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US 6,387,021 B1Granted
Incremental weights
OwnerGeorge H. Miller, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
Small circular weights on substantially horizontal bars can be transferred to corresponding substantially horizontal bars for use in weighing scales, exercise equipment weight stacks or any other environment in which it is desirable to transfer incremental weights from a frame support to a loading condition on another frame. An improvement consists of having the upper edge of the vertically oriented circular weight contain an indicia on the top edge readable by the user and maintained in the same position preventing the indicia from rotating to the side or bottom and out of view.
Claims6
A weight transfer device comprising:
- a pair of bars, each bar having a distal end, a proximal end, and an axial length with a cross-sectional shape;
- said bars being supported;at their distal ends so that their proximal ends are selectively positioned adjacent one another with a small gap between said proximal ends;
- at least one vertically oriented incremental weight disc having parallel, planar faces, a peripheral edge perpendicular to said planar faces, and a hole having a shape to receive one of said bars along its axial length;
- said at least one vertically oriented incremental weight disc having a raised portion with a top surface and side surfaces so that said raised portion extends radially past the peripheral edge;
- indicia located on said raised portion so that said indicia is visible from angles perpendicular and parallel to said peripheral edge;
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- means to bias said at least one vertically oriented incremental weight disc relative to each of said bars, such that said raised portion is maintained in a generally constant upright position so that said indicia remains visible, whereby the weight disc may be transferred from one bar to the other bar by sliding the weight disc along the length of one bar, sliding the weight disc over the small gap between the proximal ends of the bars such that the weight disc may be supported by both bars simultaneously, and sliding the weight disc along the length of the other bar.
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