Improvements in Gymnastic Clubs.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gymnastic Clubs.
I, RALPH ROBERT GIBSON, af 16, South Street, Boston, in the County of Suffolk,
and State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Reference being had to the annexed drawings, where
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of the invention showing the weight for testing
strength of wrist and fore-arm attached to the lower end of the club, and
Fig. 2 represents a central longitudinal section of the invention, showing said
wrist and fore-arm testing weight as detached from the main portion of the club.
Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts
of the drawings.
A represents the handle preferably attached to a bail B which is secured to the
stem C as shown.
On the stem C is longitudinally adjustable the club D which is preferably made
of wood and provided with a set-screw or clamping device E, the inner end of which
bears against the stem C as shown in Fig. 2, and by this arrangement the club D
may be adjusted and secured on the stem C relative to the handle, as may be
required, so as to increase or decrease the leverage relative to said handle as shown.
The stem C is graduated as shown at C¹ so as to enable the user of the device
to adjust the club relative to such scale on the stem, from time to time as may be
desired. The stem C is provided at its lower end with a head or enlargement C
for preventing its withdrawal or detachment from the club D as shown in Fig. 2.
For the purpose of testing the strength of the wrist and fore-arm, I use in con-
nection with the adjustable club D, an auxiliary weight F preferably made of
metal and adapted to be detachably secured to the lower end of the club Das
shown, and for such purpose I secure to the lower end of the club D an internally
screw-threaded nut d adapted to receive the screw-threaded end of the upper
end of the metal pipe G which is cast into or otherwise secured within the
auxiliary weight F as shown in Fig. 2. As the stem C is graduated, it will serve
to show the adjusted position of the club D relative to said stem, and the user is
thus enabled to ascertain the increase of power with which he can handle and use
the gymnastic club.
The auxiliary weight F may be used principally when attached to the club D
for the purpose of testing the strength of the wrist and fore-arm, as above stated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
A gymnastic club D adjustably secured upon a stem B having attached to its
upper end a bail handle as described combined with an auxiliary weight F having

page_text: a screw-threaded hollow shank G adapted to be screwed into a screw-threaded
female nut or plate d secured to the lower end of the club, substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
Dated this 14th day of February 1899.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicants, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London.