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Tower amusement ride
| Details |
Inventors: Klopf, Frank P.; Klopf, Peter M.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Chilcot, Jr.; Richard E.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Flint; Cort
An amusement ride is illustrated having an annular passenger housing (A,A',A",A'") which surrounds a central tower (B, B', B") and is driven relative to the tower in vertical, tilting or wobbling, and/or rotary motion by a drive arrangement (12,16,18,42,44,50). Passsenger containment units (30,64,64') carried on tracks (32) or carriage rings (60,60') are guided in a prescribed path, depending on the configuration of the annular housing, in response to the resultant motion of the annular housing. A simulated effect of annular housing (A') riding atop a geyser (F) may be provided to enhance the ride. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
An amusement ride comprising: a central tower having a base; an annular passenger housing surrounding said central tower in which passengers are accommodated; passenger containment means carried by said annular housing for containing passengers at locations within said passenger housing; connector means interconnecting said annular passenger housing and said central tower; drive means operatively connected to said tower for raising and lowering said annular housing along an operational height of said tower in ascending and descending vertical motions while said passengers are contained at said locations within said passenger housing; and helix guidance means operatively connected between said tower and said annular housing causing said annular housing to rotate relative to said tower as it moves in said vertical motions.
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The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said helix guidance means comprises a helix carried by said tower means, and follower means carried by said annular housing which engages and follows said helix to cause said housing to rotate.
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The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said helix is configured to rotate said annular housing less than a complete revolution.
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The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said helix guidance means comprises selectively engageable follower means operatively connected between said tower and annular housing by which said helix guidance means may be engaged and disengaged so that said annular housing may selectively driven in rotary and non-rotary motion relative to said tower.
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The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said annular passenger housing includes a generally closed housing in which said passengers are contained, and includes transparent window means carried around a periphery of said annular passenger housing facing radially outward from said central tower through which said passengers may view an outside environment.
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The apparatus of claim 1 where said connector means is constructed and arranged to limit motion of said annular passenger housing generally to a vertical motion in a vertical plane and rotary motion in a horizontal plane
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Exercise Devices 
