WO2002092172A2

WO2002092172A2 - Training and sports device

Info

Publication number: WO2002092172A2
Application number: PCT/DE2002/001709
Authority: WO
Inventors: Reinhard Hertel
Original assignee: Reinhard Hertel
Priority date: 2001-05-15
Filing date: 2002-05-13
Publication date: 2002-11-21
Also published as: AU2002315679A1; DE10144345A1; WO2002092172A3; EP1387716A2

Abstract

The invention relates to a training and sports device, comprising a swinging cord, the effective length of which may be altered, driven by means of a swinging rod, the effective length of which may be altered. Changing the effective length of the swinging cord has the effect that the training and sports device may be simultaneously used by one or up to several persons. Changing the length of the swinging rod alters the degree of difficulty for the user(s) from easy to difficult.

Description

description

Konditions-u. Sports equipment

Konditions-u. Sports equipment for increasing physical performance is known in various designs.

Due to the currently very intensive discussions about a healthy active lifestyle, many citizens are willing to do something for their health, not least because e.g. Health insurance companies and other health-promoting institutions warn against insufficient exercise and thus the currently Support current discussions positively and give a variety of tips for a healthier, more active lifestyle.

For example, Support fitness studios and sports clubs with their offer for a healthy lifestyle through exercise and / or strength training.

However, this type of physical activity does not appeal to every citizen for a variety of reasons. For example, gyms are not for everyone due to the higher amounts. In sports clubs, this offer can only be used at certain times.

Sports equipment that is affordable in price and that is handy and can therefore be used quickly in many places is often in demand.

Here are e.g. the jump ropes as described in patent applications P 3117622 v.5.5.81 - P 3601058 v. 10.1.86 P 2929198 v. 6/19/79 Pat-An. 2807651 v. 20.2.78 Pat. 2641383 v. 15.9.76 are called, a well-known possibility to exercise with a relatively small piece of sports equipment.

The invention therefore has the task of a condition u. To develop sports equipment that can be used by everyone almost everywhere and that combines play, fun and sport. In order to increase the fun, there should be the possibility that several people ^"of different ages can at the same time play healthy physical exercise with this fitness and exercise equipment. In addition, it should be ensured that the condition u. Sports equipment is dedicated to the natural, playful urge to move people such as hopping, running, jumping, and if desired, this can also be used well with rhythmic sounds, as is usual with rhythmic gymnastics.

This is achieved in that a sports u. Conditioner was developed so that, depending on the equipment, all possibilities of the well-known bouncing u. Jump ropes offers, but also has other significant advantages.

For example, That it is inside and outside in a confined space, in low rooms, alone; and can be used by several people at the same time.

By a game-u. Sports device existing stepless adjustment of the level of difficulty, the user can, depending on skill and condition, determine the level of difficulty.

Below are some execution u. Operating examples described as they are mentioned in the claims and explained in the drawings.

For example, the condition-u. Sports equipment made of a hollow flywheel with a handle that can be changed in its action length and a swing rope that can be changed in its action length.

A sliding brake lock (17) inside the hollow rod has the effect that the action length of the swing rope (1) is shortened or lengthened by pulling on one of the ends of the swing rope.

It is also conceivable that instead of the brake sliding element (17) (preferably at the lower end of the flywheel) there is a flywheel brake element of another type, e.g. the swing rope is fixed by pressing a button, turning or by lever action.

In this context it is also considered that the swing rope can always rotate freely, e.g. the rope lock slidably supports against a stop and rotates with the swing rope.

By means of this sliding brake lock or flywheel brake, the flywheel is set in a length desired for the user, the flywheel, which can also be changed in length, for example in several parts, is set for the beginner so that it is held by the user's hand when gripping the gripping zone until just above the floor. With rotating movements of the flywheel, the flywheel is hurled around the floor briefly.

