CA2981433A1 - Ergonomically designed exercise bar with winged hand grips - Google Patents
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Abstract
An ergonomically designed exercise bar with winged shaped hand grips is disclosed. The exercise bar comes in various sizes, mostly those most commonly used in exercise and weight lifting like barbells, dumbbells, Olympic bars, bench press, free weights, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, cable machine attachments, aerobic machines, shoulder press machine and the like. The exercise bar is formed with winged shaped hand grips specifically designed to fit in the palm of the left and right hand in such a way that helps prevent the bar from moving and rolling in one's hands, thus helping to prevent strains, sprains and other injuries. The exercise bar ensures proper ergonomic alignment of the wrist and hand when held, as well as distributes the weight being lifted to a greater surface area of one's hands, thus allowing for the maximum and most superior exercise and weight lifting performance.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to an exercise bar, and more particularly, an ergonomically designed exercise bar, formed with winged shaped hand grips that is used for the purposes of exercising and lifting weights, that offers enhanced grip, improved support stability, sophisticated ergonomics and comfort, reduces injuries, forces proper ergonomic alignment for the hands and wrists, as well as distributes the weight being lifted to a greater surface area of one's hands, when using the exercise bar in conjunction with exercise and lifting weights.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
There is no point in history that people are more health conscious than the modern day.
Since the revolutionary invention of the home computer, people have been searching for ways to not only stay healthier with proper exercise, but do so in more ergonomically sound ways, that not only improve our health with exercise, but do so in a way to help prevent us from hurting ourselves and causing injuries in the process of exercise.
One such way people exercise is through joining and becoming members of their local health clubs, fitness centers and gyms. One such advantage of these locations is not only do they offer many different types of exercise equipment that members may not have access to at home, but they can offer professional support to accommodate one's fitness goals. Of course many people have their own home gyms, and workout areas, that they fill with their own favorite pieces of exercise equipment.
One common way people exercise is by lifting weights. By lifting weights one can not only develop attractive biceps and the 'six-pack abs' but also even decrease stress, heart disease and even some forms of cancer. It is proven that lifting weights can burn more calories and help shed pounds of fat. Another great thing with lifting weights, includes being healthier, which can lead to less stress in one's fife, which obviously can make a person happier in one's fife.
Some research has
This invention relates to an exercise bar, and more particularly, an ergonomically designed exercise bar, formed with winged shaped hand grips that is used for the purposes of exercising and lifting weights, that offers enhanced grip, improved support stability, sophisticated ergonomics and comfort, reduces injuries, forces proper ergonomic alignment for the hands and wrists, as well as distributes the weight being lifted to a greater surface area of one's hands, when using the exercise bar in conjunction with exercise and lifting weights.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
There is no point in history that people are more health conscious than the modern day.
Since the revolutionary invention of the home computer, people have been searching for ways to not only stay healthier with proper exercise, but do so in more ergonomically sound ways, that not only improve our health with exercise, but do so in a way to help prevent us from hurting ourselves and causing injuries in the process of exercise.
One such way people exercise is through joining and becoming members of their local health clubs, fitness centers and gyms. One such advantage of these locations is not only do they offer many different types of exercise equipment that members may not have access to at home, but they can offer professional support to accommodate one's fitness goals. Of course many people have their own home gyms, and workout areas, that they fill with their own favorite pieces of exercise equipment.
One common way people exercise is by lifting weights. By lifting weights one can not only develop attractive biceps and the 'six-pack abs' but also even decrease stress, heart disease and even some forms of cancer. It is proven that lifting weights can burn more calories and help shed pounds of fat. Another great thing with lifting weights, includes being healthier, which can lead to less stress in one's fife, which obviously can make a person happier in one's fife.
Some research has
2 said people who lift weights will live longer, be more productive and even smarter. It is no wonder everyone wants to include lifting weights as part of their exercise routines.
For those who do lift weights they may find themselves using an assortment of weight lifting equipment. Some of this equipment that is well known include plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, free weights, cables, barbells, Olympic bars, dumbbells, the bench press and many styles of home gyms to name just a few. In conjunction with using these types of weight lifting pieces of equipment, many inventions have evolved to help aid in using these devices.
Some of these inventions involve gloves and other forms of devices such as gripping devices that may attach to the bar being used. Most of these inventions involve offering the lifter a better grip of the bar. Many other prior inventions are related to changing the bar design to allow for better grips of the bar.
Other inventions have completely redesigned the bar from its most common design of a straight bar.
Prior to some of these devices and inventions, and still used, was chalk or rosin that a lifter, especially lifting heavier weights, may apply onto their hands for a better grip. The drawbacks to these older (but still used) methods of aiding in a better grip are numerous, not just limited to the availability of the product. Many such products are not sanitary while others, like rosin, are generally very messiness. To help aid in improvements many previous patents have been filed with creative measures to aid in exercise and weight lifting.
In some prior art are disclosed exercise and weightlifting bars with some sort of gripping sections that are either part of, or attached to, the bar. In United States Patent, Numbered US
9,375,601 to Miller et al, is disclosed a bar with translating hand grips while in United States Patent, Numbered US 2006/0276314 to Wilson et al, discloses a bar with sliding hand grips. In United States Patent, Numbered US 2013/0035218 to Wieszewski, is disclosed a bar that has been reshaped with two hand grip sections referred to as rings that lay along the length of the barbell. The dual sets of handles allow for a variety of exercises and is similar to United States Patent, Numbered US
2008/0176723 to Johnson, who discloses a similar bar to Wieszewski, with rotating hand grips. Still further United States Patents that disclose exercise style bars with hand grips include US
2012/0094812 to Smiley, US 9,364,703 to Kuka, US 5,211,616 to Riley, US
5,152,713 to Troutman, US 4,867,444 to Castillo as well as US Numbered patents US 2014/0221173, US
2014/0323275, US
7,086,999, and US 7,429,235. Each of these prior art patents were carefully analyzed and although
For those who do lift weights they may find themselves using an assortment of weight lifting equipment. Some of this equipment that is well known include plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, free weights, cables, barbells, Olympic bars, dumbbells, the bench press and many styles of home gyms to name just a few. In conjunction with using these types of weight lifting pieces of equipment, many inventions have evolved to help aid in using these devices.
Some of these inventions involve gloves and other forms of devices such as gripping devices that may attach to the bar being used. Most of these inventions involve offering the lifter a better grip of the bar. Many other prior inventions are related to changing the bar design to allow for better grips of the bar.
Other inventions have completely redesigned the bar from its most common design of a straight bar.
Prior to some of these devices and inventions, and still used, was chalk or rosin that a lifter, especially lifting heavier weights, may apply onto their hands for a better grip. The drawbacks to these older (but still used) methods of aiding in a better grip are numerous, not just limited to the availability of the product. Many such products are not sanitary while others, like rosin, are generally very messiness. To help aid in improvements many previous patents have been filed with creative measures to aid in exercise and weight lifting.
In some prior art are disclosed exercise and weightlifting bars with some sort of gripping sections that are either part of, or attached to, the bar. In United States Patent, Numbered US
9,375,601 to Miller et al, is disclosed a bar with translating hand grips while in United States Patent, Numbered US 2006/0276314 to Wilson et al, discloses a bar with sliding hand grips. In United States Patent, Numbered US 2013/0035218 to Wieszewski, is disclosed a bar that has been reshaped with two hand grip sections referred to as rings that lay along the length of the barbell. The dual sets of handles allow for a variety of exercises and is similar to United States Patent, Numbered US
2008/0176723 to Johnson, who discloses a similar bar to Wieszewski, with rotating hand grips. Still further United States Patents that disclose exercise style bars with hand grips include US
2012/0094812 to Smiley, US 9,364,703 to Kuka, US 5,211,616 to Riley, US
5,152,713 to Troutman, US 4,867,444 to Castillo as well as US Numbered patents US 2014/0221173, US
2014/0323275, US
7,086,999, and US 7,429,235. Each of these prior art patents were carefully analyzed and although
3 many are quite genius in design, not one by itself, or all collectively, disclose the design and functionality of that of the present invention which will become further apparent to one skilled in the art of exercise bars in the detailed description.
In still more prior art are disclosed inventions that more relate to the changing and altering of the exercise bar itself For example, in United States Patent, Numbered US
9,623,276 to Deras, is disclosed a lightweight Olympic style bar for beginners. In United States Patent, Numbered US
9,254,410 to Mirza, the bar has been reshaped and is offset in design, while in US US 6,022,300 to Highower, again the bar itself has been changed in design with rotating multi-positional grips. In US 4,903,962 to Pollack, he has changed the bar design with angled shaped ends. Still further US
Numbered patents US 2014/0045660 and US 2010/0227747 disclose bar designs that by themselves, or all collectively, disclose the design and functionality of that of the present invention which will become further apparent to one skilled in the art of exercise bars in the detailed description While some prior art disclosed bars with attached grips and others have reshaped the bar itself, still another group of patents disclose gripping devices, many of which can be attached to a bar, while still others are stand alone devices. In Canadian Patent, Numbered CA 2,675,537 to Graham and Hartman, is disclosed an "Exercise Grip Device" that is used for working out various arm muscles and can be used as a stand-alone device for exercising the hand.
In United States Design Patent, Numbered US D616,950 to Frersee and Bruggemann, is disclosed a -Thick Grip".
Although it appears this invention was designed for the use of fitting over a bar, the utility of the design is vague as to its purpose. In another United States Design Patent, Numbered D474,370 to Margolin, is disclosed a "Hand Grip" that also appears to fit over a bar.
While some previous art has disclosed devices that fit onto an exercise bar, in yet another attempt to improve the grip of the user when lifting weights, United States Patent, Numbered US 5,775,756 to Rozenich, is disclosed a "Secure Gripping System". Rozenich discloses a wrapping device that is wrapped around and secured to a bar to replace the use of rosin or wearing gloves that can be damaged due to sweat.
With references to prior art there have been other attempts to disclose inventions that either attach to exercise bars, aid in weight lifting for added grip as well as attaching to bars that are not
In still more prior art are disclosed inventions that more relate to the changing and altering of the exercise bar itself For example, in United States Patent, Numbered US
9,623,276 to Deras, is disclosed a lightweight Olympic style bar for beginners. In United States Patent, Numbered US
9,254,410 to Mirza, the bar has been reshaped and is offset in design, while in US US 6,022,300 to Highower, again the bar itself has been changed in design with rotating multi-positional grips. In US 4,903,962 to Pollack, he has changed the bar design with angled shaped ends. Still further US
Numbered patents US 2014/0045660 and US 2010/0227747 disclose bar designs that by themselves, or all collectively, disclose the design and functionality of that of the present invention which will become further apparent to one skilled in the art of exercise bars in the detailed description While some prior art disclosed bars with attached grips and others have reshaped the bar itself, still another group of patents disclose gripping devices, many of which can be attached to a bar, while still others are stand alone devices. In Canadian Patent, Numbered CA 2,675,537 to Graham and Hartman, is disclosed an "Exercise Grip Device" that is used for working out various arm muscles and can be used as a stand-alone device for exercising the hand.
