Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4720100 | Apparatus for exercising the arm muscles An apparatus for exercising the arm muscles of the human body, whereby the apparatus comprises a base with an inclined working surface mounted above it, whose height is adjustable and which is adjoined on both sides by means of sleeves by shafts, which sh... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4625959 | Weight guide for exercising machine A weight guide for an exercising machine includes a base with a hollow vertical column having elongated vertical slots, a plurality of weights embracing the hollow column and each having a horizontal aperture, a plug having horizontal apertures being mova... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4515363 | Weight lifting exerciser An exercising machine for especially training the muscles of the leg includes a base on which a pair of support tables is rotatably carried, one for each foot, a vertical standard on the base adapted to provide fixed hand grips for a standing user or a se... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4494751 | Exercise machine An exercise machine has a frame carrying a seat adapted to support an exercising person in a sitting position, the preferred posture for a person exercising. A pair of upright shafts are journaled in the frame and extend along and rotate about respective ... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4478411 | Apparatus and method for exercising the abductor or adductor muscles Apparatus and method for exercising the abductor or adductor muscles in which the legs of the user are moved away from and toward one another and in which resistance to leg movement varies in predetermined relationship to leg movement. The apparatus is co... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4456245 | Rotary torso exercise apparatus Apparatus and method for exercising torso rotation muscles of a person and in which a user's body is supported in a generally upright seated position, upper and lower torso portions are engaged so as to restrict movement of the user's body to rotary movem... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4456247 | Leg stretching apparatus Disclosed are two separate leg supporting members which are independently pivotally connected to a base assembly. At their pivotal connection with the base assembly they are further provided with a disk assembly having a cable attached thereto. The cable ... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4349193 | Lower abdominal twist machine An lower abdominal twist machine including a frame having weights slidably mounted in a cage with the weights drivably connected to a rotatably mounted seat for an individual together with a handgrip on the frame which is grasped by the individual in a se... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4349194 | Apparatus for exercising the inner and outer thigh muscles Apparatus for exercising the inner and outer thigh muscles of an individual which includes a frame having a seat and a weight cage of a weight movable upwardly from a rest position with pivotally mounted leg receiving frames for accommodating the legs of ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4349191 | Abdominal sidebend machine-upper Disclosed herein is an upper abdominal sidebend machine including a base frame which carries a weight supporting cage thereon, a seating area supported by the base, a roller trackway which revolves about the seat having an upwardly extending transverse tr... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4149713 | Weight lifting device for the lower extremities An exercise and rehabilitation device for strengthening the knee, ankle and leg of the user employes a table having a horizontally translatable chair mounted thereon, an arcuate track substantially perpendicular to the path of travel of the chair and a sy... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4125258 | Limb exercising apparatus Apparatus to be used for exercising the limbs, and particularly the legs. The apparatus includes a support upon which a person lies with his legs extending beyond an end thereof and resting on a pair of operating bars. Each bar projects from beneath the s... | 11/14/1978 |
