Portable exercising device

Claim 1

A PORTABLE EXERCISING DEVICE COMPRISING A SUPPORT FRAME INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND UPSTANDING UPWARDLY CONVERGENT LEGS INTERCONNECTED AT THEIR UPPER ENDS FOR RELATIVE ROTATION ABOUT AN AXIS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID LEGS, A GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED SHAFT JOURNALED FROM THE UPPER END OF ONE OF SAID LEGS, CRANK MEANS ON SAID SHAFT FOR MANUALLY APPLYING TORQUE TO SAID SHAFT, ADJUSTABLE BRAKE MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME AND OPERABLE TO APPLY A VARIABLE AMOUNT OF DRAG ON SAID SHAFT, ELONGATED TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING AND GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED FLOOR ENGAGING ANCHOR FOOT MEANS ON THE LOWER END OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID LEGS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY THEREOF, THE OPPOSITE END PORTIONS OF SAID ANCHOR FOOT MEANS INCLUDING ANCHOR TABS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM THE ADJACENT LOWER SURFACE PORTIONS OF SAID FOOT MEANS AND ADAPTED TO BE DISPOSED BETWEEN THE LOWER ENDS OF EITHER THE FRONT OR REARLEGS OF A CHAIR AND A SUPPORTING SURFACE ON WHICH THE CHAIR IS DISPOSED, SAID ANCHOR TABS EACH BEING OF GENERALLY FLAT AND PLANAR CONFIGURATION AND OF SUFFICIENT DIMENSIONS TO SUPPORT SAID LEGS WHEN THE LATTER ARE DISPOSED THEREON, SAID TABS EACH BEING ROTATABLY SUPPORTED ON SAID FOOT MEANS FOR ROTATION ABOUT THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID FOOT MEANS WHEREBY SAID TABS MAY BE MAINTAINED IN POSITIONS RESTING FLAT ON SAID SUPPORTING SURFACE EVEN THROUGH THE INCLINATION OF SAID ONE LEG RELATIVE TO SAID SUPPORTING SURFACE IS VARIED.