Patents by Inventor Joseph F. Sterling

Joseph F. Sterling has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4921247
    Abstract: An exercise chair apparatus includes a chair having a seat, arms, a back, legs, and a space beneath the seat. The chair back has two or more exercising devices formed therein and has a pair of handles extendible from the devices in the back. The handles are held in cups in the chair back until grasped and pulled from the chair back by a seated person. A head band strap also embodied in the chair back is used for neck exercising and gripping support for abdominal exercises. In each chair arm is located an exercising device that has a handle extendible from the chair arm and recessed in a cup until grasped by a seated person, so that pulling the handles exercises the arms. The chair side panels beneath the chair arms have pulling devices similar to those in the chair arms and are also used to exercise the arms. Rubber caps are formed in the chair arm ends for hand squeezing and gripping support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Inventor: Joseph F. Sterling
  • Patent number: 4838547
    Abstract: An indoor/outdoor exercise chair apparatus includes a back, arms, legs, seat and a space beneath the seat. The chair back has two or more exercising devices embodied therein with a pair of handles extendible from the back of the chair. A head band strap attached to the chair back frame is used for neck exercising and gripping support for abdominal and leg exercises. In each chair arm is located a handle extendible from the chair arm when grasped by a seated person. The chair side frames in the seat have pulling devices similar to those in the chair back and arms and are also used to exercise the arms. Rubber caps are formed in the chair arm ends for hand squeezing and gripping support. An extendible exercise frame with a pedal device can be folded inward and stored against the front chair legs. Two spring clamps are affixed to the two front legs to hold the frame and allow it to be swiveled forward and extended for exercising and backward for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Inventor: Joseph F. Sterling
  • Patent number: D368562
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Inventor: Joseph F. Sterling