Patents Examined by William R. Browne
  • Patent number: 4607840
    Abstract: A device for mounting weight training plates at an extended distance beyond the hand of the user applies selective leverage against the user's arm. The device gains mechanical advantage and thereby increase the effective weight applied without requiring actual increase in the number or size of the weight training plates used. The device includes a frame having a handgrip and a bar for mounting weights outward of the handgrip. First and second braces are situated toward a rearward end of the frame for engaging opposite sides of the user's forearm. One brace is situated between the handgrip and remaining brace to engage the forearm on one side surface. The remaining brace is situated near a rearward end of the frame to engage the user's forearm at a point rearward of the first brace and adjacent the elbow. The braces cooperate with the handgrip to maintain position of the weights at an extended location beyond the user's hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Inventor: James J. Harper
  • Patent number: 4603857
    Abstract: An exercise machine having handles adjustably positioned on a pivoted arm that is mounted to a base and wherein the pivoted arm is biased by a spring adjustably attached by a cable along the length of the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1986
    Inventors: Max C. Chipman, George R. Horton
  • Patent number: 4598908
    Abstract: A multi-purpose weight lifting gym having a barbell with retractable cables activated by a recoil spring and a hold/release lever whereby a liftable weight is attached to the cable when the barbell is at the desired position. The gym further has pulley and roller assemblies engagable by the cable which allow the barbell and/or hand held devices to be manipulated in a variety of directions. The device also embodies a fold-down backrest permitting standing, sitting, or lying exercises to be done within the confines of the gym.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Inventor: Harold W. Morgan
  • Patent number: 4598907
    Abstract: A selectively configurable exercise machine includes a vertical frame in an inverted V-shape which is coupled to a horizontal weight platform. The weight platform includes a free-swinging end for carrying the weights and an opposite end which forms a double pivotal connection with the vertical frame. The double pivotal connection is formed by a pair of rocker arms pivotally connected on one end to the weight platform and pivotally connected on the opposite end of the rocker arm to the vertical frame. The weight platform is suspended by multiple pulleys threaded with a single flexible line which may be held by the user for performing a variety of one and two-handed exercises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignees: Arden I. Ross, Wallace L. Ross
    Inventor: Arden I. Ross
  • Patent number: 4598688
    Abstract: An arrow rest for hunting and target bows. The rest employs a pair of rollers mounted on each side of a groove in a carrier that is removably secured to the back of the riser handle of the bow. The carrier is fully adjustable, fits either right or left hand bows of all types and can be used with almost all arrow sizes both target and hunting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Inventors: Lawrence L. Paul, Robert L. Glaspie
  • Patent number: 4595197
    Abstract: An exercise device comprises a pair of wheels on opposite ends of an axle, and a pair of foot-receiving stirrups on the axle between the wheels. A user positions his or her feet in the stirrups, assumes a basic push-up position on a support surface and exercises either by walking along the surface on the hands, rolling the feet behind, or by maintaining the hands in stationary position and using the body to roll the wheels toward and away from the hands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Inventors: David R. Hagstrom, Gregory J. Gaudreau
  • Patent number: 4595198
    Abstract: An exercise machine primarily used in exercising and strengthening muscles and ligaments not normally affected by the standard dynamic and/or isometric approaches. The machine causes the user to work against a centrifugally operated brake which increases the resistance to movement as the rate of movement increases. A horizontally disposed lever including a stirrup is rotated about a vertical shaft by the foot and leg of a user, and the shaft is functionally connected to a speed increasing mechanism and its rate of rotation is regulated by a centrifugal brake. The amount of effort being expanded to overcome the brake resistance is displayed by a simple linkage from the brake mechanism to an easily visible indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Inventor: Roger C. Sparks
  • Patent number: 4593674
    Abstract: A compound archery bow of simplified construction includes a bowstring secured intermediate its ends to eccentrically pivoted cams mounted at the outer ends of the limbs secured to the opposite ends of a handle member. A control cable connects each cam pivot shaft, and therefore each limb, to a laterally projecting post on a lever mounted pivotally on the end of the handle member that secures the opposite limb. The end segments of the bowstring are trained around the cams and through the diametric center of each cam wherein the segments are secured. Each terminal end portion of the bowstring end segments is secured either to a winch located on the lever mounting the associated cam, or directly to said lever. The connection of the limbs to each other through the control cables and the bowstring end segments secured to the levers balance the flexure of the limbs relative to each other as well as the rotation of each cam as the bowstring is drawn back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Inventor: Donald S. Kudlacek
  • Patent number: 4591149
    Abstract: A leg exercise device is provided which is especially useful for developing the lower leg muscles associated with the calf. The device is defined by a base support connected to a pair of upwardly extending tubular handlebars. A weight carriage is slidably mounted on the handlebars in a manner that allows a seated exerciser to place his foot under the carriage and uplift the carriage by lifting the front of his foot. A pair of weight bars are also connected to the weight carriage in order to slidably accommodate a standard set of weights. The device discloses an upper leg exerciser in which an upper bar assembly is attached to the front of the weight carriage and the handlebars are pivotally connected to the base support. An exerciser sits in front of the device, and adjusts the handlebars close to the top of his knees. When the knees are raised, the weight carriage slides up the handlebars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Inventor: Daniel R. Godfrey
  • Patent number: 4589658
    Abstract: A weight lifting apparatus is shown to enable the user to perform power squat lifts to develop leg strength throughout the hips, thighs, and calf leg muscles, while at the same time eliminating back injuries to the user. The user is provided with a waist harness having front and rear straps suspended from a heavy belt down between the legs of the user. The belt has interior padding that extends above the top edge and below the bottom edge of the belt. The harness is connected to a weight holder by an adjustable chain so that all of the weight is carried by the lower half of the body. The weights remain below the user's body, and the center of gravity of the weights remains below the user's center of gravity. This apparatus is formed as an elevated rack having a pair of elongated platforms separated by a well section. The user straddles the platforms and the weights remain within the well section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Inventor: Russell K. Gibson
