Improvements in Exercising Apparatus for Children and Adults.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Exercising Apparatus for Children and Adults.
1, JOHN SHANKS, Junior, of Tubal Works, Barrhead, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, Sanitary Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object the construction of an improved, novel, and
inexpensive kind of exercising apparatus.
As constructed for children one modification of my improved apparatus consists
of a simple construction of carriage with seats facing each other. This carriage is
suspended from pedestals fixed at opposite ends of a stationary bottom board or
base. Suspending links are jointed to the tops of the pedestals and extend thence
downwards in directions inclined inwards from the pedestals to joints by which they
are attached to the lower parts of the carriage. The suspension by the inclined
links allows the carriage to have a kind of swinging motion. On each side of the
carriage there is centered on the stationary bottom board or base a hand lever
which is vertical in its middle position, and which has a slot formed in it in a
suitable position to have projecting through it a pin fixed to the side of the carriage.
The occupant or occupants of the carriage can work the hand levers and give
motion to the carriage and whilst doing so exercise their arms and bodies to some
extent as in rowing.
The apparatus can be made of various sizes and it may be made with a single
seat, a modification which may be more suitable for adults, or with two or more
seats; and the seat or seats may be arranged in various ways. The lever or levers
by means of which the carriage is to be moved may also be arranged in various
ways; or instead of such levers, handled rods either themselves fixed, or connected
to fixed points may be provided, the carriage being in such cases moved by the
occupant or occupants pushing and pulling the handles.
Dated this Eleventh day of March 1895.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
VODELE DI MULTICATION.
Improvements in Exercising Apparatus for Children and Adults.
I, JOHN SHANKS, Junior, of Tubal Works, Barrhead, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, Sanitary Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object the construction of an improved, novel, and
inexpensive kind of exercising apparatus which cousists of a form of carriage
suspended from pedestals by links and capable of being rocked by means of
levers, or fixed hand rods.
Several modifications of apparatus as made according to my invention are shown
on two accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings,

page_text: Figures, 1, and 2, on Sheet, 1, thereof being respectively a side and an end
elevation of one modification ;
Figure, 3, a side elevation of a second modification ;
Figure,
a side elevation of a third modification, and Figure, 5, a sectional plan
of a detail of the same;
Figure, 6, a side elevation of a fourth modification;
Figure, 7, a side elevation of a fifth modification and Figure, 8, a plan of a detail
of the same.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
The first modification of my apparatus (as constructed more particularly for
children) consists of a simple construction of carriage, A, with seats, B, indicated
by dotted lines, facing each other. This carriage, A, is suspended from pedestals, C,
fixed at opposite ends of a stationary bottom board or base, D. Suspending links, E,
are jointed to the tops of the pedestals, C, and extend thence downwards in
directions inclined inwards from the pedestals, to joints, G, by which they are
attached to the lower parts of the carriage, A. The suspension by the inclined
links, E, allows the carriage, A, to have a kind of swinging motion. On each side
of the carriage, A, there is centered on the stationary bottom board or base, D, a
hand lever, H, which is vertical in its middle position, and which has a slot, J,
formed in it in a suitable position to have projecting through it a pin, K, fixed to
the side of the carriage. The occupant or occupants of the carriage, A, can work
the hand levers, H, and give motion to the carriage, and whilst doing so exercise
their arms and bodies to some extent as in rowing.
The apparatus can be made of various sizes, and it may be made with a single
seat (as shown in the second modification which may be more suitable for adults) or
with two or more seats; and the seat or seats may be arranged in various ways.
The lever or levers, H, by means of which the carriage, A, is to be moved may also
be arranged in various ways; thus for example in the third modification Figures, 4,
and 5, the levers, H, are connected to the carriage, A, by swivelling bosses, L,
(one only being shown) in which they move; or as shown in the fourth modification
(Figure, 6) they may be attached by links, M, (one only being shown) to the
joints, G, of the suspension links, E, at one end of the carriage, A. Or instead of
such levers, H, handled rods, N, either themselves fixed (as shown in the fifth
modification Figure, 7) or connected to fixed points are provided, the carriage, A,
being in such cases moved by the occupant or occupants pushing and pulling the
handles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
Improved exercising apparatus for children and adults conprising a form of
carriage suspended from pedestals by links and capable of being rocked by means
of levers or fixed hand rods substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Tenth day of December 1895.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.