Improved Apparatus for Promoting Muscular or Physical Development.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1898-Accepted, 25th June, 1898 ·
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Promoting Muscular or Physical
Development.
I, EUGEN SANDOW, of 9, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London, Athlete, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:.
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This invention relates to that class of Exerciser or apparatus for promoting
muscular or physical development in which handles attached to elastic cords or
straps or weighted cords or straps or the like are employed to resist the various
movements of the arms or body of the user.
The invention consists principally in the combination with such elastic cords
or their equivalents of weighted handles preferably in the form of dumb-bells;
I thus obtain an exerciser having an action on the muscles of the user different
from that of ordinary dumb-bells and from that of the usual clastic cord or
weighted cord exerciser.
I propose further to make the ends or heads of the dumb-bell or handle
removable so that they may be used without weights or so that the weights may
be replaced by similar parts heavier or lighter as desired; or these ends or heads
may be made hollow and means provided for weighting them more or less with
shot or the like, in which case they may or may not be removable.
Or other means may be adopted for altering the weight of the handles.
Dated this 20th day of August 1897-
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
Improved Apparatus for Promoting Muscular or Physical
Development.
I, EUGEN SANDOw, formerly of 9, Sackville Street, now of 32, St. James's Street,
Piccadilly, London, Athlete, 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:—
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This invention relates to that class of "Exerciser or apparatus for promoting
muscular or physical development in which handles attached to elastic cords or
straps or weighted cords or straps or the like are employed to resist the various
movements of the arms or body of the user, and the same will be readily under-
stood on reference to the accompanying drawings:

page_text: Fig. 1 illustrates my invention applied to an exerciser for which Letters Patent
were granted to me in Great Britain, No. 3,242, dated February 8th, 1897.
Figs. 2 and 3 show modified forms of the handles which I propose to use.
The invention consists principally in the combination with elastic cords such
for example as seen at a (Fig. 1), or their equivalents, of weighted handles b pre-
ferably in the form of dumb-bells; as seen at Fig. 1. I thus obtain an exerciser
having an action on the muscles of the user different from that of ordinary
dumb-bells and from that of the usual elastic cord or weighted cord exerciser.
I propose further to make the ends or heads b₁ of the dumb-bell or handle b
removable as seen at Fig. 2, so that they may be used without weights or so that
the weights b¹ may be replaced by similar parts heavier as shewn dotted on Fig. 2
or lighter as desired; or these ends or heads 61 may be made hollow (as seen at
Fig. 3) and means provided such as the opening and screwed plug 62 for weighting
them more or less with shot or the like, in which case they may or may not be
removable.
Or other means may be adopted for altering the weight of 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:-
1. A cord exerciser having handles so weighted that a combined strain on the
muscles can be obtained partly such as that produced by a cord exerciser and
partly such as that produced by a dumb-bell both strains acting simultaneously
upon the muscles as herein set forth.
2. A cord exerciser provided with handles having alterable weights so that
a combined strain on the muscles can be obtained, partly such as that produced
by a cord exerciser and partly such as that produced by a dumb-bell, the latter
being alterable independently of the former.
3. A cord exerciser having handles weighted by removable weights so that
either the single strain of the cord exerciser, or the combined strain of cord
exerciser and weights can be exercised on the muscles as desired, substantially
as set forth.
Dated the 19th dor of Mov 1808
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.