Abstract

A securing mechanism for holding an exercise weight-disc on the end of the lifting bar while allowing a modicum of rotational movement in the disc as the bar is being manipulated by the exerciser. A sleeve-like collarpiece, having a smooth cylindrical bore which has therein a serrated flange, is fitted over the threaded end of a weight lifting bar that has a longitudinal groove passing through the set of threads. The collarpiece is slid onto the threaded end, and into registry with a weight-disc and thereafter rotated so that its rotatable gasket-surfaced face snubs against the weight-disc by virtue of the serrated flange engaging and working in cooperation with the bar threading.A novel ball-bearing/race, inserted in the collarpiece face, and to which the gasket is affixed, provides a rotatably movable base which will allow the weight-disc(s) to undergo a somewhat constrained rotation as the bar is twisted during lifting exercises.