Device for vertically oscillating participants
OwnerStanley J. Checkettsinventor
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Abstract
A vertical tower which participants ascend by means of an internal stairway. At the top of the tower there are several horizontal arms. Each participant walks through a horizontal arm to its open, outward end. The participant is then connected to a resilient band that is also attached to the horizontal arm. Subsequently, the participant leaps from the open, outward end and undergoes dampened vertical oscillations before being lowered to the surface of the earth. The stairway and multiple horizontal arms permit multiple participants to use the device simultaneously and to repeat rapidly the experience. Numerous safety features are employed to prevent injury to the participants.
Claims20
A device for vertically oscillating participants, which comprises:
- an elevating means for bringing participants from the surface of the earth to a desired height;
- a means for horizontal movement, which is attached to the top of said elevating means, for moving participants horizontally outward from said elevating means;
- a means for jumping, which is connected to the outward end of said means for horizontal movement, to enable the participants to be accelerated downward by the force of gravity;
- a means for decelerating the participants' descent and producing dampened vertical oscillations, which is connected to each participant;
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- a means for lowering the participants to the surface of the earth and restoring the decelerating and oscillating means to its original elevated position, which lowering and restoring means is connected to both the mean for horizontal movement and the decelerating and oscillating means.
A device for vertically oscillating participants, which comprises:
- a vertical tower;
- a stairway connected to the inside of the vertical tower for bringing participants from the surface of the earth to a desired height;
- a horizontal arm connected to said vertical tower and said stairway for moving the participant horizontally outward from the stairway and tower;
- an open, outward end attached to said horizontal arm from which the participants may leap or deliberately fall to enable the participants to be accelerated downward by the force of gravity;
- a resilient band which is connected to each participant to decelerate the participants' descent and produce dampened vertical oscillations;
- a metal cable attached to said resilient band;
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- a winch attached to said metal cable and said horizontal arm for lowering the participants to the surface of the earth when the oscillations have sufficiently decreased in amplitude and for returning said resilient band to its original elevated position after said resilient band has been disconnected from the participant.
A process for vertically oscillating participants, which comprises:
- elevating participants from the surface of the earth to a desired height;
- then moving the participants horizontally to a position from which the participants can leap or deliberately fall;
- allowing the participants to leap or deliberately fall;
- then decelerating the participants' descent;
- then using energy generated by such descent to accelerate the participants upward with such force that the participants do not reach the height to which the participants were originally elevated;
- then continuing to allow the participants to fall, decelerating the descent of the participants, and using energy generated by the immediately preceding descent to accelerate the participants upward to a height less than that which the participants reached after the immediately preceding acceleration, until losses of energy leave insufficient energy to raise the participants perceptibly;
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- then lowering the participants to the surface of the earth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.