EP2540362A1 - Elément de grand huit se déplaçant dans une deuxième direction - Google Patents

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EP2540362A1
EP2540362A1 EP11171472A EP11171472A EP2540362A1 EP 2540362 A1 EP2540362 A1 EP 2540362A1 EP 11171472 A EP11171472 A EP 11171472A EP 11171472 A EP11171472 A EP 11171472A EP 2540362 A1 EP2540362 A1 EP 2540362A1
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Roland Gmeinwieser
Walter Steininger
Rupert Köckeis
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ZIERER KARUSSELL und SPEZIALMASCHB GmbH
ZIERER Karussell- und Spezialmaschinenbau GmbH
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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
    • 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

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  • the invention relates to a roller coaster driving element comprising a first rail portion adapted to guide a passenger car and a second rail portion extending in a first plane.
  • Another aspect of the invention is a method of operating a roller coaster ride.
  • Roller coaster rides serve to entertain passengers by being exposed to a mixture of acceleration, speed and altitude.
  • said passenger car may be formed as a single car or as a car for multiple passengers and may be performed by lateral, above or below the passenger car or a combination thereof arranged rails.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a roller coaster driving, which has a more surprising entertainment value for the passengers.
  • the second rail section is attached to a stage, which is guided in an inclined, preferably perpendicular to the first plane lying second plane on a frame movable and that the second rail section in a first position with the first rail section can be coupled for transferring a passenger car from the first rail section to the second rail section, and spatially offset in a second position from the first position along the second plane.
  • roller coaster driving element With the roller coaster driving element according to the invention, a new effect and entertainment for the passengers is provided, which consists in a movement perpendicular to the track, for example, a vertically downward movement of the passenger car, by a movement of the passenger car, including the rail section on which the passenger car is located is produced.
  • a completely new form of movement is achieved in a roller coaster driving element, which causes a new form of sensory impression in the passenger and, moreover, represents an entertainment value by virtue of a surprising effect.
  • the second rail section can be oriented horizontally, whereby the passenger can be generated a surprise moment with an impression of an oblique or vertical crash, which has a high entertainment value.
  • the passenger car can be guided from a first rail section to a horizontally oriented second rail section, fixed to this second rail section with respect to its horizontal mobility along the second rail section, in order then to be moved together with this rail section, in particular to be lowered vertically.
  • a case impression can be caused by providing a free fall in a movement section, in order then to decelerate the passenger carriage together with the second rail section and to bring it to a standstill in a second, lowered position.
  • the roller coaster driving element thus provides a specific entertainment component which can either be implemented by means of retrofitting into existing roller coaster rides, but in particular can be integrated as a characteristic feature of a new roller coaster ride in its overall course.
  • the stage can be guided along a second plane on a straight or curved path.
  • Decisive for the driving experience generated according to the invention here is that the direction of movement of the stage with the second track section in a different direction than the extension direction of the second track section itself. This may be an inclined plane to the vertical, a straight path, a curved path or composite thereof forms of movement.
  • the passenger car can stand for movement along the second plane on the second rail section.
  • the passenger car can also drive along the second rail section during the movement along the second plane, so that a movement component that is completely surprising for the passengers occurs in a direction different from the rail track.
  • the Fahrgsatwagen moves on a composite by two overlapping movements trajectory, which may be, for example, a parabolic track.
  • the second position is offset from the first position by at least one meter, preferably more than three meters and in particular more than five meters.
  • the displacement consists in a lowering in a vertical or oblique direction.
  • the first two meters can be carried out in the ideal free fall exactly in the vertical direction and the deceleration of this free fall on the adjoining about 3.5 m done.
  • Decisive for the ideal impression of a free fall here is that the stage, the passenger car and the second rail section is guided solely in the vertical direction during free fall, for example by lateral guide wheels on a vertical rail, but preferably no safety measures such as safety ropes or the like. Run along here and should be mitbestructt accordingly.
  • roller coaster driving element by a mounting device which is adapted to hold the platform in an upper position, preferably the first position and which is operable to release the platform from this upper position for a free fall.
  • the holding device comprises a permanent magnet holding device, which is preferably formed by a fixed to the stage, magnetizable holding member and a fixed to the frame magnet, preferably a bistable Elektropermanentmagneten.
  • a wear-free, on the other hand reliable holding and spontaneously releasable means for supporting the stage is provided.
  • a secure and for the case impression of the passengers particularly unnoticeable mounting device can be achieved by a bistable solenoid magnet.
  • Such a bistable electro-permanent magnet has two stable states in which it does not require power. The one stable state produces a holding force due to its polarity, the other state a release and gfs.
