Abstract: A folding portable exercise apparatus having a contoured chest bar and a contoured lap bar. Two pairs of rods connect the bars. Each pair of rods is joined by a coil spring. An adjustable belt may be fastened around underneath the user. The device may be used to exercise the upper abdominal muscles, the triceps, the biceps, the pectoral muscles, the latissimus muscles, the back and lower abdominal muscles and the leg muscles such as calves, quadriceps, hamstring and gluteal muscles. The device may be disassembled and folded into a compact arrangement for storage and travel by detaching the coil springs from one pair of rods. This allows the device to be separated into components. The four rods may lie in the cavity along the major length of the respective chest bar and lap bars. The belt, springs and thumbscrews may then also lie together within the cavities and when closed produce a compact package the length and width of the chest bar and lap bar.

Abstract: A folding portable exercise apparatus having a padded chest bar and a padded lap bar. Two pairs of length-adjustable telescoping rods connect the bars. Each pair of telescoping rods is joined by a coil spring. An abdominal belt may be fastened around and underneath the user. The device may be used to exercise the upper abdominal muscles, the triceps, the pectoral muscles, and the back and lower abdominal muscles. The device may be disassembled and folded into a compact arrangement for storage and travel by detaching the coil springs from one pair of telescoping rods. This allows the device to be separated into two components. The telescoping rods may be folded so that they lie along the major length of the respective chest bar and lap bar. The belt may then be used to secure the two folded components together producing a compact package approximately the length and width of the chest bar and lap bar.

Abstract: A wire splicing tool. The tool comprises an elongated, rigid frame, including a pair of outwardly diverging handle ends. A rigid, integral, tubular frame center receives the shank of a rotatable member for controlling wire splicing. The control member includes an external, wire contacting head which forcibly coils wire ends in response to tool rotation. The control shank includes an elongated, wire receptive groove. When the groove is aligned with a slot defined in frame center, capture (or release) of a first wire segment is facilitated. With the first wire captured, the tool may be rotated to coil an end of a second wire about the first.