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US 4,826,157 AGranted
Physical exercising apparatus
OwnerPatrick C. Fitzpatrickinventor
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A physical exercising device including a body, and an exercise bench mounted on the body, the bench mounting including an attachment on the bench adjacent to one end thereof and adapted to be attached to the body at any one of at least two different heights, the attachment also being adapted to permit inclination of the bench relative to the horizontal, and a leg arranged to support the bench at a position spaced from the one end and the lower end of the leg is adapted to be secured to the body, the arrangement being such that the position of attachment of the leg on the body can be adjusted to vary the height of the end of the bench opposite to the said one end, whereby both ends of the bench can be raised and lowered independently so that the bench can be inclined in opposite directions and whereby the bench can assume different horizontal heights.
In a physical exercising device comprising a body, an exercise bench, and means mounting the bench on the body, the bench mounting means comprising attachment means on the bench adjacent to one end thereof and adapted to be attached to the body at any one of at least two different heights, the attachment means also being adapted to permit inclination of the bench relative to the horizontal, and leg means arranged to support the bench at a position spaced from the said one end and the lower end of which leg means is secured to the body, the improvement which comprises means for adjusting the position of securement of the leg means to the body to vary the height of the end of the bench opposite to the said one end, whereby both ends of the bench can be raised and lowered independently so that the bench can be inclined in opposite directions and whereby the bench can assume different horizontal heights.
In a physical exercising device comprising a body, an exercise bench, means mounting the bench on the body so that the bench is adjustable in height and in inclination, the bench mounting means comprising attachment means pivotally mounted on one end of the bench and adapted to be attached to the body at any one of at least two different heights, and leg means the upper end of which is pivotally attached to the bench, the improvement which comprises means for securing the lower end of the leg means to the body at any one of at least two different lateral positions, the arrangement being such that both ends of the bench can be raised and lowered independently whereby the bench can assume different horizontal heights and can also be inclined in opposite directions.
A convertible physical exercising device comprising a body, a movable member on the body and adapted to be engaged and moved by a user from a rest position, resistance means providing resistance to movement of the movable member, an elongate flexible element operatively coupling the movable member and the resistance means so that resistance force is exerted on said movable member through said elongate flexible element, a final guide over which the elongate flexible element is trained, support means supporting the final guide which support means is pivotally mounted on the body for movement in an arc about a substantially horizontal axis for permitting the support means to be positioned in a plurality of different angular positions relative to the body, whereby the position of the final guide on the body can be adjusted to vary the rest position of the movable member to permit the movable member to be moved in various different planes from its various rest positions to vary the direction of force exerted by the elongate flexible element on the movable member so that the exercising device can be used to perform a range of different exercises, an exercise bench, and means mounting the bench on the body so that the bench is adjustable in height and in inclination, the bench mounting means comprising attachment means pivotally mounted on one end of the bench, a member on the body and on which the attachment means is vertically slidable, and means for releasably securing the attachment means to the vertical frame member in one of several vertically spaced positions, and leg means the upper end of which is pivotally attached to the bench and means for securing the lower end of said leg means to the body at any one of at least two different lateral positions, the arrangement being such that both ends of the bench can be raised and lowered independently whereby the bench can assume different horizontal heights and can also be inclined in opposite directions.
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