Patent Application
20200054918
The present invention generally relates to exercise equipment. More particularly, the invention relates to a tractor tire exercise brace apparatus.
Strongman events date back to the early 1900s when circus performers would demonstrate various feats of strength: such as steel bending, horse pulling and chain breaking. Today strongman events have evolved into an eclectic competition in which competitors display their raw power by lifting rocks, toting refrigerators, and pulling trains. The most famous competitions are the ‘World's Strongest Man,’ the ‘Arnold Strongman Classic’ and the ‘Strongman Champions League.’ One event in these competitions is known as the ‘tire flip’—contestants are required to flip a large tractor tire (sometimes weighing up to 1,000 lbs.) several hundred feet to a finish line in a short period of time. These competitions have become popular, but the exercise industry has only just begun developing practice tools to help contestants prepare. A single U.S. Pat. No. 7,976,439B2 granted to Abelbeck disclosed a tire flipping training simulator comprised of weighted braces balanced upon a tilting axis. While this invention simulates the flipping action of the exercise, no patents were found in the prior art that allow an athlete to train with an actual tire and adjust the weight of a tire to meet their workout needs.
The foregoing examples of related art and limitation related therewith are intended to be illustrative and not exclusive, and they do not imply any limitations on the invention described and claimed herein. Various limitations of the related art will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon a reading and understanding of the specification below and the accompanying drawings.
The device herein disclosed and described provides a tire flip exercise apparatus. The aforementioned invention comprised of a plurality of segmented braces being affixed to the inside wall of a tractor tire and having a set of hand holds and weight plate attachments thereto. An object of the invention is to allow users to pickup tractor tires in an ergonomic fashion by providing hand holds that allow users to keep their hands closer together rather than straddling the outside diameter.
Another object of the invention is to provide a plurality of clamping plates that allow the invention to cleverly grip a side wall of a tractor tire. Said plates are affixed to said tire by means of plates held together by bolts therein.
Another object of the invention is to provide an adjustable apparatus that can be installed on tractor tires with varying inside diameters. The apparatus is comprised of four ‘L-shaped’ members with sliding, tubular joints being temporarily locked by means of bolts inserted in holes therebetween.
Another object of the invention is to provide weighted plates allowing users to increase the weight of the tire. Said plates being held to the apparatus by means of bolts that pass through both the plates and flat members on the invention.
It is briefly noted that upon a reading this disclosure, those skilled in the art will recognize various means for carrying out these intended features of the invention. As such it is to be understood that other methods, applications and systems adapted to the task may be configured to carry out these features and are therefore considered to be within the scope and intent of the present invention, and are anticipated. With respect to the above description, before explaining at least one preferred embodiment of the herein disclosed invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangement of the components in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention herein described is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways which will be obvious to those skilled in the art. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception upon which this disclosure is based may readily be utilized as a basis for designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present disclosed device. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent construction and methodology insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention. As used in the claims to describe the various inventive aspects and embodiments, “comprising” means including, but not limited to, whatever follows the word “comprising”. Thus, use of the term “comprising” indicates that the listed elements are required or mandatory, but that other elements are optional and may or may not be present. By “consisting of” is meant including, and limited to, whatever follows the phrase “consisting of”. Thus, the phrase “consisting of” indicates that the listed elements are required or mandatory, and that no other elements may be present. By “consisting essentially of” is meant including any elements listed after the phrase, and limited to other elements that do not interfere with or contribute to the activity or action specified in the disclosure for the listed elements. Thus, the phrase “consisting essentially of” indicates that the listed elements are required or mandatory, but that other elements are optional and may or may not be present depending upon whether or not they affect the activity or action of the listed elements. The objects features, and advantages of the present invention, as well as the advantages thereof over existing prior art, which will become apparent from the description to follow, are accomplished by the improvements described in this specification and hereinafter described in the following detailed description which fully discloses the invention, but should not be considered as placing limitations thereon.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated herein and form a part of the specification, illustrate some, but not the only or exclusive, examples of embodiments and/or features. It is intended that the embodiments and figures disclosed herein are to be considered illustrative rather than limiting. In the drawings:
Other aspects of the present invention shall be more readily understood when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and the following detailed description, neither of which should be considered limiting.
In this description, the directional prepositions of up, upwardly, down, downwardly, front, back, top, upper, bottom, lower, left, right and other such terms refer to the device as it is oriented and appears in the drawings and are used for convenience only; they are not intended to be limiting or to imply that the device has to be used or positioned in any particular orientation.
It is additionally noted and anticipated that although the device is shown in its most simple form, various components and aspects of the device may be differently shaped or slightly modified when forming the invention herein. As such those skilled in the art will appreciate the descriptions and depictions set forth in this disclosure or merely meant to portray examples of preferred modes within the overall scope and intent of the invention, and are not to be considered limiting in any manner. While all of the fundamental characteristics and features of the invention have been shown and described herein, with reference to particular embodiments thereof, a latitude of modification, various changes and substitutions are intended in the foregoing disclosure and it will be apparent that in some instances, some features of the invention may be employed without a corresponding use of other features without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth. It should also be understood that various substitutions, modifications, and variations may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.
