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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8398497 | Twister ride system A ride system for rotating vehicles through a vertical plane or ride space about a common horizontal axis. The ride system includes an elongated support member with a longitudinal axis. The system includes a housing with a base and a frame supporting the elongated s... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8337317 | Free swing Ferris wheel A Ferris wheel-type ride. A lever arm is mounted to the wheel rim to freely pivot between front and rear stops. Passenger gondolas, pivotally attached to the lever arms, travel through four zones experiencing differing ride dynamics. In the first zone, the lever arm... | 12/25/2012 |
| 7854661 | Giant wheel A structure of a giant wheel is disclosed. The giant wheel includes a ring steel tracks, motors, an inner wheel and an outer wheel. The ring steel track has a crossed base and stoppers positioned at four corners of the crossed base. The stopper and the base form an ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7381137 | Zipline braking and motion-arrest system Braking and motion-arrest apparatus for braking the arrival of a zipline cable rider at a landing platform and arresting the rider's motion to retain the rider at the platform. A frame is mounted on the cable to allow longitudinal rolling movement of the frame along... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7172511 | Amusement ride A gimbaled wheel amusement ride is disclosed. ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7008328 | Controllably rotatable seat A controllably rotatable seat having an arm to which one or more seats are attached. The arm is rotatably connected to a carrier. An electrical motor, pneumatics, hydraulics, or any other mechanism that is well known in the art for producing rotation rotates the arm... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7004847 | Water amusement system and method A water amusement system is described which includes a number of different water park rides. The water amusement system may include a water fountain system. The water fountain system includes a roof configured to turn in response to directing a stream of water at th... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6884177 | Amusement apparatus Amusement apparatus which permits unusual compactness and easy transportation comprises a vehicle for accommodating users, the vehicle being suitable for following a path in space which comprises a component due to oscillation about a center of instantaneous rotatio... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6872144 | Amusement device An amusement device, including a frame made from four support legs which, running obliquely upwards toward one another, at their top end support a rotary member, an arm, one end of which is secured to the rotary member and which can be pivoted between the support le... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6402624 | Amusement ride without hubs and spokes An amusement ride (100) is disclosed which includes first and second vehicles (128, 130) which are supported in a cantilevered manner off cantilever beams (124, 126) from the stationary supporting track (102) to provide the occupants with the impression o... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6354954 | Amusement apparatus and method A motion simulator including passenger carrying apparatus designed to receive and carry a number of seated passengers from a first position in which the passengers board the apparatus into a second position from which the passengers view visual images dis... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6348004 | Amusement device comprising a carriage which can be moved over a guide A method for moving at least one carriage over a guide by transport mechanism, wherein the carriage, which can be moved over the guide, is connected to an engaging mechanism, which can be moved by the transport mechanism, whereupon the carriage is moved i... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6074306 | Amusement park vehicle for the physically disabled An amusement ride vehicle has a seat on a seat chassis. The seat moves up for assisting a physically disabled person to enter or exit the vehicle. The seat moves down before the vehicle begins to ride. A slide is attachable to the vehicle to help a disabl... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5989127 | Oscillating boom amusement ride An amusement ride 10 including a tower 12 that pivotably supports an elongated boom 16 that includes an extended end 20 and a pivot 18. A passenger carriage 28 is pivotably attached to the extended end of the boom. The shorter end of the boom includes a m... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5964665 | Vehicle playing apparatus A vehicle playing apparatus on which a player himself or herself operates a simulation vehicle. The apparatus comprises a vehicle moving variably on which a player rides, driving mechanism 33, 70 for driving the vehicle detection member 25, 26, 35 for det... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5827124 | Rocking boom amusement ride An amusement ride 10 including a tower 12 that pivotably supports an elongated boom 16 that includes an extended end 20 and a pivot 18. A passenger carriage 28 is pivotably attached to the extended end of the boom. The shorter end of the boom includes a m... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5658201 | Swinging boom amusement ride An amusement ride 10 including a tower 12 that pivotably supports an elongated boom 16 that includes an extended end 20 and a pivot 18. A passenger carriage 28 is pivotably attached to the extended end of the boom. The shorter end of the boom includes a m... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5314383 | Rocking ship funfair ride The invention relates to an improvement in a funfair ride and in particular one which comprises a rocking ship. The ride, of the type mounted on the plane (1a) of a transportable carriage (1) comprises a pair of telescopic uprights (2) to which a frame is... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5188566 | Looping swing with parallel rows of seats The passenger gondola of a looping swing suspended in pendulum fashion on motor-driven outriggers has parallel rows of passenger seats that are disposed parallel to the axis of rotation of the outriggers and to the axis of swing of the passenger gondola. ... | 02/23/1993 |
| 4988089 | Fairground attraction A fairground attraction transportable in parts, comprising two or more parts transportable in folded condition on separate carriages or containers. The carriages are provided with means for lateral and longitudinal displacement.... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4960275 | Water immersion amusement apparatus A water immersion apparatus that includes a ferris wheel having passenger compartments arranged to descend into a pool of water and then lift out of the water. Each passenger compartment is constructed so that water is allowed to enter into the compartmen... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4807869 | Amusement device having a rotatable, swivelling and tiltable rigid gondola An amusement device comprising two supporting columns with a carrier arm mounted on each column by means of a horizontal rotation shaft so as to be drivable for rotation thereon. The two carrier arms are rotatable in substantially parallel planes, each ca... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4643416 | Amusement ride vehicle An amusement ride vehicle having a passenger gondola the ends of which are adapted to move in substantially vertical orbits diposed on planes parallel to each other. Two supports having a predetermined spacing therebetween are provided from which the pass... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4339121 | Orbital amusement-park ride An orbital amusement ride adapted to stand on the ground has a pair of spaced-apart posts standing on the ground and having respective upper ends defining respective pivot axes that are generally parallel and define a generally horizontal plane with the p... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4007926 | Mobile amusement ride An amusement ride, which can be transported in a collapsed condition on the truck bed that supports the same during use; such ride employing a main drive motor, which is mounted in a gimbal fashion at the top of a vertical support column, that centrally s... | 02/15/1977 |
