U.S. patent application number 11/818684 was filed with the patent office on 2008-12-18 for wall mountable exercise assembly.
Invention is credited to Isabel M. Manyseng.
Application Number | 20080312051 11/818684 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 40132888 |
Filed Date | 2008-12-18 |
United States Patent
Application |
20080312051 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Manyseng; Isabel M. |
December 18, 2008 |
Wall mountable exercise assembly
Abstract
A wall mountable exercise assembly for doing exercises,
including stretching exercises. The wall mountable assembly
includes a vertical support leg that is mounted to a support
surface, typically a vertical wall, the support surface having a
leg mounting bolt hole near a first end and another leg mounting
bolt hole near the second end thereof. The leg mounting bolt holes
engage brackets, the brackets which are attached as by fasteners to
the wall. An arm is adapted to be slideably engaged to the vertical
support leg between the wall mounting brackets. The arm includes a
hole for receipt of a pin. Numerous arm mounting bolt holes are
provided in the vertical support leg between the two mounting
points at the removed ends thereof. The arm may be slideably placed
at a preselected location and an arm pin threaded the arm slider
will maintain the arm at a preselected height.
Inventors: |
Manyseng; Isabel M.; (San
Antonio, TX) |
Correspondence
Address: |
JACKSON WALKER, L.L.P.
112 E. PECAN, SUITE 2400
SAN ANTONIO
TX
78205
US
|
Family ID: |
40132888 |
Appl. No.: |
11/818684 |
Filed: |
June 15, 2007 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
482/92 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A63B 9/00 20130101; A63B
2023/006 20130101; A63B 21/169 20151001 |
Class at
Publication: |
482/92 |
International
Class: |
A63B 26/00 20060101
A63B026/00 |
Claims
1. A wall mountable exercise assembly comprising: vertical support
leg having a first end and a second end, with a first leg mounting
bolt hole near the first end and a second leg mounting bolt hole
near the second end, and a multiplicity of arm mounting holes
between the first and second leg mounting bolt holes; a first leg
mounting bolt and a second leg mounting bolt; a first wall bracket
and a second wall bracket, adapted to receive the first and second
leg mounting bolts therein, the first and second wall mounting
brackets adapted to receive fasteners for engaging the brackets to
the walls; an arm, including a pair of arm handles spaced apart
from a centrally located slider, the arm including an arm pin
engagement plate; and an arm pin adapted to engage the arm mounting
holes and the arm pin engagement plate.
2. The wall mountable exercise assembly of claim 1, wherein the
vertical support leg has a rectangular cross-section and the slider
of the arm has a rectangular cross-section and is adapted to slide
onto the leg.
3. The wall mountable exercise assembly of claim 2, wherein the
slider of the arm includes a bushing on the inner surfaces
thereof.
4. The wall mountable exercise assembly of claim 3, further
including a footplate dimensioned for receipt beneath the vertical
support leg when the vertical support leg is mounted to a vertical
support surface.
5. The wall mountable exercise assembly of claim 4, further
including a strap adapted for engagement to the vertical support
leg.
6. The wall mountable exercise assembly of claim 5, wherein each of
the first wall bracket and the second wall bracket includes a pair
of opposed feet, a pair of legs, and a base member.
7. The wall mountable exercise assembly of claim 6, wherein the
seat includes holes for receiving fasteners there into and the base
receives a hole therein for receipt of mounting bolts there
into.
8. The wall mountable exercise assembly of claim 7, wherein the
footplate includes a footpad, the footpad sloped.
9. The wall mountable exercise assembly of claim 8, wherein the
first and second arm mounting holes is between 2 and 8 inches.
10. The wall mountable exercise assembly of claim 9, wherein the
length of the vertical support leg is between 50 and 98 inches.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] Exercise assemblies, more particularly, a wall mounted
exercise assembly.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Exercise devices come in a number of different
configurations for a variety of exercises (including stretching) of
various parts of the body. However, because exercise devices are
often bulky and their users often have limited space in which to
use them, various designs are provided which may fold up or
otherwise conserve space.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0003] Applicant provides a simply constructed wall mountable
exercise assembly which achieves both versatility and economy of
space. Applicant's exercise assembly is versatile in that it may be
utilized to perform a number of different exercises. At the same
time, Applicant's exercise assembly is designed to take up a
minimum amount of space.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
[0004] Applicant achieves these objectives in a novel, wall
mountable exercise assembly, which is passive (no moving parts
during the exercise) and adjustable, as well as removable for
temporary storage purposes.
[0005] Applicant achieves the objectives of versatility and economy
of space in providing a vertical support leg onto which an arm is
slidably received, the arm having a pair of arm handles capable of
being grasped by the hands of the user or engaged by the feet of
the user during a variety of different exercises.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0006] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the wall mountable exercise
assembly in place mounted to a wall ready for use, including the
foot support plate.
[0007] FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the vertical
support leg and components thereof of the wall mountable exercise
assembly.
[0008] FIGS. 3A, 3B, and 3C all illustrate the wall mountable
exercise assembly in use.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0009] Applicant's novel exercise assembly 10 illustrated in FIGS.
1-3C includes a vertical support leg 12, an arm 14 for slidable
receipt thereon, and a foot support plate 16 dimensioned to fit
substantially beneath a first end of vertical support leg 12.
Optionally, a bungee or strap 13 may be provided with hooks at the
removed end thereof to hook into holes near the top of the leg.
