Top loading swing type amusement ride
AssigneeSkycoaster, Inc.
InventorWilliam L. Jackson
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Abstract
A giant swing ride features a launch tower rider loading platform that surrounds the rider with a safety rail and/or wall to prevent falling from the rider loading platform during loading. Various launch mechanisms include a release hook, a falling door and a retracting floor.
Claims18
An amusement ride for loading and then launching at least one rider from a launch tower and releasing the rider to swing in a curved trajectory, the amusement ride comprising:
- a support tower having a support line attached to a rider support mechanism for a rider to swing from the support tower;
- a launch tower having a separation distance from the support tower of approximately one length of the support line;
- said launch tower having a winch, a launch line, a loading platform and a launch pulley located above the loading platform;
- said loading platform having a continuous safety partition to prevent a fall from the platform during a loading of the rider;
- said loading platform having a release mechanism to launch the rider support mechanism to swing in the curved trajectory.
An amusement ride for loading and then launching at least one rider from a launch tower and releasing the rider to swing in a curved trajectory, the amusement ride comprising:
- a support tower having a support line with length (l) attached to a multi-rider conveyance;
- a launch tower having a separation distance approximately equal to 1 from the support tower;
- said launch tower having a vertical portion and a horizontal portion mounted atop the vertical portion, and having a launch line to lift the multi-rider conveyance;
- said horizontal portion having a rider passageway from the vertical portion to opening;
- a rider loading dock extending from the horizontal portion and accessible via the opening;
- said rider loading dock having a safety partition to prevent falling and having a receiving area for a multi-rider conveyance;
- wherein a rider goes up the vertical portion of the launch tower, moves down the rider passageway, exits the opening onto the rider loading dock, loads onto the multi-rider conveyance;
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- wherein the multi-rider conveyance has a release assembly to swing in the curved trajectory.
An amusement ride comprising:
- an elevated rider load and launch station;
- a conveyance;
- said launch station having a safety partition to prevent falling off in any direction when loading onto the conveyance;
- a launch line, release assembly and a winch associated with the launch station to raise the conveyance and release the conveyance into a curved trajectory;
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- said conveyance having a support line connected to a support tower.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.