RU2008963C1 - Device for entertainment - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: equipment for entertainment. SUBSTANCE: wheel is a spiral guide chute-shaped in its cross-section with snail-type helical winding. The wheel may be a combination of two spiral guides with winding direction of the first guide from the periphery to the center and winding direction of the other guide from the center to the periphery. There is a device for shifting the vehicle from one spiral guide to the other in the point of their joint. Vehicles on wheels or skids and floating vehicles may be used in one structure. EFFECT: enhanced operational capability. 5 cl, 3 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to amusement rides and can find application in parks or places of mass festivities at any time of the year.

 A device for entertainment, containing a closed spiral guide and floating devices.

 The following disadvantages are inherent in this device: considerable occupied space while ensuring good throughput, low degree of entertainment due to uniform movement along a spiral guide, narrow functionality, since they allow the use of only floating devices and work exclusively in the summer.

 A device for entertainment is known, containing a spiral guide closed in a ring and having a cross-sectional shape of the gutter. The main disadvantage of this device is the narrow functionality due to the use of the device in open areas only in a small period of summer time and significant physical stress on a person due to the drive in the rotation of the wheel under the influence of muscle muscle, which is associated with the lack of a vehicle and therefore low entertainment .

 An entertainment device is also known comprising a horseshoe-shaped spiral guide and a floating device. Its disadvantages are: low degree of entertainment due to short-term movement in the vertical direction, low functionality, as well as the complexity of the design.

 Known devices for entertainment containing spiral guides and vehicles. Their main disadvantages are: narrow functionality due to the use of wheeled devices with a complex fixation system, and, consequently, the complexity of the design, as well as the degree of increased danger when moving vehicles at high speeds, which requires additional fixation of a person in relation to vehicles .

 Other known entertainment devices include spiral guides and vehicles. Their main disadvantage is the low degree of entertainment due to the short time and unidirectional movement.

 A device for entertainment, the closest suitable in the claimed for the achieved goal, which was taken as a prototype, containing a wheel with a rotation drive relative to the horizontal axis, spiral guides and vehicles.

The main disadvantages of this device are:
significant footprint while providing increased entertainment;
a high degree of danger when moving a vehicle on a wheel and when driving at high speed along spiral guides;
the complexity of the design and the associated significant metal and energy consumption;
narrow functionality due to the use of wheeled vehicles only and preferably in the summer;
the difficulty of moving and fixing the wheeled vehicle in the guides when moving from the launch pad to the wheel and spiral guides.

 The aim of the present invention is to remedy these disadvantages and create a device for entertainment, which allows to expand its functionality, increase the degree of entertainment and safety, as well as simplify the design and reduce the footprint.

 This goal is achieved by the fact that in the inventive device, the wheel is made in the form of a spiral guide having a cross-section in the shape of a gutter and wound like a “snail”.

 In addition, the goal is achieved in that the wheel is made in the form of two spiral guides with the direction of winding the first from the periphery to the center of the wheel, and the second from the center to the periphery, and at the junction of the spiral guides there is a device for transferring the vehicle from one spiral guide to another .

 In addition, the goal is achieved year-round use of the device with various vehicles: wheeled, skid and floating. Comparative analysis with the prototype shows that the claimed device for entertainment compares favorably with the presence of a wheel made in the form of a spiral guide having a cross-section in the shape of a gutter and wound like a "snail", as well as the ability to make a wheel in the form of two spiral guides with a direction winding the first from the periphery to the center of the wheel, and the second from the center to the periphery, moreover, with the installation of the spiral guiding device for translating the vehicle from one cial guide to the other, and in addition, year-round use of the device with different types of vehicles: wheel, Poloznev and floating. Thus, the claimed device meets the criteria of the invention of "novelty." Comparison of the claimed technical solution with other technical solutions shows that the use of a wheel with a rotation drive relative to the horizontal axis, spiral guides having a cross-sectional shape resembling a trough, are known, but their use with other elements of the claims allows to obtain a new positive effect, giving an extension functionality, increasing the degree of entertainment, and security, as well as simplifying the design and reducing the footprint.

 This allows us to conclude that the technical solution meets the criterion of "significant differences".

 In FIG. 1 shows a device for entertainment with one spiral guide; in FIG. 2 - the same, with two spiral guides; in FIG. 3 is one embodiment of the use of the device of FIG. 1 with floating devices (Fig. 3 is given in a perspective view for ease of understanding of the principle of operation and operation of the device).

 Since the devices shown in FIG. 1 and 2 are similar in design and operating principle, then, to simplify the description, references will be given to positions for two options at once, since identical nodes will be denoted by identical numbers.

 Entertainment devices include a wheel 1 with a spiral guide 2 and 3 with an input 4, an output 5 and a device for transferring a vehicle 6 from one spiral guide to another, a drive 7, a gear 8 with a large 9 and a small 10 gears for transmitting rotation to the wheel, located on bearings 11 and 12 in bearings, couplers 13 connecting spiral guides ending in the center of the wheel with flanges 14, a frame 15 for fixing all structural elements, vehicles, as well as a ladder and a platform for disembarking passengers 17, additionally introduced using a single spiral guide.

 Device for entertainment works as follows.

A person (passenger) takes a portable vehicle and approaches the place of landing (ordinary platform). Depending on the season, this may be:
1. Wheel device (trolley, car, etc.).

