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Details

Inventors: Roethke, Siegfried;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Apley; Richard J.
Assistant Examiner: Bahr; Robert W.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Smith; Ronald E.

An exercise bench and an exercise tower. Both the bench and the tower have multi-apertured frames so that the respective parts thereof may be adjusted to a plurality of differing functional positions of adjustment and so that the interconnections between bench and tower may also be changed as desired. The bench includes a chair having a seat portion with a back portion hingedly connected thereto. The chair is supported by a carriage member that is slideably adjustable with respect to an elongate central frame member. The exercise tower includes a pair of upstanding frame members and a fixed position support unit that is secured to a wall or other support member to which the upstanding frame members may be secured in an upright position or in different inclined positions. Cables having their respective paths of travel defined by multi-position pulley members interconnect one or two handle members, as the exerciser may select, with weight members so that the exerciser may lift weights by pulling down on the handle or handles in many differing directions. Magnetic locking devices are provided for safety, and a removable bar extending between the upstanding frame members interconnects opposing weights when desired. The bench frame may also be used as a mini-tower, and the tower may be used without cables and pulleys for many exercises. Although the bench and tower may be used independently, they may be interconnected, and their parts exchanged, to provide many additional exercise configurations.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention includes a bench member having a pair of laterally spaced upstanding leg members interconnected by a vertically adjustable transversely disposed frame member at one end thereof.
A longitudinally disposed central frame member is suspended at one end thereof by the transverse frame member and is supported at its other end by a single leg.
A carriage member is rollable and adjustable along the length of the central frame member.
A bench chair means, which includes a back portion that is hingedly connected to the seat portion thereof, is releasably secured to such carriage member.
The carriage member includes three (3) longitudinally spaced connection points referred to hereinafter as first, second and middle connection points.
A first link extends from the first carriage connection point to the back portion of the chair means and a second link extends from the second connection point to be seat portion of the chair means.
An intersupport device is connected to either the first or second connection points and the middle connection point.
A bolt releasably mounts that part of the chair means where the back and seat portions are hingedly connected to one another to the intersupport device.
In this manner, the hinge of the chair means may be positioned by adjusting the intersupport device as desired so that the chair can define an inverted "V" when seen in side elevation, said hinge being at the apex of the "V" .
The bench may be used without any leg members to provide a floor level rowing exercise device, for example.
This is accomplished by disengaging the carriage member so that it is free to slide relative to the bench frame and by using a horizontal cable pulling arrangement at the tower.
The bench may also be used as a mini-exercise tower by removing the chair means and putting the frame of the bench in an upright position.
When so used, a pulley is mounted at the top of the bench and a cable rollingly engages the pulley as the cable extends between the carriage and a handle means

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