Tyrone F Anderson

US Patent:

43535453, Oct 12, 1982

Filed:

Mar 3, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/239904

Inventors:

Tyrone D. Anderson - Baltimore MD

International Classification:

A63B 6934

US Classification:

272 76

Abstract:

Martial-arts practice apparatus includes an upright panel with a plurality of pneumatically actuable strikers valve-controlled to lash-out toward the user and retract in simulation of weaponless combat; sequence of actuation of the strikers is determinable by a motor driven lobe-roll with adjustable lobes or cams for actuating the striker-control valves, or without this provision, manually by depression of valve actuators in any sequence desired, permitting a colleague of the user to engage in a contest with the user through selective actuation of the strikers; two or more strikers can be actuated to lash out simultaneously.

US Patent:

44013035, Aug 30, 1983

Filed:

Mar 11, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/357305

Inventors:

Tyrone D. Anderson - Baltimore MD
Teng-Fang Lin - Baltimore MD

International Classification:

A63B 6934

US Classification:

272 76

Abstract:

An athletic reflex machine has a human simulative body pivotally mounted on a pedestal, human-opponent sensing means peering out of a window at the eye position and a respective gimbal-mounted pneumatically powered striker simulating each of the arms and legs; when a user (human target) is sensed within range one or more of the strikers may lash out in the direction in which the target is sensed, regardless of whether the body exactly faces the target; a random interruption is provided to make the response less predictable.