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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1996
Yi Fong Hsieh, Succasunna, NJ (US);
LifeGear, Inc., Rockaway Township, NJ (US);
Abstract
Exercise apparatus which enables the user to selectively perform a bench press exercise or a butterfly exercise using the same apparatus elements without requiring any modification to the apparatus by the user. A pair of exercise arms are mounted to a pivot bar for pivoting movement each about a respective one of a pair of parallel pivot axes and are interconnected for concurrent pivoting movement in opposite angular directions about the pair of pivot axes by respective intermeshed circular gear segments. The pivot bar is mounted to an overhead member for pivoting movement about a horizontal pivot axis. When a butterfly exercise is being performed, the apparatus provides equal resistance to both of the user's arms and insures that both arms move at the same speed. When a bench press exercise is being performed, the meshing of the circular gear segments locks the exercise arms together.
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