US 4,537,395 AGranted

Exercise device

OwnerGene A. Spinelliinventor

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Abstract

An exercise device in the nature of a portable dip bar utilized in conjunction with an exercise bench. The device comprises an elongated base rod received within the upwardly directed saddles normally provided on a pair of laterally spaced uprights constituting a portion of the exercise bench support system. A sleeve is fixed centrally to the base rod and extends vertically thereabove and therebelow for the selective rigid combining therewith of a separable handle assembly and a separable stabilizer. The handle assembly includes a post telescopically received within the upper portion of the sleeve and a handle removably affixed to the upper end of the post, the handle including a pair of laterally directed spaced parallel gripping arms. The stabilizer includes an elongated stem, the upper end of which is telescopically received within the lower portion of the sleeve. The lower end of the stabilizer stem is rigid with a transverse cross member paralleling the base rod in spaced relation therebelow and engageable, as a stabilizing means, with the support uprights of the exercise bench.

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Dependent claims

An exercise device particularly adapted for use in conjunction with exercise apparatus including a pair of spaced upwardly opening support saddles to which the exercise device is freely introduced, and a stable structure below the saddles for free abutment of the exercise device thereagainst;

said exercise device comprising an elongated base member adapted for free reception in spaced upwardly opening support saddles, a support comprising an elongated post including a lower end rigid with said base member at an intermediate point therealong, said support post projecting vertically upward from said base member and terminating at an upper end, a handle, said handle comprising a cross-member fixed to the upper end of the support post, said cross-member generally paralleling said base member and terminating in opposed ends, said handle further including gripping arms rigid with said opposed ends of said cross-member and projecting laterally of said cross-member in spaced parallel relation to each other, and a stabilizer, said stabilizer comprising an elongated stem rigid with said base member at an intermediate point therealong and terminating in a lower end, said stabilizer further including a cross-member fixed to the lower end of the stem and extending parallel to said base member generally coextensive therewith, and in vertically spaced relation therebelow for free engagement against a stable structure, said base member, support, handle cross-member and stabilizer defining a common plane, said gripping arms projecting laterally of said plane.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.