Exercise device

• US 6,013,015 A
• Filed: 12/31/1997
• Issued: 01/11/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Newmac International Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Catherine Mcwilliams, Geraldine Newman
• Inventors: McWilliams, Catherine, Newman, Geraldine
• Primary Examiner(s): Donnelly, Jerome W.
• Application Number:
  US09/002,176
• Time in Patent Office: 741 Days
• Field of Search: 482/121, 482/44, 482/126, 482/127, 482/122, 482/128
• US Class Current: 482/126
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0004 Exercising devices moving as a whole during exercise bar bells or dumb bells A63B21/072; on wheels A63B22/20
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00043 Exercising devices consisting of a pair of user interfaces connected by flexible elements, e.g. two handles connected by elastic bands skipping ropes A63B5/20; resilient elements A63B21/02
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00069 Setting or adjusting the resistance level; Compensating for a preload prior to use, e.g. changing length of resistance or adjusting a valve
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/028 made of material having high internal friction, e.g. rubber, steel wool, intended to be compressed resistance provided by plastic deformable materials A63B21/00189
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0421 the ends moving relatively by a pivoting arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0428 the ends moving relatively by linear reciprocation
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0455 having torsion element around its longitudinal axis
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/05 Linearly-compressed elements A63B21/028 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0552 Elastic ropes or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0555 Details of the rope or band, e.g. shape or colour coding
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0557 Details of attachments, e.g. clips or clamps
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0204 Standing on the feet
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/03508 For a single arm or leg, A63B21/0726 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0482 primarily by articulating the hip joints A63B23/0211, A63B23/0405, A63B23/0476 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0488 by spreading the legs

Abstract

A thigh and buttocks exercising device includes a pair of hook shaped or curved clamp members terminating in linear inner legs connected to respective knuckles of a torsion spring-loaded hinge to bias the clamp members to a contracted position with their free ends in relatively vertically offset overlapping positions. Each clamp member is formed of a rigid metal tube preferably covered by a soft plastic or elastomeric sheath. The biasing torsion spring may terminate in tangentially projecting hook shaped cores of the clamp members. In alternative constructions, the clamp members are biased by resilient devices, such as a flexible-compressible member, a compression spring, or an elastomeric cord adjustably extending between the free ends of the clamp members.

Claims

1. An exercising device comprising first and second hook shaped thigh engaging clamp members each having first and second ends, means supporting said first and second clamp members for lying and swinging in parallel planes about an axis perpendicular to said planes for relative movement between a closed contracted condition and an open extended condition, said parallel planes being mutually axially spaced, said clamp members having opposite confronting inside concave faces and means biasing said first end of each of said first and second clamp members to said contracted condition, each of said first and second clamp members having an axial bore, said supporting means comprising a cylindrical body, said biasing means comprising an elastomeric cord having outer end sections traversing each of said axial bores of said first and second clamp members and extending around said cylindrical body and beyond said first ends of said first and second clamp members and retaining means releasably interconnecting said cord outer end sections.

2. The exercising device according to claim 1 wherein said first and second clamp members are tubular.

3. The exercising device according to claim 1 including elastomeric compressible sheaths covering at least a portion of each of said first and second clamp members.

4. The exercise device according to claim 1 wherein said cylindrical body comprises a hinge member rotatably coupling said second ends of said first and second clamp members and having an axial cylindrical section defining a peripheral guide groove for said elastomeric cord to traverse around said cylindrical body.

5. The exercising device according to claim 4 wherein said hinge member comprises a pair of axially spaced integrally joined outer circular discs and an inner disc rotatably sandwiched and joined between said pair of outer circular discs defining said peripheral guide groove.

6. The exercising device according to claim 1 wherein said axial bore of each of said first and second clamp members has a plastic lining.

7. The exercising device according to claim 1 wherein said retaining means comprises a loop shaped coupling member having a longitudinal extending opening with longitudinally converging confronting end faces delineating wedge shaped slots wherein said cord outer end sections are releasably retained.

8. The exercising device according to claim 1 wherein said first and second clamp members are made of metal.

9. The exercising device according to claim 1 wherein said first and second clamp members are made of hard rigid plastics.