Reducing radius slide feature
AssigneeProSlide Technology Inc.
InventorRichard D Hunter
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Abstract
A slide feature is adapted to carry one or more riders and/or ride vehicles sliding thereon. The slide feature includes a sliding surface having an entry end and an exit end. The sliding surface comprising at least a lower portion of a sideways tilted funnel shape wherein a radius of the sliding surface tapers from the entry end to the exit end. A lowermost surface of the sliding surface is horizontal or slightly inclined from horizontal descending from the entry end to the exit end. The sliding surface comprising side walls each extending upward from the lowermost surface about a longitudinal axis which would be defined by the complete sideways tilted funnel shape through an angle of more than 90°. The entry end is substantially larger in diameter than the exit end.
Claims27
A slide feature adapted to carry one or more riders and/or ride vehicles sliding thereon comprising:
- a sliding surface having an entry end and an exit end;
- the sliding surface comprising at least a lower portion of a sideways tilted funnel shape wherein a radius of the sliding surface tapers from the entry end to the exit end;
- a lowermost surface of the sliding surface is horizontal or slightly inclined from horizontal descending from the entry end to the exit end;
- the sliding surface comprising side walls each extending upward from the lowermost surface about a longitudinal axis which would be defined by the complete sideways tilted funnel shape through an angle of more than 90°;
- and wherein the entry end is substantially larger in diameter than the exit end.
A slide feature adapted to carry one or more riders and/or ride vehicles sliding thereon comprising a curved sliding surface having an entry end and an exit end, the slide feature being tilted downward from the entry end to the exit end at an angle relative to horizontal, a longitudinal axis extending along the bottom of the sliding surface, an equator line on each side of the sliding surface comprising a plurality of pairs of points on the sliding surface that are equidistant from the longitudinal axis and separated by a semi-circular arc of 180 degrees, wherein the semi-circular arc has a radius that reduces from the entry end to the exit end of the slide feature.
A slide feature adapted to carry one or more riders and/or ride vehicles sliding thereon comprising a curved sliding surface having an entry end and an exit end, each location on the sliding surface being curved about an axis of curvature;
- a lowermost surface of the sliding surface parallel to or slightly inclined from horizontal descending from the entry end to the exit end;
- the sliding surface comprising side walls each extending upward from the lowermost surface about the axis of curvature through an angle of more than 900 at each location on the sliding surface;
- and wherein the entry end is substantially larger in diameter than the exit end.
A slide feature comprising:
- an entry slide path sized and adapted to carry one or more riders and/or ride vehicles sliding thereon;
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- a generally symmetrically formed main funnel portion having a conical sliding surface, an entry end sized and adapted for receiving riders/vehicles from said entry slide path, and an exit end,
- wherein said main funnel portion is tilted on its side relative to a central axis thereof such that a lower-most surface thereof is at least parallel to or slightly inclined from horizontal descending from said entry end to said exit end, said entry end is substantially larger in diameter than said exit end, and wherein a rider/vehicle entering the main funnel portion is caused to swing back and forth, occasionally past a vertical slope, upon the sliding surface as he or she advances through the sliding surface toward said exit end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.