  • Patent number: 4587944
    Abstract: A crossbow stock has a stirrup pivotally mounted on the fore-end portion of the stock to pivot between a first position in which the stirrup extends longitudinally of the stock beyond the fore-end thereof and a second position in which the entire stirrup lies adjacent to the stock. In its first position, the stirrup can be used for holding the stock during cocking on the bow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: B & P Barnett Limited
    Inventor: Bernard T. Barnett
  • Patent number: 4588186
    Abstract: A self-contained stretching apparatus with two ropes extending from a shoulder harness fitting over the mid-chest region to a foot receiving stirrup. Each rope has a separate handgrip. By putting one foot in the stirrup and pulling the handgrips, various muscles and tendons may be stretched as part of a warming up exercise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Inventor: John Calabrese
  • Patent number: 4587945
    Abstract: An arrow support, sight and guide for supporting, aiming and guiding arrows from an archery bow and enabling rapid shooting of arrows of various shaft diameters with increased accuracy, the arrow support, sight and guide including a body defining an internal passageway that is open at each end. A plurality of angularly spaced ribs carried by the body project into the passageway and terminate at substantially flat support surfaces which extend longitudinally of the passageway and which are adapted to engage tangentially the periphery of a cylindrical shaft of an arrow. In one embodiment of the invention, one of the support surfaces is adjustable relative to the longitudinal axis of the passageway while in other embodiments of the invention, all of the support surfaces are fixed. A plurality of sighting pins are carried by the body, the sighting pins being adjustable for applicable range distances and windage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Inventor: Darlan R. Little
  • Patent number: 4584983
    Abstract: An archery bow stabilizer and embedded arrowhead remover formed by a bolt having a head at one end and internal and external threads at an opposite end, two weights carried by the bolt, and a relatively thin disc being sandwiched between the weights, the latter structure being utilized as an archery bow stabilizer by threading the external thread to a stabilizer socket of a bow, and in order to remove an arrowhead embedded in a tree or the like, one of the weights is removed, the bolt is secured to a threaded stem of an arrowhead from which the arrow shaft has been removed, and the remaining weight on the bolt is manually reciprocated against the bolt head to create impact forces which are transferred through the bolt to the arrowhead to, thus, facilitate the removal thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Inventor: Gary S. Ament
  • Patent number: 4574766
    Abstract: A joint structure between each limb and a handle riser of a take-down type archery bow is described employing a plug-socket engagement based upon a two position support. The first position support is located near the mouth of a handle riser socket and enables the change in angular position of the limbs with respect to the handle riser by the replacement of a pair of flat spacers of predetermined thickness. The second position support, being unaffected by the first position support, is located near the bottom of the socket for releasably engaging the plug end of the limbs in order to prevent accidental removal of the limbs from the handle riser socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadao Izuta
  • Patent number: 4575076
    Abstract: An arm wrestling machine including an operating arm pivotally mounted on a base and two assemblies for exerting forces on the operating arm urging the operating arm toward a vertical position. One assembly includes a spring connected between the operating arm and a spring support mounted on a screw for linear movement toward and away from the operating arm so that such assembly provides an adjustable, continuous force on the operating arm. The other assembly includes a pneumatic cylinder connected between the operating arm and the base and intermittently receiving bursts of compressed air from a valve that is mounted on the operating arm so that the case of the valve moves with the operating arm and having a weight attached to the valve member of the valve so that movement of the operating arm intermittently opens the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Inventors: Guy W. Reichert, Orvil L. Abshire
  • Patent number: 4572505
    Abstract: An exercising device for conditioning the dorsal flexor muscles includes a fixed frame having inclined foot rests mounted adjacent one end and an arm arrangement swingably attached to the fixed frame at an opposite end. The arm arrangement includes a lever arm pivotally connected to the fixed frame and with foot engaging bars extending transversely from the lever arm generally adjacent the foot rest. The user places his feet between the foot rest and the foot engagement bars and flexes the feet upwardly to reduce the tendency toward the strained muscle condition known as shin splints. Provision is made for extra weights to be attached to the arm arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Inventor: Donald C. Kornhaus
  • Patent number: 4572153
    Abstract: A device is mounted to the sighting area of a compound bow for signaling when the bow drawstring has moved to a predetermined position. The device is hollow and serves to maintain the compound cables away from the line of travel of the bowstring. Electrical contacts are mounted within the hollow device and enable a signal when tripped by the movement of the cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Inventor: Donald H. MacPherson
  • Patent number: 4570921
    Abstract: For use in a program of physical exercise, a hollow cylindrical tube made of rubber, which tube is calibrated along its outer surface with an 0 permanently imprinted at the midpoint between the ends of the tube and the numerals 1, 2, 3 and 4 imprinted along the outer surface of the tube at spaced intervals from the midpoint of the tube. The tube is approximately 75 inches in length and has an outer diameter of 7/8ths of an inch and an inner diameter of 3/4ths of an inch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Inventor: Frank Arnold
  • Patent number: RE32150
    Abstract: An exercising apparatus that is designed particularly for therapeutic purposes. The apparatus includes a rotatable turntable on a stationary base, and a post extending through the weight supporting center of the turntable for supporting a person. A pipe frame is mounted on the base for being grasped by the person so as to twist himself on the device. A pull rope is tied to the turntable and passed over a pulley on the base for hand-rotating the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Inventor: Max Rice