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Definitions

• the present invention relates to exercise equipment, which is used during exercising in a small space, e.g., stretching before sports activities or finishing-up exercises after sports. It relates to portable discoid exercise equipment, which uses rotation weights to allow exercises using the rhythm of movement of the rotation weights, wherein said exercising involves rotation by using one or two hands, shoulder, etc.
• Aerobic exercises convert quite a high percentage of fats into energy and are good for keeping ideal functions of the heart and lung. They help combustion of fats and stimulate the basic metabolism of a person to increase disposal of fats through brisk movement of muscles, heightening good effects thereby on dieting and resulting in maintenance of good health.
• An objective of the present invention is truly to solve all these problems and overcome the drawbacks by providing an easily portable discoid exercise equipment using one or more rotation weights, which allows people freely to exercise all parts of their bodies by the use of both arms even in a small space.
• Another objective is to provide an easily portable exercise equipment comprising one or more rotation weights, which admits of various ways of use, whereby exercises are not rendered tedious even when it is used for a long time.
• Still another objective is to provide an easily portable exercise equipment comprising one or two rotation weights, which allows persons to do the simple preparatory or finish-up exercises by stretching the muscles of their hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, chests, abdomens, waists, etc., to the rhythm of its rotation weights, even while they are seated in their seats.
• the easily portable exercise equipment comprising one or more rotation weights
• the present invention is characterized in that it comprises a streamlined, hollow, discoid body; a support axis fixed in the center of said body; and two or more rotation means, each formed in a combination of a stretching arm which extends from an end of a rotator fixed rotatably on said support axis towards the rim of the body and has a rotation weight formed on its outer end, said arm being to rotate round along the rim of said discoid body.
• FIG. 1 is a rough sketch of the general cross-sectional view of a preferable embodiment example of the portable discoid exercise equipment using a rotation weight, of the present invention.
• FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view of a preferable example of the present invention.
• FIG. 3 is a rough sketch of the enlarged vertical sectional view of a preferable example.
• FIG. 4 roughly shows Example 1 of the rotation weight.
• FIG. 5 roughly shows Example 2 of the rotation weight.
• FIG. 6 roughly shows Example 3 of the rotation weight.
• FIG. 7 is a vertical sectional view of FIG. 6.
• FIG. 8 is a rough sketch of the general cross-sectional view of another preferable embodiment example of the present invention.
• FIG. 9 shows an embodiment example of the present invention, wherein it is designed to be easy to grip with both hands and in a streamlined fashion to look good.
• FIG. 10 is an enlargement in the rough of a preferable means for deceleration of the rotation.
• FIG. 11 roughly shows a preferable example of the hand protectors in the present invention.
• FIG. 12 roughly shows another example of the rotation weight.
• FIG. 13 roughly shows an example of the magnetic body attracting the rotation weight towards the inside of the rim of the body of the present invention.
• FIG. 14 a general cross-sectional view of the present invention, showing a preferable example of the protuberances, which slightly rub against the rotation weight when the latter rotates inside the rim of the body.
• FIG. 15 is a rough general cross-sectional view of a ball revolving inside the rotation weight.
• a preferable embodiment example of the easily portable exercise equipment 1 of the present invention consists of, as is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a discoid hollow body 2 , a support axis 3 fixed in the center of said body 2 , and a rotation means 4 , rotatably fixed to said support axis 3 .
• the discoid body 2 As is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the discoid body 2 , with said support axis 3 fixed in the center, has many protuberances 22 along its rim 21 , intended to give effects of therapeutic finger-pressure treatment on the palm when said rim 21 is held with a hand.
• the body 2 can be held with one hand anywhere on said rim 21 , but when two handles 21 a are formed along said rim 21 , as is shown in FIG. 9, each symmetrically on opposite sides, said body 2 can be held with both hands, one each by one of said two handle 21 a .
• the handles can be made to have curves to fit in a user's fingers when he holds them with both hands.
• the rotation means 4 rotatably fixed to said support axis 3 in the center of said body 2 , whose rim has said acupressure protrusion s 22 for holding with hands, rotatably fixes rotators 41 on said support axis 3 , as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.
• an arm 42 On the free end of said rotator 41 rotatably fixed on said support axis 3 via said bearing B, is formed an arm 42 to extend to said rim 21 of said body 2 , as shown in FIG. 2.
• a rotation weight 43 of a certain weight On the outer end of said arm 42 is formed a rotation weight 43 of a certain weight, and the rotation weight 43 rotates together with said arm 42 and said rotator 41 along said rim 21 of said body 2 , because said rotation weight 43 is connected with said arm 42 , and said arm 42 , in turn, is connected with said rotator 41 .
• the arm 42 extending from said rotator 41 can be made in various shapes according to those of said body, as, for instance, seen in FIG. 9, where said body 2 is streamlined and so is said arm 42 formed in a fit corresponding shape.
• the arm 42 can be so made to have an auxiliary weight 43 a formed on it away from the rotation weight 43 , as shown in FIG. 4, that the rotation of said rotation weight 43 can be kept smooth, while a balance weight 43 b can be formed on the opposite end of said arm 42 , extending on the converse side to secure a well balanced rotation of said rotation weight 43 , as is seen in FIG. 5.
