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Details
Inventors: Sands, Leonard; Kuo, Johnson;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Apley; Richard J.
Assistant Examiner: Mulcahy; John
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Varndell Legal Group

A fitness equipment including a base, an oblique support equipped with bottom wheels and pivoted to the base to hold a bench with a seat cushion and a headrest for supporting the user, two handlebars coupled to the oblique support, two actuating rods respectively pivoted to the handlebars, a bracing collapsibly connected between the base and the oblique support, two collapsible pedals pivoted to the base and the oblique support, upper links and intermediate links and bottom links respectively pivotably connected between the oblique support and the actuating rods, a damping mechanism connected between the oblique support, upper and intermediate links, wherein when the user sits on the seat cushion with the back supported on the bench and the hands holding on the handlebars and the legs pedaling the pedals, the bottom links and the intermediate links and the upper links are alternatively driven to move the actuating rods and the connecting frames, enabling the user to simulate the action of swimming.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention relates to fitness equipment, and more specifically to a fitness equipment which enables the user to exercise the action of swimming.
A variety of fitness equipment have been disclosed exercising the body, and have appeared on the market.
These fitness equipment are commonly heavy and not collapsible, therefore they need much storage space when not in use.
Further, these conventional fitness equipment achieve limited exercising effect.
It is one object of the present invention to provide a fitness equipment which enables the user to exercise the action of swimming.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a fitness equipment which enables the user to exercise the legs and the arms simultaneously.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a fitness equipment which is collapsible.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a fitness equipment which can be adjusted to subject to different exercising requirements.
According to one aspect of the present invention, the fitness equipment comprises a base, an oblique support equipped with bottom wheels and pivoted to the base to hold a bench for supporting the user, two handlebars coupled to the oblique support, two actuating rods respectively pivoted to the handlebars, a bracing collapsibly connected between the base and the oblique support, two collapsible pedals pivoted to the base and the oblique support, upper links and intermediate links and bottom links respectively pivotably connected between the oblique support and the actuating rods, a damping mechanism connected between the oblique support, upper and intermediate links, wherein when the user sits on the seat cushion with the back supported on the bench and the hands holding on the handlebars and the legs pedaling the pedals, the bottom links and the intermediate links and the upper links are alternatively driven to move the actuating rods and the connecting frames, enabling the user to simulate the action of swimming



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