Brunswick Corporation

Life Fitness, LLC

Dennis Whaley

Mathew R Meyer

Westin W Nelson

John Michael Cassidy

Clay J Steffee

A weight bar support assembly for safely supporting a weight bar on exercise equipment in the event the user cannot return the weight bar to its original position includes an attachment bracket and a weight support member forming a catch arm which is selectively engaged with and moved away from an upright of the exercise equipment. An energy absorbing arrangement is incorporated within either the attachment bracket or the weight support member, and is configured to cushion forces transmitted to the upright upon contact of the weight bar with the weight support member to prevent deformation and/or damage of the exercise equipment.

Energy absorbing weight bar support assemblies for exercise equipment

A connector assembly comprises a base part that defines a throughhole receiving a bolt and a connector device having a rear portion that fits through the throughhole in the base part, and a front portion that does not fit through the throughhole in the base part. The rear portion of the connector device defines a bolt hole for engaging with a bolt extending through the throughhole in the base part. The front portion of the connector device defines an access opening aligned with the bolt hole in the rear portion. The rear portion is configured with an engagement surface structure engaged with a forming wall structure of the throughhole in the base part upon movement of the connector device relative to the throughhole.

Rotary connector devices, connector assemblies and method of use

Exercise equipment comprises a weight stack configured to oppose a given exercise motion through a cable and pulley system and an elongated connector connecting the cable to a weight stack. The elongated connector comprises a first threaded portion located proximate to the weight stack and a second portion located distal from the weight stack. The first threaded portion is engaged with the weight stack and has a diameter that is greater than a diameter of the second portion such that an operator can visually determine whether the connector is fully engaged with a threaded receptacle in the weight stack.

Exercise equipment having a weight stack, connectors for exercise equipment having a weight stack and methods of assembling exercise equipment having a weight stack

Landmine apparatuses include a mounting base and a receptacle for receiving a weight bar. The receptacle is coupled to the mounting base and rotatable about a horizontal axis and in 360 degrees about a vertical axis. A vertical pivot connects the receptacle to the mounting base such that the receptacle is retained in a single horizontal plane while rotating about the vertical axis.

Landmine apparatuses

Exercise equipment and adjustable band peg assemblies for exercise equipment have a base frame with a plurality of band peg holes therein. A band peg is movably connected to the base frame so as to be selectively inserted in different holes in the plurality of band peg holes while remaining connected to the base frame.

Exercise equipment and adjustable band peg assemblies for exercise equipment

Exercise apparatus has a belt tracking pulley having a hub insert with an eccentric bore therethrough for changing tracking angle. The tracking pulley mounting structure has adjustable eccentricity.

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Otsego, MN, United States of America

Dennis Whaley