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Bench press safety apparatus
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Inventors: Selle, Robert W.;
Assignee: Selle; Robert (Downers Grove, IL)
Primary Examiner: Apley; Richard J.
Assistant Examiner: Bahr; Robert W.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Mann, McWilliams, Zummer & Sweeney
A bench press safety apparatus including safety supports and weight unloading shelves, which shelves are laterally adjustable to permit alignment with weight discs on a barbell supported on the safety supports. The unloading shelves support the barbell and weight discs after they have been relocated from the safety supports to the unloading shelves in order to unweight the barbell. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION A bench press safety apparatus indicated generally by the numeral 10 and a standard bench 12, are shown in FIG.
1.
The bench 12 includes a pair of racks 14 provided at the upper ends with cradles 16 which support a barbell 18 upon which weight discs 20 are placed.
A connector beam 22 is provided, the beam 22 having a laterally-extending slot 24 formed in the upper surface of each end thereof and a corresponding laterally-extending slot 26, as seen in FIG.
4, formed in the lower surface of each end thereof.
The connector beam 22 extends the entire width of the apparatus and connects and is adapted to be mounted upon two substantially identical pairs of base rails 28a and 28b, each base rail 28a, 28b provided with an aperture formed in its upper surface near the center thereof.
The connector beam 22 is mounted atop the base rails 28a, 28b in perpendicular relationship thereto and in perpendicular relationship to the bench 12, such that one pair of base rails is mounted at one end of the connector beam 22, the other pair of base rails is mounted at the opposite end of the connector beam 22, and the bench 12 is located centrally between the two pairs of base rails 28a, 28b so that it lies in parallel relationship to them.
The slots 24 and 26 in the connector beam 22 are aligned with the apertures in the base rails 28a, 28b.
Bolts 30 are inserted through washers 32 and are then received through the slots 24, 26 and into the apertures in the base rails 28a, 28b, thereby slidably securing the base rails 28a, 28b to permit lateral adjustment of the base rails 28a, 28b in relation to the bench 12.
A safety support leg assembly 34 consisting of a pair of legs 34a, 34b is provided.
The legs 34a, 34b are rigidly secured in an upright position, as by welding, between the base rails 28a and 28b.
As seen in FIG.
4, leg 34a is mounted to the right of the connector beam 22 and leg 34b is mounted left of the beam.
A safety support 36 is provided on each side of the bench 12 to support the ends of the barbell 18 in the event of a failed exercise or a dropped barbell by a weight lifter
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