Exercising system
OwnerCarl C. Heinrichinventor
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Abstract
An exercising system is provided to enable a user to obtain twice the exercise per unit time offered by a conventional jump rope. At the same time, the system of the invention provides the user with a construction as near to that of the conventional jump rope as possible. To this end, a pair of opposed mutually independent elongated tubular handles are mounted to a pair of hoop members over which the user jumps between their ends. The system is adjustable so as to accommodate a range of sizes of users and graduated indicia are provided on the hoop members to enable a user to achieve a desired size. Also, as with a conventional jump rope, the exercising system is width adjustable to the extent desired by the user.
Claims11
An exercising system comprising:
- hoop means including first and second opposed leg members and a first elongated integral transverse member attached at opposite ends to said first and second leg members and over which a user can jump;
- first and second opposed mutually independent elongated tubular handles, each having an inner channel;
- means inflexibly mounting said first and second handles to said first and second leg members, respectively, each of said first and second handles having a first and second pair of aligned diametrically opposed mounting bores therethrough, the first pair of mounting bores being longitudinally spaced from the second pair of mounting bores, said first leg members extending through the first pairs of bores in said first and second handles, respectively, said second leg members extending through the second pairs of bores in said first and second handles, respectively;
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- gripper means on said first and second handles for frictionally engaging said first and second leg members, said first and second leg members being selectively adjustably movable longitudinally of said handles, wherein said gripper means includes a friction member within each of said inner channels of said first and second handles adjacent the first and second pairs of mounting bores for frictionally engaging said first and second leg members and preventing unintended movement of said leg members relative to said handles.
An exercising system comprising:
- first hoop means including first and second parallel spaced apart leg members extending between inner and outer terminal ends;
- second hoop means including third and fourth parallel spaced apart leg members extending between inner and outer terminal ends;
- a first elongated tubular handles having an inner channel and a first pair of aligned diametrically opposed mounting bores for engageably receiving said first leg member of said first hoop means proximate said inner terminal end thereof and a second pair of aligned diametrically opposed mounting bores for engageably receiving said third leg member of said second hoop means proximate said inner terminal end thereof such that said first tubular handle is inflexibly mounted to said first and third leg members of said first and second hoop means, respectively;
- a second elongated tubular handle having an inner channel and a second pair of aligned diametrically opposed mounting bores for engageably receiving said second leg member of said first hoop means proximate said inner tubular end thereof and a second pair of aligned diametrically opposed mounting bores for engageably receiving said fourth leg member of said second hoop means proximate said inner terminal end thereof such that said first tubular handle is inflexibly mounted to said second and fourth leg members of said first and second hoop means, respectively;
- and gripper means on said first and second handles for adjustably mounting said first and second leg members thereto, wherein said gripper means includes a friction member within each of said inner channels of said first and second handles adjacent the first and second pairs of mounting bores for frictionally engaging said first and second leg members and preventing unintended movement of said leg members relative to said handles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.