  • bistable permanent magnet does not need any current supply and voltage for the holding force itself, and instead requires only a current pulse for reversing polarity in a polarity reversal phase, bringing it from one polarity state to the other polarity state moves or in the first polarity state by a second current pulse.
  • the roller coaster driving element by a safety coupling device between the stage and the vertical guide device for releasably positive coupling in the first position, and a force measuring device for detecting the holding force of the mounting device.
  • a safety coupling device between the stage and the vertical guide device for releasably positive coupling in the first position
  • a force measuring device for detecting the holding force of the mounting device.
  • this mounting device and force measuring device can be so signal technically coupled with an electronic control device that in an operating state in which a corresponding holding force is detected by the force measuring device, the further flow of the dropping process is released. If no or too little holding force is measured, in such an operating state, for example, a check indicator can be output, which causes the operator of the roller coaster driving business to check the operation of the mounting device.
  • the control device can furthermore be designed to release the safety coupling device from the positive connection shortly before triggering the falling operation during regular operation, that is to say when a specific holding force is detected, so that then the platform is held solely by the mounting device and released for free fall can be.
  • the safety coupling device may, for example, be designed in the form of movable bolts which engage in slots on the platform with a slight clearance preventing force absorption by the bolts when the mounting device is functioning and securing and supporting the platform by the bolts after a short fall ensured at failing mounting device.
  • the roller coaster driving element according to the invention can be further developed by a third rail section, which is preferably at a height below the height of the first rail section and which is designed to guide the passenger car and which can be coupled to the second rail section for the transfer of the Passenger carriage from the second rail section on the third rail section.
  • both the first rail section and the second and third rail sections are preferably oriented horizontally, that is to say they have no or no substantial inclination.
  • the roller coaster driving element according to the invention is characterized by a braking device for delaying the stage from a free fall.
  • a braking device for delaying the stage from a free fall.
  • the braking device comprises a linear eddy current brake, which is preferably formed by attached to the stage permanent magnet strips, which cooperate with attached to the frame reaction plates.
  • a linear eddy current brake is to be understood in a longitudinal direction extending arrangement of reaction plates in which a braking current is induced by corresponding moving permanent magnets.
  • the device according to the invention has four such linear Wirbelstrombremsabbalde spaced from each other, in particular at the four corners of the second track section, each individual linear eddy current braking section may have a plurality of mutually parallel reaction plates, which cooperate with a corresponding plurality of mutually parallel permanent magnets.
  • Such a linear eddy current brake achieves a wear-free and safe deceleration of the stage from a high speed to a low speed, and at the same time provides a structurally simple structure, since such an eddy current brake requires no actuation or solution.
  • eddy current brakes exerting high deceleration forces at high speeds and exerting low deceleration values at low speeds, is advantageous in that, on the one hand, the high falling speed can be reliably reduced, on the other hand, no appreciable resistance is applied by the braking device when the stage is in the lowered position is slowly raised again.
  • the braking device comprises one or more hydraulic shock absorbers, which are preferably arranged and dimensioned such that the stage is braked to a standstill, which precedes a braking distance by means of eddy current brake to a standstill.
  • a hydraulic shock absorber By means of such a hydraulic shock absorber, a redundant braking device can be provided on the one hand, which protects against health-endangering accelerations, and on the other hand an element of the braking device, which can bring about a delay to standstill.
  • this hydraulic brake device with an eddy current braking device, this combination is preferably carried out such that the stage is first decelerated by means of an eddy current brake from a high speed to a low speed and then by means of the hydraulic shock absorber brake device from this low speed is delayed further to a standstill.
  • the eddy current brake thus precedes the hydraulic brake, which however does not rule out that the eddy current brake continues to act over the distance which the hydraulic shock absorber device occupies.
  • the platform and the frame cooperate such that the second rail section is guided from the first to the second position on a first path section in free fall and is braked to a standstill on a second path section from the free fall by means of a braking device wherein the first path portion preferably has a length of 20% to 50% of the distance between the first and second positions.
  • the roller coaster driving element by a first coupling device for the flush coupling of the first and second rail sections in the first position and / or a second coupling device for the flush coupling of the third and second rail sections in the second position.
  • a first coupling device for the flush coupling of the first and second rail sections in the first position and / or a second coupling device for the flush coupling of the third and second rail sections in the second position.
  • the impression of a surprising and actual free fall of the passenger car can be achieved, above all, by a guidance of the passenger vehicle which, if possible, is barely or not at all perceptible during this free fall.
  • this also includes, in particular, that due to this barely perceptible guide, no exact positioning of the rail sections relative to one another can be achieved by this guide device alone.
  • a corresponding coupling device is important for the ride, both in terms of driving impression effect and functional reliability, in order to achieve a secure transfer of the passenger car between the first, second and third track sections by corresponding additional coupling and alignment.
