Patent ID: 6071218
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: A63B,Y10S

Abstract:
A device for grasping by fingers of at least one hand to provide progressively continuous tension to an exercising user, the device comprising:flexible first and second elongate side members extending side by side along a long axis, each side member having first and second terminations;a plurality of solid hand grips disposed transverse to the long axis and substantially parallel to one another, each grip attached at a first end thereof to the first side member and attached at a second end thereof attached to the second member, the grips and the side members maintained in spaced apart relation, a first of the grips located at the first termination of the members, a last of the grips located at a last termination of the members, and a plurality of grips positioned between the first and last grips, the grips being spaced apart form one another by distances sufficiently small that a hand can move form one grip to an adjacent grip without losing a firm grip on the device;the surfaces of the grips and the side members provided with finger engaging grooves for enabling a hand grasping a grip to maintain a grasp on the device while moving the hand under tension from one grip, along a member, and then to an adjacent grip to increase tension gradually by advancing along the long axis;wherein the device is molded in one piece from a material having the physical properties of rubber; andin which the side members converge at a point substantially mid way between the first and second terminations to provide a grasping region at which the hands of the user may substantially meet.