Incremental weight and selector

• US 7,708,672 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2007
• Issued: 05/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Precor Incorporated (Peloton Interactive, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Precor Incorporated (Peloton Interactive, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gibson, Ronald S., Albert, David L., Pennington, Blakely T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Thanh; Loan H
• Assistant Examiner(s): HWANG, VICTOR KENNY
• Application Number:
  US12/004,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20090163334A1
• Time in Patent Office: 866 Days
• Field of Search: 482 92- 94, 482 97- 99
• US Class Current: 482/98
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0628 for vertical array of weights
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/063 Weight selecting means

Abstract

A weight system includes a selector configured to selectively couple incremental weights that extend through a weight stack to a weight lift.

Claims

1. A weight system comprising:

a weight lift;

weights;

a first incremental weight vertically extending through at least two of the weights;

at least one first selector configured to selectively couple and decouple the incremental weight to the weight lift; and

a second incremental weight vertically extending across at least two of the weights, wherein the at least one selector is configured to selectively couple the second incremental weight to the weight lift;

wherein the at least one first selector comprises a single selector configured to move between a first position in which the first incremental weight is coupled to the weight lift and the second incremental weight is decoupled from the weight lift, a second position in which both the first incremental weight and the second incremental weight are coupled to the weight lift and a third position in which neither the first incremental weight and the second incremental weight are coupled to the weight lift.

2. The weight system of claim 1, wherein the second incremental weight vertically extends through at least two of the weights.

3. The weight system of claim 2, wherein each of the weights has a first mass and wherein the first incremental weight has a second mass one half of the first mass and wherein the second incremental weight has a third mass one quarter of the first mass.

4. The weight system of claim 1, wherein the single selector rotates between the first position, the second position and the third position.

5. The weight system of claim 1, wherein each of the weights has a first mass and wherein the first incremental weight has a second mass one half of the first mass.

6. The weight system of claim 1, wherein the weights form a stack and wherein the at least one selector is on top of the stack.

7. The weight system of claim 1, wherein the at least one first selector is coupled to the weight lift so as to be lifted by the weight lift when the incremental weight is not coupled to the weight lift.

8. The weight system of claim 1 further comprising at least one second selector configured to selectively couple one or more the weights to the weight lift.

9. The weight system of claim 1, wherein the at least one first selector includes a handle and wherein the handle is at a first angular position when the first incremental weight is coupled to the weight lift and a second angular position when the first incremental weight is not coupled to the weight lift.

10. A weight system comprising:

a weight lift;

weights;

a first selector configured to selectively couple one or more of the weights to weight lift;

a first incremental weight;

at least one second selector rotatable between a first position in which the first incremental weight is coupled to the weight lift and a second position in which the first incremental weight is not coupled to the weight lift; and

a second incremental weight vertically extending through at least two of the weights, wherein the at least one second selector is configured to selectively couple the second incremental weight to the weight lift;

wherein the at least one second selector comprises a single selector configured to move between a first position in which the first incremental weight is coupled to the weight lift and the second incremental weight is decoupled from the weight lift, a second position in which both the first incremental weight and the second incremental weight are coupled to the weight lift and a third position in which neither the first incremental weight and the second incremental weight are coupled to the weight lift.

11. The weight system of claim 10, wherein the first incremental weight extends across at least two of the weights.

12. The weight system of claim 10, wherein the first incremental weight extends through at least two of the weights.