The sporting challenge is now to jump, jump or perform rhythmic movements at the right moment while the swing rope circles under the user's body.

Depending on their skill, the user can e.g. move around in place, move in a circle or also move or bounce; or can perform other imaginative figures with the body and or with the swing rope.

Always keen to stay with the condition u. Sports equipment to act without using the swing rope in foot or

Physical contact.

Gradually shortening the flywheel means gradually increasing demands on the skill and condition of the user, because then e.g. higher jumps have to be made in order not to touch the rotating swing rope.

Interesting game-u. Sports combinations occur when several people jump over a user's swing rope at the same time.

By extending the swing rope, it can even be operated by many people at the same time.

Also several people, each with a condition u. Sports equipment perform interesting and skillful exercises in which the user not only hops over his own swing rope, but also over the swing rope of the other sportsperson.

Here very simple; but also complicated exercises that place high demands on the condition, skill and responsiveness of the user.

The imagination knows no limits.

For the design of the condition u. Sports equipment there are many interesting options.

For example, thought of the conditions u. To provide sports equipment with an electrical or mechanical power indicator that the user, e.g. who accomplished

Rope turns and the time at which they occur.

Luminous and / or sound elements are optionally provided as a decorative design, which are switched on or off, or switched on and off, for example, by a centrifugal force switch, so that, for example, optical and or acoustic signals are only emitted when a certain power is reached. As decoration, for example, a colored tassel, a rotating ball and other decorative effects, which can also be used as a flywheel and can also be luminous, are attached in the front area of the swing rope.

It is also conceivable that the flywheel as a whole is equipped with lighting elements which are, for example, similar to light chains in a transparent tube, or that the flywheel is illuminated. This brings particularly effective effects in the dark.

It is also conceivable to use an elastic hose as a swing rope, which is internally covered with a decorative medium, e.g. Liquid is filled with glitter, and may also be equipped with lighting effects.

A special, albeit not very inexpensive, option is to cover glass and or plastic fibers with a transparent tube and to attach a light source to the lower or upper end with a device that, if desired or automatically, changes the color of the swing rope in which the color Light effects through which glass or plastic fibers are directed.

Another interesting design option for this condition-u. Sports equipment is that the flywheel is multi-part, and consists of at least two parts of equal length, so that part of the flywheel can be pushed to the other side of the flywheel, and thus exercises such as those carried out with a normal jump rope are possible.

The rope length can be infinitely adjusted due to the rope brake device present in both halves and or the provided stops.

For use on the go, it is conceivable that, for reasons of space, the flywheel is in several parts, for example three or four parts, and even one half can be telescopically pushed together again.

figure description

Figure 1

shows a simplified representation of a cross section of the condition u. Sports equipment with one in the

Length-adjustable, telescopic flywheel when pushed together, provided with a freely rotating flywheel.

The telescopic flywheel consists of an inner tube

(2) and an outer tube (3) with a gripping zone (7).

The upper end of the swing rope has an end piece with one

Rope end stop (8) and serves to prevent the

Rope down.

The rope stop (8) is located inside the outer tube

(2) and reaches behind the upper end of the inner tube (3).

The rope end piece or the rope stop (8) is in his

Diameter larger than the inner diameter of the inner tube; but smaller than the inner diameter of the outer tube (2).

The rope slides with the rope stop (8) on the upper end of the inner tube (3) and can rotate freely.

The inner tube has a distance u. Guide element (5) and in the area below

Distance-u. Guide element and stop element (4).

The element (4) hits a socket when the inner tube is pulled out, i.e. when the telescopic rod is extended

Inner stop (11), which is present at the lower end of the outer tube (3).

The end cap (11) at the lower end of the inner tube has a hole in the center in which the flywheel (1) can rotate freely with a flexible protective tube pushed on.

There is an end cap at the upper end of the telescopic oscillator

(9) used in the outer tube and serves to prevent the

Internal parts and at the same time serves as a stop for the deferred gripping zone (7). The cap (6) forms that

Counterpart for the deferred gripping zone (7).