In United States Design Patent, Numbered US D616,950 to Frersee and Bruggemann, is disclosed a -Thick Grip".
Although it appears this invention was designed for the use of fitting over a bar, the utility of the design is vague as to its purpose. In another United States Design Patent, Numbered D474,370 to Margolin, is disclosed a "Hand Grip" that also appears to fit over a bar.
While some previous art has disclosed devices that fit onto an exercise bar, in yet another attempt to improve the grip of the user when lifting weights, United States Patent, Numbered US 5,775,756 to Rozenich, is disclosed a "Secure Gripping System". Rozenich discloses a wrapping device that is wrapped around and secured to a bar to replace the use of rosin or wearing gloves that can be damaged due to sweat.
With references to prior art there have been other attempts to disclose inventions that either attach to exercise bars, aid in weight lifting for added grip as well as attaching to bars that are not
4 weight lifting bars, such as the bar (handle) of a golf club or bicycle (handle bar), for added grip of a device one holds with their hands. The most obvious of all prior art patents in conjunction with that of the present invention are noted. In United States Design Patent, Number US
D546,659 to Smith, is disclosed a "Tool Grip". In United States Patent, Number US 5,459,883 to Garceau-Verbeck, is disclosed an "Ergonomic Hand Covering and Grip Enhancer". In United States Patent, Numbered US 8,777,816 to Grafman et al, is disclosed a "Bar Grip". In United States Patent, Numbered US
9,643,073 to Pellegrino, is disclosed an "Exercise Grip". In United States Patent, Numbered US
9,061,728 to Galstad et al, is disclosed a "Bicycle Handlebar and Grip Assembly". In United States Patent, Numbered US 8,776,321 to Doherty et al, is disclosed an "Ergonomic, Shock-Absorbing Hand Grip". In United States Patent, Numbered US 8,113,087 to Arnold, is disclosed a "Bicycle Handle-Bar Grip". In United States Patent, Numbered US 7,736,284 to Andrews, is disclosed a "Hand-Grip Accessory." In United States Patent, Numbered US 4,487,412 to Meeko, is disclosed "Weight Lift Grips". While many of these applications involve grips or weight lifting aids, none of them by themselves, or collectively, disclose the advantages of the present invention of a exercise bar, and more particularly, an ergonomically designed exercise bar, formed with winged shaped hand grips that is used for the purposes of exercising and lifting weights, that offers enhanced grip, improved support stability, sophisticated ergonomics and comfort, reduces injuries, forces proper ergonomic alignment for the hands and wrists, as well as distributes the weight being lifted to a greater surface area of one's hands, when using the exercise bar in conjunction with exercise and lifting weights.
It is an aim of the present invention to offer an ergonomically designed exercise bar. It is a further aim of the present invention to offer an ergonomically designed exercise bar with a winged shaped grip, an ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that improves the grip of a weight lifted bar and allows for more comfort while lifting weights and doing exercise. It is still a further aim of the present invention to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that offers superior improvements in regards to proper alignment when lifting weights, aligning the lifted weight in one's hands, in an ergonomic way, to allow for reduced stress and injuries when weight lifting, to the fingers, hands, wrist, elbows, shoulder, neck, back, torso, knees, anldes and feet. It is yet still a further aim of the present invention to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that further distributes the weight being lifted over a greater surface contact area of one's hand. Yet it is still a further aim of the present invention to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that through proper alignment and enhanced comfort when lifting weights, as well as distributing weight to a greater surface contact area, an increased user ability to perform more repetitions and lift more weight in a lift when lifting weights with the present invention. Another aim of the present invention is to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that may be formed to for use with many different pieces of exercise bar types and styles.
Thus there is a considerable need for the present invention and one skilled in the art will continue to understand this need in the following summary and furthermore in the drawing and detailed description of the drawing.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to an exercise bar, and more particularly, an ergonomically designed exercise bar, formed with winged shaped hand grips that are used for the purposes of exercising and lifting weights. More specifically the present invention is an exercise bar, with a molded wing designed grip that is part of a weight lifting bar for the purposes of allowing for enhanced grip, improved support stability, more sophisticated ergonomics and comfort with further purposes of preventing injuries by allowing for proper alignment of the fingers, hand and wrist when lifting weights and performing exercises. The present invention also distributes weight to a greater surface contact area of the hand which allows for an increased user ability to perform more repetitions and lift more weight in a lift, when lifting weights with the ergonomically designed exercise bar of the present invention.
In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar of the present invention is made with the manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify and the solidified part is also known as a casting which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process. The exercise bar of the present invention would most often be made of materials like cast iron or stainless steel, but may also be made from numerous other materials such as rubbers or plastics of various degrees of hardness. The exercise bar of the present invention may also take the shape of practically all forms of exercise bars such as barbells, dumbbells, Olympic bars, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, cables accessories, aerobic machines, free weights which are used in connection with lifting weights and exercise. It should be understood that present invention may be made from different materials that would serve the desirable purposes of the present invention found herein. The current process may use one, two or more molds, one for each or different sides of the object made and advancements in technology may alter the best process to manufacture the present invention without ever taking from the scope of the present invention. The present invention is molded in such a way to include the key features of the exercise bar and its winged grip design, with each feature, of the exercise bar and its winged grip design playing a part in making the present invention complete.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar is molded in one piece.
The one piece exercise bar consists of different parts, sections, and features, which are best used to describe and illustrate the exercise bar and its winged grip design and also enable one skilled in the art to fully understand and appreciate the many advantages of the present invention. For illustration purposes we have named the different parts, sections, and features, of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to include a Winged Palm Support, Winged Thumb Support, and Hand Surface.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar and its winged grip design is designed like many every day commonly used accessories such as gloves or shoes, whereas one is specifically designed for the left hand or foot and the other of the pair for the right hand or foot. The exercise bar and its winged grip design comes in a pair when not attached to the same bar or one winged grip area specifically designed for each hand, the left and the right, when on the same bar. For example, if the present invention was found on a dumbbell, which are commonly sold one for each hand, the present invention would have a dumbbell specifically designed as for use with the left hand and another specifically designed for the right hand. Now if the present invention was found on a single bar, say an Olympic style bar, then on this one bar will be the winged grip designed for the left hand and another area of the same bar specifically designed for the right hand.
In the preferred embodiment, when the present invention is found on a pair of bars, the left and right handed winged grips are clearly marked with words or letters such as "Left" or "L" and "Right" or "R" so it is clearly identified on the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention which is meant for which hand.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar and its winged grip design is formed into the bar, and more specifically an exercise style bar, that would be used in fitness for different kinds of known lifts in weight lifting and exercise.
Some of the more common bars that the present invention may be formed into are known as free-weights, barbells, Olympic bar, dumbbells, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, aerobic machines, cables accessories and other bars used in exercise and weight lifting such as for use of the bench press, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, weights with cables, chin-ups, curls and more. There are many different kinds of bars, including slight variations in the diameter of weight lifting bars. For example an Olympic bar is a metal bar that has outer ends that are 50 millimeters (2.0 inches) in diameter, while the grip section is 28 millimeters (1.1 inches) in diameter.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention may be molded onto all such bars in weight lifting and exercise and bar diameters. It is understood to one skilled in the art that the present invention may also come in slight variations in size that would allow the present invention to mold onto an assortment of bar sizes of varying degrees in diameter.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is molded onto the exercise or weight lifting bar in the exact position one would place their hands to lift the bar if one was not using the present invention. A standard Olympic bar is 2.2 meters (7.2 feet) long with the grip section of the bar 1.31 meters (4.3 feet) in length. Although there is no specific spot each and every person uses to grasp or hold the bar when lifting and this is more an individual preference, the present invention uses statistical data for each different bar it is molded to. It is important to understand that the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention may be molded to an exercise bar in such a way to have a plurality of positions of the winged grip design along the length of the grip section of a bar. For example, the exercise bar may have multiple winged grip design areas for the left hand and multiple winged grip design areas for the right hand, on the same bar. The reason for this is so one bar may cater to a wider assortment of people who may use it, by finding the most desirable place along the bar to place their hands and then using the winged grip design most suitable to their lifting preference when lifting the bar for weight lifting and exercise. It will be understood to one skilled in the art as the drawing and detailed description show and explain this in more detail.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is molded to an exercise or weight lifting bar in such a way so that the Winged Palm Support of the exercise bar and its winged grip design is facing the lifter in a way that when the exercise bar and its winged grip design is grasp in one's hand, the Winged Palm Support comfortably and ergonomically rests in the palm of the lifters hand. So if the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is attached on the bar in a way that there is both a left and right handed winged grip area, both of those would be molded in a way that both may be used in unison, as such that if the lifters left hand palm was resting comfortably in the left winged grip area and more precisely the Winged Palm Support made for the left hand, the right hand of the lifter would then be able to rest comfortably in the right winged grip area and more precisely the Winged Palm Support made for the right hand. The left winged grip area's Winged Palm Support fits into the palm of the left hand of the lifter and the right winged grip area's Winged Palm Support fits into the palm of the right hand of the lifter. Of course there are also many different methods used in lifting. For example in a Dead Lift the lifter lifts the weights off the floor, so the exercise bar and its winged grip design's Winged Palm Support would be facing upwards (or slightly upwards and offset depending on the lift) so that when a lifter bends over or squats to grab onto the exercise bar and its winged grip designs, that would be molded onto the bar, the lifter's left and right hands would grab onto the exercise bar and its winged grip designs in such a way that the lifter's palms of their left and right hand fit comfortable over the Wing Palm Support for the left and right handed exercise bar and its winged grip design.
When grabbed properly the feeling of the Winged Palm Support is instantly understood by the lifter as the Winged Palm Support contours and conforms to and with the shape of the palm of the lifter. A first time lifter would instinctively understand they are holding the exercise bar and its winged grip design properly because how comfortable the Winged Palm Support rests into the lifters palm. Of course the exercise bar and its winged grip design's Winged Palm Support of the present invention would face downwards (or slightly downwards and offset depending on the lift) if the lifter was lifting from under the bar in what is commonly known as squats or the bench press. In a bench press, for example, the lifter is laying or seated on a bench, like a flat bench or one that is inclined or declined.
So with each different style of lift the lifter is approaching the bar from varying degrees with their hands to grasp onto the bar. From these varying degrees the exercise bar and its winged grip design's Winged Palm Support is always rotated in such a way as to allow for the lifters palms to fit securely and comfortably onto the Winged Palm Supports of the left and right winged grip areas.
