201 |
Linear motor driven system and method |
US11681702 |
2007-03-02 |
US08136453B2 |
2012-03-20 |
Richard D. Hunter; Andreas Tanzer |
A vehicle motion control system comprising: a sliding surface; a vehicle adapted to slide on said sliding surface; and a linear motor associated with the vehicle and the sliding surface for affecting sliding motion of the vehicle on the sliding surface. |
202 |
Adjustable height slide base |
US12577610 |
2009-10-12 |
US08105173B2 |
2012-01-31 |
Christopher W. Connors; Ernie D. Sheets |
A playset is operable to be erected on a site and includes a slide and an adjustable-height slide base. The slide base includes an adapter that attaches below the slide and at least one standoff that attaches below the adapter. |
203 |
Playset system components |
US12432260 |
2009-04-29 |
US08002642B2 |
2011-08-23 |
Michael Guerzini; Daniel Webb; Gene Hunter; Tom Ellingson; Charles Louis Lasky |
Many playsets include one or more tower sections with one or more platform sections supported above the ground or a similar support surface with a support structure or framing. In certain embodiments, a curved wall portion defines one or more panel openings. Subpanels may optionally be mounted into the openings. A balcony floor protrudes outwards with a curved outer edge or face with an interior flat floor edge adjoining an edge of a polygonal platform section floor to enlarge the square footage of the floor area of the platform section. |
204 |
Playset System Components |
US13089717 |
2011-04-19 |
US20110195797A1 |
2011-08-11 |
Michael Guerzini; Daniel Webb; Gene Hunter; Tom Ellingson; Charles Louis Lasky |
Many playsets include one or more tower sections with one or more platform sections supported above the ground or a similar support surface with a support structure or framing. In certain embodiments, a curved wall portion defines one or more panel openings. Subpanels may optionally be mounted into the openings. A balcony floor protrudes outwards with a curved outer edge or face with an interior flat floor edge adjoining an edge of a polygonal platform section floor to enlarge the square footage of the floor area of the platform section. |
205 |
Amusement ride |
US11623972 |
2007-01-17 |
US07686697B2 |
2010-03-30 |
Ronald Alexander Bussink |
An amusement ride includes a support structure and at least one vehicle movably supported on the support structure for carrying one or more passengers at least partially along a length of the support structure. The vehicle is moved along the support structure by a drive mechanism and decelerated by a braking mechanism. A cable connects the vehicle with the drive mechanism and/or the braking mechanism and is guided by a guide mechanism which is constructed for passage by the vehicle as the vehicle moves along the support structure. The guide mechanism includes two guide wheels in spaced-apart confronting relationship for allowing the cable to pass in-between the guide wheels, with the cable partially running over one guide wheel, when the vehicle moves along a first section of the support structure, and partially running over the other guide wheel, when the vehicle moves along a second section of the support structure. |
206 |
System for anchoring inflatable structures |
US11442636 |
2006-05-25 |
US07682260B1 |
2010-03-23 |
William N. Whitlock; Charles Brewer |
A system for anchoring inflatable structures having a base which, when the structure is inflated, rests on a supporting surface to support the structure, includes at least one water receiving anchoring portion positioned adjacent a side of the base of the structure that rests on the supporting surface and which is secured to and extends from the inflatable structure. The water receiving anchoring portion includes a water receiving section to receive water therein and a shaping section to provide a shape to the water receiving section and to the water receiving anchoring portion to ease filling of the water receiving section with water. The shaping section shapes the water receiving section generally into a cup or bucket like structure so that water can be poured into the water receiving section without the water receiving section being held in such shape by hand or without having to be filled with pressurized water. |
207 |
PLAYSET SYSTEM COMPONENTS |
US12432260 |
2009-04-29 |
US20090305800A1 |
2009-12-10 |
Michael Guerzini; Daniel Webb; Gene Hunter; Tom Ellingson; Charles Louis Lasky |
Many playsets include one or more tower sections with one or more platform sections supported above the ground or a similar support surface with a support structure or framing. In certain embodiments, a curved wall portion defines one or more panel openings. Subpanels may optionally be mounted into the openings. A balcony floor protrudes outwards with a curved outer edge or face with an interior flat floor edge adjoining an edge of a polygonal platform section floor to enlarge the square footage of the floor area of the platform section. |
208 |
Method and system for providing interactivity based on sensor measurements |
US12075478 |
2008-03-11 |
