Push-pull type of exercising device supported entirely by the body
AssigneeR B Toy Development Co.
InventorsSam Kupperman, Dennis I. Kupperman
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Abstract
A push-pull type of exercising device comprising a belt securable to the waist or midsection of a person. The belt supports a pair of pulleys, with each pulley supporting a flexible cord. One of the cords has its opposite ends looped and attached to a member connected to the cord to form adjustable hand grips. The other cord has its opposite ends looped and attached to a member connected to said other cord to form adjustable foot stirrups. Only a single pair of pulleys is connected directly to the belt. Said pulleys are attached to the belt at substantially the same location.
Claims11
An exercising device comprising a belt member adapted for securement to the waist or midsection of a person, only one pair of pulley elements secured directly to said belt with each of said pulley elements having a rotatable pulley, said pulleys being connected to the belt at substantially the same location, a first flexible cord engaging the rotatable pulley of one of said pulley elements and means at each of the opposite ends of said first flexible cord for engagement by the limbs of a person, a second flexible cord engaging the rotatable pulley of said other pulley element and means at the opposite ends of said second cord for engagement by the limbs of a person, said first and second cords being tensioned by movement of the person's respective limbs which operate said cords through the medium of each rotatable pulley, said exercising device being operated free of attachment to anything other than the person operating same.
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