Amusement apparatus, components, and, method
OwnerDarrell M. Henleyinventor
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Abstract
An amusement ride for locating on a ground leading to a ledge of a drop off has a pair of rocking boom, an axle, spokes and a passenger carrier. The pair of rocking booms are pivotally mounted near the ledge of the drop off. The axle is carried between the ends of rocking booms and when the rocking booms are tilted outboard of the ledge, the axle is suspended out over the empty space past the drop off. The spokes extending radially away from the axle to connections with the carrier. The axle is driven by a drive system to swing the carrier, from large arcs to full 360° revolutions.
Claims17
An improvement for amusement ride apparatus providing an amusement ride for a plurality of passengers one amusement ride at a time, any given amusement ride being characterized by an embarkation location and time permitting the loading of a plurality of passengers at a beginning time for that given amusement ride, and being further characterized by a debarkation location for off-loading the loaded passenger or passengers at a spaced apart debarkation time for that given amusement ride later than the embarkation time for that given amusement ride;
- the improvement comprising:
- a passenger carrier;
- each passenger carrier comprising a plurality of seat stations;
- each seat station providing seating for a single passenger;
- at least one nesting booster seat insert for removable docking into and undocking out of the seat station between amusement rides whereby as adapted to be performed by an attendant for the amusement ride apparatus;
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- a smaller-sized nesting seat insert complementing the one nesting seat insert whereby there are at least two nesting seat inserts, each sized for a different sized passenger;
- wherein the smaller-sized nesting seat insert has a seat form sized and contoured to provide seating for a diminutive passenger, and comprising a seat portion and a back-rest portion;
- the seat portion is characterized by contours comprising a central pommel rise flanked between shallow grooves and further between spaced away low rising thigh rests;
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- the back-rest portion is characterized by provisions and contours comprising not only a head-rest portion but also conforming hip hugging portions;
- wherein the one nesting seat insert has a seat form sized and contoured to provide seating for a large passenger, and comprises a seat portion and a back-rest portion;
- the seat portion of the one nesting seat insert is characterized by contours comprising a central pommel rise flanked between shallow grooves and further between spaced away low rising thigh rests;
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- the back-rest portion of the one nesting seat insert is characterized by provisions and contours comprising not only a head-rest portion but also conforming hip hugging portions;
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- the seat portion and back-rest portion of the seat station serves as a permanent seat form sized and contoured to provide seating for an extra-large passenger;
- the seat portion of the seat station is characterized by contours comprising a central pommel rise flanked between shallow grooves and further between spaced away low rising thigh rests;
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- the back-rest portion of the seat station is characterized by provisions and contours comprising not only a head-rest portion but also conforming hip hugging portions;
- whereby the permanent seat form of the seat station for extra-large passengers and the two nesting seat inserts for diminutive and large sized passengers respectively affords the attendant for the amusement ride apparatus three options for seat sizes.
An improvement for amusement ride apparatus providing an amusement ride for a plurality of passengers one amusement ride at a time, any given amusement ride being characterized by an embarkation location and time permitting the loading of a plurality of passengers at a beginning time for that given amusement ride, and being further characterized by a debarkation location for off-loading the loaded passenger or passengers at a spaced apart debarkation time for that given amusement ride later than the embarkation time for that given amusement ride;
- the improvement comprising:
- a passenger carrier;
- each passenger carrier comprising a plurality of seat stations;
- each seat station providing seating for a single passenger;
- the seat station has a permanent seat form which serves as a dock for receiving a nesting seat insert;
- the permanent seat form has a seat portion and back-rest portion
- the seat portion has contoured provisions including a central pommel rise flanked between shallow grooves and further between spaced away low rising thigh rests (eg., thigh-hugging side rises);
- the back-rest portion has contoured provisions including not only a head-rest portion but also conforming hip hugging portions
- the nesting seat insert nests within the permanent seat form of the seat station;
- the nesting seat insert has an under surface contour and back surface contour which complements the contours of the seat portion and back-rest portion, respectively, of the permanent seat form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.