US 6,585,626 B2Granted

Bench exerciser with upwardly diverging bungee cord supports

AssigneeStamina Products, Inc.

InventorRobert W. McBride

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Abstract

An exerciser featuring a frame assembly which includes a lower frame portion that is constructed and arranged to be stablely supported in an operative position on a horizontal surface. First and second rigid upright support members is fixed at lower end portions thereof on the lower frame portion and extends upwardly from the lower frame portion when in the operative position thereof. A user support assembly is operatively connected with the lower frame portion and is constructed and arranged to support a user thereon. The first and second rigid upright support members have first and second rigid upper free end portions respectively configured to curve upwardly from the lower portions thereof in outwardly diverging relation with respect to one another. A pair of separate moving assemblies is disposed in normal inoperative positions with respect to the user support assembly. Each moving assembly is constructed and arranged to be manually engaged and individually manually moved away from the normal inoperative position thereof into a desired extended position by a user supported on the user support assembly.

Claims22

Dependent claims

An exerciser comprising:

a frame assembly including a lower frame portion constructed and arranged to be stably supported in an operative position on a horizontal surface and first and second rigid upright support members fixed at lower end portions thereof on said lower frame portion and extending upwardly from said lower frame portion when in the operative position thereof;
a user support assembly operatively connected with said lower frame portion constructed and arranged to support a user thereon;
said first and second rigid upright support members having first and second rigid upper free end portions respectively configured to curve upwardly from the lower portions thereof in outwardly diverging relation with respect to one another;
and
first and second moving assemblies disposed in normal inoperative positions with respect to said user support assembly constructed and arranged to be manually engaged and individually manually moved away from the normal inoperative position thereof into a desired extended position by a user supported on said user support assembly,
said first and second moving assemblies comprising:
first and second upper pulley members rotatably mounted on the upper free end portions of said first and second rigid upright support members;
first and second lower pulley members rotatably mounted on said frame assembly at fixed positions below said upper pulley members;
first and second flexible elongated structures trained around said lower pulley members and extending upwardly over said first and second upper pulley members respectively and then downwardly toward said lower frame portion;
movement preventing structures on said lower frame portion operatively associated with terminal portions of said first and second flexible elongated structures extending downwardly from said first and second upper pulley members constructed and arranged to prevent upward movements of said terminal portions;
and
a pair of user hand grip units connected with first and second end portions of said first and second flexible elongated structures extending outwardly from said lower pulley members in positions to enable a user supported on said user support assembly to move said user hand grip units away from inoperative positions thereof into desired extended positions;
said first and second flexible elongated structures including first and second bungee cords constructed and arranged to resiliently resist movement of said user hand grip units and the end portions of said flexible elongated structures away from the inoperative positions thereof into desired extended positions and to resiliently return said user hand grip units to the inoperative positions thereof when no longer moved by the user.

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An exerciser comprising:

a frame assembly including a lower frame portion constructed and arranged to be stablely supported in an operative position on a horizontal surface and left and right rigid upright support members fixed at lower end portions thereof on said lower frame portion and extending upwardly from said lower frame portion when in the operative position thereof;
a user support assembly operatively connected with said frame assembly and constructed and arranged to support a user thereon;
an exercising system carried by said frame assembly and constructed and arranged to enable a user supported on said user support assembly to perform arm exercises with either or both arms;
said left and right rigid upright support members having integral laterally spaced left and right upper free ends disposed above said lower frame portion in outwardly diverging relation with respect to one another,
said exercising system including (1) left and right pulleys mounted on the left and right free ends of said left and right upright support members respectively (2) elongated structures, some of which are trained over said left and right pulleys and (3) left and right hand grips constructed and arranged to be gripped by both hands of a user and to be moved individually or simultaneously through exercising strokes,
said elongated structures including left and right flexible non-extendable elongated structures connected to said left and right hand grips respectively for movement through operative strokes in response to the exercising strokes of said left and right band grips by the user, and resiliently extensible and retractable elongated structures constructed and arranged to (1) resiliently extend so as to provide yielding resistance to the operative strokes of said flexible non-extensible elongated elements and the exercising strokes of said hand grips by the user and (2) resiliently retract so as to provide return strokes for said flexible non-extensible elongated elements and said hand grips after the operative and exercising strokes thereof.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/737,548Filed 18 Dec 2000
Published: US 2002/0077228 A120 Jun 2002
Granted: 1 Jul 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

A63B 21/151
Arrangements for force transmissions: using flexible elements for reciprocating movements, e.g. ropes or chains
A63B 21/04
Using resilient force-resisters: attached to static foundation , e.g. a user
A63B 21/0552
Extension element type: elastic ropes or bands
A63B 21/154
Using flexible elements for reciprocating movements, e.g. ropes or chains: using special pulley-assemblies