Handgrip, with light and timer

Claim 1

A handgrip comprising, a pair of elongated handles to be gripped by the hand, means mounting the handles together for movement of the handles toward and from each other in pivotal movement about a pivot axis that is disposed longitudinally beyond the handles whereby substantially the whole body of the handgrip is disposed longitudinally beyond the pivot axis, the mounting means including spring means biasing the handles apart and yielding to enable the handles to be moved toward each other into interengagement, and the spring means being of great strength whreby the handles can be moved into such interengagement only by the full strength of the hand, the handgrip including an electrical circuit which itself includes a battery, timer, light bulb, and contacts, and the contacts being exposed for non-yielding interengagmenet in response to the handles being moved into interengagement and effective when so interengaged for completing circuit and connecting the timer in circuit and thereby effecting operation of the timer, the electric circuit being normally open, and closed only when the handles are interengaged, the timer being inoperative when the circuit is open, the light bulb being lighted when the circuit is completed, and positioned for eady observation by the user in the normal use of the handgrip, the light bulb and timer being so relatively positioned that the light bulb when lighted illuminates the timer, the light bulb and timer being mounted in the same handle, at the swinging end of the handle, the timer being beyond the light bulb in the direction toward the end of the handle, and said handle having a front opening presenting the light bulb to the user in the normal holding of the handgrip, and an end opening effective for directing light rays longitudinally of the handle and onto the timer and illuminating the timer.