Arrangement for attaching an exercise device to a ladder-like frame of an exercise machine
AssigneeBVP Holding, Inc.
InventorRobert A. Piane, Jr.
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Abstract
An apparatus for removably mounting an exercise apparatus to a supporting structure such as a ladder-like structure. Various types of mounting apparatus with specially designed brackets having multiple interchangeable parts, attachments and accessories, are used to facilitate easy and quick mounting of several types of exercise apparatus to the supporting structure.
Claims6
An apparatus for mounting an exercise device to at least one vertical, elongate support member having a substantially rectangular profile and having a substantially planar surface on one longitudinal side thereof with a plurality of holes therein successively separated by a predetermined distance along its length, said apparatus comprising:
- a) a mounting bracket, which can be removably attached to said surface of said support member, said bracket comprising:
- I. a substantially planar mounting plate adapted to be attached to said support member, said mounting plate having two opposite side edges;
- II. at least one gripping plate having an L-shaped profile and attached to one of said side edges of said mounting plate, thereby to form a U-shaped profile adapted to embrace three sides of said rectangular profile of said support member;
- III. at least one mounting pin fixedly attached to said mounting plate and adapted to be inserted in one of said holes in said surface of said support member for attaching said mounting plate to said support member;
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- IV. at least one locking pin adapted to be inserted in a hole in said mounting plate and in another one said holes in said surface of said support member for preventing rotation of said mounting plate when attached to said support member;
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- b) a bracket affixed to said mounting plate for supporting an exercise device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.