  • a corresponding safety control device can be signal-technically coupled, which prevents coupling or coupling between the first and second and second and third rail section, a dropping operation or a lifting operation of the stage is triggered.
  • a lifting device having a lifting adapter which is adapted to be connected to the platform for lifting the platform from the second to the first position and which is adapted to be separated from the platform are used to lower the lifting adapter from the first to the second position separate from the stage.
  • a lifting device is characterized in that it can raise the stage on the one hand by coupling a lifting adapter, but then again lower this lifting adapter independently of the stage, whereby the lifting adapter itself and all lifting elements of the lifting device not during the lowering of the stage, especially not during the free fall of the stage, have to be moved. This further increases the driving impression of the passengers, as this can further reduce the number of moving parts during the fall process.
  • the lifting device can be represented, for example, by a rope guide which is underpinned by means of a pulley reduction, in particular, two or more actuators can be used be used in the form of electric motors that are signal or mechanically coupled together to effect a synchronous lifting.
  • the roller coaster driving element according to the invention may preferably be operated according to a method of operating a roller coaster driving business, comprising the steps of moving a passenger car from a first rail section to a second rail section lying in a first plane, and moving the passenger car with the second rail section in a second plane, which is inclined, in particular perpendicular to the first plane, in particular vertical lowering of the passenger car with the second rail section by at least one, preferably three meters.
  • a method of operating a roller coaster driving business comprising the steps of moving a passenger car from a first rail section to a second rail section lying in a first plane, and moving the passenger car with the second rail section in a second plane, which is inclined, in particular perpendicular to the first plane, in particular vertical lowering of the passenger car with the second rail section by at least one, preferably three meters.
  • the method can be developed by the passenger car is moved in a first lowering section in free fall and is delayed in a subsequent second lowering section from the free fall.
  • the passenger car is delayed from the free fall by means of eddy current braking and / or hydraulic damping. In this case, a sequence of free fall events and deceleration can be performed.
  • the passenger car is lifted from the second level by means of a lifting device to the first height, held there by a holding device, preferably a holding device formed by a bistable Elektropermanentmagneten and the lifting device thereafter without the passenger car to a height below the second height is lowered.
  • a lifting device preferably a holding device formed by a bistable Elektropermanentmagneten
  • the ride according to the invention comprises a first track section 10, a second track section 20 and a third track section 30.
  • the second track section 20 is coupled in alignment with the third track section 30.
  • the second track section 20 is attached to a landing stage 100, which essentially comprises a horizontal frame 110 below the second track section and a vertical guide frame 120.
  • the horizontal frame 110 is constructed in the manner of a ladder frame and essentially comprises two horizontal struts 111, 112 and a plurality of these horizontal cross struts connecting them.
  • the vertically oriented guide frame 120 includes two laterally and perpendicular to the second track section extending vertical frame profiles 121, 122 and an upper, horizontally extending Garbühnenmaschine 123.
  • a holding plate 131 is attached, which has a horizontally located, upwardly facing surface.
  • the fall platform 120 is, as in more detail in FIG Fig. 2 to recognize, by means of eight rollers 121a-h, 122a-h in a vertically movable direction on two lateral vertical struts 141, 142 out. These rollers 121a-h, 122a-h ensure that the freefall moves in an exactly vertical direction in free fall.
  • the vertical guide struts 141, 142 are formed on a frame 140, which surrounds the entire stage side of the frame.
  • This frame is stably fastened by a plurality of vertical struts and diagonally supporting struts on a plurality of horizontal foundation struts.
  • this foundation struts By means of this foundation struts, the framework is anchored to a base plate or corresponding foundations.
  • the vertical guide struts 141, 142 extend to an upper end and are connected together at this upper end by means of an upper frame bridge 143.
  • an upper frame bridge 143 At this upper frame bridge is, in more detail in Fig. 3 a bistable electro-permanent magnet 132 is mounted, which is positioned in such a way that the holding plate 131 in the upper, first position cooperates with this and dangles on this Elektropermanentmagnet.
  • the bistable electro-permanent magnet is fastened to the upper frame bridge 143 by means of two pairs of coaxial pins 133a-d.
  • a pair 133a, b of this bolt is designed as a force measuring pin pair and thus detects half the weight held by the Elektropermanentmagnet.
  • a lifting beam 150 is arranged below the fall platform 120.
  • This lifting beam is also movably mounted on the vertical guide struts 141, 142 in the vertical direction.
  • the lifting cross member 150 can be raised by means of two laterally arranged deflection rollers 151, 152, over which cables are run, which in turn run on two deflection rollers 144, 145 arranged above the upper frame bridge 143 and are fixedly mounted on the vertical guide rods 141, 142 ,
  • the cables are wound on electric motor-driven winches 155, 156 in order to lift or unwind the lifting cross member in order to lower the lifting crosspiece 150.