There are numerous different hand held grips lifters use when lifting weights and one skilled in the art would understand these different grips are used for lifting different weights, doing different lifts and as well as exercising different muscles. Some of the more common lifts that can be used with the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention include, but is not limited to, the Overhand Grip, Underhand Grip, Hammer Grip, False Grip, Hook Grip, Wide Grip and Close Grip. A popular grip that would not be used with the present invention is the Alternative Grip. The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention enhances a lifters ability to use each grip (except the Alternative Grip) and the advantages of using the exercise bar and its winged grip design in conjunction with different lifts will become more apparent to one skilled in the art as the present invention is understood. Of the grips listed two of the most common grips in exercise and weight lifting are known as the Overhand Grip and the Underhand Grip. With the Overhand Grip the palms are facing away from the lifter. The Overhand Grip is used for many different types of exercises and is commonly used from a bench press as well as when exercising the biceps with reverse curls. Mostly when using the Overhand Grip one is working the wrist extensor muscles (muscles on top of the forearms). With the Underhand Grip the palms are usually facing towards the lifter when doing such bicep exercises like barbell bicep curls or reverse grip chin-ups.
One common issue with both the Overhand and Underhand Grips is that the bar often rolls in the palm of ones hands when using these popular lifting and exercise grips. The issue of a rolling bar in ones palm is even more prevalent the more weight that is lifted on the bar at one time. This is why the Hook Grip is often used when powerlifting. The Hook Grip is when the lifter wraps their thumb around the bar and places their index, big and ring finger over their thumb in a way to pin the thumb to the bar, helping to hold the bar in place. For a novice lifter the Hook Grip may not be practical as it is a somewhat potentially difficult art to master as well as it can be uncomfortable.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is designed to offer many advantages that help aid a user in exercise and lifting weights. One such advantage when using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is when the user grips the exercise bar and its winged grip design and the lifter's palm rests in the Winged Palm Support the lifter may wrap their thumb behind the Winged Palm Support and onto the Winged Thumb Support.
This important design feature may be used with the Overhand or Underhand Grips and allows the user of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to mimic the Hooked Grip. Now the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention offers a more secure and stable way to lift a bar which now aids in preventing the bar from rolling in one's hand. The bar's Winged Palm Support prevents the bar from rolling as it is pressed firmly and securely into one's palms and the combination of a user wrapping their thumb around and onto the Winged Thumb Support, in conjunction with the force of one's grip, now helps aid in preventing the bar from rolling either way in one's palm. The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention offers superior gripping ability when applied with each of the most common grips associated with exercise and weight lifting.
Another such advantage of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention relates to the comfort and ergonomics of holding a bar in the palm of one's hand. A bar is not naturally shaped to fit across the palm of one's hand and a close up of a weight lifters hand and wrist holding a heavy bar is almost a painful thing to view. The present invention was ergonomically designed to contour to the palm of one's hand using scientific hand data of men, women, and children factoring in hand length, breadth, finger length, dorsum length and thumb length. Included in and factored into the design were that of the different diameters of bars, as well as, men and woman's finger grip and hand grasp formulas. One skilled in the art would understand by taking all these formulas into account the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention may be designed to ergonomically fit into the hand of a man and a woman and slight variations in design to accommodate both would in no way alter or take from the scoop of the present invention.
By forming the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to the perfect measurements of both a man and woman's hand the present invention has accomplished more than just maximum comfort when used in exercise and lifting weights. One such advantage now offered by the present invention is the distribution of weight within the user's palm, of the weight lifted, during exercise and weight lifting. The Winged Palm Support that contours to the entire palm of the lifter acts to distribute the weight over a greater surface contact area within each hand, as compared when with not using the present invention when lifting weights. By creating a greater surface area and distributing the lifted weight over this greater surface area, the ergonomics creates a more comfortable weight lifting experience. If one finds it more comfortable to lift a weight, it can be argued that they may do more repetitions, the number of times they lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise. Also if one fmds it more comfortable to lift a weight, in theory, it now becomes more comfortable to lift a greater amount of weight in one lift using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention.
Another such advantage of forming the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to the perfect measurements of both a man and woman's hand is that the Winged Palm Support forces a lifter to use proper ergonomically aligned lifting techniques when using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention. The Winged Palm Support, through the wing construction, the hand is supported and the wrist is automatically put in an ergonomically idea position. Many recreation and professional gym goers know the problem when the hands fall asleep and begins to tingle. The hand is a very complex and sensitive part of the body with a lot of nerves running through the wrist which acts as a bottleneck and thus a problem area.
Due to low fat and muscle, the hand is less protected and thus vulnerable to pressure load. The hands bolster a large part of the upper body weight onto the barbell and thus there is constant and high pressure onto a small area causing nerves to become irritated.
Compounding the issue is many lifters bend their wrists to much resulting in sensory loss, tingling, numbness or abnormal sensations in the little finger and ring finger. In extreme cases even the grasping function of all fingers is limited. Strong pressure points may lead to kinking off the Ulnar nerves further leading to numbness or impaired mobility. The wing grip of the exercise bar and its winged grip design not only enlarges the contact area of the hand, allowing for pressure to be more widely distributed over a larger area, thus relieving the Ulnar nerve and increasing comfort, but also helps prevent the wrist from bending. Heavy weights, with increasing fatigue, complicate the ergonomically correct position of the hand and cause a bent wrist, however, with the winged design of the present invention the wrist is actively prevented from kinking or falling downward, thus offering maximum hand comfort and support by putting the wrist automatically in an ergonomically idea position. By creating a greater contact surface area, and distributing the lifted weight over this greater surface area, and now also allowing for the proper alignment of the wrist in the most ergonomically position, it can be argued that lifters may do more repetitions, the number of times they lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise, when using the present invention.
Also if one finds it more comfortable to lift an amount of weight, and the weight is distributed over a greater area, and maximum proper alignment is used, in theory, it now becomes more comfortable, and possible, to lift a greater amount of weight in one lift using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention.
The present invention should now start to become more apparent as to its many design features as stated earlier in the aims of the present invention. One such aim of the present invention is to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support. A
further aim of the present invention is to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that improves the grip of a weight lifted bar and allows for more comfort while lifting weights.
Still a further aim of the present invention is to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that offers superior improvements in regards to proper alignment when lifting weights, aligning the lifted weight in one's hands, in an ergonomic way, to allow for reduced stress and injuries when weight lifting, to the fingers, hands, wrist, elbows, shoulder, neck, back, torso, knees, ankles and feet. It is yet still a further aim of the present invention to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that further distributes the weight being lifted over a greater surface contact area of one's hand, than just the bar itself, when weight lifting in relation to one's hands holding a lifted bar.
Yet it is still a further aim of the present invention to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that through proper alignment and enhanced comfort when lifting weights, as well as distributing weight to a greater surface contact area, an increased user ability to perform more repetitions and lift more weight in a lift when lifting weights with the present invention.
Another aim of the present invention is to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that is molded to different pieces of exercise equipment, in the most ergonomically comfortably way taking into account scientific data for both a man's and woman's hands.
While the present invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments have been shown by way of example found in the drawing herein. It should be understood that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular forms disclosed.
Rather the invention is to cover all modifications, equivalents and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention. The detailed description and figures will describe many of the embodiments and aspects of the present invention and the present invention will become clearer and more precise to one skilled in the art in the following sections.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The novel features of the various embodiments of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The various embodiments, however, both as to the physical invention and the methods of operation may best be understood by way of example with references to the following description and taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing as follows. In the following Figures like components are shown with like numbers.
FIGURE 1 (FIG. 1) is showing the winged palm support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a bar bell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 2 (FIG. 2) is showing the winged thumb support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a bar bell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 3 (FIG. 3) is showing a top view of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a bar bell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 4 (FIG. 4) is showing the winged palm support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a left and right handed dumbbell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 5 (FIG. 5) is showing the winged thumb support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a left and right handed dumbbell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 6 (FIG. 6) is showing a top view of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a left and right handed dumbbell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 7 (FIG. 7) is showing the winged palm support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to an EZ bar style exercise bar.
FIGURE 8 (FIG. 8) is showing the winged thumb support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to an EZ bar style exercise bar.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The present invention is directed to an exercise bar, and more particularly, an ergonomically designed exercise bar, formed with winged shaped hand grips that are used for the purposes of exercising and lifting weights. More specifically the present invention is an exercise bar, with a molded wing designed grip that is part of a weight lifting bar for the purposes of allowing for enhanced grip, improved support stability, more sophisticated ergonomics and comfort with further purposes of preventing injuries by allowing for proper alignment of the palm, fingers, hand and wrist when lifting weights and performing exercises. The present invention also distributes weight to a greater surface contact area of the palm of the hand which allows for an increased user ability to perform more repetitions and lift more weight in a lift, when lifting weights with the ergonomically designed exercise bar of the present invention.
In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar of the present invention is made with the manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify and the solidified part is also known as a casting which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process. The exercise bar of the present invention would most often be made of materials like cast iron or stainless steel, but may also be made from numerous other materials such as rubbers or plastics of various degrees of hardness. The exercise bar of the present invention may also take the shape of practically all forms of exercise bars such as barbells, dumbbells, Olympic bars, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, cable machine attachments, shoulder press machine, aerobic machines, and all free weights which are used in connection with lifting weights and exercise. It should be understood that present invention may be made from different materials that would serve the desirable purposes of the present invention found herein.
The current process may use one, two or more molds, one for each or different sides of the object made and advancements in technology may alter the best process to manufacture the present invention without ever taking from the scope of the present invention. The present invention is molded in such a way to include the key features of the exercise bar and its winged grip design, with each feature, of the exercise bar and its winged grip design playing a part in making the present invention complete.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar is molded in one piece.
The one piece exercise bar consists of different parts, sections, and features, which are best used to describe and illustrate the exercise bar and its winged grip design and also enable one skilled in the art to fully understand and appreciate the many advantages of the present invention. For illustration purposes we have named the different parts, sections, and features, of the exercise bar and its winged grip design (shown in Figures as 10) of the present invention to include a Winged Palm Support (shown in Figures as 12), Winged Thumb Support (shown in Figures as 14), and Hand Surface Area.
Now referring to all FIGURES, FIG. 1 thru FIG. 8, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar and its winged grip design is designed like many every day commonly used accessories such as gloves or shoes, whereas one is specifically designed for the left hand (shown as 10 L) or foot and the other of the pair for the right hand (shown as 10 R) or foot.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design comes in a pair (one for each hand, 10 L, 10 R), when not attached to the same bar (as shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6) or one winged grip area specifically designed for each hand, the left 10 (L) and the right 10 (R), when on the same bar (as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG 7 and FIG. 8). For example, if the present invention was found on a dumbbell 30 (as shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6), which are commonly sold one for each hand, the present invention 10 would have a dumbbell 30 specifically designed as for use with the left hand 10 (L) and another specifically designed for the right hand 10 (R). Now if the present invention was found on a single bar, say an Olympic style bar bell 20 (as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3), then on this one bar will be the winged grip designed for the left hand 10 (L) and another area of the same bar specifically designed for the right hand 10 (R). In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the left 10 (L) and right 10 (R) handed winged grips are clearly marked with words or letters such as "Left" or "L" and "Right" or "R" so it is clearly identified on the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention which is meant for which hand.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar and its winged grip design is formed into the bar, and more specifically an exercise style bar, that would be used in fitness for different kinds of known lifts in weight lifting and exercise.
