WO1996038206A1

WO1996038206A1 - Gymnastic and rehabilitation apparatus

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Publication number: WO1996038206A1
Application number: PCT/ES1996/000115
Authority: WO
Inventors: Oscar Luis Quesada De La Cuesta
Original assignee: Quesada De La Cuesta Oscar Lui
Priority date: 1995-05-30
Filing date: 1996-05-24
Publication date: 1996-12-05
Also published as: ES1031204Y; EP0788816A1; ES1031204U

Abstract

The gymnastic and rehabilitation apparatus operates as follows: one hand holds one end of a rope which passes over a pulley, and the other end of the rope supports the foot on the same body side as the hand. The same applies to the other body side. The user wears a harness to which are attached two ropes which, via pulleys, are connected to a movable counterweight which relieves weight from the user's body. The pulleys which support the feet and the hands are mounted on a roller bearing system about a round tube, and inside which the rope attached to the harness may slide. The counterweight may be provided with an electromechanical system which can eliminate part of the weight in the counterweight, and consequently the user can control more easily the operations of getting on the apparatus and coming down from the apparatus. In order to avoid any uncontrolled swinging of the apparatus, a pair of free ropes may be included as a vertical necklace, on which ropes rings can run. With the disclosed apparatus, the user literally floats in the space and is substantially free to move in any desired position. By selecting the level of difficulty of the motions, the apparatus can be used by users of all ages, to play with, or to use it for gymnastics and rehabilitation purposes.

Description

GYM AND REHABILITATION DEVICE

There are many and varied gymnastic devices that exist today, and in general, complicated and expensive, which means that they can only be acquired by large tour operators.

\ nasios in which there is sufficient budget available to

5 their installation.

The gymnastic and rehabilitation apparatus referred to in this Report, is constituted by a simple set, of very little cost and capable of being installed, even in the home itself, with no more limitation than the necessary ceiling height in order to perform all possible exercises on it.

This device also can be used as a means of rehabilitation since it allows to exercise at both e ¬ upper extremities and the lower, with perfect - ^x ^ coordination between the two and which provides that all movimien¬ to made with an arm impinges in the opposite direction and - with the same intensity on the leg of the same side.

It is essentially constituted by a pair of pulleys, fixed to an upper surface, on which paths pass

20 ropes that at their ends carry suitable handles to be held with the hands and feet, each rope for the extremities of each side of the body, with which, suspended the body of these ropes, the traction made - on one of the ends, either with the hand, or with -

25 the foot, is translated in another in the opposite direction in the corresponding ex- ante, the different sets of traction and flexion, allow the body, which is suspended in the air, can take different positions, normal, invented , horizontal or inclined depending on the set of arms

30 and legs that take place in each case.

In order to eliminate the possible interruptions in the exercises due to entanglement of the ropes when the body rotates, the pulleys on which the ropes move are mounted on a system of tube and rotating part on it mounted on bearings. so the pulleys are not fixed if.

SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) not with the possibility of turning on the diametral axis of the same, preventing the entanglement of the entanglement between the ascending and descending strings at any time, which may imply an interruption in the exercise being carried out.

Likewise, in order for the exercises to be gradually more or less difficult, a system of con is envisaged. hanging on an auxiliary pole, and which leads to the opposite end of the connection to a harness placed on the user, so that depending on the weights placed, the gymnast's balance with the counterweights is made easier. exercises or more difficult as more or less weights are placed in the counterweight. This counterweight is also equipped with a mechanical system with an electric motor easily sent by the user while performing their exercises, to reduce the number of weights placed in the weight at a given time, this system being a union on the part of the counterweight with a second rope that is wound on a reel driven by an electric motor, which, when it is started, the weights attached to it are raised, leaving a smaller number of weights in the cori weight and making more difficult the exercises that are being carried out.

Finally, it has also been foreseen that, in order to eliminate the balancing movements of the user's body, suspended in the apparatus, a pair of free ropes are placed on it as a vertical collar between each of the hom¬ bros and the corresponding English, on which they can run freely - rings that have fixed the ends of some ropes that their opposite end are attached to the floor.

A detailed description of the gymnastic apparatus and rehabilitation mentioned above will be given below, with reference to the accompanying plan, in which a preferred form of performance is represented by simple example;

SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) tion, susceptible to all those variations of detail that do not imply a fundamental alteration of the esenical characteristics thereof. This plan illustrates: Figure 1: Schematic general view of the device on a user in the initial position of exercises.

