Exercise machine for exercising latissimus dorsi muscles and other muscles

Abstract:

The present invention is an exercise machine for exercising latissimus dorsi muscles, chest muscles and other muscles. The invention includes moveable arms so that the distance between the arms can be varied to accommodate the size of a user or to change the type of exercise.

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Claims:

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. An exercise machine adapted for exercising latisimus dorsal muscles andother muscles comprising:

a pair of moveable arms which includes guide means pivotally connected to said moveable arms to cause said moving arms to move dependently of each other, said moveable arms being connected to a support structure for said arms and extendingoutwardly in front of said support structure;

means for moving said arms to vary a distance between said arms,;

attachment means connected at one end to weights by pulleys connected along said support structure and said attachment means at another end being connected to gripping means for a user to grip wherein said arms can be adjusted at any distance fora user's size and to vary a type of exercise for a user.

2. The exercise device according to claim 1 wherein said means for moving said arms includes a horizontally disposed track and means for removable fastening said arms to different locations along said track.

3. The exercise device according to claim 2 wherein said track is curved and has holes therein and on sleeves through which said arms extend,

said sleeves each have face plates, at least one of said face plates having a retractable pin adapted to be inserted in a respective one of said holes of said track so that said arms can be moved to different locations along said track.

4. The exercise device according to claim 2 wherein said track is at least partially curved.

5. The exercise machine according to claim 1 wherein said guide means includes a pair of guide arms each having two ends, one end of each said guide arm being pivotally connected to a respective one of said moveable arms and another end beingpivotally connected together to a rear part of said support structure, one of said guide arms being located above another of said guide arms to permit said guide arms to rotate freely in moving said movable arms without interfering with one another.

6. The exercise device according to claim 1 wherein said attachment means are cables.

7. The exercise device according to claim 1 wherein said attachment means are belts.

8. The exercise device according to claim 1 wherein said one of said sleeves partially wraps about one of said arms to secure said one of said arms in place when moving along said track.

9. The exercise device according to claim 1 wherein said gripping means are hand held handles.

10. The exercise machine according to claim 1 wherein said guide means includes a pair of guide arms pivotally connected to said moveable arms and said guide arms are pivotally connected together so as to cause said moveable arms to movedependently of each other.

Patent number:
6217493
View patent at USPTO

Filing date:
July 17, 1999

Issue date:
April 17, 2001

Inventor:
David Spletzer (Brooklyn, NY)

Primary Examiner:
John Mulcahy

Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Klar; Richard B.

Current U.S. Classification: 482/103