Some of the more common bars that the present invention may be formed into are known as free-weights, barbells 20 (as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3), Olympic bar 20 (as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG.
3), dumbbells 30 (as shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6), plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, cables machine attachments, EZ style bars 40 (as shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8), aerobic machines, and other bars and bar styles used in exercise and weight lifting such as for use of the bench press, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, weights with cables, chin-ups, curls and more. There are many different kinds of bars, including slight variations in the diameter of weight lifting bars. For example an Olympic bar 20 (FIG.1 ) is a metal bar that has outer ends 22 that are 50 (fifty) millimeters (2.0 inches) in diameter, while the grip section 24 is 28 twenty-eight) millimeters (1.1 inches) in diameter. The exercise bar and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention may be molded onto all such bars in weight lifting and exercise and bar diameters. It is understood to one skilled in the art that the present invention may also come in slight variations in size that would allow the present invention to mold onto an assot tment of bar sizes of varying degrees in diameter.
In an alternate embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar and its winged grip design is formed into the bar, and more specifically an exercise style bar, that would be used in fitness for different kinds of known lifts in weight lifting and exercise.
Although the winged grip design is formed into the bar, it is totally possible it is made of a completely, slightly or is coated in a different material than that of the bar it is molded or formed into. The reason for this is often a coating, for example a rubber coating, is placed over the exercise bar itself to either maximize the grip of the exercise bar or entice the feel for the lifter. It should be understood to one skilled in the art that placing a thin coating or changing the material of the winged grip designed, does in no way change the present invention or the preferred embodiment of the present invention.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design 10 (FIG. 1) of the present invention is molded onto the exercise or weight lifting bar 20 in the exact position one would place their hands 10 (R) and 10 (L) to lift the bar 20 if one was not using the present invention. A
standard Olympic bar 20 is 2.2 meters (7.2 feet) long with the grip section 24 of the bar 1.31 meters (4.3 feet) in length.
Although there is no specific spot each and every person uses to grasp or hold the bar when lifting and this is more an individual preference, the present invention uses statistical data for each different bar it is molded to. It is important to understand that the exercise bar and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention may be molded to an exercise bar 20 in such a way to have a plurality of positions (not shown in Figures) of the winged grip design 10 along the length of the grip section 24 of a bar 20. For example, the exercise bar 20 may have multiple winged grip design 10 areas for the left hand 10 (L) and multiple winged grip design 10 areas for the right hand 10 (R), on the same bar 20. The reason for this is so one bar 20 may cater to a wider assortment of people who may use it, by finding the most desirable place along the bar grip area 24 to place their hands and then using the winged grip design 10 most suitable to their lifting preference when lifting the bar 20 for weight lifting and exercise. It will be understood to one skilled in the art as the drawing and detailed description show and explain this in more detail.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design 10 (FIG. 1) of the present invention is molded to an exercise or weight lifting bar 20 in such a way so that the Winged Palm Support 12 of the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 is facing the lifter in a way that when the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 is grasp in one's hand, the Winged Palm Support 12 comfortably and ergonomically rests in the palm of the lifters hand. So if the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention is attached on the bar 20 in a way that there is both a left 10 (L) and right 10 (R) handed winged grip area 10, both of those would be molded in a way that both may be used in unison, as such that if the lifters left hand palm was resting comfortably in the left winged grip 10 (L) area and more precisely the Winged Palm Support 12 made for the left hand 10 (L), and the right hand of the lifter would then be able to rest comfortably in the right winged grip 10 (R) area and more precisely the Winged Palm Support 12 made for the right hand 10 (R). The left winged grip 10 (L) area's Winged Palm Support 12 fits into the palm of the left hand of the lifter and the right winged grip 10 (R) area's Winged Palm Support 12 fits into the palm of the right hand of the lifter. Of course there are also many different methods used in lifting. For example in a Dead Lift the lifter lifts the weights off the floor, so the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip 10 design's Winged Palm Support 12 would be facing upwards (or slightly upwards and offset depending on the lift) so that when a lifter bends over or squats to grab onto the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip 10 designs, that would be molded onto the bar 20, the lifter's left and right hands would grab onto the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip 10 designs in such a way that the lifter's palms of their left and right hand fit comfortable over the Wing Palm Support 12 for the left 10 (L) and right 10 (R) handed exercise bar and its winged grip 10 design. When referring specifically to FIG. 1, the lifter (not shown) would stand behind and facing this bar 20 if the lifter was to bend to pick up this bar 20 by placing their left and right hands, and more specifically, the palm of their left hand onto the Winged Palm Support 12 of the left winged grip 10 (L) designed for the left hand of the lifter and the palm of their right hand onto the Winged Palm Support 12 of the right winged grip 10 (R) designed for the right hand. When grabbed properly the feeling of the Winged Palm Support 12 is instantly understood by the lifter as the Winged Palm Support 12 contours and conforms to and with the shape of the palm of the lifter. A first time lifter would instinctively understand they are holding the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 properly because how comfortable the Winged Palm Support 12 rests into the lifters palm. Of course the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip 10 design's Winged Palm Support 12 of the present invention would face downwards (or slightly downwards and offset depending on the lift) if the lifter was lifting from under the bar 20 in what is commonly known as squats or the bench press. In a bench press, for example, the lifter is laying or seated on a bench, like a flat bench or one that is inclined or declined. So with each different style of lift the lifter is approaching the bar 20 from varying degrees with their hands to grasp onto the bar. From these varying degrees the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip 10 design's Winged Palm Support 12 is always rotated in such a way as to allow for the lifters palms to fit securely and comfortably onto the Winged Palm Supports 12 of the left 10 (L) and right 10 (R) winged grip areas.
Now referring to FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 is showing the exercise bar 30 and its winged grip design 10 has been molded and formed to a different style of bar, in this example a set of dumbbells.
Now referring to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 is showing the exercise bar 40 and its winged grip design has been molded and formed to a different style of bar, in this example an EZ
style bar 40. One skilled in the art can now understand that the present invention can be molded and formed to many different styles of exercise and weight lifting bars 20, 30, 40 (from FIG. 1 to 8) without taking from the scope of the present invention and thus just altering the style of bar 20, 30, 40, in no way alters or changes the winged grip design 10 and all the features and advantages of the present invention is in no way altered simply because the design or style of the exercise and weight lifting bar 20, 30 and 40, the present invention is molded or formed to. It is understood that no matter the style of exercise or weight lifting bar, either 20, 30, 40, as well as all those not shown in the drawing such as commonly known exercise and weight lifting bars such as plate loaded machines and cable loaded machines, the placement of the lifter's palms and how it conforms to the Winged Palm Support 12 does not change, thus proving the present invention is not altered just by the style of exercise and weight lifting bar it is molded and formed to.
There are numerous different hand held grips lifters use when lifting weights and one skilled in the art would understand these different grips are used for lifting different weights, doing different lifts and as well as exercising different muscles. Some of the more common lifts that can be used with the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention include, but is not limited to, the Overhand Grip, Underhand Grip, Hammer Grip, False Grip, Hook Grip, Wide Grip and Close Grip. A popular grip that would not be used with the present invention is the Alternative Grip. The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention enhances a lifters ability to use each grip (except the Alternative Grip) and the advantages of using the exercise bar and its winged grip design in conjunction with different lifts will become more apparent to one skilled in the art as the present invention is understood. Of the grips listed two of the most common grips in exercise and weight lifting are known as the Overhand Grip and the Underhand Grip. With the Overhand Grip the palms are facing away from the lifter. The Overhand Grip is used for many different types of exercises and is commonly used from a bench press as well as when exercising the biceps with reverse curls. Mostly when using the Overhand Grip one is working the wrist extensor muscles (muscles on top of the forearms). With the Underhand Grip the palms are usually facing towards the lifter when doing such bicep exercises like barbell bicep curls or reverse grip chin-ups.
One common issue with both the Overhand and Underhand Grips is that the bar often rolls in the palm of ones hands when using these popular lifting and exercise grips. The issue of a rolling bar in ones palm is even more prevalent the more weight that is lifted on the bar at one time. This is why the Hook Grip is often used when powerlifting. The Hook Grip is when the lifter wraps their thumb around the bar and places their index, big and ring finger over their thumb in a way to pin the thumb to the bar, helping to hold the bar in place. For a novice lifter the Hook Grip may not be practical as it is a somewhat potentially difficult art to master as well as it can be uncomfortable.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is designed to offer many advantages that help aid a user in exercise and lifting weights. Now referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, one such advantage when using the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention is when the user grips the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 and the lifter's palm rests in the Winged Palm Support 12 the lifter may wrap their thumb behind the Winged Palm Support 12 and onto the Winged Thumb Support 14. The Winged Thumb Support 14 is on the other side of the wing grip design 10 from that of the Winged Palm Support 12. This important design feature may be used with the Overhand or Underhand Grips and allows the user of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to mimic the Hooked Grip. Now the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention offers a more secure and stable way to lift a bar 20 which now aids in preventing the bar from rolling in one's hand. The bar's Winged Palm Support 12 prevents the bar 20 from rolling as it is pressed firmly and securely into one's palms and the combination of a user wrapping their thumb around the winged design and onto the Winged Thumb Support 14, in conjunction with the force of one's grip onto the winged grip design 10, now helps aid in preventing the bar 20 from rolling either way in one's palm. The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention offers superior gripping ability when applied with each of the most common grips associated with exercise and weight lifting.
Another such advantage of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention relates to the comfort and ergonomics of holding a bar in the palm of one's hand. A bar is not naturally shaped to fit across the palm of one's hand and a close up of a weight lifters hand and wrist holding a heavy bar is almost a painful thing to view. The present invention was ergonomically designed to contour to the palm of one's hand using scientific hand data of men, women, and children factoring in hand length, breadth, finger length, dorsum length and thumb length. Included in and factored into the design were that of the different diameters of bars, as well as, men and woman's finger grip and hand grasp formulas. One skilled in the art would appreciate that by taking all these formulas into account the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention may be designed to ergonomically fit into the hand of a man and a woman and slight variations in design to accommodate both would in no way alter or take from the scoop of the present invention.
