US1538844A - Progressive exerciser - Google Patents

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H. w. TITUS PROGRESSIVE EXERCISER Filed March 13, 1923 IN VENTOR A TTORNE Y Patented May 19, 1925.

HENRY w. T-ITUS, or new. YORK. N- SIQNQB Q- it- WEIMA?" NEW YQBK- ro aassive EXER IS B- Appl ication filed 13, Serial No, 62%,712.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, :HENRY W. TITUs, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county,

6 and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Progressive Exercisers, of which the following is the specification,

The device, the subject of this invention is an exerciser, or more particularly, a handle therefor.

The type of exerciser referred to, is that wherein certain elastic members are arranged between suitable handles and are expanded and contracted by the movement of the muscles of the body.

Exercisers of this type are usually provided with a number of elastic members, the number varying from three or four to ten or more and these elastic members are adapted to be employed successively or simultaneously, or, in the past practice, the number of elastic members is increased to increase the load, the increase of load being made by securing additional elastic member to the handle.

The principal object of this invention, then, is to provide a handle wherein the means for securing the elastic members may be so arranged as to retain the elastic members separated, to prevent interference be tween adjacent members and to obviate the possibility of chafing and to lengthen the life and utility of the elastic members, causing them to operate along straight parallel lines. The objects, then, are, briefly, to overcome the objectionable features inherent in the exercisers at present in use.

The following is what I consider the best means of carrying out this invention and the accompanying drawing should be referred to for a complete understanding of the specification which follows.

In the drawing Fig. 1, is a plan view of an exerciser having two strands.

Fig. 2, is a side elevation of one handlemember and elastic members secured thereto.

Fig. 3, is a perspective view of a handle member and modified construction, and

Fig. 4, a perspective view of a handle member and a still further modified construction.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in all the figures where they appear.

At 5, 6 and Y, I show elastic members. In some exercisers, springs are used, but as elastic cable is, by all means most common, l have shown and will describe my invent-ion as operating therewith.

At each end of the cable members, metallic members 8 and 9 are secured, which are thimble clamps and engaging these clamping members are short spring members as shown at 10 and 11, each serve no other purpose than that of receiving and retaining the elastic member and supplying a hook as shown at 12 and 13 for securing the elastic members to the handle device. A suitable clamp may be provided as shown at 14: and will assure that the hook 12 or 13 does not become detached from the handle member.

All parts thus far described are of common, well-known construction and are here included only for the purpose of showing and describing the complete device.

In the past, it has been common to produce a single wire member as shown at 15 in Fig. 1, providing this wire member with a plurality of loops or eyes 16 and because of the limited width, it was only found possible to produce five eyes, 16, in the progressive ten strand exerciser, two elastic members 6 or 7 were secured to each eye. This resulted in friction, awkward appearance, considerable chafing and an angular disposition of the elastic member, with the result that this member wear through or out.

In my device, I have provided a second wire member as shown at 17, also provided with plurality of eyes as shown at 18 and I have produced an off-set as shown at 19 and 20 in each wire member, which retains the eyes 1618 away from each other, with the result that each elastic member is en tirely independent and is free to move in the eye to which it is attached and to assume any position in relation to their elastic members, that it may be required to assume in the operation of. the device.

It will be noted that the ends of the wire members 1517 are caused to approach each other and are introduced into a grip 21, which may be of wood or any other suitable material.

The device shown in Fig. 3, is formed of sheet metal and may be of integral forma- 'tion, the grip 22 being tubular and the pro]ecting members 23 and 24, in which per forations or eyes 25-26 are produced are arranged on diverging planes.

In the device shown in Fig. 4, a handle or grip member 27 may be of wood or other suitable material, the projections 28 and 29 of the plate 30 may be stamped from a fiat sheet, the plate 31 secured thereto and both of the plates 30 and 31 provided with perforations or eyes as shown at 82 and 33.

Other modifications may be made within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of the invention.

Having carefully and fully described my invention, what 1 claim and desire to obtain is g 1. A handle for exercisers comprising a grip, a plurality of wire members arranged therein, a plurality of eyes in each of said wire members and off-sets in each of said wire members said offsets impinging one upon the other to retain said eyes away from each other.

2. In a handle for exercisers comprising a grip, a plurality of projecting members extending therefrom and at an angle to each other eyes in each said projecting member to which the cables of the exerciser are adapted to be secured and means for retaining said eyes away from each other and for retaining parallel and adjacent cables, out of contact with each other.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 1st day of March, 1923.

HENRY W. TITUS.

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