EP1184062B1 - Structure à chute libre pour montagnes russes - Google Patents

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EP1184062B1
EP1184062B1 EP01111924A EP01111924A EP1184062B1 EP 1184062 B1 EP1184062 B1 EP 1184062B1 EP 01111924 A EP01111924 A EP 01111924A EP 01111924 A EP01111924 A EP 01111924A EP 1184062 B1 EP1184062 B1 EP 1184062B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63G—MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; SIMILAR DEVICES FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENT
    • A63G7/00—Up-and-down hill tracks; Switchbacks
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63G—MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; SIMILAR DEVICES FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENT
    • A63G21/00—Chutes; Helter-skelters
    • A63G21/04—Chutes; Helter-skelters with fixed rails
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63G—MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; SIMILAR DEVICES FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENT
    • A63G31/00—Amusement arrangements
    • A63G31/02—Amusement arrangements with moving substructures
    • A63G31/08—Amusement arrangements with moving substructures with looping, hopping, or throwing motions of the substructure
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63G—MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; SIMILAR DEVICES FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENT
    • A63G31/00—Amusement arrangements
    • A63G2031/002—Free-fall

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  • the invention relates to a freefall tower for a roller coaster of the type specified in the preamble of claim 1.
  • a free-fall or free-fall tower is understood to mean an approximately or exactly vertical tower which is provided with almost or exactly vertical rails on at least one side surface.
  • single wagons or a train hereinafter also referred to as “passenger unit”
  • passenger unit On these rails, single wagons or a train, hereinafter also referred to as “passenger unit”, are "shot” by a catapult-like acceleration to the top of the tower where the rate of climb becomes zero; then the passenger units fall backwards freely down and are intercepted above the ground as bum-free as possible.
  • a kind of shuttle operation is possible, namely the transport to the top of the tower and then the free fall to the starting point at the bottom of the tower.
  • a disadvantage of this embodiment of a freefall tower with attached roller coaster is the shuttle operation, as usually done the free fall and the subsequent ride on the roller coaster only in the reverse direction. It is therefore searched for additional variation possibilities, e.g. Change of direction, varied route design etc.
  • WO99 / 04875 already shows a combination of two free-fall towers, which are connected by a rail system. At the upper ends of the two free-fall towers, at least one seating area of the passenger unit may be rotated 180 degrees about a pivot axis extending transversely of the rail system. In this case, in addition to this pivotal movement, the passenger unit is moved over a predetermined distance in the backward direction away from the end position, resulting in a new driving feel.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a freefall tower for a roller coaster of the specified genus, which provides additional thrills and allows a very varied and in particular variable route design even on relatively small footprints.
  • a passenger unit is driven by a lift, linear motors or catapult launch to the upper end of a nearly or exactly vertical freefall tower brought.
  • the corresponding cars are aligned for a "normal ride", ie, the passengers sit upright in the car, so that they lie at the end of this vertical driveway in the forward direction on their backs in their seats and look up.
  • a security system such as a safety bar
  • the passenger unit is rotated about a nearly or exactly vertical axis.
  • This rotation may, for example, perform the passenger unit with respect to the rails or the rail with passenger unit with respect to the tower structure.
  • the entire upper portion of the tower with rail system and fixed passenger unit is rotated about the vertical axis.
  • rails only at one interface of the tower locked together rails must be separated so that the upper portion of the tower is rotated with rail and passenger unit, while the lower part of the tower remains stationary with its rails.
  • the brakes are - again after a variable period of time - released again, and the passenger unit falls almost or exactly vertically in the open Fall backwards down the tower.
  • the rails merge into a rollercoaster track so that the passenger unit can now drive through all the known driving figures backwards, such as straight or curved uphill and downhill gradients, looping, screws, etc.
  • the rails can then lead the passenger unit back to the same tower or to a second tower, where the passenger unit is reversing.
  • the energy lost due to friction and air resistance can be transmitted to the passenger unit e.g. be re-added by linear motors on the tower or near the ground in a straight area.
  • the process begins anew, i. the passenger compartment is held in place by a redundant braking system, and the passengers, looking down through the safety bar, are held down in the seat.
  • This driving effect can be repeated several times, but you can also finish it on the first tower or on the second tower after the stop and bring the passenger unit over the drop route and a braking device back to the starting point, so that a closed orbit.
  • Both the direction of rotation of the upper part of each tower and the angle of rotation can vary. If, for example, four rail systems are provided on a tower, then the upper area of the tower can be rotated through 90 °, 180 °, 270 ° or 360 °, ie in angular increments of 90 °, whereby several angular steps can be combined with one another.
  • the travel time can also be varied by, for example, driving through a specific section several times. If there are only a few passengers waiting, longer travel times can be selected, while travel time is reduced if there is a large number of passengers.
  • the rail at the top of the tower is extended and the interface of the rails between the lower, stationary and upper rotatable parts of the tower is below the passenger unit as far down as possible.
  • a block is understood as a route in which, for safety reasons, only one single passenger unit may be located.
