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US 4,382,596 AGranted
Weight lifting type exercising device
AssigneeDiversified Products Corporation
InventorIra J. Silberman
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Abstract
A simple and versatile exercising apparatus is provided which enables the user to perform a wide variety of weight training exercises. The apparatus includes a basic bench with barbell cradle, a rope and pulley weight pull device, a lat bar device with squat rack and chinning bar, and readily attachable devices for performing curling, sit-ups and leg lifts.
Claims4
An exercising apparatus comprising:
- (a) a bench having:
- (1) an elongated bench frame;
- (2) a fixed seat portion supported on said bench frame at the foot end of said bench;
- (3) an adjustable incline seat portion hinged to said bench frame adjacent to said fixed portion and extending to the head end of said bench;
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- (4) means for adjustably supporting said incline portion on said bench frame at a desired angle of inclination;
- (b) a weight pull device at the head end of said bench having;
- (1) a pair of upstanding spaced apart parallel guides attached to said bench frame;
- (2) a top crosspiece interconnecting the upper ends of said guides;
- (3) weight-supporting means for supporting weights during a raising and lowering operation by a user, said weight-supporting means being slidably guided along said guides;
- (4) weight pulley means guiding a tension element reeved thereover which connects to the weight-supporting means, said weight-supporting means being connected to said top crosspiece;
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- (5) at least one tension element connected to said weight-supporting means and trained through said pulley means to be pulled by a user lying or sitting on said bench;
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- (c) a lat bar device being positioned forwardly of the head end of the bench and having:
- (1) an upstanding lat frame adjacent the weight pull device, said lat bar device having an overhead bar, said lat frame being connected directly to said bench frame,
- (2) lat pulley means for raising the weight-supporting means, said lat pulley means being connected to said overhead bar, and
- (3) a user-engaged lat bar connected to said weight-supporting means by said tension element which is trained over said weight pulley means and said lat pulley means.
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