By forming the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to the perfect measurements of both a man and woman's hand the present invention has accomplished more than just maximum comfort when used in exercise and lifting weights. One such advantage now offered by the present invention is the distribution of weight within the user's palm, of the weight lifted, during exercise and weight lifting. Referring to all FIG's 1 through 8 where shown, the Winged Palm Support 12 that contours to the entire palm of the lifter acts to distribute the weight over a greater surface contact area within each hand, as compared when with not using the present invention when lifting weights. By creating a greater surface area and distributing the lifted weight over this greater surface area, the ergonomics creates a more comfortable weight lifting experience.
If one finds it more comfortable to lift a weight, it can be argued that they may do more repetitions, the number of times they lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise.
Also if one finds it more comfortable to lift a weight, in theory, it now becomes more comfortable to lift a greater amount of weight in one lift using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention.
Another such advantage of forming the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to the perfect measurements of both a man and woman's hand is that the Winged Palm Support 12, FIG's 1 through 8 where shown, forces a lifter to use proper ergonomically aligned lifting techniques when using the exercise bar 20, 30, 40 and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention. The Winged Palm Support 12, through the wing construction, the hand is supported and the wrist is automatically put in an ergonomically idea position. Many recreation and professional gym goers know the problem when the hands fall asleep and begins to tingle.
The hand is a very complex and sensitive part of the body with a lot of nerves running through the wrist which acts as a bottleneck and thus a problem area. Due to low fat and muscle, the hand is less protected and thus vulnerable to pressure load. The hands bolster a large part of the upper body weight onto the barbell and thus there is constant and high pressure onto a small area causing nerves to become irritated.
Compounding the issue is many lifters bend their wrists to much resulting in sensory loss, tingling, numbness or abnormal sensations in the little finger and ring finger. In extreme cases even the grasping function of all fingers is limited. Strong pressure points may lead to kinking off the Ulnar nerves further leading to numbness or impaired mobility. The wing grip of the exercise bar 20, 30, 40, and its winged grip design 10 not only enlarges the contact area of the hand, allowing for pressure to be more widely distributed over a larger area, thus relieving the Ulnar nerve and increasing comfort, but also helps prevent the wrist from bending. Heavy weights, with increasing fatigue, complicate the ergonomically correct position of the hand and cause a bent wrist, however, with the winged design 10 of the present invention the wrist is actively prevented from kinking or falling downward, thus offering maximum hand comfort and support by putting the wrist automatically in an ergonomically idea position. By creating a greater contact surface area, and distributing the lifted weight over this greater surface area, and now also allowing for the proper alignment of the wrist in the most ergonomically position, it can be argued that lifters may do more repetitions, the number of times they lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise, when using the present invention. Also if one finds it more comfortable to lift an amount of weight, and the weight is distributed over a greater area, and maximum proper alignment is used, in theory, it now becomes more comfortable, and possible, to lift a greater amount of weight in one lift using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention.
The present invention should now start to become more apparent as to its many design features as stated earlier in the aims of the present invention. The present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support. Further the present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that improves the grip of a weight lifted bar and allows for more comfort while lifting weights. Still further the present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that offers superior improvements in regards to proper alignment when lifting weights, aligning the lifted weight in one's hands, in an ergonomic way, to allow for reduced stress and injuries when weight lifting, to the fingers, hands, wrist, elbows, shoulder, neck, back, torso, knees, ankles and feet. Still further the present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that further distributes the weight being lifted over a greater surface contact area of one's hand, than just the bar itself, when weight lifting in relation to one's hands holding a lifted bar. Yet still further the present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that through proper alignment and enhanced comfort when lifting weights, as well as distributing weight to a greater surface contact area, an increased user ability to perform more repetitions and lift more weight in a lift when lifting weights with the present invention. Yet further still the present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that is molded to different pieces of exercise and weight lifting equipment, in the most ergonomically comfortably way, taking into account scientific data for both a man's and woman's hands.
While the present invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments have been shown by way of example found in the drawing herein. It should be understood that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular forms disclosed.
Rather the invention is to cover all modifications, equivalents and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar, whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is molded or formed to any style of weight lifting or exercise bar, or bar attached to a weight lifting or exercise bar, or as an accessory of, any weight lifting or exercise bar, or exercise machine or similar device comprising:
a winged shaped formed area specifically designed for the left hand;
a winged shaped formed area specifically designed for the right hand.
2. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is molded in one piece.
3. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is molded in one piece and may be made molded or formed in a plurality of different materials, either the same or different material from the bar as a whole.
4. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the wing shaped formed area is ergonomically designed to fit comfortably in the palm of a person holding the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device.
D546,659 to Smith, is disclosed a "Tool Grip". In United States Patent, Number US 5,459,883 to Garceau-Verbeck, is disclosed an "Ergonomic Hand Covering and Grip Enhancer". In United States Patent, Numbered US 8,777,816 to Grafman et al, is disclosed a "Bar Grip". In United States Patent, Numbered US
9,643,073 to Pellegrino, is disclosed an "Exercise Grip". In United States Patent, Numbered US
9,061,728 to Galstad et al, is disclosed a "Bicycle Handlebar and Grip Assembly". In United States Patent, Numbered US 8,776,321 to Doherty et al, is disclosed an "Ergonomic, Shock-Absorbing Hand Grip". In United States Patent, Numbered US 8,113,087 to Arnold, is disclosed a "Bicycle Handle-Bar Grip". In United States Patent, Numbered US 7,736,284 to Andrews, is disclosed a "Hand-Grip Accessory." In United States Patent, Numbered US 4,487,412 to Meeko, is disclosed "Weight Lift Grips". While many of these applications involve grips or weight lifting aids, none of them by themselves, or collectively, disclose the advantages of the present invention of a exercise bar, and more particularly, an ergonomically designed exercise bar, formed with winged shaped hand grips that is used for the purposes of exercising and lifting weights, that offers enhanced grip, improved support stability, sophisticated ergonomics and comfort, reduces injuries, forces proper ergonomic alignment for the hands and wrists, as well as distributes the weight being lifted to a greater surface area of one's hands, when using the exercise bar in conjunction with exercise and lifting weights.
It is an aim of the present invention to offer an ergonomically designed exercise bar. It is a further aim of the present invention to offer an ergonomically designed exercise bar with a winged shaped grip, an ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that improves the grip of a weight lifted bar and allows for more comfort while lifting weights and doing exercise. It is still a further aim of the present invention to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that offers superior improvements in regards to proper alignment when lifting weights, aligning the lifted weight in one's hands, in an ergonomic way, to allow for reduced stress and injuries when weight lifting, to the fingers, hands, wrist, elbows, shoulder, neck, back, torso, knees, anldes and feet. It is yet still a further aim of the present invention to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that further distributes the weight being lifted over a greater surface contact area of one's hand. Yet it is still a further aim of the present invention to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that through proper alignment and enhanced comfort when lifting weights, as well as distributing weight to a greater surface contact area, an increased user ability to perform more repetitions and lift more weight in a lift when lifting weights with the present invention. Another aim of the present invention is to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that may be formed to for use with many different pieces of exercise bar types and styles.
Thus there is a considerable need for the present invention and one skilled in the art will continue to understand this need in the following summary and furthermore in the drawing and detailed description of the drawing.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to an exercise bar, and more particularly, an ergonomically designed exercise bar, formed with winged shaped hand grips that are used for the purposes of exercising and lifting weights. More specifically the present invention is an exercise bar, with a molded wing designed grip that is part of a weight lifting bar for the purposes of allowing for enhanced grip, improved support stability, more sophisticated ergonomics and comfort with further purposes of preventing injuries by allowing for proper alignment of the fingers, hand and wrist when lifting weights and performing exercises. The present invention also distributes weight to a greater surface contact area of the hand which allows for an increased user ability to perform more repetitions and lift more weight in a lift, when lifting weights with the ergonomically designed exercise bar of the present invention.
In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar of the present invention is made with the manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify and the solidified part is also known as a casting which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process. The exercise bar of the present invention would most often be made of materials like cast iron or stainless steel, but may also be made from numerous other materials such as rubbers or plastics of various degrees of hardness. The exercise bar of the present invention may also take the shape of practically all forms of exercise bars such as barbells, dumbbells, Olympic bars, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, cables accessories, aerobic machines, free weights which are used in connection with lifting weights and exercise. It should be understood that present invention may be made from different materials that would serve the desirable purposes of the present invention found herein. The current process may use one, two or more molds, one for each or different sides of the object made and advancements in technology may alter the best process to manufacture the present invention without ever taking from the scope of the present invention. The present invention is molded in such a way to include the key features of the exercise bar and its winged grip design, with each feature, of the exercise bar and its winged grip design playing a part in making the present invention complete.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar is molded in one piece.
The one piece exercise bar consists of different parts, sections, and features, which are best used to describe and illustrate the exercise bar and its winged grip design and also enable one skilled in the art to fully understand and appreciate the many advantages of the present invention. For illustration purposes we have named the different parts, sections, and features, of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to include a Winged Palm Support, Winged Thumb Support, and Hand Surface.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar and its winged grip design is designed like many every day commonly used accessories such as gloves or shoes, whereas one is specifically designed for the left hand or foot and the other of the pair for the right hand or foot. The exercise bar and its winged grip design comes in a pair when not attached to the same bar or one winged grip area specifically designed for each hand, the left and the right, when on the same bar. For example, if the present invention was found on a dumbbell, which are commonly sold one for each hand, the present invention would have a dumbbell specifically designed as for use with the left hand and another specifically designed for the right hand. Now if the present invention was found on a single bar, say an Olympic style bar, then on this one bar will be the winged grip designed for the left hand and another area of the same bar specifically designed for the right hand.
In the preferred embodiment, when the present invention is found on a pair of bars, the left and right handed winged grips are clearly marked with words or letters such as "Left" or "L" and "Right" or "R" so it is clearly identified on the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention which is meant for which hand.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar and its winged grip design is formed into the bar, and more specifically an exercise style bar, that would be used in fitness for different kinds of known lifts in weight lifting and exercise.
