Patent ID: 7857739
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A portable exercise frame, convertible between assembled and disassembled configurations, wherein the exercise frame in assembled configuration comprises: a floor plate having first and second side edges, a rear edge, and a front edge; a base frame carried on said floor plate with portions of the base frame establishing opposite, first and second side frames located near opposite, first and second side edges of the floor plate, and a rear frame located near a rear edge of the floor plate, together with said front edge of the floor plate defining an operator area suitably sized to receive thereon a user in a wheelchair, and wherein said front edge is open, allowing wheelchair entrance into said operator area on the floor plate with wheelchair in backed-in position; said opposite, first and second side frames each including an upstanding portion carrying a respective first and second longitudinally elongated side housing located on respectively opposite sides of the operator area, spaced above the floor plate and defining a horizontal passage oriented from front-to-rear of the floor plate, spaced above the floor plate at approximately shoulder height of user seated in a wheelchair in said operator area, and positioned juxtaposed to said rear frame such that said side housings are proximate to the rear of the operator area; first and second longitudinally elongated side exercise bars, each telescopically received in a respective one of said passages of said respective first and second side housings such that the side exercise bars are slidable between a selected forwardly extended position and a retracted position with respect to said side housings, wherein in the forwardly extended position a forward end of each side exercise bar extends forward of the front end of the floor plate so as to extend forward of and laterally spaced on each opposite side of a user in a wheelchair in back-in position on the floor plate; said rear frame including first and second longitudinally elongated rear housings spaced above the floor plate and laterally near said first and second side frames, each defining a passage oriented substantially upwardly-and-downwardly with respect to the floor plate; first and second longitudinally elongated rear exercise bars slidably received in said passages of said respective first and second rear housings such that the rear exercise bars are slidable between a selected upwardly extended position and a lowered position with respect to said rear housings; exercise bar fastening means for releasably securing said side exercise bars and rear exercise bars in selected positions through the respective side and rear housings, chosen from a plurality of available positions; a plurality of anchoring members configured suitably for, in use, attaching a resistance element to said exercise frame when the frame is in assembled configuration and suitable for hand engagement for carrying disassembled portions of the exercise frame when in disassembled configuration, wherein at least some of said anchoring members are mounted to the floor plate, to the base frame, to the side exercise bars, and to the rear exercise bars; and a body support member supported from and located forward of said rear frame and extending into said operator area from the rear frame, positionable to engage the back of a user in a wheelchair backed into the operator area.