Figure 2

1 shows in an exploded state, Figure 3

shows a cross section of the condition u. Sports equipment in a simplified representation, equipped with a swing rope (1), which is infinitely variable in length and a flywheel (21), in its

Length is changeable.

Here is the top end cap (9) sized one of the kind

Provide hole that the rope stop (8) can be pulled upwards, the brake u. Sliding element (17) but strikes in front of this hole.

The end cap (11) at the lower end of the inner tube is provided with a hole which allows the swing rope to slide easily through and rotate freely.

The bore of the cap (11) is smaller than the diameter of the

Sliding u. Brake element (17) and serves as a stop for that

Sliding u. Brake element (17).

The swing rope can go up and down in any way you want

Length can be fixed.

The inner bore of the brake u. Sliding element (17) is dimensioned such that the flywheel is slightly jammed and only at a certain tensile strength in the brake u. Sliding element (17) can be moved.

Figure 4

shows Figure 3 in an exploded state.

Figure 5

shows in cross section in a simplified representation the conditions u. Sports equipment with an infinitely variable swing rope (1) and with a divisible swing stick (21). Here, when the flywheel (21) is divided, part of the flywheel can be pushed to the other end of the flywheel (1); so that it can also be used as a normal jump rope.

In both parts there is a brake sliding element (17) and a stop (22) for the brake sliding element for stepless adjustment of the action length of the swing rope (1).

Figure 6

shows in a simplified representation the condition u. Sports equipment with a divided flywheel (21a + 21b) as shown in Figure 5.

However, in this case, part of the flywheel (21) is pushed onto the other side of the flywheel (1) and can therefore be used as a jump rope. Figure 7 + 8

show the conditions u. Sports equipment in a version with a one-piece hollow flywheel, so that

Fly rope is passed, and shows a

On ickel device (19).

The rope end stop (8) is designed here as a button; on which the swing rope rotates smoothly.

At the lower end of the flywheel (21) is one

Pipe reinforcement (24), and as a mass increase

Decorative tassel (13) arranged.

Figure 9 + 9a

show in a simplified representation the conditions u. Sports equipment with a swing rope length adjustment.

Here the swing rope is guided from below through a hollow bar and is moved by moving one

External sliding element (23) (e.g. made of rubber) pulled through the hollow flywheel accordingly.

The flywheel mass (13) is raised and rotatably mounted here, so that rotation of the flywheel is ensured when the flywheel is guided.

At the lower end there is a tube reinforcement (24) - here spherical.

Figure 10

shows a simplified representation of a condition u. Sports equipment with a fixed; or a flywheel that can only be changed in handle length, in which the flywheel is fastened from the outside with a ring eyelet in a slide channel (25). The end of the flywheel has an increasing mass increase or mass load (13), in which the strength of the flywheel increases towards the front area.

Figure 11a + 11b + 11c + lid + lle

show hints of some possible activities with the condition u. Sports equipment. No. designations

1) Fly rope

2) outer tube

3) Inner tube

4) Guide stop / against pulling out / stopper

5) Guide at the upper end of the inner tube

6) End cap to limit the gripping zone

7) Gripping zone

8) Rope end stop

9) Upper end cap on the flywheel

10) flexible protective tube

11) End cap at the lower end of the inner tube with a hole

12) floor

13) Balance mass / mass weighting / mass increase

14) User

15) Rotatable bearing

16) Length adjustment for swing rope / fixation

17) Brake and slide element

18) Redirection

19) Winding device

20) Power indicator / light source / sound element

21) flywheel

22) Adapter sleeve with stop for the brake u. Sliding element (17). Stop by tube taper

23) Outer sliding u. braking element

24) Pipe reinforcement / support u. endcap

25) Slide channel

Claims

claims

1) Condition u. Sports device consisting of a swing rope, which can preferably be changed in its functional length, and with a flywheel, which can preferably be changed in length,

(e.g. telescopically expandable) is fixedly or rotatably connected, and the flywheel has a grip zone.

