DOOR MOUNTED EXERCISE DEVICES AND SYSTEMS

• US 20110177921A1
• Filed: 09/09/2010
• Published: 07/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ICON Health & Fitness Incorporated (HF HOLDINGS INC)
• Original Assignee: ICON Health & Fitness Incorporated (HF HOLDINGS INC)
• Inventors: Dalebout, William T., Olson, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 8,840,075 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 482/92
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00065 by increasing or reducing the number of resistance units
• 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 21/154 using special pulley-assemblies
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/1645 for anchoring on a door
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4013 to the ankle
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4035 for operation by hand
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2210/50 Size reducing arrangements for stowing or transport
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/03541 Moving independently from each other A63B22/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/03575 Apparatus used for exercising upper and lower limbs simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/904 Removably attached to wheelchair, home furnishing, or home structure

Abstract

Systems, assemblies, and devices for mounting an exercise apparatus to a door. More particularly, an exercise system is mounted to opposing corners of a door and directed diagonally across a door. A bracket engages the door corner and is oriented to directed tension members of the exercise system at a diagonal across a front surface of the door. The bracket includes a door mount for coupling the bracket to four surfaces of the door. The bracket includes an exercise device mount adapted to couple to tension members, pulleys, or other exercise devices. The exercise device mount defines a mounting axis that is non-parallel and non-perpendicular relative to a top edge surface of the door.

Claims

1. An exercise apparatus door mount bracket, comprising:

a door mount defining a channel, wherein the channel extends along a first lateral axis and is defined at least by;

a bottom structure;

a first side structure extending about perpendicular to the bottom structure; and

a second side structure extending about perpendicular to the bottom structure; and

an exercise device mount attached to the second side structure, wherein at least a portion of the exercise device mount is oriented longitudinally along a second lateral axis that is non-parallel and non-perpendicular relative to the first lateral axis.

2. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1, wherein the channel is further defined by a stop structure extending about perpendicular to the bottom structure.

3. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 2, wherein the stop structure is about perpendicular to the first and second side structures.

4. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1, wherein the door mount includes one or more plates, the one or more plates defining the bottom structure, first side structure, and second side structure.

5. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1, wherein the second side structure has opposing transverse edges of different lengths.

6. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 5, wherein a shape of the second side structure is generally trapezoidal or generally triangular.

7. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1, wherein the second side structure includes a plate with a longitudinal edge, and wherein the longitudinal edge of the second side structure is offset at an acute angle relative to the first lateral axis.

8. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of the exercise device mount oriented along the second lateral axis defines a longitudinal edge that is non-parallel and non-perpendicular relative to the first lateral axis.

9. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1, wherein the exercise device mount defines a second channel, the second channel being adjacent the channel defined by the door mount, the second channel being aligned with one or more receptors in the exercise device mount.

10. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1, wherein the exercise device mount includes:

a first device mount structure; and

a second device mount structure attached to the first device mount structure at an axis that is non-parallel and non-perpendicular relative to the first lateral axis of the bottom structure.

11. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1, wherein the door mount and exercise device mount are integrally formed from a single plate.

12. A door bracket, comprising:

a first door contact structure having opposing first and second longitudinal edges, wherein a distance between the first and second longitudinal edges generally corresponds to a door thickness, and wherein the first door contact plate extends longitudinally along a first bisection axis;

a second door contact structure, the second door contact structure extends about perpendicular to the first door contact structure; and

a third door contact structure, the third door contact plate extending about perpendicular to the first door contact structure, the third door contact structure being including an exercise device mount, wherein at least a portion of the exercise device mount extends longitudinally along a second bisection axis, the second bisection axis being offset at an acute angle relative to the first bisection axis.

13. The door bracket recited in claim 12, wherein the third door contact structure includes a door contact portion, and wherein at least one bend separates the door contact portion and the exercise device mount.

14. The door bracket recited in claim 12, wherein the third door contact structure defines a connector channel, the connector channel extending longitudinally along an axis that is at an acute angle relative to the first bisection axis.

15. The door bracket recited in claim 12, wherein the first, second, and third contact structures collectively define a door channel, the door bracket further including a stop structure about perpendicular to the first door contact structure and bounding one longitudinal end of the door channel.

16. The door bracket recited in claim 12, wherein the first, second, and third contact structures are integrally formed, and wherein the at least a portion of the exercise device mount has transverse edges of differing lengths.

17. A door mountable exercise system, comprising:

a set of one or more tension members having opposing first and second ends; and

a first door bracket attached proximate the first end of the set of one or more tension members; and

a second door bracket attached proximate the second end of the set of one or more tension members, wherein when the door mountable exercise system is mounted to a door, the first and second door brackets cooperate to extend the set of one or more tension members diagonally across a front surface of the door.

18. The door mountable exercise system recited in claim 17, wherein the first and second door brackets are arranged to mount to corners of the door.

19. The door mountable exercise system recited in claim 17, wherein the first and second door brackets include device mounts configured to direct the set of one or more tension members at an acute angle relative to a top edge surface of the door.

20. The door mountable exercise system recited in claim 17, wherein the set of one or more tension members is a first set of one or more tension members, the door mountable exercise system further comprising:

a second set of one or more tension members having opposing first and second ends;

a third door bracket attached proximate the first end of the second set of one or more tension members; and

a fourth door bracket attached proximate the second end of the second set of one or more tension members, wherein when the door mountable exercise system is mounted to a door, the third and fourth door brackets cooperate to extend the second set of one or more tension members diagonally across a front surface of the door and in a direction forming an X with the first set of one or more tension members on the front surface of the door.