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Multi-purpose exerciser

US5863280A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 5, 1997
Grant dateJan 26, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 5, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S482/907
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A multi-purpose exerciser which includes a U-shaped base frame having two smoothly arched parallel ends and a back pad on the middle, an axle transversely mounted in the U-shaped base frame to hold a pair of pulleys outside the base frame and an elongated polyurethane rollers within the base frame for supporting the user's hips, a T-bar pivoted to the back pad and holding a pair of pulleys, a support frame bar adapted to support the back pad on the floor, the support frame bar having a bottom end holding a supporting wheel for supporting on the floor, a guide pulley mounted on the support frame bar, a handlebar having two locating members near two opposite ends thereof, a pull rope inserted through the guide pulley with its two opposite ends respectively passed through the pulleys on the axle then the pulleys on the T-bar and then coupled to the two locating members on the handlebar by a respective adjusting clamp, and two stop members bilaterally fastened to the pull rope and spaced between the pulleys on the T-bar and the locating members on the handlebar.

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