Arm wrestling exercise machine
OwnerWilliam R. Stokelyinventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An apparatus for practicing arm wrestling including an elongated rectangular frame, a shaft pivotally supported within the frame, an arm affixed to one end of the shaft and extending generally perpendicularly thereto, a shieve mounted on the shaft and rotated by rotation of the arm, a cable attached at one end to the periphery of the shieve, a spring secured to the frame and to the other end of the cable, a hand bar attached at the outer end of the arm and extending generally perpendicularly thereto such that as the arm is rotated about the shaft the shieve is rotated, winding the cable thereon and stretching the spring to impart a restraint on the rotation of the arm as a means of exercise experienced in arm wrestling.
Claims7
An apparatus for practicing arm wrestling, comprising:
- an elongated frame having a bottom, a top, a front side, a rear side, a left end and a right end;
- a shaft pivotally supported within the frame parallel and intermediate the frame ends and parallel and intermediate the top and bottom;
- an arm affixed at one end to said shaft, the arm being pivotally secured to said shaft in the plane of said shaft and non-rotatable relative to said shaft in the plane perpendicular said shaft;
- a sheave affixed to said shaft and rotated by rotation of said arm;
- a cable having one end affixed to said sheave at the periphery whereby the cable is wound on said sheave by the movement of said arm;
- an extension spring having one end attached to the other end of said cable, and the other end attached to said frame, and
- a hand bar pivotally attached to said arm outer and, said hand bar being pivotal in the plane of said arm and nonpivotal in the plane perpendicular said arm, the said spring being stretched by the pivotation of said arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.