Curved manual treadmill
AssigneeTechnogym S.p.A.
InventorsDaniele Cei, Guido Caperna
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Abstract
A curved manual treadmill for the physical exercises of a user, comprising: a frame extending along a longitudinal direction; a first rotation shaft adapted to rotate around a respective first rotation axis transversal to the longitudinal direction of the frame; a second rotation shaft adapted to rotate around a respective second rotation axis transversal to the longitudinal direction of the frame; a physical exercise surface operatively connected to the first rotation shaft and to the second rotation shaft, so as to generate an endless closed physical exercise path, and a device for resisting the movement of the upper portion of the physical exercise surface operatively associated with at least either the first rotation shaft or the second rotation shaft.
Claims12
A curved manual treadmill for the physical exercise of a user, comprising:
- a frame extending along a longitudinal direction;
- a first rotation shaft adapted to rotate around a respective first rotation axis transversal to the longitudinal direction of the frame;
- a second rotation shaft adapted to rotate around a respective second rotation axis transversal to the longitudinal direction of the frame;
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- a physical exercise surface operatively connected to the first rotation shaft and to the second rotation shaft, so as to generate an endless closed physical exercise path, the physical exercise path having a set curved lateral profile along the longitudinal direction of the frame so that a force generated by the user on the physical exercise surface generates the rotation of the first rotation shaft and of the second rotation shaft causing the movement of the upper portion of the physical exercise surface along a first advancing direction from the first rotation shaft to the second rotation shaft or along a second advancing direction from the second rotation shaft to the first rotation shaft,
- the physical exercise surface comprising a resistance device for resisting the movement of the upper portion of the physical exercise surface operatively associated with one of the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft, the resistance device being configured to oppose the rotation of said one of the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft in the second advancing direction of the physical exercise surface and to not oppose the rotation of said one of the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft in the first advancing direction of the physical exercise surface, wherein the resistance device comprises:
- a damping element operatively connected to one of the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft;
- a first fixing element operatively fixed to said one of the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft;
- a coupling device operatively connected to the first fixing element;
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- a second fixing element fixed to the frame of the treadmill, the damping element being further fixed to the frame of the treadmill through the second fixing element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.