Guidingly supported adjustable weight vertical lift carriage

Claim 1

An exercising apparatus comprising a pair of upstanding parallel guides stationarily suported at their lower ends from a suitable support structure, a weight supporting carriage guidingly supported from the guides for vertical shifting therealong, said carriage defining a upstanding recess between said guides extending outwardly in a plan at right angles to a plane containing said guides and forming a complete enclosure for a user, and also being open at its top and bottom, said weight supporting carriage including means for supporting weights therefrom and means for gripping by the hands of a user of the exercising apparatus for raising and lowering the weight supporting carriage relative to the guides, said carriage including opposite side upstanding sleeves slidingly telescoped over said guides for guided vertical shifting therealong, said sleeves being interconnected at corresponding vertically spaced points by means of a pair of horizontally disposed generally Ushaped members spaced apart vertically and having their opposite ends secured to said sleeves, said U-shaped members and sleeves defining said recess, said means for gripping including upstanding uprights supported from said sleeves, said uprights including vertically spaced pairs of aligned hirozontal transverse bores, and said hand gripping means further including rods means ends are removably received in one pair of said bores that are axially aligned.