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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2002
James McCrea, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A combination hand weight and rope pull device that includes a pair of hand weights. The two weights can be used independently, or they can be joined by at least one rope attached to a rotor in the weight head. The heads rotate through an unlimited arc so that the ropes do not bind when the device is in use. If, as in the standard model, each of the weights is equipped with only one active head with a rotor, one or two ropes may be used in parallel to add resistance to the hand weights. In a first alternate embodiment, each of the weight heads is equipped with a rotor (four total). Typically, a pair of the ropes are joined together in series with a joining element so that two or four ropes may be employed. The joining elements can be disconnected so that the pair of weights can be used individually. In a second alternate embodiment, each of the weight heads are aiso equipped with a rotor (four total). However, in this embodiment, the units are joined in parallel, rather than in series so that one to four ropes may be used. The total number of available resistance levels is therefore five (zero to four ropes utilized).