Weight-bar support structure with retractable arms
OwnerGilbert Reyesinventor
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Abstract
A weight-bar support structure includes a user supporting platform and two spaced apart posts. The first end of a weight-bar supporting arm is connected to a lug extending from each post. A second end of each arm includes a weight-bar supporting cradle and an upwardly extending guide. The arms are moveable from a retracted position to a user lift-off position. A spring having a first end connected to the arm and a second end located in a slot in the lug biases each arm, when a weight laden bar is removed therefrom, from the lift-off to the retracted position.
Claims33
A bench-press exercise apparatus in which a user reclines on a platform facing upwardly, grasps a weight-bar with both hands and repeatedly moves his arms between a lowered position in which the bar is immediately above his chest and an elevated position, said apparatus comprising:
- a support structure;
- a generally horizontal, elongate, user-supporting platform extending outwardly from the support structure;
- first and second arms positioned near a head end of the platform on opposing sides of the platform each pivotally mounted at a lower portion of said arm to the support structure, the upper portion of each of said arms being movable in a vertical plane between a raised retracted position above the head end of the platform and a lower light-off position more toward the opposite end of the platform;
- first and second cradle means for retaining the weight-bar in a generally horizontal position above the platform mounted at an upper portion of the first and second arms, respectively;
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- return means for automatically moving said arms from said lift-off position to said retracted position when a weight-bar is removed from said arms in said lift-off position whereby a user may recline on the platform and remove a weight bar from the cradle means in the lift-off position above the user's chest, whereupon the cradle means will be moved to the retracted position above the user's head by the return means.
A weight-bar supporting structure for use with a weight bench platform comprising:
- a support structure including first and second upwardly extending posts;
- first and second arms rotatably connected respectively to the first and second posts for movement in a vertical plane, the upper end portions of each of said arms movable between a first retracted position proximate the post to a second weight-bar lift-off position;
- first and second cradle means for supporting a weight-bar in an elevated, generally horizontal position mounted at the upper end portions of the first and second arms, respectively;
- guide means extending upwardly from the cradle means for automatically directing the weight-bar into the cradle means;
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- return means for moving said arms from said lift-off position whereby a user may recline on a weight bench platform between the posts and remove a weight bar from the cradle means in the lift-off position above the user's chest, whereupon the cradle means will be moved to the retracted position above the user's head by the return means to said retracted position when a weight-bar is removed from said arms in said lift-off position.
An apparatus for delivery of a weight-bar to a user for performing a weight-lifting exercise, comprising:
- a frame;
- a user-supporting platform connected to the frame, the platform having a head end and an opposite end;
- weight-bar receiving means including at least one arm mounted at a lower portion thereof to the frame, the upper portion of the arm movable in a vertical plane for supporting a weight-bar in a horizontal position above the ground, said receiving means being movable on the frame between a raised retracted position and a lowered lift-off position more towards the opposite end of the platform;
- cradle means mounted at an upper portion of the arm for retaining a weight bar in a generally horizontal position;
- guide means for directing the weight-bar into the cradle means;
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- biasing means urging the eight-bar receiving means toward the retracted position for automatically returning the weight-bar to the retracted position when the weight-bar is removed therefrom in the lift-off position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.