Wall-Mounted Modular Exercise System with Common Cable Pulley
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional home gym equipment requires significant space due to its large footprint, making it difficult to accommodate a variety of exercise machines in limited home environments, such as garages or spare rooms, and detracts from alternative uses of space like garden rooms.
Innovation Solution
A modular exercise system with a compact design, featuring a support frame module that can be attached to a wall, allowing for a common cable and pulley system with multiple pulley wheels in a common plane, enabling a thin profile and minimal depth, and a cover that doubles as an exercise mat when not in use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional multi-gyms are used to provide variety of exercises, then exercise versatility is improved, but floor space consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent reorients the exercise equipment from a floor-based layout to a wall-based layout. The support frame is mounted vertically on a wall, with pulleys arranged in a vertical plane rather than spreading horizontally across the floor. This dimensional change allows the same exercise functionality to be achieved in a compact footprint by utilizing vertical wall space instead of horizontal floor space.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent integrates multiple exercise functions into a single compact wall-mounted structure. The support frame contains multiple pulleys at different heights, allowing various cable routes and exercise configurations to be nested within the same vertical space. This nesting approach enables multiple exercises to share the same physical footprint, significantly reducing the total space required compared to conventional separate exercise machines.
2Ease of operation
If multi-gyms are designed to accommodate seated or reclining positions, then exercise comfort is improved, but spatial requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dynamic, adjustable components that can be reconfigured for different exercise types and user preferences. The pulleys are positioned at multiple heights and can accommodate various cable attachment points, allowing the same structure to adapt to different exercise requirements. This dynamic configurability provides exercise comfort without requiring fixed, space-consuming seating structures for each exercise type.
Solution Approach 2:
The wall-mounted support frame serves multiple exercise functions within a single structure. By providing multiple pulleys at different heights and allowing various cable routing options, the system can accommodate multiple exercise types (pull-ups, rows, presses, etc.) without requiring separate dedicated spaces for each exercise, thereby reducing total spatial requirements while maintaining exercise comfort.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional exercise equipment is installed in garden rooms, then alternative space utilization is improved, but available space for other uses decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the space utilization by mounting equipment vertically on walls rather than horizontally on the floor. This allows garden rooms or small spaces to accommodate exercise equipment without sacrificing valuable floor area that could be used for other purposes such as storage, seating, or alternative activities. The vertical wall mounting approach maximizes space efficiency in multi-purpose environments.
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AI summary
The invention concerns a modular exercise system comprising a first support frame module having a plurality of frame members, each member being joined to an adjacent frame member and oriented in a common plane such that the first support frame is two-dimensional in form. The modular exercise system further comprises a weight source mounted on the first support frame, a plurality of pulleys mounted to different frame members of the first support frame, and a cable running from the weight source over the pulleys to connect the weight source to one or more manual actuator for performing a resistance exercise in use. The first support frame comprises one or more attachment formation for selective attachment to one or more further support frame module, and the further support frame module is also two-dimensional in form and attachable to the first support frame in an orientation within the common plane, wherein the further support frame module comprises one or more further manual actuator.