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An automatic weight selector for pin selected exercise equipment in which a timer is employed to reduce the weight load after a predetermined period of time. The timing device is suspended from a first pin engaging a weight and has a second pin for engaging a lower weight. The second pin is biased o

An automatic weight selector for pin selected exercise equipment in which a timer is employed to reduce the weight load after a predetermined period of time. The timing device is suspended from a first pin engaging a weight and has a second pin for engaging a lower weight. The second pin is biased out of engagement with the weight and a timer controlled cam is utilized to maintain the second pin in engagement with the weight. After a predetermined period of time the second pin is released and the total weight load is then established by the upper pin.

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In a pin selected weight lifting machine comprising a stack of weights having aligned vertical openings therethrough, lifting means passing through said vertical openings in said weights, each of said weights having an opening transverse to its vertical opening to permit communication with the latte

In a pin selected weight lifting machine comprising a stack of weights having aligned vertical openings therethrough, lifting means passing through said vertical openings in said weights, each of said weights having an opening transverse to its vertical opening to permit communication with the latter, and means comprising a first pin for passing through a transverse opening in a first weight for engaging said first weight with said lifting means for permitting said first weight and all weights stacked above to be lifted with said lifting means, the improvement comprising means attached to said pin for adding additional weights to said weights being lifted thereby establishing an increased weight load on said lifting means and including means adapted to permit automatic release of only said additional weights after a predetermined period of time, where the first weight and all the weights stacked above the first weight will continue to be lifted by the lifting means.