Adjustable weight dumbell

• US 7,011,611 B1
• Filed: 06/06/2003
• Issued: 03/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Barry Ripley
• Original Assignee: Barry Ripley
• Inventors: Ripley, Barry
• Primary Examiner(s): Donnelly, Jerome W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mathew, Fenn C.
• Application Number:
  US10/456,699
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 482 93- 95, 482/97, 482106-109, D21681-683
• US Class Current: 482/107
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/063 Weight selecting means
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0724 Bar-bells; Hand bars
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0728 with means for fixing weights on bars, i.e. fixing olympic discs or bumper plates on bar-bells or dumb-bells
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/075 with variable weights , e.g. weight systems with weight selecting means for bar-bells or dumb-bells
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/08 magnetic

Abstract

An adjustable weight exercise device where the weights nest one inside the other to stack the weights. A handle or bar is provided to lift the weights with. A pin extending through a weight and the handle connects the weights to the handle. Each weight has a separate aperture to connect the handle to the weight. Since the weights are nested the handle will lift the weight it is connected to and all the weights nested inside thereby adjusting the weight of the exercise device. The nested weight system can be used with dumbells, barbells or weight lifting exercise machines to quickly, safely and easily change the weights to be lifted.

Claims

1. A nested adjustable weight exercise device comprising,

a first weight having end walls and side walls, the walls forming a perimeter with a hollow interior portion, the end walls having an upstanding fork portion with apertures therethrough and a trough between the upstanding fork portions,

at least one additional weight having end walls and side walls forming a perimeter with a hollow interior portion, the at least one additional weight nesting within a weight selected from one of the first weight and at least one additional weights, the end walls having two upstanding portions forming a fork with an aperture in each upstanding portion and a trough between the upstanding portions,

a handle having a bar portion with a plurality of apertures for alignment with the apertures in fork on each end of the weights and fitting in the troughs of the first and the at least one additional weight,

a pin for extending though an aperture in the bar and corresponding apertures in the forks of the weights for attaching the bar to one of the weights such that lifting the handle will lift the weight it is attached to and any weight nested therein.

2. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 1 wherein,

the walls of the weights are tapered with the small end at the bottom to nest one weight within another.

3. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 2 wherein,

a tab on the interior of the end walls engages an indented portion of the outer part of the end walls to nest the weights within each other.

4. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 1 wherein,

a tab on the interior of the end walls engages an indented portion of the outer part of the end walls to nest the weights within each other.

5. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 1 wherein,

the handle has a hand grip portion centered in the interior of the weights.

6. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 1 wherein,

the walls of the weights have apertures to reduce the mass of the weight such that the weights all have equal mass independent of the length of the walls.

7. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 1 wherein,

the handle has plates on both ends to increase the mass of the handle.

8. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 1 wherein,

the pin has a stop at one end to prevent the pin from exiting the apertures on the weights.

9. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 1 wherein,

the pin has a magnetic attachment at one end to prevent the pin from exiting the apertures on the weights.

10. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 1 wherein,

the handle having a hand grip in the interior of the inner most nested weight to form a dumbbell.

11. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 1 wherein,

the handle centered between two sets of nested weights to form a barbell.

12. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 11 wherein,

a weight bench having a housing for holding the weights with the housing having a V shaped portion on an inner wall, the inner wall tapered inward toward the center of the housing to guide the weights to the center of the housing, an outside wall tapered toward the center of the housing, a front wall tapered toward the rear of the housing and a rear wall tapered toward the front of the housing, a notch in the barbell to engage the V shaped notch in the inner wall of the housing to guide the weights into the center of the housing such that the nested weights can be set down with the weights centered in the weight housing or nested in the weights.

13. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 11 wherein,

the handle has a circular aperture centered in the interior portion of the weights,

a weight bench having a housing for supporting the weights and a cone extending upward to a point from the center of the housing for engaging the circular aperture of the handle such that the cone guides the barbell into the housing.

14. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 11 wherein,

the barbell has the same center of gravity as the weights such that the barbell can easily rotate the weights on its axis.

15. A nested adjustable weight exercise device as in claim 1 wherein,

a cable is attached to the handle to connect the weights to an exercise machine.