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US 12,714,943 B2Granted
Habitable support structure for observation wheels
OwnerHaskel Mayer, Cyril Silbermaninventors
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Abstract
Systems and related methods related to structures with large-scale rotatable elements. Some of the present systems comprise: a tower defining a plurality of human-habitable spaces; a tower hub coupled to the tower and having a transverse dimension of at least 50 feet; an observation wheel rotatably coupled to the tower and having a central wheel hub; and one or more bearings disposed between the tower hub and the wheel hub to rotatably support the observation wheel relative to the tower.
Claims18
A system comprising:
- a single tower, where the single tower comprises:
- an enclosure defining an interior volume;
- and
- a plurality of vertical walls and a plurality of horizontal floors disposed within the interior volume;
- wherein the walls and the floors are coupled in fixed relation to the enclosure such that the walls and the floors define a plurality of human-habitable spaces within the interior volume;
- a tower hub that is cantilevered from the single tower, wherein a transverse dimension of the tower hub is larger than a height, measured between two of the horizontal floors, of at least one of the human-habitable spaces;
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- an observation wheel having a central wheel hub that is rotatably coupled to the single tower such that the central wheel hub is configured to rotate around the tower hub.
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