Safety grips for exercise apparatus and method for attaching
AssigneeThe National Institute of Biogerontology, Inc.
InventorWilliam H. Muehl
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Abstract
Adjustable hand grips for an elastic exercise cable are provided by resilient hollow balls through which the cable is laced passing in holes which lie in at least two planes which intersect within each grip.
Claims2
An elastic cable exercise device comprising
- (a) elastic cable,
- (b) elastomeric grip member for being manually grasped wherein each said grip member is configured as a resilient, hollow, closed surface, substantially spheroidal elastomeric body perforated with four perforations along three substantially mutually perpendicular axes through which said cable is laced to provide when said cable is stretched non-slip binding fastening said cable to said grip member.
The method of providing a connection between an elongated elastomeric member extending between handles disposed at each end portion thereof which is resistant to slippage when tension is operably applied to the device comprising the steps of providing handles of hollow elastomeric configuration having four openings in each disposed along three mutually substantially perpendicular axes which intersect within said configuration and of threading one end each of said elongated member through each said handle first through two said openings 11"' and 11" in sequence which are situated on one said axis and then around the outside of said handle and into a third said opening 11' and lastly exiting said handle through a fourth said opening 11.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.