US 6,634,996 B2Granted

Exercise apparatus

AssigneeNeill Jacobsen

InventorNeill Jacobsen

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Abstract

An exercise apparatus utilizing a wheeled rolling carriage which moves on a incline frame and includes an adjustable arm cable mounting assembly. The arm cable mounting system includes a pair of elongated arm cables each entrained over a fixed pulley mounted in each adjustable upright corner post. An anchoring device attach the cables to the mobile carriage. The carriage moves on the frame against a resistance force provided by the body weight of the user seating or lying on the platform and the up words angled slope of the incline frame. A back and head support connects the platform. An attachable rowing device is mounted to the incline rails and connected to the mobile carriage through the cables assembly. A leg push device is connected to the rails frame at the lower end. An weights support arm is attached to the lower end of mobile carriage.

Claims13

Dependent claims

An exercise apparatus comprising an elongated main frame further comprised of a pair of parallel U-shaped rails interconnected at either end by a first and second end member, the first end member being pivotally connected to a vertical lower support member, and the second end member being pivotally connected to a vertical higher support member;

a U-shaped post frame connected at an upper end of each rail, the U-shaped post frame being rotatable 270 degrees, and a leg push attachment connected to an upper portion of the vertical lower support member;
a user carriage having rollers that engage with said rails, and a back support extension having means for selectively pivoting and locking said back support extension in a desired angular position with respect to the user carriage, a first end post and a second post pivotally connected to said U-shaped post frame, the end posts rotatable 360 degrees about a post frame axis, connector means extendible through a pulley assembly, wherein engagement of the pulley assembly by a user supported on the user carriage moves the user carriage along the length of the elongated main frame;
a pair of detachable rowing members connected to a pair of brackets located on either pair of rails and engaged with the pulley assembly.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/759,880Filed 16 Jan 2001
Published: US 2002/0132710 A119 Sep 2002
Granted: 21 Oct 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A63B 21/068
User-manipulated weights: using user's body weight
A63B 21/0622
Including guide for vertical or non-vertical weights or array of weights to move against gravity forces: with adjustable inclination angle of the…
A63B 21/0628
With substantially vertical guiding means: for vertical array of weights
A63B
Apparatus for physical training, gymnastics, swimming, climbing, or fencing