  • a roller coaster with integrated freefall tower according to the invention requires less space in the floor plan, as many and in particular the significant effects on the exact or almost vertical tower play. This can also be used in amusement parks for this ride and dead property corners.
  • a turret indicated generally by the reference numeral 10 in FIG. 1 is formed, for example, by a truss structure and has a wide base 11 which terminates at the top in a slender end portion 14.
  • the side surfaces of the tower 10 are provided with a commercially available rail system 28 (see also Fig. 2), wherein in Fig. 1, only on the right and left, a rail system 28 is shown. However, it can also be provided on the front and back of the tower 10 more rail systems 28.
  • a single carriage or a train 20, hereinafter referred to as "passenger unit" can travel on the rail system 28 to the upper end of the tower 10.
  • the kinetic energy required for this purpose can be generated on an upstream sloping or free-fall path, by lifters, linear motors or by means of a catapult.
  • 10 linear motors 12 can be provided approximately in the middle of the tower and take over the further transport of the passenger unit 20 in the end region of the vertical path.
  • a Passenger unit 20 in this case a train, shown, which has hit the tower 10 backwards, that is, in the upper end position on the tower 10 see the passengers down.
  • the train 28 on the left side of the tower 10 has approached this forward, that is, in the upper end position see the passengers up.
  • the rail system 28 is provided with an emergency brake 16 and a stopper 18, which together limit the movement of a passenger unit 20.
  • the upper, indicated by the reference numeral 14 region of the tower 10 is separated at a rotational plane 15 of the lower part.
  • This upper region 14 can be rotated in successive steps of 90 ° about the vertical, central tower axis 17.
  • the tower 10 has a square plan, with a rail system 28 is located at the four corners of this square.
  • a passenger unit 20 having wheels 24 extending about an axis 22, and run with counter wheels 26, the rails 28 hold the passenger unit 20 also in the illustrated in Fig. 2, vertical position in which the passengers see upwards due to the interaction between wheels 24 and counter wheels 26. This position of the passenger unit 20 is thus shown on the left in FIG.
  • the passenger unit 20 thus moves at the tower 10 on one of the four rail systems 28 at high speed, e.g. shot down after a free fall distance or from a catapult, possibly supported by the linear motors 12, high, until the upper area 14 is reached.
  • a redundant braking system is activated, for example, blocks the wheels 24 of the passenger unit 20 and thus holds the passenger unit 20 in the apparent from Fig. 1 position.
  • the direction of rotation of the upper region 14 of the tower 10 can be varied as desired, that is, as shown in FIG. 2, the region 14 can rotate with the passenger unit 20 either clockwise or counterclockwise, each in one or more successive 90 ° increments to reach the indicated next position.
  • the new rail position in the region of the plane of rotation 15 is locked to the rail system 28 in the stationary lower part 11 of the tower 10; then - also after a variable, adjustable period of time - the brakes of the redundant braking system are released, and the passenger unit 20 falls, at least at the beginning vertically, in free fall backwards on the tower 10 down.
  • the passenger unit 20 is braked soft at the bottom of the tower 10 and then transported back up.
  • Fig. 3 shows a possible embodiment of such a roller coaster, in which a tower 10 with a rotatable upper portion 14 is integrated.
  • This rollercoaster track has a station where passengers board the passenger units 20.
  • a passenger unit 20 is then brought by means of a lift or a linear motor or with a catapult start on the upper portion 14 of the tower 10, namely in the phase 1, which is indicated by a 1 in the circle, in the forward direction of the passenger unit 20 on the rail No. 1 of the tower 10.
  • the passenger unit 20 is fixed as described above, and the upper area 14 of the tower 10 is then rotated in phase 2 to the rail No. 2.
  • the brake is released, and the passenger unit 20 falls backwards in the phase 3 at the tower 10 downwards, goes through a looping back to the tower 10 and, if the energy is insufficient, by means of a linear motor to the rail no transported top portion 14 of the tower 10.
  • phase 5 again go backwards until the rail no. 3 is reached again, where the passenger unit 20 is fixed.
  • the passenger unit 20 is further rotated clockwise to the rail No. 4, phase 6, and then the passenger unit falls forward freely down to another rail track, until finally the station is reached again via a conventional brake in the phase 7.
  • phases 4 and 5 can be dispensed with in order to achieve shorter travel times and thus higher throughput.
  • phases 3, 4 and 5 can be repeated several times, which results in longer journey times.
  • FIG. 4 shows an embodiment in which two freefall towers 10 are integrated into the route of a roller coaster.
  • the passenger unit 20 is brought in phase 1 forward to the rail number 1.1 in the upper area 14 of the first tower No. 1.
  • the area 14 of the first tower No. 1 is rotated by 90 °, so that the passenger unit 20 is now on the rail No. 1.2 tower No. 1.
  • the passenger unit 20 then falls backwards at the first tower No. 1 down and undergoes in Phase 3 a route that provided with a loop and possibly a linear motor for the further transport of the passenger unit 20 to the rail number 2.1 of the second tower No. 2 is.
  • the upper area 14 of the second tower No. 2 in the phase 4 to Turned 90 °, so that the passenger unit is now on the rail No. 2.2 of the second tower No. 2.
