Door mounted exercise devices and systems
View Patent ↗Systems, assemblies, and devices for mounting an exercise apparatus to a door. More particularly, an exercise system is mounted to opposing corners of a door and directed diagonally across a door. A bracket engages the door corner and is oriented to directed tension members of the exercise system at a diagonal across a front surface of the door. The bracket includes a door mount for coupling the bracket to four surfaces of the door. The bracket includes an exercise device mount adapted to couple to tension members, pulleys, or other exercise devices. The exercise device mount defines a mounting axis that is non-parallel and non-perpendicular relative to a top edge surface of the door.
1. An exercise apparatus door mount bracket, comprising:
a door mount defining a channel, the channel extending along a first lateral axis, the channel comprising:
a base engagement structure, the base engagement structure having a width corresponding to a door thickness;
a first side structure extending about perpendicular to the base engagement structure, the first side structure configured to engage a first surface of a door; and
a second side structure extending about perpendicular to the base engagement structure, the second side structure configured to engage a second surface of a door; and
an exercise device mount attached to the second side structure, wherein at least a portion of the exercise device mount comprises tension members oriented at an incline angle with respect to the base engagement structure such that the tension members are oriented to direct lateral forces diagonally at an incline angle with respect to the base engagement structure.
2. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1 , wherein the channel further comprises a stop structure extending about perpendicular to the base engagement structure.
3. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 2 , wherein the stop structure is about perpendicular to the first and second side structures.
4. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1 , wherein the door mount includes one or more plates, the one or more plates defining the base engagement structure, first side structure, and second side structure.
5. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1 , wherein the second side structure has opposing transverse edges of different lengths.
6. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 5 , wherein a shape of the second side structure is generally trapezoidal or generally triangular.
7. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1 , wherein the second side structure includes a plate with a longitudinal edge, and wherein the longitudinal edge of the second side structure is offset at an acute angle relative to the first lateral axis.
8. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1 , wherein the at least a portion of the exercise device mount oriented along the second lateral axis defines a longitudinal edge that is non-parallel and non-perpendicular relative to the first lateral axis.
9. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1 , wherein the exercise device mount defines a second channel, the second channel being adjacent the channel defined by the door mount, the second channel being aligned with one or more receptors in the exercise device mount.
10. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1 , wherein the exercise device mount includes:
a first device mount structure extending from the second side structure; and
a second device mount structure attached to the first device mount structure at an axis that is non-parallel and non-perpendicular relative to the first lateral axis of the channel.
11. The exercise apparatus door mount bracket recited in claim 1 , wherein the door mount and exercise device mount are integrally formed from a single plate.
12. A door bracket, comprising:
a door edge engagement structure having opposing first and second longitudinal edges, wherein a distance between the first and second longitudinal edges generally corresponds to a door thickness;
a door rear engagement structure, the door rear engagement structure connected to the first longitudinal edge and extending about perpendicular to the door edge engagement structure;
a door front engagement structure extending about perpendicular to the door edge engagement structure from the second longitudinal edge to a third longitudinal edge, wherein a first bisection axis bisects the front engagement structure between the second and third longitudinal edges, the door front engagement structure including an exercise device mount surface, wherein at least a portion of the exercise device mount surface extends longitudinally along a second bisection axis, the second bisection axis being offset at an acute angle relative to the first bisection axis; and
the exercise device mount comprises tension members oriented at an incline angle with respect to the base engagement structure such that the tension members are oriented to direct lateral forces diagonally at an incline angle with respect to the base engagement structure.
13. The door bracket recited in claim 12 , wherein the door front engagement structure includes a door contact portion, and wherein at least one bend in the door front engagement structure separates the door contact portion and the exercise device mount surface.
14. The door bracket recited in claim 12 , wherein the door front engagement structure defines a connector channel, the connector channel extending longitudinally along an axis that is at an acute angle relative to the first bisection axis.
15. The door bracket recited in claim 12 , wherein the door edge, door rear, and door front engagement structures collectively define a door channel, the door bracket structure further including a stop structure about perpendicular to the door edge engagement structure and bounding one longitudinal end of the door channel.
16. The door bracket recited in claim 12 , wherein the door edge, door rear, and door front engagement structures are integrally formed, and wherein the at least a portion of the exercise device mount surface has transverse edges of differing lengths.