US20090234666A1 |
2009-09-17 |
David Crawford; David Durham; Jon Georges |
There is provided a system for providing interactivity to a guest of an experiential venue, based on sensor measurement of the guest. The system comprises a sensor configured to sense a guest variable of the guest, where the sensor may be a biometric sensor, a facial recognition sensor, a voice stress analysis sensor, a gesture recognition sensor, a motion tracking sensor, or an eye tracking sensor, and may sense heart rate or another guest variable. The system also comprises a control system, which may be implemented as a computer, in communication with the sensor. The control system is configured to determine a guest state from the guest variable, and to modify a venue variable, for example by selecting a path a theme park ride follows. The control system modifies the venue variable according to the guest state to provide increased satisfaction to the guest of the experiential venue. |
209 |
Video recording system for an amusement park ride and associated methods |
US11343399 |
2006-01-31 |
US07555147B2 |
2009-06-30 |
Richard Simmons |
A video recording system for an amusement park ride includes a video camera for generating video images of riders on the amusement park ride, and a video capture device connected to the video camera for capturing the video images. A video server is connected to the video capture device for storing the captured video images. A video disc burner is connected to the video server for burning the stored captured video images of the riders on the amusement park ride onto a video disc. |
210 |
Inflatable ship-configured water toy and method |
US12154573 |
2008-05-23 |
US20090029785A1 |
2009-01-29 |
Geoff A. McKee; Eileen Megan Sefchick; Bruce Peter Popek |
A method for preparing an inflated ship-configured slide assembly for recreational purposes. The method includes inflating a deflated ship-configured slide assembly to produce an inflated ship-configured slide assembly comprising a tunnel including a tunnel side wall; passing a slide mat through the tunnel such that after the slide mat passes through the tunnel, the slide mat is detached from the tunnel side wall; and dispersing water inside the tunnel onto the detached slide mat. An inflated ship-configured water slide assembly comprising an inflated climb section; an inflated platform section coupled to the inflated climb section; and an inflated slide section coupled to the inflated platform section. The inflated ship-configured water slide assembly further comprises an inflated pool section coupled to the inflated slide section and a tunnel assembly having a tunnel which extends through the inflated ship-configured water-slide assembly. The tunnel has a tunnel side wall. The inflated ship-configured water slide assembly also further comprises a detached slide mat disposed within the tunnel such as to remain detached from the tunnel side wall; and a water-dispersing member which contacts the detached slide mat and passes into the tunnel for dispersing water onto the slide mat. |
211 |
Playground slide |
US11542511 |
2006-10-02 |
US20080081707A1 |
2008-04-03 |
Bradford C. Banta |
A playground slide that is specially designed to provide superior longitudinal strength for load support and superior transverse strength to avoid warping or distortion during outdoor use. The playground slide is formed from plastic by means of a rotational molding process and includes a longitudinally extending upper sliding surface and a spaced-apart lower surface that in cooperation with the upper sliding surface forms an elongated internal cavity. Additionally, the playground includes a plurality of transversely spaced-apart, longitudinally extending reinforcing ribs formed on the lower surface and also uniquely includes a plurality of transversely extending reinforcing ribs formed on the lower surface and disposed intermediate the longitudinally extending reinforcing ribs. |
212 |
Creating Educational Athletic Games for Children for Soft Contained Play Centers |
US11533981 |
2006-09-21 |
US20080073853A1 |
2008-03-27 |
Samuel B. Kellett |
Creating an educational athletic game for children for soft contained play centers including identifying a life skill to be taught by playing the game; identifying one or more aspects of the life skill; identifying physical activities capable of being carried out in a soft contained play center demonstrating the aspects of the life skills; selecting a theme for the game; and creating rules for the game wherein the rules favor exhibiting by the children the physical activities demonstrating the aspects of the life skills. |
213 |
Play slide footer |
US11361851 |
2006-02-23 |
US20070267560A1 |
2007-11-22 |
Jeffrey Robertson |
An improved play slide footer is disclosed. The play slide footer maximizes the safety and stability, while minimizing the amount of wobble of the slide. |
214 |
LINEAR MOTOR DRIVEN WATERSLIDE RIDE AND METHOD |
US11681720 |
2007-03-02 |
US20070207869A1 |
2007-09-06 |
Richard D. Hunter |