2) Condition u. Sports device according to claim 1, characterized in that the total length of the flywheel of the condition u. Sports equipment (e.g. in an extended position) is dimensioned such that when the handle area of the flywheel is gripped at the upper end, the user in a standing, bouncing and or running position can comfortably guide the flywheel with the flywheel located at the lower end just above the floor e.g. can rotate.)

3) Condition u. Sports device according to claim 1 + 2, characterized in that the length of the swing rope, strength and material properties of the type is such that the total weight of the swing rope is sufficient to form the flywheel mass required to move the swing rope around the flywheel in motion hold or slide around the floor around the flywheel.

4) Condition u. Sports device according to claims 1-3, characterized in that the flywheel consists of a hollow body with a handle, preferably a tube with a foam handle, and that the swing rope is fastened in this hollow body.

5) Condition u. Sports device according to claims 1-4, characterized in that the flywheel is located in a flywheel made of tube, preferably a plastic tube, and the flywheel is rotatably mounted in this tube in the lower and or upper region of the flywheel and is adjustable in length.

6) Condition u sports equipment according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the flywheel is passed through the flywheel and is secured in the upper area with a stop against pulling downwards, for example a loop or a knot (preferably with an intermediate sliding element ) having. 7) Condition u. Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the flywheel is guided through a hollow flywheel or guided on the outside of a rod and a change in the swing part length is brought about by the fact that the upper end of the flywheel which is pulled through or led out is returned and fixed on the outside of the flywheel by deflection is (Fig.9) and or equipped with a gripping zone for the user to continuously lengthen or shorten the functional length of the flywheel.

8) Condition u. Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the condition u. Sports equipment a performance display device e.g. electronic or mechanical type, e.g. a rev counter, for speed, rotational speed, time display preferably in the grip zone of the flywheel.

9) Condition u. Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the performance display device of the condition u. Sports equipment has a connection to the user, which displays and stores the body functions pulse rate and or blood pressure and stores the power display device, reading device on the condition u. Sports equipment preferably in the grip zone area, or on the user e.g. on the wrist.

10) Condition u. Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the condition u. Sports equipment light sources, e.g. electrically and or self-luminous, which preferably in or on

Swing rope are attached e.g. be switched on as a ball-like structure at the lower end of the flywheel by centrifugal force contact and or alternatively switched on or off.

11) Condition u. Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the condition u. Sports equipment is equipped with electronic and / or mechanical sound elements, e.g. by centrifugal contacts and or depending on

Circulation speed Sound announcements or message tones or emit noises due to air or ground contact.

12) Condition u. Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that they are provided with advertising labels and or signs and drawings or have other decorations. 13) Condition and Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the swing rope at least partially has a protective cover, for example a transparent hose cover.

14) Condition and Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the swing rope has a mass increase, preferably in the end region.

15) Condition u. Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the fixation for the extension and shortening of the flywheel is arranged in the hollow body of the flywheel, e.g. consists of a rubber sliding element and a stop for the fixing device is present in the lower and upper region of the hollow body.

16) Condition and Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the flywheel is divisible and each part has at least one sliding brake element which is fixed and or displaceable in the partial rod.

17) Condition and Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the condition u. Sports device has a one-piece hollow flywheel, preferably made of a hollow plastic tube, which has at least one sliding brake element that is fixed in or on the flywheel.

18) Condition u. Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the flywheel is a winding device for the flywheel.

19) Condition and Sports device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that a winding device and or

Length adjustment device for adjusting the functional length of the flywheel is available. (E.g. a deflection device which, by rotating a wheel / disc, pushes the unusable end of the rope parallel to the other end of the rope from top to bottom and retracts the functional end; or vice versa.