An Improved Home Exerciser and Complete Pocket Gymnasium.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Home Exerciser and Complete Pocket Gymnasium.
WILLIAM HARgreaves GriffITHS, of 87 Lord Street Liverpool, Specialist
in Voice and Lung Development, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
An improved complete gymnastic apparatus, consisting of two long rubber bands
for expansion and suitable resistance, having at one end of the apparatus a loop to
fit over a book fixed in the wall, and at the other, two handles. The whole
apparatus when folded can easily be carried in an ordinary vest pocket.
As witness my band this Nineteenth day of August One thousand eight hundred
and ninat-three
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Home Exerciser and Complete Pocket Gymnasium.
I, WILLIAM HARGREAVES GRIFFITHS, of 87 Lord Street, Liverpool in the
County of Lancaster, Specialist in Voice and Lung Development, 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 :-
This invention relates to portable gymnastic apparatus, and the object of the
invention is to provide a cheap and easily constructed apparatus adapted to the
requirements of a variety of home gymnastic exercises, and also adapted, when not
in use, to be packed into a very small compass and conveniently carried about the
person.
In the accompanying drawings which illustrate my invention;-
Fig. I shows the details of construction,
Fig. II shows the apparatus packed up, and
Fig. III indicates the manner in which the apparatus is used.
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The apparatus comprises two handles 1 and a metal loop 2; the latter is
constructed as shown in Fig. 1 and is connected to each handle by a rubber band 3.
There may be two separate bands united at the loop 2, or there may be, as shown in
the drawings, but the one band, with handles at opposite ends and the loop 2
attached to the centre. The length and thickness of the bands are such that a
suitable resistance to extension is offered when the apparatus is in use.
Each handle has a hole bored through it and the end of the band is passed
through this hole and a loop on which the handle is threaded, is formed, the end
being secured by wire and the clip 4 as illustrated in Fig. I, where one of the clips
and one of the handles are shown in section. I find this mode of attaching the
handle not only cheap and effective but of considerable advantage when the
apparatus is used to exercise the legs, in which case the handles form stirrups,
and the loops serve to grip the feet and maintain the handles in position.
It will be seen that by coiling the rubber bands round the two handles, as
shown in Fig. II, the apparatus may be packed into very small compass.

page_text: In using the apparatus the metal loop 2 is attached to the hook 5 fixed, at a
suitable height, to the wall, and one handle is grasped in each hand, the distance o
the operator from the wall being regulated to afford the degree of exertion desired
A variety of gymnastic exercises may then, by the use of the apparatus, be performed
after the manner illustrated in Fig. III.
The apparatus may also, as before mentioned, be used for exercising the legs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that wha
I claim is ;-
The improved home exerciser and pocket gymnasium, substantially as described
and illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this 20th day of June 1894.
SLOAN & LLOYD BARNES,
Castle Chambers, 26, Castle Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant