Patent ID: 11896864
Assignee: nan
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 23:
24. A spherically shaped exercise device comprised of an interconnected first hemisphere and a second hemisphere, arranged to enable concomitant muscular engagement of core, chest, back, shoulders, hips and lower body muscles, and arms and hands, by palm-facing-palm engagement of respective ends of the device, the device comprising:
a first and a second hemispherical-shaped palm-to-palm-facing-enabled grippable housing arrangement resistively-rotationally joined about an elongated bolt having a first end secured to the first hemispherical housing and a second end secured within the second hemispherical housing, the elongated bolt within the second hemispherical housing having a tabbed washer therearound engaging a rotational resistance indicator bracket, the rotational resistance indicator bracket having a protrusion distally thereon protruding through the second hemispherical housing to indicate relative rotative positioning between the housings, and hence set-identifiable rotational resistance of the exercise device;
a rotationally resistive compressive mechanism arranged about the elongated bolt having a second end rotatively arranged within an inner portion of the second hemispherical housing and a first end of the elongated bolt secured to an inner portion of the first hemispherical housing, wherein the rotationally resistive compressive mechanism arranged about the elongated bolt comprises a compressible spring arranged longitudinally there around, wherein the compressible spring is biasable against a second annular hub, the second annular hub being non-rotatively secured within the second hemispherical housing;
a first annular hub secured within the first hemispherical housing, with the elongated bolt secured within the first annular hub, and, an annularly-shaped friction inducing compressible brake member rotationally unconstrained, pre-compressed, in an annulus between the second annular hub and the first annular hub;
wherein the rotationally resistive compressive mechanism is arranged between the first and second hemispherical housings to enable adjustable changing of rotational resistance between the first and the second hemispherical housings; and
wherein the rotationally resistive compressive mechanism arranged about the elongated bolt compresses against both the second annular hub secured to the second hemispherical housing and to the first stationary hub secured to the first hemispherical housing, with the compressible brake member arranged in the annulus between the first hub and the second hub to effect rotational resistance therebetween when biased between the first and second hubs.