylinder type force resistors A63B21/0083
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/16 for hands or fingers for teaching typing G09B13/00

Abstract

A gripping power training device includes a first holding component, a second holding component and at least two washers, in which a holding part the surface of which is undulated is installed on the top of the first holding component, and two pushing sticks are installed on two sides of the holding part respectively. An annular groove is formed on the end of each pushing stick for being engaged with the washer. The other holding part the shape of which is the same with that of the first holding component is installed on the top of the second holding component the appearance of which is similar to the first holding component, two cylindrical tanks the inner diameters of which are slightly larger than the diameters of the pushing sticks are installed on the bottom of the holding part for being inserted by the pushing stick of the first holding component and forming a sealed state between them. Then, the air compressed resistance is formed in the cylindrical tank when the first and the second holding components are pushed towards each other, the released elasticity is formed by the compressed air in the cylindrical tank when the first and second holding components are released, thus a gripping power training device is constructed.

Claims

1. A gripping power training device, comprising:

a first holding component including a holding pan on the top and two pushing sticks installed downwards on two sides of the bottom of said holding part;

at least one annular groove formed on the end of said pushing sticks;

two washers, having the same shape matching with said annular grooves of said first holding component, used to be engaged with said annular groove;

a second holding component the appearance of which is similar to said first holding component;

a holding pan formed on the top of said second holding component; and

two cylindrical tanks, having inner diameters which are slightly larger than the diameters of said pushing sticks of said first holding component, installed downwards on the bottom of said holding pan of said second holding component for being inserted by said pushing sticks of said first holding component and forming a sealed structure with said pushing sticks by said washers;

wherein, said holding parts of said first holding component and said second holding component are used for being held, the volume and the air pressure in said pushing sticks and said cylindrical tanks are changed by pressing said holding pans towards each other, and an air compressed resistance is formed in said holding part; and

the air released elasticity is formed by the recovering phenomenon of the air pressure and volume in said pushing sticks and said cylindrical tanks to the original state after said holding parts are released by the hand of the operator.

2. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the shapes of said first holding component and said second holding component look like an inverse U.

3. The device as set forth in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the surfaces of said holding pans of said first holding component and said second holding component are undulated.

4. The device as set forth in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the sectional shape of said holding parts of said first holding component and said second holding component can be a semicircle.