Lift/tow assistance device to relieve the lower arm in sporting activities using equipments
AssigneeBHL - Sportartikel - Vertriebs GmbH
InventorEggerstorfer Lothar
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Abstract
A lift/tow assistance device to relieve the lower arm in sporting activities, particularly when strenuous, using equipments, which the user holds on particularly in equipment gymnastics, featuring a cuff for placing around the wrist, connected by a strap with a lock to a hook, which can be hung into the sporting equipment. In order to improve and further develop such a lift/tow assistance device so that it is not only easier to use but also ensure that it provides the user with optimum stress relief the strap lock is directly secured to the hook and is provided with a clamp lever which clamps the strap to a clamp plate of the lock when the strap is subjected to tension.
Claims6
A lift/tow assistance device for use with a bar of sporting equipment to reduce stress on a lower arm of a user of said device, said device comprising:
- an elongated cuff member having a pair of end portions, said cuff member encircling a portion of a wrist of a said user;
- a hook member having a curved portion extending from a rear portion, said curved portion adapted for hooking engagement with said bar of said sporting equipment;
- a lock device rigidly mounted to said rear portion of said hook member, said hook device having an clamp plate and a clamp lever, said clamp plate being fixedly mounted to said rear portion of said hook member, means for rotatably mounting said clamp lever to said clamp plate so that said clamp lever being rotatable with respect to said hook device;
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- an elongated flexible strap connected to said cuff member, said flexible strap having a pair of ends, each of said pair of ends extending from a respective one of said pair of end portions of said cuff member;
- one of said pair of ends of said flexible strap being fixedly mounted to said hook member and the other of said pair of ends being demountably attached to said lock device in a predetermined orientation with respect to said hook member, said lock device clamping said other end of said strap when said strap is tensioned, and
- wherein said strap extends between the end portions of said cuff member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.