A waterslide amusement ride having in a portion thereof, a linear induction motor to efficiently and effectively affect the motion of a vehicle sliding on the ride. The linear induction motor comprises linear induction motor units embedded below a sliding surface, and a reaction plate mounted to the bottom of the vehicle. Depending on the configuration of the linear induction motor units and the reaction plate, the linear induction motor drive can be used to accelerate the vehicle, decelerate the vehicle, maintain the speed of the vehicle up an uphill section, or rotate the vehicle. |
215 |
REACTION COMPONENT FOR LINEAR INDUCTION MOTOR |
US11681691 |
2007-03-02 |
US20070204759A1 |
2007-09-06 |
Richard D. Hunter |
A reaction component or plate for a linear induction motor incorporates a flexibility increasing feature and a wear resistant feature. |
216 |
HUMAN FREE-FALL SLIDE |
US11162914 |
2005-09-28 |
US20070072689A1 |
2007-03-29 |
Frederick Osler-Weppenaar |
A slide and process of using the slide for humans' amusement, recreation and entertainment. The slide is an inflatable apparatus comprising a slide device and an airbag device. The slide device is an inflatable bag having a slide segment. The airbag device has a bottom bag separated into sections by vented baffles. The bottom bag is interconnected to top bags in the form of crumple tubes' which in turn are connected to a top cover sheet. In use, a person slides off the end of the slide segment and free falls to the airbag device. |
217 |
Play Apparatus |
US10906776 |
2005-03-07 |
US20060199464A1 |
2006-09-07 |
Yasushi Ochi |
Play facility that can be safely played on by preschoolers, and that can be set up indoors. The play facility (1) includes hollow play structures (2) and (8) having a play surface on which a play participant can engage in play, the play surface being a vertical, oblique, or stair-shaped surface, with members (3), (9) constituting at least the play surface being made of a transparent material; liquid spouting units (20), (21) for spouting a pressurized liquid L against a surface on an inner side of the transparent member (3), (9), the liquid spouting units (20), (21) being disposed at an upper position within the hollow portion of the play structure (2), (8); and a liquid supply system (15) for pressurizing the liquid L collected in a bottom region inside the hollow portion of the play structure (2), (8) and supplying the pressurized liquid to the liquid spouting units (20), (21). |
218 |
REDUCING RADIUS SLIDE FEATURE |
US11381557 |
2006-05-04 |
US20060194638A1 |
2006-08-31 |
Richard Hunter |
A flume ride is provided having a funnel-shaped slide feature having a relatively larger entry end and a relatively smaller exit end, the funnel-shaped slide feature being configured and arranged such that a rider enters at the wider end with a predetermined expected velocity and swings back and forth and/or spins around the inner surface of the funnel before safely draining through the smaller end. Optionally, the wider end of the slide feature may be covered so as to darken its interior, and/or the slide feature may be configured such that the rider swings above a vertical portion of the inner surface. Additionally, a flume ride is provided having a plurality of such slide features. |
219 |
Skating training system |
US10912205 |
2004-08-04 |
US20050124425A1 |
2005-06-09 |
Dean Talafous |
A system and method for improving skating speed and strength of skaters, particularly ice skaters, employs an inclined skating ramp. The skating surface itself may be any of the conventional or yet-to-be-invented artificial ice surfaces. The inclination of the ramp provides a greater challenge for the skating student than a conventional flat skating surface. While the inclined ramp may have more than one lane, so that more than one student may skate side-by-side in competition with each other, it is preferred to have only a single lane and employ a timing system so that a student is skating “against the clock” and therefore focused on improvement of individual performance. |
220 |
Arrangement for a playground for children |
US10614798 |
2003-07-09 |
US20040077421A1 |
2004-04-22 |
Frank
Sundahl |
An arrangement for a playground for children is embodied as a internally hollow object, preferably of synthetic material, which can have the shape of a mountain top with a circumferential edge (2) at the bottom, which rests on the ground. The object (1) is embodied with windows (3) and with one or more doorways (4), and the internal hollow space constitutes a playhouse. The upper surface of the object (1) is embodied with one or more chutes (6) and with a flight of steps (7). The object (1) is held solidly to the ground surface by a vertical mast (11), e.g. of steel, which is carried through a hole (12) in the top of the object (1) and secured in the ground in a foundation block (13), and at its upper end has a free height (h) above the top of the object (1). The mast (11) can be supplemented with other play ground equipment, such as a frame for a swing (18) and a rope (19) for a ropeway. The arrangement is simple of construction and consequently cheap to produce. |