US 12,343,611 B2
Control panel mount for exercise machine
Mark Harris, Saint Jacob, IL (US); and Devin Pace, Manassas, VA (US)
Assigned to Equip Products, Inc., Saint Jacob, IL (US)
Filed by Equip Products, Inc., Saint Jacob, IL (US)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/104,581.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/313,994, filed on Feb. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0271075 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. A63B 71/06 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 71/06 (2013.01) [A63B 2071/0675 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control panel mount for an exercise machine, the control panel mount having an equipment mounting plate with first and second planar faces, an intermediate plate with first and second faces, and a control panel mounting plate with first and second planar faces, the first planar face of the equipment mounting plate being adapted and configured to be mounted to the exercise machine, the second planar face of the control panel mounting plate being adapted and configured to be mounted to a control panel of the exercise machine, the equipment mounting plate being hingedly connected to the intermediate plate in a manner such that the second planar face of the equipment mounting plate and the first planar face of the intermediate plate are movable between a side by side facing position and an obtusely angled extended position, the second planar face of the intermediate plate being rotatably connected to the first planar face of the control panel mounting plate; and
wherein one of the first planar face of the control panel mounting plate and the second planar face of the intermediate plate has a hub structure with a groove, and the other of the first planar face of the control panel mounting plate and the second planar face of the intermediate plate has an engagement surface defining a hole in the respective planar face of the other of the intermediate plate and the control panel mounting plate, the hub structure extends through the hole such that the engagement surface is received in the groove in a manner to provide relative rotation between the control panel mounting plate and the intermediate plate; and
wherein one of the first planar face of the control panel mounting plate and the second planar face of the intermediate plate has a track formed as a recess in the respective planar face of the control panel mounting plate and the intermediate plate, the other of the first planar face of the control panel mounting plate and the second planar face of the intermediate plate has a pin projecting from respective planar face of the other of the intermediate plate and the control panel mounting plate, and the pin slides in the track during rotation of the control panel mounting plate relative to the intermediate plate.