Patent ID: 8689371

Claim:
A bench towel to be used on the surface of a workout bench consisting of: a generally rectangular cloth including a flat top surface and a bottom surface, said cloth including a main body and a pair of spaced apart panels extending from a medial interior edge of said main body and terminating at a bottom edge thereof, said panels having an alignment gap formed therebetween disposed between a medial side edge of each one of said panels and extending downward from said medial interior edge to said bottom edge a selected distance for straddling a centrally disposed structural frame member of a workout bench; said panels folding over a portion of said workout bench with said bottom surface of said main body facing a bottom surface of said panels for holding remaining main body portion of said towel over said workout bench securely in place; and a cross strap attached to said bottom surface of said cloth at a selected position between a top edge of said cloth and said medial interior edge said cross strap attaching to said rectangular cloth parallel to said top end of said cloth and extending across a major portion thereof, said cross strap including opposing distal ends connecting to said bottom surface of said cloth and said cross strap attaching to said bottom surface of said cloth at selected connection points spaced apart from one another and a center point of said cross strap forming a generally semi-circular loop extending outward from said cloth defining a handle.