[0010] Vertical support leg 12 is engaged with a pair of wall mount
brackets 20 and 22 to a wall or other vertical support surfaces by
wall mount fasteners, such as those known in the trade. Wall mount
brackets 20 and 22 are illustrated. They engage vertical support
leg 12 near the removed ends 12a and 12b thereof. More
specifically, wall mount brackets 20 and 22 may include blind nuts
(or free nuts 23) for receiving leg mounting bolts 24 and 26, the
leg mounting bolts passing through the vertical support leg 12 at
leg mounting bolt holes 32 and 34, respectively. As such, leg
mounting bolts 24 and 26 can be inserted through leg mounting bolt
holes 32 and 34 and threaded into the blind nut or free nut 23 on
wall mount brackets 20 and 22, respectively, to hold vertical
support leg 12 rigidly to the wall at two spaced apart points with
arm 14 between the two brackets and capable of moving vertically
therebetween to adjustably locate arm 14 through the use of arm
locator bolt or pin 28. Locator pin 28 will engage a multiplicity
of arm locator pin holes 36, which are located between leg mounting
bolt holes 32 and 34. In this manner, arm 14 can be adjustably set
to a number of selected heights.
[0011] Foot support plate 16 is dimensioned for receipt beneath the
bottom of removed end 12b of vertical support leg as illustrated in
FIG. 1.
[0012] FIG. 2 illustrates details of wall mount brackets, here
showing that wall mount brackets may include a pair of foot
portions 20a for receipt of wall fasteners therein to a pair of leg
portions 20b to space a base portion 20c apart from the wall, the
base portion having a hole 20d and optionally a blind nut affixed
(not shown), as by welding, to the backside thereof.
[0013] FIG. 2 illustrates that arm 14 typically includes a pair of
spaced apart handle members 14a and 14b, spaced apart to either
side of a spacer 14c, such as rectangular steel section spacer 14c
illustrated in FIG. 2. The distance between the wall and the arm is
typically 4 inches, range 1 to 8 inches. The leg may be constructed
of 2''.times.2'' steel square section tubing, the spacer 14c
dimensioned to be received on the leg. Bushing members 14e (such as
plastic, nylon, Kevlar or Teflon) may be received on part of the
inner walls of spacer 14c for ease of sliding the arm vertically on
the vertical support leg 12. Mounting bracket 14d is seen engaged
with the slide attached to a backside thereof, which bracket 14b
has a hole 14f therein dimensioned for receipt of the removed end
of arm locator 28 to pin therein to as seen in FIG. 1. In one
embodiment, the hole does not have a blind nut attached (the end of
the pin simply slides through a hole in bracket 14d); in another
embodiment, it may.
[0014] FIG. 2 illustrates the construction of Applicant's foot
support plate 16. Foot support plate 16 typically includes a pair
of horizontally mounted foot support legs 16a, a vertically mounted
foot support wall 16b, and a sloped footpad 16c.
[0015] Some typical dimensions include the length of vertical
support leg 12 is about 64 inches long, range 32 to 96 inches. The
width of arm 14 is typically about 22 inches, range 8 to 32 inches.
Likewise, the width of the foot support plate 16 is about 22
inches, range 8 to 32 inches, and the base extends to about 141/2
inches, range 7 to 22 inches.
[0016] FIG. 1 illustrates a number of dimensions related to
Applicant's novel exercise assembly 10. D.sub.ffle is the distance
from floor to the first leg end and would typically be 74 inches,
range 50 to 98 inches. D.sub.fsle would be the distance from the
floor to the second leg and is typically 4 inches, range 2 to 8
inches. The distance between brackets and is typically 60 inches,
range 30 to 94 inches. The distance between holes (or mounting
holes) and is typically 4 inches, range 2 to 8 inches.
[0017] Applicant's novel exercise assembly 10 may be used for
exercise (the term "exercise" herein including stretching)
including ways (see, for example, FIGS. 3A-3C) in which the user
may engage the assembly by standing on the footpad or removing the
footpad. It can be seen that the footpad is canted to allow
stretching of the calf muscles. It can be seen that the arm is
adjustable and may be grasped with the user's hands or may be put
in a position low on the leg and, with the footplate removed, can
be used to hook the user's feet thereunder for doing sit-ups and
crunches and the like. Furthermore, it can be seen that the arm can
be set at a pre-selected height and the user may place one heel
above the arm and lean forward to stretch the legs and abdomen.
Further, it can be seen that the user may grasp bungee or (an
elastic or non-elastic) strap 13 and lean outward at an angle to
again stretch the muscles. Indeed, exercises can be done in a
number of different ways wherein the arm can engage the foot or
feet or the user and hand or hands of the user likewise. Also, the
strap (elastic or non-elastic) engages the leg as seen and can be
used for, typically, stretching exercises.
[0018] It can be seen that Applicant's exercise assembly can be
substantially removed from the wall, leaving only the brackets
mounted thereto, by the removal of two threaded fasteners. Further,
it can be seen that, because the width of the assembly is typically
less than about 21/2 inches, it can be easily stored as, for
example, underneath a bed.
[0019] Although the invention has been described with reference to
specific embodiments, this description is not meant to be construed
in a limited sense. Various modifications of the disclosed
embodiments, as well as alternative embodiments of the inventions,
will become apparent to persons skilled in the art upon the
reference to the description of the invention. It is, therefore,
contemplated that the appended claims will cover such modifications
that fall within the scope of the invention.
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