Some of the more common bars that the present invention may be formed into are known as free-weights, barbells, Olympic bar, dumbbells, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, aerobic machines, cables accessories and other bars used in exercise and weight lifting such as for use of the bench press, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, weights with cables, chin-ups, curls and more. There are many different kinds of bars, including slight variations in the diameter of weight lifting bars. For example an Olympic bar is a metal bar that has outer ends that are 50 millimeters (2.0 inches) in diameter, while the grip section is 28 millimeters (1.1 inches) in diameter.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention may be molded onto all such bars in weight lifting and exercise and bar diameters. It is understood to one skilled in the art that the present invention may also come in slight variations in size that would allow the present invention to mold onto an assortment of bar sizes of varying degrees in diameter.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is molded onto the exercise or weight lifting bar in the exact position one would place their hands to lift the bar if one was not using the present invention. A standard Olympic bar is 2.2 meters (7.2 feet) long with the grip section of the bar 1.31 meters (4.3 feet) in length. Although there is no specific spot each and every person uses to grasp or hold the bar when lifting and this is more an individual preference, the present invention uses statistical data for each different bar it is molded to. It is important to understand that the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention may be molded to an exercise bar in such a way to have a plurality of positions of the winged grip design along the length of the grip section of a bar. For example, the exercise bar may have multiple winged grip design areas for the left hand and multiple winged grip design areas for the right hand, on the same bar. The reason for this is so one bar may cater to a wider assortment of people who may use it, by finding the most desirable place along the bar to place their hands and then using the winged grip design most suitable to their lifting preference when lifting the bar for weight lifting and exercise. It will be understood to one skilled in the art as the drawing and detailed description show and explain this in more detail.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is molded to an exercise or weight lifting bar in such a way so that the Winged Palm Support of the exercise bar and its winged grip design is facing the lifter in a way that when the exercise bar and its winged grip design is grasp in one's hand, the Winged Palm Support comfortably and ergonomically rests in the palm of the lifters hand. So if the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is attached on the bar in a way that there is both a left and right handed winged grip area, both of those would be molded in a way that both may be used in unison, as such that if the lifters left hand palm was resting comfortably in the left winged grip area and more precisely the Winged Palm Support made for the left hand, the right hand of the lifter would then be able to rest comfortably in the right winged grip area and more precisely the Winged Palm Support made for the right hand. The left winged grip area's Winged Palm Support fits into the palm of the left hand of the lifter and the right winged grip area's Winged Palm Support fits into the palm of the right hand of the lifter. Of course there are also many different methods used in lifting. For example in a Dead Lift the lifter lifts the weights off the floor, so the exercise bar and its winged grip design's Winged Palm Support would be facing upwards (or slightly upwards and offset depending on the lift) so that when a lifter bends over or squats to grab onto the exercise bar and its winged grip designs, that would be molded onto the bar, the lifter's left and right hands would grab onto the exercise bar and its winged grip designs in such a way that the lifter's palms of their left and right hand fit comfortable over the Wing Palm Support for the left and right handed exercise bar and its winged grip design.
When grabbed properly the feeling of the Winged Palm Support is instantly understood by the lifter as the Winged Palm Support contours and conforms to and with the shape of the palm of the lifter. A first time lifter would instinctively understand they are holding the exercise bar and its winged grip design properly because how comfortable the Winged Palm Support rests into the lifters palm. Of course the exercise bar and its winged grip design's Winged Palm Support of the present invention would face downwards (or slightly downwards and offset depending on the lift) if the lifter was lifting from under the bar in what is commonly known as squats or the bench press. In a bench press, for example, the lifter is laying or seated on a bench, like a flat bench or one that is inclined or declined.
So with each different style of lift the lifter is approaching the bar from varying degrees with their hands to grasp onto the bar. From these varying degrees the exercise bar and its winged grip design's Winged Palm Support is always rotated in such a way as to allow for the lifters palms to fit securely and comfortably onto the Winged Palm Supports of the left and right winged grip areas.
There are numerous different hand held grips lifters use when lifting weights and one skilled in the art would understand these different grips are used for lifting different weights, doing different lifts and as well as exercising different muscles. Some of the more common lifts that can be used with the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention include, but is not limited to, the Overhand Grip, Underhand Grip, Hammer Grip, False Grip, Hook Grip, Wide Grip and Close Grip. A popular grip that would not be used with the present invention is the Alternative Grip. The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention enhances a lifters ability to use each grip (except the Alternative Grip) and the advantages of using the exercise bar and its winged grip design in conjunction with different lifts will become more apparent to one skilled in the art as the present invention is understood. Of the grips listed two of the most common grips in exercise and weight lifting are known as the Overhand Grip and the Underhand Grip. With the Overhand Grip the palms are facing away from the lifter. The Overhand Grip is used for many different types of exercises and is commonly used from a bench press as well as when exercising the biceps with reverse curls. Mostly when using the Overhand Grip one is working the wrist extensor muscles (muscles on top of the forearms). With the Underhand Grip the palms are usually facing towards the lifter when doing such bicep exercises like barbell bicep curls or reverse grip chin-ups.
One common issue with both the Overhand and Underhand Grips is that the bar often rolls in the palm of ones hands when using these popular lifting and exercise grips. The issue of a rolling bar in ones palm is even more prevalent the more weight that is lifted on the bar at one time. This is why the Hook Grip is often used when powerlifting. The Hook Grip is when the lifter wraps their thumb around the bar and places their index, big and ring finger over their thumb in a way to pin the thumb to the bar, helping to hold the bar in place. For a novice lifter the Hook Grip may not be practical as it is a somewhat potentially difficult art to master as well as it can be uncomfortable.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is designed to offer many advantages that help aid a user in exercise and lifting weights. One such advantage when using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is when the user grips the exercise bar and its winged grip design and the lifter's palm rests in the Winged Palm Support the lifter may wrap their thumb behind the Winged Palm Support and onto the Winged Thumb Support.
This important design feature may be used with the Overhand or Underhand Grips and allows the user of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to mimic the Hooked Grip. Now the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention offers a more secure and stable way to lift a bar which now aids in preventing the bar from rolling in one's hand. The bar's Winged Palm Support prevents the bar from rolling as it is pressed firmly and securely into one's palms and the combination of a user wrapping their thumb around and onto the Winged Thumb Support, in conjunction with the force of one's grip, now helps aid in preventing the bar from rolling either way in one's palm. The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention offers superior gripping ability when applied with each of the most common grips associated with exercise and weight lifting.
Another such advantage of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention relates to the comfort and ergonomics of holding a bar in the palm of one's hand. A bar is not naturally shaped to fit across the palm of one's hand and a close up of a weight lifters hand and wrist holding a heavy bar is almost a painful thing to view. The present invention was ergonomically designed to contour to the palm of one's hand using scientific hand data of men, women, and children factoring in hand length, breadth, finger length, dorsum length and thumb length. Included in and factored into the design were that of the different diameters of bars, as well as, men and woman's finger grip and hand grasp formulas. One skilled in the art would understand by taking all these formulas into account the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention may be designed to ergonomically fit into the hand of a man and a woman and slight variations in design to accommodate both would in no way alter or take from the scoop of the present invention.
By forming the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to the perfect measurements of both a man and woman's hand the present invention has accomplished more than just maximum comfort when used in exercise and lifting weights. One such advantage now offered by the present invention is the distribution of weight within the user's palm, of the weight lifted, during exercise and weight lifting. The Winged Palm Support that contours to the entire palm of the lifter acts to distribute the weight over a greater surface contact area within each hand, as compared when with not using the present invention when lifting weights. By creating a greater surface area and distributing the lifted weight over this greater surface area, the ergonomics creates a more comfortable weight lifting experience. If one finds it more comfortable to lift a weight, it can be argued that they may do more repetitions, the number of times they lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise. Also if one fmds it more comfortable to lift a weight, in theory, it now becomes more comfortable to lift a greater amount of weight in one lift using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention.
Another such advantage of forming the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to the perfect measurements of both a man and woman's hand is that the Winged Palm Support forces a lifter to use proper ergonomically aligned lifting techniques when using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention. The Winged Palm Support, through the wing construction, the hand is supported and the wrist is automatically put in an ergonomically idea position. Many recreation and professional gym goers know the problem when the hands fall asleep and begins to tingle. The hand is a very complex and sensitive part of the body with a lot of nerves running through the wrist which acts as a bottleneck and thus a problem area.
Due to low fat and muscle, the hand is less protected and thus vulnerable to pressure load. The hands bolster a large part of the upper body weight onto the barbell and thus there is constant and high pressure onto a small area causing nerves to become irritated.
Compounding the issue is many lifters bend their wrists to much resulting in sensory loss, tingling, numbness or abnormal sensations in the little finger and ring finger. In extreme cases even the grasping function of all fingers is limited. Strong pressure points may lead to kinking off the Ulnar nerves further leading to numbness or impaired mobility. The wing grip of the exercise bar and its winged grip design not only enlarges the contact area of the hand, allowing for pressure to be more widely distributed over a larger area, thus relieving the Ulnar nerve and increasing comfort, but also helps prevent the wrist from bending. Heavy weights, with increasing fatigue, complicate the ergonomically correct position of the hand and cause a bent wrist, however, with the winged design of the present invention the wrist is actively prevented from kinking or falling downward, thus offering maximum hand comfort and support by putting the wrist automatically in an ergonomically idea position. By creating a greater contact surface area, and distributing the lifted weight over this greater surface area, and now also allowing for the proper alignment of the wrist in the most ergonomically position, it can be argued that lifters may do more repetitions, the number of times they lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise, when using the present invention.
Also if one finds it more comfortable to lift an amount of weight, and the weight is distributed over a greater area, and maximum proper alignment is used, in theory, it now becomes more comfortable, and possible, to lift a greater amount of weight in one lift using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention.
The present invention should now start to become more apparent as to its many design features as stated earlier in the aims of the present invention. One such aim of the present invention is to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support. A
further aim of the present invention is to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that improves the grip of a weight lifted bar and allows for more comfort while lifting weights.
Still a further aim of the present invention is to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that offers superior improvements in regards to proper alignment when lifting weights, aligning the lifted weight in one's hands, in an ergonomic way, to allow for reduced stress and injuries when weight lifting, to the fingers, hands, wrist, elbows, shoulder, neck, back, torso, knees, ankles and feet. It is yet still a further aim of the present invention to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that further distributes the weight being lifted over a greater surface contact area of one's hand, than just the bar itself, when weight lifting in relation to one's hands holding a lifted bar.
Yet it is still a further aim of the present invention to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that through proper alignment and enhanced comfort when lifting weights, as well as distributing weight to a greater surface contact area, an increased user ability to perform more repetitions and lift more weight in a lift when lifting weights with the present invention.
Another aim of the present invention is to offer a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that is molded to different pieces of exercise equipment, in the most ergonomically comfortably way taking into account scientific data for both a man's and woman's hands.
While the present invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments have been shown by way of example found in the drawing herein. It should be understood that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular forms disclosed.
Rather the invention is to cover all modifications, equivalents and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention. The detailed description and figures will describe many of the embodiments and aspects of the present invention and the present invention will become clearer and more precise to one skilled in the art in the following sections.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The novel features of the various embodiments of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The various embodiments, however, both as to the physical invention and the methods of operation may best be understood by way of example with references to the following description and taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing as follows. In the following Figures like components are shown with like numbers.
FIGURE 1 (FIG. 1) is showing the winged palm support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a bar bell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 2 (FIG. 2) is showing the winged thumb support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a bar bell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 3 (FIG. 3) is showing a top view of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a bar bell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 4 (FIG. 4) is showing the winged palm support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a left and right handed dumbbell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 5 (FIG. 5) is showing the winged thumb support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a left and right handed dumbbell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 6 (FIG. 6) is showing a top view of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to a left and right handed dumbbell style exercise bar.
