Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7371183 | Water amusement park conveyors An amusement ride system and method are described. In some embodiments, an amusement ride system may be generally related to water amusement attractions and rides. Further, the disclosure generally relates to water-powered rides and to a system and method in which p... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371182 | Conveyor control system and method for water amusement parks A water transportation system and method are described, generally related to water amusement attractions and rides. Further, the disclosure generally relates to water-powered rides and to a system and method in which participants may be actively involved in a water ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7048092 | Helical ramp life-preserver The present Patent of invention “HELICAL RAMP LIFE-PRESERVER” refers to a model of helical ramp, aimed for collective use, for immediate rescue of lives subjected to a probable fire, to be used in buildings of any height, or in places that cannot be reached by t... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7040994 | Redundant array water delivery system for water rides A redundant array pumping system and control system is provided for water rides for ensuring continuous and non-disruptive supply of water. The pumping system incorporates a redundant pump and filter array in conjunction with a nozzle system for injecting water onto... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6971317 | Watercraft amusement ride Passenger boats are accelerated along a submerged guide rail structure that is arranged in various closed loop courses, including “Figure-Eight,” hour-glass, serpentine and oval patterns, as well as linear guide track structures that extend in parallel between a... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6957662 | Redundant array control system for water rides A redundant array pumping system and control system is provided for water rides for ensuring continuous and non-disruptive supply of water. The pumping system incorporates a redundant pump and filter array in conjunction with a nozzle system for injecting water onto... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6758231 | Redundant array control system for water rides A redundant array pumping system and control system is provided for water rides for ensuring continuous and non-disruptive supply of water. The pumping system incorporates a redundant pump and filter array in conjunction with a nozzle system for injecting water onto... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6569023 | Chutes and ladders water ride A multi-level play structure is provided for entertaining play participants. The play structure comprises multiple play levels at various elevations, including an upper play level, a lower play level, and one or more intermediate play levels. Multiple gra... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6454659 | Kayaking simulation device for creating a recirculating hydraulic hole effect within a receiving pool A kayaking simulation device for use with a water body. The water body has a water surface. The kayaking simulation device comprises a hydraulic hole mechanism for introducing a predetermined amount of water into the water body and creating a hydraulic ho... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6413165 | Intermittenly wetted sliding amusement ride A water slide in which the slide surface is not continuously wetted, but is only intermittently wetted (preferably by a water spray). Since the volume of water flowing down the ride is less smaller, riders are not splashed.... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6354955 | Waterslide bowl A waterslide bowl element has a bottom wall configured to form a throat around a rider exit opening in the bottom of the bowl. The bowl holds an annular ring of water around the throat that slows down and conducts the rider to the exit opening and a flume... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6354223 | Watercraft amusement ride Passenger boats are mounted on an undercarriage assembly that includes rail-mounted centering wheels. The passenger boats are accelerated by linear induction drive motors mounted on a guide rail structure. Thrust is applied to the racing boats by magnetic... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6237499 | Watercraft amusement ride Passenger boats are mounted on an undercarriage assembly that includes rail-mounted centering wheels. The passenger boats are accelerated by linear induction drive motors mounted on a guide rail structure. Thrust is applied to the racing boats by magnetic... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6145442 | Submarine amusement ride An underwater mobile observatory system comprising an aquarium (20) able to hold water and large enough to support fish, coral, and to display artificial objects such as shipwrecks and ruins, a vehicle track (21) extending through the aquarium (20), the t... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5989126 | Water raft amusement ride including a device for spinning a circular water raft An amusement water ride is provided including a water course for carrying one or more circular water rafts. The water course is provided with at least one downhill section for accelerating the water rafts into a splash point. A spin mechanism is provided ... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5860364 | Amusement boat ride featuring linear induction motor drive integrated with guide channel structure Racing boats compete in a simulated race including forward and return heats. In the forward heat, the racing boats are accelerated along parallel guide channels from a forward launch station into a shallow splash lake, and then hydroplane to a forward hea... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5716282 | Spinning water ride apparatus and method A water ride includes a flume (10) defining a ride path. Patrons of the ride travel in rafts (24) along the flume (10) with the rafts riding on a thin layer of water introduced into the flume. To induce the rafts (24) to spin at desired locations in a con... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5704294 | Waterfall ride attraction A theme park ride attraction includes a flume path having rafts floating on flowing water. The rafts are elevated and enter into a pipe. First and second pivoting ramps are attached to the pipe and supported by an actuator. As the rafts enter onto the fir... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5613443 | Amusement ride for traveling down a water chute with reduced splash An amusement ride includes a vehicle traveling down a chute through a region of water. The vehicle is shaped to minimize splashing and to allow water to flow away from the vehicle. The vehicle flanks are curved to deflect splashing water down and away fro... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5433671 | Water amusement ride A transport device is provided for transporting a water ride participant from a first elevation to a second, higher elevation. The device includes a spiral transport element extending generally between the first and second elevations. The spiral transport... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5421782 | Action river water attraction An action river water attraction is provided comprising one or more water rides connected to a river loop, wherein the flow of water from a connected ride empowers the flow of water in the river loop. The rider enters a connected ride and then enters the ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5213547 | Method and apparatus for improved water rides by water injection and flume design A method and apparatus for controllably injecting, subsequent to the start of a water ride, a high velocity water flow over the water ride surface. A rider (or vehicle) that rides into such injected flow can, as the result of water-to-rider momentum trans... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5069443 | Water slider lane A water slider lane includes a sliding surface the effective portion of which has a width larger than the diameter of a sliding boat. The sliding surface is bent or tilted down toward one side, thereby moving a sliding boat toward a turning zone. A region... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5011134 | Waterslide with uphill run and flotation device therefor A waterslide defined by a trough proceeding generally downhill and carrying water to be skimmed over by a rider, is arranged with successive uphill and downhill sections. An elongated drain at a low elevation between the uphill and downhill sections preve... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4984783 | Water sliders with turning toboggans The present invention provides a water slider used with a round or substantially round tobogganing boat designed to be displaced into contact with one side of a slide lane in the course of toboganning. A side wall of the slide lane comes into contact with... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4932648 | Playground slide Each of the slide sections making up the bedway are roto molded and have a common shape such that they may be interchanged and reversed end for end. Each connection includes a tongue and groove in the bototm wall and a sidewall extension on one sidewall r... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4865311 | Playground slide construction A playground slide includes a hollow vertical column consisting of substantially identical hollow hubs which register with each other to define the column. The topmost and lowermost hubs are urged toward each other by a resilient device, anchored to a bas... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4811943 | Playground slide A spiral slide includes interconnected bedway sections each of which are hollow and include as an integral part of the section body a sleeve telescopically engaging a ground support post. Fasteners interconnect the end-to-end bedway sections and are dispo... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4805896 | Low rise water ride A water ride for swimmers utilizes the linear movement of a large quantity of water of swimming depth at minimal slopes so that the swimmer is moved by the water rather than through it. High volume pumps at low water heads move large quantities of water t... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4805898 | Recreational slide system and components thereof A recreational slide assembly is provided which includes one or more of an improved angularly upstanding slide provided with a web-like flexible slide, a buoyant landing pad or splash pad attached to the bottom of the web-like slide member and extending t... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4805897 | Water slide systems Apparatus for connecting amusement water slides from continuous water flow down the slide to controlled, spaced apart gushes of water enhancing the thrill of the ride and improving the safety thereof. The slide run has a start position at the upper elevat... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4484739 | Plastic slide for sleds A slide structure for sleds for human occupancy is disclosed, and is designed to have human occupant sleds sliding down into a body of water. The slide structure has a support framework on which a plastic sheet material is provided and a water supply mean... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4392434 | Turbulent waterway Disclosed is a turbulent waterway having boats guided in a trough extending between an uphill starting point and a downhill terminus, a chain conveyor having a series of links extending on a slope between said starting point and said terminus and adapted ... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4391201 | Aquatic toboggan slide An aquatic toboggan slide has a trough like chute with side walls and a bed of closely spaced rollers, the toboggans discharging horizontally from the chute about 12-20 inches above a body of water so as to skip or plane over the water surface. The tobogg... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4339122 | Surfing slide An amusement apparatus is disclosed which simulates the riding experience encountered in ocean surfing, composed generally of a shaped slope having plural, stationary wave forms and multiple surface irregularities, covered with a plurality of interconnect... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4337704 | Turbulent-water way A turbulent waterway, having boats guided in a trough made from bargrating, individual plates of which are connected with each other, the side of the trough being covered with a dense synthetic plastic film.... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4304105 | Flume cooler A stacked array of inclined flumes interconnected in consecutive zig-zag fashion for cooling canned comestibles upon discharge from a canning cooker. The hot cans are introduced seriatim in a prone or rolling aspect into the upper end of the uppermost flu... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4299171 | Demountable flume amusement ride A flume of the type designed to carry a stream of water in which passenger carrying vessels float is built in sections that are formed nearly exclusively by fiberglass, structural strength being provided by fiberglass box beams integrally formed with the ... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4278247 | Water slide A water slide includes a trough or tube having an entry end elevated with respect to a recovery end for conveying water and individuals from the entry end to the recovery end. A loading platform extends into a starting pool and is designed to allow easy a... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4198043 | Water slide with modular, sectional flume construction A multiple flume water slide includes individual starting pools for each flume and a common landing pool mounted at different elevations on an earth foundation and connected by way of modular sectional flumes. Each flume consists of a minimal number of en... | 04/15/1980 |