 2. Powerful device (sledges, trough, etc.).

 3. Floating device (boat, raft, etc.).

 The landing place usually occurs at the bottom of the device when the spiral guide 2 with its entrance approaches it. This is clearly seen from FIG. 3 of the proposed invention. If the vehicles are floating devices, then the entertainment device is installed above the pool or in natural conditions above a pond or river with the possibility of inlet capturing 4 water from reservoirs. Installation above the pool is more universal in that it allows you to immediately use it when working with water to work with other vehicles - wheeled and skid gear. When using climbing devices in winter conditions, the inner surfaces of the spiral guides are filled with water and covered with ice, which is necessary for the sliding of the sleigh runners. When using floating devices, the spiral guide 2 during rotation of the wheel 1 at each revolution by the inlet 4 rakes in a portion of the water necessary to obtain a tank filled with water in the lower part of the first turn. At each subsequent approach of entrance 4 to the landing site, the next passenger with the vehicle is loaded into it and water is again captured. As the spiral guides rotate, water flows into the lower part of the second turn, since when the wheel moves, it is always located in the lower part of each turn, and the input 4 of the first turn scoops the next portion of water. So as the wheel 1 rotates, the lower parts of all the turns of the spiral guide 2 are filled, and then when the wheel 1 rotates, water flows from the spiral guide 2 by the device for transferring the vehicle 6 to the spiral guide 3. Moreover, the water flows from the central turn of this spiral guide 3 to the periphery, filling each successive round with water, until they are all fully loaded. Through the exit 5 of the last turn of the spiral guide 3, water is discharged from the last turn. Via exit 5, the vehicle also exits.

 When using wheeled or skid vehicles, the movement occurs in the same order, only when the wheel rotates, input 4 will be installed at such a distance from the ground that it will allow a clearance necessary for the free movement of wheel 1. But vehicles will also be captured from the landing site .

 When the spiral guides 2 and 3 rotate, the vehicles will always be at the bottom of each turn of the spiral guides when moving. The rotation of the wheel 1 (spiral guides 2 or 2,3) will be carried out from the drive 7 through a gear 8 containing a small 10 and a large 9 gears. The drive is mounted on the frame 7.

 The spiral guides are interconnected by couplers 13 and in the central part of the wheel 1 end with flanges 14, to one of which a large gear 9 of the gear train is attached. The drive is equipped with a variator that allows you to change the speed of rotation of the wheel during movement. The output shafts of the flanges 14 are located in the housings 11 and 12 in the bearings.

 When the device according to the drawing of FIG. 1 disembarkation of passengers is carried out in the central part of the wheel onto the stairs with a platform for disembarking passengers 17. There, in the central part, water is taken. This device has proven itself when used as a lift. Moreover, passengers can also be transported from top to bottom from the central part of the wheel to the periphery, it is only necessary to move the wheel in the opposite direction and supply water to the central part of the wheel, i.e., to the first inner turn.

 The device shown in FIG. 2, simpler, since it immediately drains the water and disembarks passengers into the reservoir at the same time without any additional devices, platforms, etc.

Thus, the use in the inventive device for entertainment of a new set of structural elements allowed to obtain a positive effect, which the authors see in the following:
in expanding the functionality due to the versatility of its use, which allows the use of the device with almost any means of transport: wheeled, skid, floating and at any time of the year in open areas;
in the simplicity of reconfiguring the device for use with one of the listed vehicles, i.e., in the universality of this device;
a significant reduction in the area occupied by the device, which was made possible by combining the wheels with spiral guides;
in an increase in the degree of entertainment due to the fact that when the wheel rotates, the speed of movement at each point of the spiral guides changes significantly from the periphery to the center, and will be so many times larger than how many times the diameter of the wheel at this point of the spiral guide on the periphery is greater than central part. And also, in the possibility of combining high-speed movement along the spiral guide of the vehicle with an overview of the terrain at a considerable height and, in addition, additional movement up and down from the periphery to the center of the wheel and vice versa;
in increasing the degree of safety due to the rotation of the spiral guide and a practically stationary vehicle, with the exception of its slight fluctuations in the lower part of each turn and translational movement up and down in the inner part of the spiral guides themselves. The cross section of the spiral guide in the form of a gutter allows the vehicle to center itself on its inner surface in the lower part of the turn. This made it possible to dispense with additional passenger attachment devices to the vehicle;
to simplify the design by combining wheels and spiral guides, the use of the simplest vehicles and means guiding their movement - spiral guides, as well as the elimination of additional mechanisms and devices necessary for their movement. (56) Copyright certificate of the USSR N 878326, cl. A 63 G 21/00, 1981.

Claims (5)

 1. DEVICE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, containing a wheel with a rotation drive relative to the horizontal axis, a spiral guide and a vehicle designed to accommodate passengers and move along the guide, characterized in that, in order to increase the degree of entertainment and safety and simplify the design, the wheel is formed at least at least one spiral guide having a cross-section in the form of a gutter and wound like a “snail”.  2. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the wheel is formed by two spiral guides with the direction of winding the first from the periphery to the center of the gauge and the second from the center to the periphery, and at the junction of the spiral guides there is a device for transferring the vehicle from one spiral guide to another .  3. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the vehicle is a wheeled device.  4. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the vehicle is a slide device.  5. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the vehicle is a floating device.

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