FIGURE 7 (FIG. 7) is showing the winged palm support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to an EZ bar style exercise bar.
FIGURE 8 (FIG. 8) is showing the winged thumb support side view, of the winged grip support of the present invention, molded or formed to an EZ bar style exercise bar.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The present invention is directed to an exercise bar, and more particularly, an ergonomically designed exercise bar, formed with winged shaped hand grips that are used for the purposes of exercising and lifting weights. More specifically the present invention is an exercise bar, with a molded wing designed grip that is part of a weight lifting bar for the purposes of allowing for enhanced grip, improved support stability, more sophisticated ergonomics and comfort with further purposes of preventing injuries by allowing for proper alignment of the palm, fingers, hand and wrist when lifting weights and performing exercises. The present invention also distributes weight to a greater surface contact area of the palm of the hand which allows for an increased user ability to perform more repetitions and lift more weight in a lift, when lifting weights with the ergonomically designed exercise bar of the present invention.
In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar of the present invention is made with the manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify and the solidified part is also known as a casting which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process. The exercise bar of the present invention would most often be made of materials like cast iron or stainless steel, but may also be made from numerous other materials such as rubbers or plastics of various degrees of hardness. The exercise bar of the present invention may also take the shape of practically all forms of exercise bars such as barbells, dumbbells, Olympic bars, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, cable machine attachments, shoulder press machine, aerobic machines, and all free weights which are used in connection with lifting weights and exercise. It should be understood that present invention may be made from different materials that would serve the desirable purposes of the present invention found herein.
The current process may use one, two or more molds, one for each or different sides of the object made and advancements in technology may alter the best process to manufacture the present invention without ever taking from the scope of the present invention. The present invention is molded in such a way to include the key features of the exercise bar and its winged grip design, with each feature, of the exercise bar and its winged grip design playing a part in making the present invention complete.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar is molded in one piece.
The one piece exercise bar consists of different parts, sections, and features, which are best used to describe and illustrate the exercise bar and its winged grip design and also enable one skilled in the art to fully understand and appreciate the many advantages of the present invention. For illustration purposes we have named the different parts, sections, and features, of the exercise bar and its winged grip design (shown in Figures as 10) of the present invention to include a Winged Palm Support (shown in Figures as 12), Winged Thumb Support (shown in Figures as 14), and Hand Surface Area.
Now referring to all FIGURES, FIG. 1 thru FIG. 8, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar and its winged grip design is designed like many every day commonly used accessories such as gloves or shoes, whereas one is specifically designed for the left hand (shown as 10 L) or foot and the other of the pair for the right hand (shown as 10 R) or foot.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design comes in a pair (one for each hand, 10 L, 10 R), when not attached to the same bar (as shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6) or one winged grip area specifically designed for each hand, the left 10 (L) and the right 10 (R), when on the same bar (as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG 7 and FIG. 8). For example, if the present invention was found on a dumbbell 30 (as shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6), which are commonly sold one for each hand, the present invention 10 would have a dumbbell 30 specifically designed as for use with the left hand 10 (L) and another specifically designed for the right hand 10 (R). Now if the present invention was found on a single bar, say an Olympic style bar bell 20 (as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3), then on this one bar will be the winged grip designed for the left hand 10 (L) and another area of the same bar specifically designed for the right hand 10 (R). In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the left 10 (L) and right 10 (R) handed winged grips are clearly marked with words or letters such as "Left" or "L" and "Right" or "R" so it is clearly identified on the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention which is meant for which hand.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar and its winged grip design is formed into the bar, and more specifically an exercise style bar, that would be used in fitness for different kinds of known lifts in weight lifting and exercise.
Some of the more common bars that the present invention may be formed into are known as free-weights, barbells 20 (as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3), Olympic bar 20 (as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG.
3), dumbbells 30 (as shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6), plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, cables machine attachments, EZ style bars 40 (as shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8), aerobic machines, and other bars and bar styles used in exercise and weight lifting such as for use of the bench press, plate loaded machines, cable loaded machines, weights with cables, chin-ups, curls and more. There are many different kinds of bars, including slight variations in the diameter of weight lifting bars. For example an Olympic bar 20 (FIG.1 ) is a metal bar that has outer ends 22 that are 50 (fifty) millimeters (2.0 inches) in diameter, while the grip section 24 is 28 twenty-eight) millimeters (1.1 inches) in diameter. The exercise bar and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention may be molded onto all such bars in weight lifting and exercise and bar diameters. It is understood to one skilled in the art that the present invention may also come in slight variations in size that would allow the present invention to mold onto an assot tment of bar sizes of varying degrees in diameter.
In an alternate embodiment of the present invention the exercise bar and its winged grip design is formed into the bar, and more specifically an exercise style bar, that would be used in fitness for different kinds of known lifts in weight lifting and exercise.
Although the winged grip design is formed into the bar, it is totally possible it is made of a completely, slightly or is coated in a different material than that of the bar it is molded or formed into. The reason for this is often a coating, for example a rubber coating, is placed over the exercise bar itself to either maximize the grip of the exercise bar or entice the feel for the lifter. It should be understood to one skilled in the art that placing a thin coating or changing the material of the winged grip designed, does in no way change the present invention or the preferred embodiment of the present invention.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design 10 (FIG. 1) of the present invention is molded onto the exercise or weight lifting bar 20 in the exact position one would place their hands 10 (R) and 10 (L) to lift the bar 20 if one was not using the present invention. A
standard Olympic bar 20 is 2.2 meters (7.2 feet) long with the grip section 24 of the bar 1.31 meters (4.3 feet) in length.
Although there is no specific spot each and every person uses to grasp or hold the bar when lifting and this is more an individual preference, the present invention uses statistical data for each different bar it is molded to. It is important to understand that the exercise bar and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention may be molded to an exercise bar 20 in such a way to have a plurality of positions (not shown in Figures) of the winged grip design 10 along the length of the grip section 24 of a bar 20. For example, the exercise bar 20 may have multiple winged grip design 10 areas for the left hand 10 (L) and multiple winged grip design 10 areas for the right hand 10 (R), on the same bar 20. The reason for this is so one bar 20 may cater to a wider assortment of people who may use it, by finding the most desirable place along the bar grip area 24 to place their hands and then using the winged grip design 10 most suitable to their lifting preference when lifting the bar 20 for weight lifting and exercise. It will be understood to one skilled in the art as the drawing and detailed description show and explain this in more detail.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design 10 (FIG. 1) of the present invention is molded to an exercise or weight lifting bar 20 in such a way so that the Winged Palm Support 12 of the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 is facing the lifter in a way that when the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 is grasp in one's hand, the Winged Palm Support 12 comfortably and ergonomically rests in the palm of the lifters hand. So if the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention is attached on the bar 20 in a way that there is both a left 10 (L) and right 10 (R) handed winged grip area 10, both of those would be molded in a way that both may be used in unison, as such that if the lifters left hand palm was resting comfortably in the left winged grip 10 (L) area and more precisely the Winged Palm Support 12 made for the left hand 10 (L), and the right hand of the lifter would then be able to rest comfortably in the right winged grip 10 (R) area and more precisely the Winged Palm Support 12 made for the right hand 10 (R). The left winged grip 10 (L) area's Winged Palm Support 12 fits into the palm of the left hand of the lifter and the right winged grip 10 (R) area's Winged Palm Support 12 fits into the palm of the right hand of the lifter. Of course there are also many different methods used in lifting. For example in a Dead Lift the lifter lifts the weights off the floor, so the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip 10 design's Winged Palm Support 12 would be facing upwards (or slightly upwards and offset depending on the lift) so that when a lifter bends over or squats to grab onto the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip 10 designs, that would be molded onto the bar 20, the lifter's left and right hands would grab onto the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip 10 designs in such a way that the lifter's palms of their left and right hand fit comfortable over the Wing Palm Support 12 for the left 10 (L) and right 10 (R) handed exercise bar and its winged grip 10 design. When referring specifically to FIG. 1, the lifter (not shown) would stand behind and facing this bar 20 if the lifter was to bend to pick up this bar 20 by placing their left and right hands, and more specifically, the palm of their left hand onto the Winged Palm Support 12 of the left winged grip 10 (L) designed for the left hand of the lifter and the palm of their right hand onto the Winged Palm Support 12 of the right winged grip 10 (R) designed for the right hand. When grabbed properly the feeling of the Winged Palm Support 12 is instantly understood by the lifter as the Winged Palm Support 12 contours and conforms to and with the shape of the palm of the lifter. A first time lifter would instinctively understand they are holding the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 properly because how comfortable the Winged Palm Support 12 rests into the lifters palm. Of course the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip 10 design's Winged Palm Support 12 of the present invention would face downwards (or slightly downwards and offset depending on the lift) if the lifter was lifting from under the bar 20 in what is commonly known as squats or the bench press. In a bench press, for example, the lifter is laying or seated on a bench, like a flat bench or one that is inclined or declined. So with each different style of lift the lifter is approaching the bar 20 from varying degrees with their hands to grasp onto the bar. From these varying degrees the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip 10 design's Winged Palm Support 12 is always rotated in such a way as to allow for the lifters palms to fit securely and comfortably onto the Winged Palm Supports 12 of the left 10 (L) and right 10 (R) winged grip areas.
Now referring to FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 is showing the exercise bar 30 and its winged grip design 10 has been molded and formed to a different style of bar, in this example a set of dumbbells.
Now referring to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 is showing the exercise bar 40 and its winged grip design has been molded and formed to a different style of bar, in this example an EZ
style bar 40. One skilled in the art can now understand that the present invention can be molded and formed to many different styles of exercise and weight lifting bars 20, 30, 40 (from FIG. 1 to 8) without taking from the scope of the present invention and thus just altering the style of bar 20, 30, 40, in no way alters or changes the winged grip design 10 and all the features and advantages of the present invention is in no way altered simply because the design or style of the exercise and weight lifting bar 20, 30 and 40, the present invention is molded or formed to. It is understood that no matter the style of exercise or weight lifting bar, either 20, 30, 40, as well as all those not shown in the drawing such as commonly known exercise and weight lifting bars such as plate loaded machines and cable loaded machines, the placement of the lifter's palms and how it conforms to the Winged Palm Support 12 does not change, thus proving the present invention is not altered just by the style of exercise and weight lifting bar it is molded and formed to.