In Figure 2: Detail of the pulley fastener. In Figure 3: Detail in schematic of the electro _ mechanical system of weight graduation in the counterweight. According to the exemplary embodiment shown, the gymnastic and rehabilitation apparatus that is recommended is constituted by two pulleys ⁽ 11 mounted on two arches' ^ which by means of bearings ^f 3 "> are coupled to a trailing tube ^ ^ which in turn, they are fixed by means of struts ^ 5 'to an upper surface ⁽ 6 ^ which can be the ceiling of a room or a suitable porch.

On these pulleys, two ropes (7 ") are mounted leaving at one of its ends 81 handholds for holding the user's hands, while on the contrary, there are pedals or couplings for holding the feet f9 ', with what the traction of the hand ⁽ 8 ^ down, will mean the elevation of the corresponding foot ⁽ 9 ^ and vice versa, with what - there are numerous combinations of feet and hands as well as body position depending on the tractions - that are made on the ends (8 and 91 of each of the strings ⁽ 71.

On the body of the user, a harness is provided ⁽ 101 which, at diametrically arranged points of the belt thereof, the ends of two other ropes ('111 and two sides 141 are fixed to fix at its free end a weight system ⁽ 15 ^ of variable number and appropriate to the weight of the user, in order to level both weights and 1o_grar that the exercises can be progressively will be difficult depending on the muscular strength and dexterity of the gymnast who Use the device.

SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) With this system, the user can achieve a large number of exercises, in normal inverted, inclined and even horizontal position, and to eliminate the possibility of balaii ceo of the body that could be an inconvenience for the good performance of the exercise try, it is planned to place two ropes (161 freely located on the user's body so that they pass through the same and the English of the same, without being adjusted and in which they run freely two rings 171 - which are attached to braces ⁽ 181 goes to pulleys that at the same time are attached to a counterweight. In this way, even when the body is in an inverted position, the sliding rings are inclined or horizontally they are always in the lowest position and close to the ground due to their union to the ground, preventing body balances in any way.

The counterweight '151 consists of a series of - weights sliding on the rope in the fixing ⁽¹²¹ and part of these weights (15'1 are in turn subject to a second rope (191 passing through a pulley ⁽ 201 and enrolled in a reel in solidarity with the shaft of an electric motor - (21) .This motor can be operated by the user, using a command attached to the hand grip (81, so that when If desired, part of the weights can be removed - (15'1 of the counterweight, increasing the difficulty of the exercise or repositioning them at will depending on the needs of the moment.

This device, therefore, is easy to install, not only in appropriate gyms and establishments, but in the home itself, with no more limitation than the height of the roof, which will be defined by the user's height, so that in the Limit positions are not reached with the head - on the ceiling or on the floor in an inverted position.

It is evident that auxiliary elements not described, such as means for supports, can be adapted to this apparatus

SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) I of the gymnast before starting the exercises, which can be of different forms and applications, from a simple - chair, a ladder or a rotating element on a more useful side, which after being used is easily removed so that it does not prevent good performance of the exercises that are treated.

As a rehabilitation device, it is unquestionable that it has great applications, since by the special structure of the same all the exercises performed with the arms are immediately transmitted to the legs since the rope on each side is attached to the hand and foot of Each side of the user.

The shape, materials and dimensions may be variable and, in general, as accessory and secondary, provided that it does not alter, change or modify the essentiality of the object described.

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Claims

1.- Gymnastic and rehabilitation apparatus, characterized by being constituted by two parallel ropes, one on each side of the user, which, passing through pulleys with a high surface, leave their free ends respectively connected to means clamping, to be attached to the hand and foot of the same side of the user, providing that - the pulleys are subject to parts formed by a central tube and an arc coupled to it by bearings, to allow the rotation of these on A diametral axis.

2.- Gymnastic and rehabilitation apparatus, according to the first claim, characterized by providing a user support harness from which ropes come out that are attached to a single one and passing through a central and a lateral pulley, it carries at its end a system of counterweight that levels the weight of the user in the desired proportion.

3.- Gymnastic and rehabilitation apparatus, according to first and second claims, characterized in that the - counterweight system is constituted by a certain number of sliding weights on the rope being part of them, connected by another rope to a pulley and a Reel that rotates by the effect of an electric motor commanded from - one of the hand restraints, to raise this number of weights and vary the counterweight effect at will, depending on the effort you want to obtain in the exercises.

4.- gymnastic and rehabilitation apparatus according to the third REI first - vindication, characterized by having free _^ is on the body of the user, ropes vertically paths passing through the shoulders and English, in - which slide freely paths rings that remain - lied to the ground by braces, in order to eliminate body swaying in any position of the body.

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