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US 11,786,781 B2Granted
Combination stationary exercise equipment
AssigneeProsnitz Solutions LLC
InventorsJoseph H. Prosnitz, Peter Kyle Gillespie
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Abstract
A modular exercise apparatus comprising a frame, a common drivetrain supported by the frame and including a common axle, a plurality of input receivers coupled to the common axle, and a resistance member operably coupled to the common axle and operable to provide resistance against rotation of the common axle, a first exercise attachment including a first drive member operably coupled to a first input receiver of the plurality of input receivers of the common drivetrain, and a second exercise attachment including a second drive member operably coupled to a second input receiver of the plurality of input receivers of the common drivetrain.
Claims16
A modular exercise apparatus comprising:
- a frame;
- a common drivetrain supported by the frame and including a common axle, a plurality of input receivers coupled to the common axle, and a resistance member operably coupled to the common axle and operable to provide resistance against rotation of the common axle, wherein the common drivetrain is modular such that is reconfigurable to accommodate additional input receivers;
- a first exercise attachment including a first drive member operably coupled to a first input receiver of the plurality of input receivers of the common drivetrain;
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- a second exercise attachment including a second drive member operably coupled to a second input receiver of the plurality of input receivers of the common drivetrain, wherein the second drive member includes a first axle, a first bearing operably coupled to the first axle, a second axle, a second bearing coupled to the second axle, a belt operably coupling the first bearing and the second bearing, and a first gear coupled to the second axle, the second drive member maintaining predetermined tensioning on the belt when the second exercise attachment in an operational configuration and in a stowed configuration.
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A combination exercise device comprising:
- a stationary bicycle attachment including a stationary bicycle drive member having a first receiver member operable to receive a first mechanical user input and a first output member for transmitting the first mechanical user input;
- an elliptical exercise attachment that is stowable and includes an elliptical exercise drive member having a second receiver member operable to receive a second mechanical user input and a second output member for transmitting the second mechanical user input, the second receiver member and the second output member each being separate from the first receiver member and the first output member, the elliptical exercise drive member further including a first axle, a first bearing operably coupled to the first axle, a second axle, a second bearing coupled to the second axle, a belt operably coupling the first bearing and the second bearing, and a first gear coupled to the second axle, the elliptical exercise drive member maintaining predetermined tensioning on the belt when the elliptical exercise attachment in an operational configuration and in a stowed configuration;
- a common axle operably coupled to the stationary bicycle drive member to receive the first mechanical user input from the stationary bicycle attachment and operably coupled to the elliptical exercise drive member to receive the second mechanical user input from the elliptical exercise attachment, wherein the first gear of the elliptical exercise attachment is operable to transmit the second mechanical user input to a second gear coupled to the common axle;
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- a resistance member operably coupled to the common axle and operable to provide mechanical resistance against the first mechanical user input and the second mechanical user input.
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A combination exercise device comprising:
- a stationary bicycle attachment including a stationary bicycle drive member having a first receiver member operable to receive a first mechanical user input and a first output member for transmitting the first mechanical user input;
- an elliptical exercise attachment that is stowable and includes an elliptical exercise drive member having a second receiver member operable to receive a second mechanical user input and a second output member for transmitting the second mechanical user input, the second receiver member and the second output member each being separate from the first receiver member and the first output member, the elliptical exercise attachment including linkage units selectively changeable between a fixed configuration and a non-fixed configuration, wherein the linkage units are in the fixed configuration when the elliptical exercise attachment is in an operational configuration and the linkage units are in the non-fixed configuration when the elliptical exercise attachment is being transitioned to a stowed configuration;
- a common axle operably coupled to the stationary bicycle drive member to receive the first mechanical user input from the stationary bicycle attachment and operably coupled to the elliptical exercise drive member to receive the second mechanical user input from the elliptical exercise attachment;
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- a resistance member operably coupled to the common axle and operable to provide mechanical resistance against the first mechanical user input and the second mechanical user input.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.