There are numerous different hand held grips lifters use when lifting weights and one skilled in the art would understand these different grips are used for lifting different weights, doing different lifts and as well as exercising different muscles. Some of the more common lifts that can be used with the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention include, but is not limited to, the Overhand Grip, Underhand Grip, Hammer Grip, False Grip, Hook Grip, Wide Grip and Close Grip. A popular grip that would not be used with the present invention is the Alternative Grip. The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention enhances a lifters ability to use each grip (except the Alternative Grip) and the advantages of using the exercise bar and its winged grip design in conjunction with different lifts will become more apparent to one skilled in the art as the present invention is understood. Of the grips listed two of the most common grips in exercise and weight lifting are known as the Overhand Grip and the Underhand Grip. With the Overhand Grip the palms are facing away from the lifter. The Overhand Grip is used for many different types of exercises and is commonly used from a bench press as well as when exercising the biceps with reverse curls. Mostly when using the Overhand Grip one is working the wrist extensor muscles (muscles on top of the forearms). With the Underhand Grip the palms are usually facing towards the lifter when doing such bicep exercises like barbell bicep curls or reverse grip chin-ups.
One common issue with both the Overhand and Underhand Grips is that the bar often rolls in the palm of ones hands when using these popular lifting and exercise grips. The issue of a rolling bar in ones palm is even more prevalent the more weight that is lifted on the bar at one time. This is why the Hook Grip is often used when powerlifting. The Hook Grip is when the lifter wraps their thumb around the bar and places their index, big and ring finger over their thumb in a way to pin the thumb to the bar, helping to hold the bar in place. For a novice lifter the Hook Grip may not be practical as it is a somewhat potentially difficult art to master as well as it can be uncomfortable.
The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention is designed to offer many advantages that help aid a user in exercise and lifting weights. Now referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, one such advantage when using the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention is when the user grips the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 and the lifter's palm rests in the Winged Palm Support 12 the lifter may wrap their thumb behind the Winged Palm Support 12 and onto the Winged Thumb Support 14. The Winged Thumb Support 14 is on the other side of the wing grip design 10 from that of the Winged Palm Support 12. This important design feature may be used with the Overhand or Underhand Grips and allows the user of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to mimic the Hooked Grip. Now the exercise bar 20 and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention offers a more secure and stable way to lift a bar 20 which now aids in preventing the bar from rolling in one's hand. The bar's Winged Palm Support 12 prevents the bar 20 from rolling as it is pressed firmly and securely into one's palms and the combination of a user wrapping their thumb around the winged design and onto the Winged Thumb Support 14, in conjunction with the force of one's grip onto the winged grip design 10, now helps aid in preventing the bar 20 from rolling either way in one's palm. The exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention offers superior gripping ability when applied with each of the most common grips associated with exercise and weight lifting.
Another such advantage of the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention relates to the comfort and ergonomics of holding a bar in the palm of one's hand. A bar is not naturally shaped to fit across the palm of one's hand and a close up of a weight lifters hand and wrist holding a heavy bar is almost a painful thing to view. The present invention was ergonomically designed to contour to the palm of one's hand using scientific hand data of men, women, and children factoring in hand length, breadth, finger length, dorsum length and thumb length. Included in and factored into the design were that of the different diameters of bars, as well as, men and woman's finger grip and hand grasp formulas. One skilled in the art would appreciate that by taking all these formulas into account the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention may be designed to ergonomically fit into the hand of a man and a woman and slight variations in design to accommodate both would in no way alter or take from the scoop of the present invention.
By forming the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to the perfect measurements of both a man and woman's hand the present invention has accomplished more than just maximum comfort when used in exercise and lifting weights. One such advantage now offered by the present invention is the distribution of weight within the user's palm, of the weight lifted, during exercise and weight lifting. Referring to all FIG's 1 through 8 where shown, the Winged Palm Support 12 that contours to the entire palm of the lifter acts to distribute the weight over a greater surface contact area within each hand, as compared when with not using the present invention when lifting weights. By creating a greater surface area and distributing the lifted weight over this greater surface area, the ergonomics creates a more comfortable weight lifting experience.
If one finds it more comfortable to lift a weight, it can be argued that they may do more repetitions, the number of times they lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise.
Also if one finds it more comfortable to lift a weight, in theory, it now becomes more comfortable to lift a greater amount of weight in one lift using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention.
Another such advantage of forming the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention to the perfect measurements of both a man and woman's hand is that the Winged Palm Support 12, FIG's 1 through 8 where shown, forces a lifter to use proper ergonomically aligned lifting techniques when using the exercise bar 20, 30, 40 and its winged grip design 10 of the present invention. The Winged Palm Support 12, through the wing construction, the hand is supported and the wrist is automatically put in an ergonomically idea position. Many recreation and professional gym goers know the problem when the hands fall asleep and begins to tingle.
The hand is a very complex and sensitive part of the body with a lot of nerves running through the wrist which acts as a bottleneck and thus a problem area. Due to low fat and muscle, the hand is less protected and thus vulnerable to pressure load. The hands bolster a large part of the upper body weight onto the barbell and thus there is constant and high pressure onto a small area causing nerves to become irritated.
Compounding the issue is many lifters bend their wrists to much resulting in sensory loss, tingling, numbness or abnormal sensations in the little finger and ring finger. In extreme cases even the grasping function of all fingers is limited. Strong pressure points may lead to kinking off the Ulnar nerves further leading to numbness or impaired mobility. The wing grip of the exercise bar 20, 30, 40, and its winged grip design 10 not only enlarges the contact area of the hand, allowing for pressure to be more widely distributed over a larger area, thus relieving the Ulnar nerve and increasing comfort, but also helps prevent the wrist from bending. Heavy weights, with increasing fatigue, complicate the ergonomically correct position of the hand and cause a bent wrist, however, with the winged design 10 of the present invention the wrist is actively prevented from kinking or falling downward, thus offering maximum hand comfort and support by putting the wrist automatically in an ergonomically idea position. By creating a greater contact surface area, and distributing the lifted weight over this greater surface area, and now also allowing for the proper alignment of the wrist in the most ergonomically position, it can be argued that lifters may do more repetitions, the number of times they lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise, when using the present invention. Also if one finds it more comfortable to lift an amount of weight, and the weight is distributed over a greater area, and maximum proper alignment is used, in theory, it now becomes more comfortable, and possible, to lift a greater amount of weight in one lift using the exercise bar and its winged grip design of the present invention.
The present invention should now start to become more apparent as to its many design features as stated earlier in the aims of the present invention. The present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support. Further the present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that improves the grip of a weight lifted bar and allows for more comfort while lifting weights. Still further the present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that offers superior improvements in regards to proper alignment when lifting weights, aligning the lifted weight in one's hands, in an ergonomic way, to allow for reduced stress and injuries when weight lifting, to the fingers, hands, wrist, elbows, shoulder, neck, back, torso, knees, ankles and feet. Still further the present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that further distributes the weight being lifted over a greater surface contact area of one's hand, than just the bar itself, when weight lifting in relation to one's hands holding a lifted bar. Yet still further the present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that through proper alignment and enhanced comfort when lifting weights, as well as distributing weight to a greater surface contact area, an increased user ability to perform more repetitions and lift more weight in a lift when lifting weights with the present invention. Yet further still the present invention offers a winged ergonomically designed exercise bar grip support that is molded to different pieces of exercise and weight lifting equipment, in the most ergonomically comfortably way, taking into account scientific data for both a man's and woman's hands.
While the present invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments have been shown by way of example found in the drawing herein. It should be understood that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular forms disclosed.
Rather the invention is to cover all modifications, equivalents and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar, whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is molded or formed to any style of weight lifting or exercise bar, or bar attached to a weight lifting or exercise bar, or as an accessory of, any weight lifting or exercise bar, or exercise machine or similar device comprising:
a winged shaped formed area specifically designed for the left hand;
a winged shaped formed area specifically designed for the right hand.
2. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is molded in one piece.
3. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is molded in one piece and may be made molded or formed in a plurality of different materials, either the same or different material from the bar as a whole.
4. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the wing shaped formed area is ergonomically designed to fit comfortably in the palm of a person holding the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device.
5. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the wing shaped formed area is ergonomically designed to fit comfortably in the palm of various sized hands including specifically to both a male and female hand.
6. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device offers improved grip of an exercise and/or weight lifting bar.
7. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device forces proper alignment when gripping the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device with the palm, fingers and thumb of one's hand.
8. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device prevents the bar from moving or rolling when gripping the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device with the palm, fingers and thumb of one's hand.
9. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device distributes the weight being lifted to a greater surface contact area of one's hand when gripping the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device with the palm, fingers and thumb of one's hand.
10. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device offers enhanced and additional grip by way of allowing the person holding the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device with their thumb wrapped around the wing shaped area.
11. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device helps reduce stress, strains, sprains and injuries by supporting the wrist in the most idea ergonomic position.
12. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device allows for more repetitions, the number of times they lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise.
13. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is a dumbbell.
14. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is a bar bell.
15. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is an ez bar.
16. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is a plate loaded machine and or plate loaded machine attachment.
17. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is an aerobic machine and or aerobic machine attachment.
18. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is a cable loaded machine and or cable machine attachment.
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1. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar, whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is molded or formed to any style of weight lifting or exercise bar, or bar attached to a weight lifting or exercise bar, or as an accessory of, any weight lifting or exercise bar, or exercise machine or similar device comprising:
a winged shaped formed area specifically designed for the left hand;
a winged shaped formed area specifically designed for the right hand.
a winged shaped formed area specifically designed for the left hand;
a winged shaped formed area specifically designed for the right hand.
2. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is molded in one piece.
3. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is molded in one piece and may be made molded or formed in a plurality of different materials, either the same or different material from the bar as a whole.
4. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the wing shaped formed area is ergonomically designed to fit comfortably in the palm of a person holding the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device.
5. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the wing shaped formed area is ergonomically designed to fit comfortably in the palm of various sized hands including specifically to both a male and female hand.
6. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device offers improved grip of an exercise and/or weight lifting bar.
7. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device forces proper alignment when gripping the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device with the palm, fingers and thumb of one's hand.
8. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device prevents the bar from moving or rolling when gripping the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device with the palm, fingers and thumb of one's hand.
9. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device distributes the weight being lifted to a greater surface contact area of one's hand when gripping the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device with the palm, fingers and thumb of one's hand.
10. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device offers enhanced and additional grip by way of allowing the person holding the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device with their thumb wrapped around the wing shaped area.
11. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device helps reduce stress, strains, sprains and injuries by supporting the wrist in the most idea ergonomic position.
12. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device allows for more repetitions, the number of times they lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise.
13. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is a dumbbell.
14. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is a bar bell.
15. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is an ez bar.
16. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is a plate loaded machine and or plate loaded machine attachment.
17. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is an aerobic machine and or aerobic machine attachment.
18. An ergonomically molded or formed exercise style bar according to Claim 1 thru 12 whereas the molded exercise bar and its winged grip design device is a cable loaded machine and or cable machine attachment.
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