1 |
Amusement park ride |
US852808 |
1992-03-17 |
US5319897A |
1994-06-14 |
George R. Royer |
The subject invention is an improved amusement park ride apparatus which is an adaptation of an upright vertical ferris wheel ride of the type that is rotated about a fixed axis, such invention being an up-right wheel structure having chairs thereon to hold riders as the wheel rotates in a vertical plane. The axle of rotation of the wheel is adapted to move horizontally along a horizontally disposed track, essentially back and forth between positions along such horizontally disposed track. In a further embodiment of the subject invention, the horizontal track up which the ferris wheel can move may be optionally mounted on a rotatable platform to yield a horizontal circular movement of the entire apparatus in addition to the foregoing reciprocal linear movement. |
2 |
Vehicular amusement apparatus |
US56384644 |
1944-11-17 |
US2453380A |
1948-11-09 |
JAMES NEWMAN HENRY; FREDERICK JOHNSON ERNEST |
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3 |
Amusement park ride |
US539875 |
1990-06-18 |
US5096185A |
1992-03-17 |
George R. Royer |
The subject invention is an improved amusement park ride apparatus which is an adaptation of an upright vertical ferris wheel ride of the type that is rotated about a fixed axis, such invention being an upright wheel structure having chairs thereon to hold riders as the wheel rotates in a vertical plane. The axle of rotation of the wheel is adapted to move horizontally along a horizontally disposed track, essentially back and forth between positions along such horizontally disposed track. In a further embodiment of the subject invention, the horizontal track upon which the ferris wheel can move may be optionally mounted on a rotatable platform to yield a horizontal circular movement of the entire apparatus in addition to the foregoing reciprocal linear movement. |