• the part of said arm 42 having said rotation weight 43 at its end be made shorter than the other part, that is, rotatably fixed on said rotator 41 , so that when the former part rotates upon said hinge 42 a it may not run into any other part of the device.
• the rotation weights 43 in the case that there are more than two of them, are each to have, as shown in FIG. 12, a magnetic body 45 placed inside, and these magnetic bodies 45 are each to be either of the same or different polarity to attract or repel each other so that said rotation weights 43 can be made to move in the same direction or cross each other in rotation.
• hand protectors 23 of soft rubber or the like so that hands are well protected from undue injury when said rim 21 is held with hands, and, moreover, the hand protectors are also to have acupressure protrusion s formed similarly to those 22 along said rim 21 , as shown in FIG. 11.
• a number of suspension protrusion s 24 are so formed along the inside of said rim 21 of said body 2 that the nails of said suspension protrusion s 24 softly touch said rotation weight(s) 43 in order that the user may sense their touch while using the equipment.
• FIG. 15 shows another embodiment example of the present invention, in which a ball 44 is placed inside said rotation weight 43 and so said ball 44 rotates inside, when said rotation weight 43 rotates on said support axis 3 .
• decelerating means 5 are formed on one side of said rotation means 4 rotatably fixed on said support axis 3 to decelerate the rotation speed of said rotator 41 .
• the decelerating means 5 form covers 51 to be fixed, as seen in FIG. 10, to said body 2 in the direction of said support axis 3 ; said covers 51 , in turn, have elastic members 52 formed toward said support axis 3 to come into contact with it via a presser 53 ; and according to the degree of the pressure of said presser 53 applied to said rotator 41 the rotation speed of the latter can be decreased, or otherwise adjusted.
• the pressers 53 each have a roller 53 a in the shape of a ball formed on the forward end, as seen in FIG. 10, which ball-like roller 53 a , rolling in close contact with said rotator 41 , applies pressure to said rotator 41 .
• the exercise equipment of the present invention constructed as described above, is held with a hand of both hands by said rim 21 of said body 2 or by said handle[s] 21 a , shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 9, or 8, to have its body 2 swung or flourished up and down or left and right.
• the acupressure protrusion s shown in FIGS. 1 and 8 formed at the spot where said rim 21 is held or on said handle[s] automatically give a sort of chiropractic treatment to the palms of hands throughout the time the equipment is held with the hand for an exercise.
• the rotation weight 43 connected with said rotator 41 of said rotation means 43 via said arm 42 continues rotating by the centrifugal force once it starts rotation, and, as shown in FIG. 15, it rotates all the better because of said ball 44 placed inside said rotation weight 43 , the shake of said ball 44 being tactually perceived by the user.
• the rotation weight 43 is not limited to one in number, but two or more of them 43 can be fitted, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, one placed at a given interval from another via a spacer 6 , and for this reason they can be rotated in the same direction or made to cross paths.
• the two or more rotation weights 43 on the two or more rotation means 4 each have a magnetic body, as shown in FIG. 12, they can rotate all the more easily on said support axis 3 thanks to the attracting or repelling force of said magnetic bodies of different polarity placed inside; while said second magnetic bodies 25 formed of magnetic material or metal reacting to magnetism and fixed on the inside of said rim 21 of said body 2 help the rotation of said rotation weights 43 the better.
• auxiliary weight 43 a Over the rotation weight 43 there is an auxiliary weight 43 a , as shown in FIG. 4, on said arm 42 , and because of this auxiliary weight 43 a the centrifugal force increases when the rotation weight 43 rotates within said body 2 , while, as shown in FIG. 5, a balance weight 43 b is formed on the opposite end of said arm 42 over said rotator 41 , which helps the rotation weight 41 to rotate so much better.
• the force of the friction which decelerates the rotation of said rotator 41 depends upon how much or how far said cover 51 of said decelerating means 5 is turned, and as the pressure applied by the friction from the close contact of said elastic member 52 and said rotator 41 varies, this can be made use of for adjustment of the rotation speed of said rotator 41 .
• FIGS. 6 and 7 show another embodiment example of said arm 42 , in which said arm 42 is divided in two parts but are joined together by said hinge 42 a , viz. the part extending from said rotator 41 to said hinge 42 a and the other part extending from said hinge 42 a to the outer end, where the rotation weight is fixed, whereupon the part with the rotation weight attached to rotates on said hinge 42 a when said rotator 41 rotates.
• the easily portable discoid exercise equipment of the present invention makes it possible for persons to take aerobic exercises holding it in both hands even in a limited space, it thereby helps the users to maintain the right postures and good health.
• the easily portable discoid exercise equipment of the present invention is rendered capable of rotating the rotation weight[s] in the same or alternating directions in various ways, the users can enjoy exercising for an extended time without easily getting tired or wearied of it.
• the easily portable discoid exercise equipment of the present invention has effects of maximizing the benefits of stretching limbs and muscles, because one can take light exercise holding it with a hand[s] and stretching the arms forward or bending them to right, left, up or down, rotating the rotation weight[s] in repetition, thereby working the muscles of one's hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, chest, waist, and all.

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