US 12,214,249 B2
Portable resistance-based exercise machine and system
Matthew Cohen, San Antonio, TX (US); Daniel Husserl, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Heather Dorak, San Antonio, TX (US); and Alexander Prodromos Gilbert, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to PILATA, INC., San Antonio, TX (US)
Filed by Pilata, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US)
Filed on Jun. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/338,575.
Application 18/338,575 is a continuation of application No. 18/064,104, filed on Dec. 9, 2022, granted, now 11,717,719.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/330,101, filed on Apr. 12, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/288,189, filed on Dec. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0330478 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. A63B 22/20 (2006.01); A63B 21/00 (2006.01); A63B 21/04 (2006.01); A63B 24/00 (2006.01); A63B 71/00 (2006.01); A63B 71/06 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 22/203 (2013.01) [A63B 21/00069 (2013.01); A63B 21/0442 (2013.01); A63B 21/153 (2013.01); A63B 21/4033 (2015.10); A63B 24/0062 (2013.01); A63B 71/0036 (2013.01); A63B 71/0619 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An exercise system, comprising:
a tension member comprising a first end and a second end, the tension member having a tension member connector positioned at the second end of the tension member;
a carriage comprising a plurality of wheels at least partially nested within a body of the carriage, the carriage comprising a front face having the tension member connector positioned thereon, wherein at least a portion of the tension member is at least partially disposed underneath or within an interior of the carriage, and the first end of the tension member is fixedly attached to the carriage; and
a stationary platform independent of and separate from the carriage, wherein the stationary platform comprises a front face having a platform aperture, wherein the tension member connector at the second end of the tension member is configured to couple to the platform aperture such that the carriage is movable relative to the stationary platform.