  • each vertical frame strut 146a-d On the frame 140 are further arranged on four lateral vertical struts 146a-d respectively vertically extending brake blades 161-164a-d made of a copper alloy, which in greater detail in Fig. 4 are recognizable.
  • the brake swords act as reaction plates.
  • four brake swords are arranged on each vertical frame strut 146a-d, which extend over a partial section of the height distance between the first track section 10 and the third track section 30.
  • Permanent magnets 165-168a-d cooperate with these brake blades 161-164a-d, which are each composed of two pole shoes 165d ', 165d ", which are opposite one another and engage with the brake shoes, and a plurality of yokes 165d' '' connecting these pole shoes are attached to the brake blades 161-164a-d, respectively, by a corresponding engagement and corresponding number, by means of this brake blade / permanent magnet arrangement, a linear eddy current brake for vertical movement of the drop platform to the Framework provided.
  • Fig. 1 For example, the fall platform is shown in the lower position and the second track section is coupled in alignment with the third track section so that a passenger car (not shown) can extend from the drop platform to the third track section.
  • Fig. 6 shows the ride according to the invention in one Fig. 1 following operating state.
  • the fall platform is raised by operation of the electric winches 155, 156 and a resultant lifting of the lifting crosspiece 150 along the vertical guide struts 141, 142.
  • Fig. 7 shows one up Fig. 6 following operating position, in which the fall platform 120 is raised to the maximum height. At this maximum height, the holding plate 131 and the bistable electro-permanent magnet 132 cooperate, which has been switched to a polarization for this purpose, which produces a magnetic holding force between the upper support bridge 143 of the frame and the cross-beam 123 of the fall stage.
  • a force measuring pin is positively inserted between the frame and Elektropermanentmagnet to cause a redundant position assurance of the fall platform in this raised position.
  • Fig. 8 shows the ride in one Fig. 7 following operating position in which the lifting beam 150 is lowered by pressing the electric winches 155, 156 again.
  • the falling platform remains in the raised position by the holding force of the bistable electro-permanent magnet 132. If a regular operation of this bistable electro-permanent magnet is present, a force is measured in this operating position by the force measuring pins 133a, b, which correlates with the weight of the fall stage. If determined by the electronic control device, the first and second rail sections are coupled in alignment by a coupling device and a passenger car can enter.
  • Fig. 9 shows the retraction of this passenger-occupied passenger car 40 from the first track section 10 on the second track section 20.
  • the lifting beam 150 is further lowered during this retraction of the passenger car.
  • Fig. 10 shows one up Fig. 9 following operating position in which the passenger car has retracted to the second track section and has come to a standstill.
  • the lifting beam 150 is located at its lowermost position, which is below a position in which contact between the fall platform in its lowermost position and the lifting beam 150 occurs.
  • this operating position of the fall platform is again checked whether the force measuring pins 133a, b receive a force, since the Elektropermanentmagnet 132 now additionally has to bear the weight of the passenger car and the passengers.
  • Fig. 11 shows the ride shortly after triggering the fall process.
  • the falling process is triggered by the bistable electro-permanent magnet 132 is briefly applied to a current pulse and thereby reversed polarity.
  • the holding force of the bistable electro-permanent magnet 132 is thereby triggered and the falling platform 120 drops together with the passenger car 40 and the passengers fixed thereon by means of corresponding safety devices in free fall downwards.
  • Fig. 11 shows this fall movement in free fall shortly before reaching the braking effect by the linear eddy current brakes. It can be seen that the eddy current coils 165-168a-d have not yet intervened in the vertically extending brake shoes 161-164a-d.
  • Fig. 12 shows the ride according to the invention in a lowered position after the deceleration of the free fall.
  • This deceleration was first carried out by the linear eddy current brakes 160-168 over a distance of about 2.5 m alone, followed by a deceleration over a distance of about 0.5 m, on which the linear eddy current brakes together with four spring-biased hydraulic dampers 170a d, shown in detail in Fig. 5 , cooperate and decelerate the fall platform 120 from an already reduced speed to a standstill in a lowermost position.
  • the fall platform 120 has no contact with the lifting crosspiece 150 in this lower position.
  • the second track section 20 will hereafter be in Fig. 13 aligned with the third track section 30 coupled to allow or ensure an extension of the passenger car 40.
  • the lifting beam 150 can in turn be brought to the fall platform 120 and the fall platform 120 can then be raised at a correspondingly reduced speed.
  • the electric motors 156, 157 have to overcome the weight of the fall platform 120 and the second track section 20.
  • the braking effect of the eddy current brakes must first be overcome at the first approximately 3.5 m, which can be reduced in their effect by a slow increase in the fall stage.

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