  • the passenger unit 20 then falls forward again freely down and enters in phase 5 to the rail number 1.3 of the first tower No.1. Also on this route can, if necessary, be provided linear motors.
  • the upper portion 14 of the first tower No. 1 is rotated by 90 ° in the clockwise direction, so that in the phase 6, the rail No. 1.4 of the first tower No. 1 is reached.
  • the passenger unit 20 backwards at the first tower No. 1 down and reached, again possibly via a linear motor, the rail No. 2.3 of the second tower No. 2.
  • the upper portion 14 of the second tower No. 2 is rotated in the clockwise direction, so that in the stage 8, the rail No. 2.4 of the second tower No. 2 is reached.
  • the rail system in the tower 10 is extended upward and the interface 15 between the stationary part 11 and the rotatable part 14 of the tower 10 as far as moved downwards so that a sufficient tolerance for the fixed position of the passenger unit 20 is available.
  • the passenger unit 20 can only be dropped when the rail is locked to the or each tower 10, the operation of this open track roller coaster is not possible; In addition, this ensures that in each block of blocks, so in each part of the route in which is to stay only a single passenger unit, actually only a single passenger unit 20 is located.
  • each tower 10 in addition to the normal holding brake nor the safety brake 16 and the end buffer 18 is provided which serves as a stop to avoid overshooting the passenger unit 20.
  • an emergency generator is provided, which rotates the upper portion 14 of the tower 10 in an angular position, from which the passenger unit 20 can reach the station via the associated rail system 28 after releasing the brakes.
  • Another source of danger is the occurrence of a power failure while driving, which means that the passenger unit 20 by means of the linear motors no loss of energy can be supplied. This would mean that the passenger unit 20 does not brake in the upper area 14 after passing through the riser at the tower 10 achieved more. The passenger unit 20 would then fall freely down and could swing out in a low point of the roller coaster track. Since such a low point is usually near the ground, passengers can simply be retrieved from the passenger unit.
  • the passenger unit 20 may be held in a lower position on the tower 10 in the brake area above the interface 15. Again, then the upper portion 14 of the tower 10 is rotated by means of the emergency generator in a position from which the passenger unit 20 can reach the station safely.
  • the brake holding the passenger unit 20 in the upper area 14 of the tower 10 can be released, causing the passenger unit 20 to fall freely downwards and close to it Ground out.
  • the passenger unit can also be pulled up by a hoist winch (not shown) on the tower 10 by means of the already mentioned emergency generator, held in the braking area of the upper part 14 and then released by the brake so that the station safely reaches the station due to the higher fall distance becomes.
  • a hoist winch (not shown) on the tower 10 by means of the already mentioned emergency generator, held in the braking area of the upper part 14 and then released by the brake so that the station safely reaches the station due to the higher fall distance becomes.

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  1. Tour de chute libre pour montagnes russes, qui présente un système de rails (28) sensiblement vertical pour une unité (20) pour passagers qui se déplace sur le système de rails (28) depuis l'extrémité inférieure jusqu'à l'extrémité supérieure de la tour (10),
    et de laquelle l'unité (20) pour passagers tombe librement vers le bas sur le système de rails (28) et peut ensuite se rendre sur le reste du parcours des montagnes russes,
    caractérisée en ce que
    la totalité de la partie supérieure (14) de la tour (10), y compris avec le système de rails (28), peut tourner autour d'un axe vertical (17) et en ce que
    à l'extrémité supérieure de la tour (10) est prévu un système redondant de freinage qui immobilise l'unité (20) pour passagers sur le système de rails de la partie rotative (14) de la tour.
  2. Tour de chute libre selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que quatre systèmes de rails décalés les uns par rapport aux autres de 90° sont prévus.
  3. Tour de chute libre selon l'une des revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le sens de rotation et/ou l'angle de rotation de la partie supérieure rotative (14) de la tour (10) peuvent être modifiés.
  4. Tour de chute libre selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce qu'un frein de secours et/ou un arrêt pour l'unité (20) pour passagers sont prévus à l'extrémité supérieure de la tour (10).
  5. Tour de chute libre selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisée en ce qu'un ascenseur, des moteurs linéaires ou une catapulte sont prévus pour le transport de l'unité (20) pour passagers vers la partie supérieure rotative (14) de la tour (10).
  6. Tour de chute libre selon les revendications 1 à 5, caractérisée en ce qu'au moins une autre tour (10) de structure identique ou similaire est reliée à la première tour par l'intermédiaire du parcours de montagnes russes.
  7. Tour de chute libre selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisée en ce que le parcours des montagnes russes comprend des figures connues, par exemple des montées et des descentes en ligne droite ou courbe, des loopings, des hélices, etc.
  8. Tour de chute libre selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisée en ce qu'un générateur de courant de secours est prévu pour placer la partie supérieure (14) de la tour (10) dans une position dans laquelle l'unité (20) pour passagers peut atteindre son point de départ dans le bas après libération du système de freinage en cas de panne de courant au moment où l'unité (20) pour passagers est immobilisée par le système de freinage dans la partie supérieure rotative (14) de la tour (10).
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