Paramount Fitness Corp.

Paramount Fitness Equipment Corp.

Harvey C Voris

Barry H Brooks

An adjustable exercise machine using resistance for exercise the upper torso and arm muscles of a user comprises a bench assembly pivotally coupled to a support frame, and a seat support assembly for supporting and/or adjusting the user's body positions, the bench assembly being angularly adjustable for supporting the body at either incline, supine, or decline positions, and the seat support assembly being angularly and/or vertically adjustable in order to support the user's body such that shoulder joints of the user will remain approximately in a same plane, which also passes through a bench pivot axle, at all angular positions of the bench assembly during the exercise of the user.

Method for determining a bench pivot axle location on a support frame of an exercise machine

Convergent exercise machines and a method using resistance for exercising the upper torso and arm muscles, for complete natural joint articulation of shoulders, elbows and wrists. The circular exercise motion path is machine-determined and defined by a pair of exercise arms, each arm rotating about an arm pivot axle and having a handle assembly with a wrist joint accommodating pivot. The diameter of the circular exercise motion path is adjusted for the user's arm length. The method includes the following steps: defining the position of the arm pivot axle so that the machine-determined circular exercise motion path is coincident with the movement of the wrist joint accommodating pivot from start to finish of an exercise, and defining the position of the arm pivot axle to be located in a plane parallel to the plane positioned through the user's shoulder joints and at a lateral displacement from it, and at a location further into the exercise stroke than the parallel plane. The method has a further step of adjusting the position of the exercise arm handles to accommodate user's arm length. Wrist joint accommodating pivots allow the user's hand to move in a non-circular motion path. Each type of the machine of the present invention can be made with a singular arm pivot axle, two co-linear arm pivot axles or two co-planar parallel arm pivot axles.

Convergent exercise machine and method

Handle and exercise arm assembly for use with an exercise machine

An exercise apparatus with a horizontally adjustable, detachable, and inclinable workout bench that is combinable with an angularly adjustable bench press. The apparatus includes a main frame and a foundation member extending horizontally from the main frame, which supports the bench. The bench is removably coupled to the foundation member by a base for horizontal displacement and detachment of the bench from the main frame. The bench includes a body support that is pivotally connected to the distal end of the base and pivotally connected to the base at a second point through a raising and lowering arm. The seat portion of the bench may be positioned perpendicular to the back portion. A brace is nested in a container located beneath the back portion and a seat support is located beneath the seat portion. When the user desires to position the back portion and the seat portion perpendicular to each other, the seat portion is rotated about a hinge and the brace is positioned partially out of the container so that the top of the brace abuts the side edge of the seat support. Further, the workout bench of the present invention is combined with an angularly adjustable bench press.

Exercising apparatus with adjustable workout bench

An exercise apparatus having a trolley directly linked to the resistance weights. Bearings on the trolley react against the eccentric component of an applied force, while a selector bar connecting the trolley with the weights interacts with the weight stack to keep the trolley bearings in continuous contact with upright guide rods on which the trolley and weights ride when a user withdraws his controlled grip of the press bar or the lat pull down bar, removing any externally applied force.

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Huntington Beach, CA, United States of America

Harvey C Voris