Rowing-type exercising equipment

Claim 1

ROWING-TYPE EXERCISING EQUIPMENT COMPRISING A FRAME INCORPORATING PARALLEL SIDE LIMITS, A SEAT, TWO SUPPORTS BENEATH THE SEAT, ONE ADJACENT TO EACH SIDE THEREOF, EACH SUPPORT BEING FORMED OF A PAIR OF LEVERS PIVOTED TOGETHER SCISSORS-FASHION AT AN INTERMEDIATE POINT OF THEIR LENGTH, THE SAID SEAT BEING CARRIED BY THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID PAIRS OF LEVERS, AND THE UPPER END OF AT LEAST ONE LEVER OF EACH PAIR BEING MOVABLE IN RELATION TO THE SEAT, MEANS CONNECTING THE LOWER ENDS OF THE TWO FORWARD LEVERS, FURTHER MEANS CONNECTING THE LOWER ENDS OF THE TWO REARWARD LEVERS, SAID MEANS AND SAID FURTHER MEANS EACH HAVING PORTIONS TO RUN ON SAID PARALLEL SIDE LIMBS, SAID MEANS AND SAID FURTHER MEANS EACH HAVING INTERMEDIATE PORTIONS FOR RECEIVING A CABLE THEREOVER, PULLEYS MOUNTED IN SAID FRAME, A FLEXIBLE CABLE RUNNING AROUND SAID PULLEYS AND LOOPED AROUND SAID INTERMEDIATE PORTIONS OF SAID MEANS AND OF SAID FURTHER MEANS, ONE END OF SAID CABLE BEING SECURED TO A FIXED POINT OF SAID FRAME, AND THE OTHER END OF THE CABLE BEING PROVIDED WITH GRIPPING MEANS TO FACILITATE HAULING ON THE CABLE BY AN OPERATOR SITTING ON SAID SEAT, IN ORDER TO CAUSE A SCISSORS MOVEMENT OF SAID PAIRS OF LEVERS, AND THEREBY LIFT SAID SEAT UPWARDS FROM THE SAID SIDE-LIMBS OF THE FRAME.