Exercise machine

Abstract: An exercise machine includes manually grasped and displaced levers and includes bracket assemblies adjustable to permit the levers to engage the levers and enable each lever individually and independently to be manually pulled or pushed. An elastic operably associated with each bracket provides resistance and returns each bracket to a stored at rest position after a manual displacement force on the bracket is released. (end of abstract)

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This invention pertains to exercise machines.

More particularly, this invention pertains to an exercise machine that facilitates exercises which require one arm or leg to pull and another arm or leg to push.

In a further respect, this invention pertains to an exercise machine the facilitates the use of a machine to first perform an exercise in which the user\'s hands grasp a single handle in front of the user\'s body and to then perform an exercise in which each hand grasps a different handle on the exercise machine.

A wide variety of exercise machines are available to exercise the body. One presently preferred exercise regimen requires the user to pull with one hand (or foot) and to push with the other hand (or foot).

Consequently, it would be desirable to provide an improved exercise machine that facilitates the performance of push and pull exercises.

Therefore, it an object of the present invention to provide an improved exercise machine.

It is a further object of the invention to provide an improved exercise machine utilizing levers that can be readily adjusted to perform either push or pull exercises.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved exercise machine that can be readily adapted to perform exercises that require the simultaneous cooperative use of both arms on a single lever to laterally displace a lever and that require the use of each arm each on a different one of first and second levers to displace the first and second levers independently of each other in opposing directions.

These and other, further and more specific objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent to those of skill in the art from the following detailed description thereof, taken in conjunction with the drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an exercise machine constructed in accordance with the principles of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the exercise machine of FIG. 1 including a lever that requires lateral displacement when gripped with the hands of a user and displaced using the arms and upper body of the user;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the exercise machine of FIG. 2 including a pair of levers that each are engaged by a foot of a user to be displaced using a leg of the user;

FIG. 4 is a side view of the exercise machine of FIG. 1 illustrating the mode of operation thereof;

FIG. 5 is a side view of the exercise machine of FIG. 1 illustrating the mode of operation thereof;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view illustrating a lever assembly utilized on the exercise machine of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the lever assembly of FIG. 6 illustrating the mode of operation thereof;

FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective assembly view illustrating the lever assembly of FIG. 6;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view illustrating the exercise machine of FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is an exploded view illustrating construction details of a portion of the exercise machine of FIG. 1, which portion is constructed to removably secure the lever assembly of FIG. 6;

FIG. 11 is a perspective view illustrating the lever assembly of FIG. 6;

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