Weightlifting apparatus
OwnerMariah T. Liggett, Stephen A. Skilken +1inventors
InventorsMariah T. Liggett, Stephen A. Skilken, Pierce L. Miller
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Abstract
A multi-exercise free weight exercise apparatus which simulates free weight barbell exercise motions while preventing injury to a weightlifter. The weightlifting apparatus is comprised of a weight bar which rides on horizontal and vertical guide tracks and contains a safety catch mechanism device which latches onto pins located on upright brace supports should the weightlifter be unable to complete an exercise. The apparatus will allow a lifter to perform sophisticated exercises such as squatlifts, bench presses, deadlifts, and military presses in a natural free weight exercise motion while having the safety features of a non-free weight machine.
Claims16
A weightlifting apparatus that simulates free weight barbell exercise motions while preventing injury to the weightlifter comprising:
- a first front upright brace support member, with a first and a second end;
- a second front upright brace support member, with a first and a second end;
- a first back upright brace support member, with a first and a second end;
- a second back upright brace support member, with a first and a second end;
- a pair of vertical guide track support members with a first and a second end;
- a pair of lower and upper horizontal guide track members, wherein said first and second front and back upright brace support members serve as stationary support for said pair of lower and upper horizontal guide track members;
- a pair of lower movable guide sleeves, attached to said first ends of said pair of vertical guide track support members and wherein said lower movable guide sleeves move horizontally along said pair of lower horizontal guide track members;
- a pair of upper movable guide sleeves, attached to said second ends of said pair of vertical guide track support members and wherein said upper movable guide sleeves move horizontally along said pair of upper horizontal guide track members;
- a pair of guide sleeve assemblies, movably attached to said pair of vertical guide track support members and wherein said guide sleeve assemblies move parallel to each other along said pair of vertical guide track support members;
- a pair of safety catch mechanisms which form a part of said pair of guide sleeve assemblies;
- a weight bearing bar supported by said pair of guide sleeve assemblies;
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- pins attached to said first and second front upright brace support members for placing said pair of safety catch mechanisms.
A weightlifting apparatus for performing exercises, comprising:
- a weight bearing bar;
- a first structural means in association with said weight bearing bar for guiding movement of said weight bearing bar in the vertical direction;
- a second structural means in association with said weight bearing bar and said first structural means for guilding movement of said weight bearing bar in the horizontal direction simultaneous with said vertical movement;
- a frame in association with said first and second structural means for providing stationary support to said first and second structural means;
- a pair of safety catch mechanisms in association with said weight bearing bar;
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- a plurality of pins arranged on said frame at various distances up from a bottom of said frame for receiving said pair of safety catch mechanisms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.