Door mounted deadman for exercise devices

• US 6,908,418 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2003
• Issued: 06/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sauré, Paul
• Original Assignee: Sauré, Paul
• Inventors: Sauré, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Donnelly, Jerome W.
• Application Number:
  US10/366,736
• Publication Number:
  US 20030158024A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 482/904, 482/907, 482/126, 482/121, 482/124, 482/129, 482/130
• US Class Current: 482/121
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0442 Anchored at one end only, the other end being manipulated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0552 Elastic ropes or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/1645 for anchoring on a door
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/1654 for anchoring between a door and the floor
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/1663 for anchoring between a door and the door frame
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0204 Standing on the feet
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0233 in 90/90 position, like on a chair
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/904 Removably attached to wheelchair, home furnishing, or home structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/907 Stretching

Abstract

A door-mounted strap extends around a door in the vertical direction, typically being placed medially of the door. On the deadman side of the door, the strap is continuous as it faces the exerciser. On a face of the door, away from the exerciser, the strap has a tension-locking clamp, typically a ladder lock, enabling the tightened door-mounted strap to snugly surround the door. Extending from the door top to the door bottom on exerciser'"'"'s side of the door is a back-mounting strip that exceeds in width and underlies the door-mounted strap. This back-mounting strip is sewn at intervals to enclose the horizontally disposed linear back members of D-rings at approximate 10-inch intervals. Removable and attachable elastic members are provided for fastening to the arcuate portions of the D-rings. These D-rings and elastic members are provided in combination with handholds, limb straps, at the like to enable standing, sitting or prone exercise positions between the D-rings at the deadman and the exerciser.

Claims

1. In combination, a deadman with a door having a top closing across a lintel, a bottom, and two sides closing across door jambs in a building structure, the door having opening and closing faces on opposite sides thereof, a mounted exercise device comprising in combination:

a door-mounted strap extending continuously around a door in the vertical direction from the top of the door to the bottom of the door across the opening and closing faces of the door;

a tension-locking clamp on one side of the door for maintaining the strap in a snug surround over the door;

a back-mounted strip between a door face and the door-mounted strap for distributing loading on the strap to the door, the back mounted strap having a width exceeding the door mounted strap;

a series of D-rings fastened between the door mounted strap and back-mounted strip for forming exercise device support points to enable the door under urging of the door-mounted strap to act as a plate urged on a unitary basis into the lintel and doorjambs whereby distribution of exercise induced strain is distributed by the back mounted strap at the width exceeding the door mounted strap at the door periphery into the surrounding building structure;

elastic strays having means for attachment and either end;

the elastic straps fastened to the D-rings at one end;

an exercise appliance for attachment with the body of an exerciser; and

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the elastic straps to the exercise appliance at the other end to enable strain on the D-ring to be distributed to the back mounted strap at the width exceeding the door mounted strap to the door periphery.