Earl M Kaplan

US Patent:

6368257, Apr 9, 2002

Filed:

Mar 20, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/528859

Inventors:

Earl M. Kaplan - Miami FL 33166-4195
Alan H. Mandell - Miami FL 33169

International Classification:

A63B 6910

US Classification:

482124, 482112

Abstract:

An isotonic exercise assembly structured to exercise the retractor muscles, such as but not necessarily limited to the rhomboid muscles, in the upper torso of a users body in an effort to correct poor posture demonstrated by the user. A mounting assembly is provided and structured to be removably attached to the upper torso, and is supportingly attached to a base of the exercise assembly. A pair of arms, are pivotally attached at their respective distal ends to the base in spaced relation to one another and are selectively positionable between a retracted position and an outwardly extended position. A tension assembly is disposed relative to the base and the pair of arms, and exerts a resistance force on the arms tending to normally bias the arms into the retracted position. The user exerts a pulling force on the arms in opposition to the resistance force by the tension assembly and the arms are thereby disposed into the outwardly extended position concurrently to the user preforming a scapular movement. The tension assembly can be adjusted to regulate the resistance force applied to the arms before, during and after the performance of a predetermined number of repetitions, wherein each repetition comprises the movement of the arms from the retracted position to the extended position and back into the retracted position.

US Patent:

D563491, Mar 4, 2008

Filed:

Jun 13, 2006

Appl. No.:

29/261371

Inventors:

Earl M. Kaplan - Miami FL, US
Alan H. Mandell - Miami FL, US

International Classification:

2102

US Classification:

D21692