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Application filed February 24,1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, William L. Coop and Joseph C. Boms, citizens of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Provi₅ deuce and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Exercising-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to that class of gymio nastic apparatus in which weights are raised and lowered by the person exercising, and in which the rope that operates the weight is doubled or compounded in such a manner as to allow the handle grasped by the operator 15 twice the motion of the weight, as will be more fully hereinafter described; and the object of our improvement is to prevent rotation of the weight and consequent fouling of the rope supporting and moving the same. We 20 attain this object by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which—

Figure 1 is a sectional view of our exercising apparatus. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same on the line x x.. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are sec25 tions of modified form of guides. Fig. 6 is a side view of the weight on a weight-carrier of modified construction. Fig. 7 is a front view of a chest-weight in which rods form the guides. Fig. 8 is a sectional view of the same. 30 Fig. 9 is a section of the same, as on line y y.

In this class of apparatus the rope A is secured at the top of the guides B, that steady the weight C in its motion, and passes around the pulley c on the carrier which supports 35 said weight, and over the fixed pulley b to the handle or other attachment grasped by the operator.

The weight 0, being suspended in the loop formed in the rope A, if left to rotate, will foul said rope and interfere with its easy ac- 40 tion, also causing rapid wear of the same. To prevent such rotation we provide the base of the weight-carrier with lateral projections D, as is shown in Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9. Said projections D may be covered with felt, leather, 45 or other yielding substance, and by coming in contact with the guides gently and noiselessly prevent rotation of the weight 0. Said projections D may be either at the base of the weight 0, as is shown in Fig. 1, or at the top, 50 or at both top and base, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

The guide B may be of any convenient form' to suit the convenience or fancy of the designer. _ 55

We are aware that in a chest-weight apparatus the weight-carrier has been provided with guides to steady its motion, and we do not ciaim, broadly, an apparatus so constructed.