US1101630A - Amusement apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

T. D, HGGPEP., JR. AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

APPLIUATION FILED NOV. 18,1913.

Patented June 30, 1914i.

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AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

T all @071.0112 it may concern Be it known that I, 'llHoIsnis D. Hoornn, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadephia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certainnew and useful Improved Amusement Apparatus, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention, broadly stated, relates to that class of amusement appa 'atns com.l monly known as scenic railways, and has for its principal object to provide an amusement apparatus of this class, the inclins of which are provided with double tracks, each set of tracks alternately equipped at intervals with cut-outs or loops so that when a passenger car having swiveled trucks, passes thereover under the influence of gravity, the caris caused automatically to reverse itself bodily without changing its course of transit, thereby producing a sensation, both novel and exhilarating in its effects.

A further obiect of the present inventionresides in the providing of specially designed passenger cars and in the providing of certain novel construction and arrangement of parts for imparting this rotative movement to the passenger conveyances.

Other and further objects of the present invention reside in the providing of general details of constructio-n and arrangement of parts as will hereinafter more fully appear.

The invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described The nature, characteristic features and scope of the invention will. be more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and in which: Figure l, is a perspective view of the amusement apparatus embodying the invention, the view being somewhat diagrammatic in form. Fig. 2, is a top or plan view drawn to an enlarged scale of'on'e of the cut-outs or loops, shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a fragmentary view, in plan, of a portion of Fig. .2, enlarged and illustrating two ositions of a passenger'conveyance, and Fig. 4,

59 is a view in section taken approximately on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, there is disclosed a physical .embodiment of the invention constructed in a manner best known to me at this time for practising the invention.

' Obviously, various details of construction Specification oi Letters fatent.

' be restricted to a. scenic rail and final ly -are always accon'nnodated by s may ne sav-.ne result apirit of the description i and arrangemen and modified to out departing ,fr tion. v`illflhile toe mind embodying the idea in t` toy.

ln the drawings, the support 10, may of any suitab e consti signed along the lines, now erecting scenic railways. Car Y supporting structure it), incli'ics il. which toe number immaterial. vari ous inclines ll, are provided with. a double 7i; set of traction rails 1 2, and i3, lforming effect a straightaway single track, each set of rails however, being alternately extended intervals upon arcs of circles to few-n cntm Outsor loops le. '.lhe pci the two sets of rails at the cut or lei, form frogs l5, see 2 rails adjacent the fro le, a with guards. 1G. ift-.daif ed the inclines ll, under' the influent: ity are passenger corr` nce any appropriate car i7, is

rovnied 'wit 18, of iany 'suitable consti nating the swivel connection. truck i8, and the bottom ot "l superimposed, concentrically 20, to afford a good locas which the car body may turn. wheels 21, of which there are i truck, are flanget'i shown, ann are adapted to so 'track upon and 13, that the wheels of r always acronnnodated by 'the tion of rails and the wheels. oi

tended into cut-outs or loops. By the fact that the straight sections; o! and 13, are closely adjact 1t one ai 'i because of the fact that the body or has swiv'clcd relation with the trucks, arrangement is possible, the body the assuming a slight' angular position., as c i, at the right hand side of i5, when a car is traveling over the straight sectit ci' M5 track.

The operation of the above described pw paratns is as followsrr car being in position upon the rails 12, and 13, as just de scribed, passengers are permitted to enter the car at the point 22, and the car is me chanicallyrnoved up the incline 23, by sait able mechanism, for instance, by means of a cable 24, operated by a motor 25. Upon reaching the point QG, of the amusement apparatus, the car through the force of gravity moves along the inclines 11, until a cutout er loop 14, is reached. At this point, the wheels of the rear truck of the car continue along the rails whichv constitute the straightaway portion of the track, and the wheels of the front truck follow the rails, which at this point are curved upon an are of a circle, and themomentum of the car taken in connection with the length of the curved section ofrail over the straight rails, throws the rear of the car together 'with its complemental truck forwardly ahead of the front truck, which pbosition is showirat the left hand sidesof Fig. 3. Thus, throughout a portion of the ride over a cut-out or loop, the ear 17, ranges crosswise of the track. As the car `nears the end of the loop, the rear truckis so far in advanceof the front truck as to automatically reverse the car, bodily, without changing its course of transitl und the rear truck is now traveling in. advance of what was originallythe front truck. Thus as the car once more travels over the straightaway' track the passengers are seated backward. Upon the car reaching the next cut-out or loop, the above Aoperation is repeated and again the ear automatically reverses itself, bodily, and the passengers.

are again seated looking forward. 'lhis reversing operation may be repeated as often as desired.

In order to guard againstaceidcnts, the

rails 12, and 13, are provided with iguard rails 27, see AFig. 4, but for the sale of clearness, are not shown in the other. figures. 'Other safety appliances, not shown in the drawings, may also be present for guarding against^` accidents.

What I claim is:

1. In an amusement apparatus, an incline provided with traction rails, which rails areI alternately extended at intervals to form cutouts-or loops, a car equipped with swiveled trucks, the traction wheels of rwhich are adapted for travel over saidv rails under the influence of gravity, the wheels so tracking the rails that upon reaching a eut-out or loop, the ear is causedV to reverse itself bodily without changing its course of transit.

2. In an amusement apparatus, an incline provided with traction rails, which rails are alternately extended at intervals to form cut-outs or loops, a car equipped with swiveled trucks, the traction wheels of which are adapted for travel over said rails under the influence of gravity, the wheels so tracking the rails that upon reaching a cut-out vorA to form loops, a car equipped with swiveled trucks, the traction rails of which are adaptA ed for travel over said rails under the inlluence of gravity, a set of wheels tracking upon each set of rails, whereby upon reachin(r a loo i a car is caused, to automaticalll reverse itself bodily without changing its course of transit. Q

4. In an amusement' apparatus, an incline provided with a double set of traction rails, of which each set is alternately extended at intervals upon arcs of circles to form loops, the intersecting points of the two sets of rails forming frogs, a ear equipped with swiveled trucks, the traction wheels of which are adapted for travel oversaid rails under the influence of gravity, a set of 4wheels tracking upon each set of rails,

whereby upon reaching a loop, a ear is caused to automatically reverse itself bodily without changing its course of transit.

ln an amusement apparatus, a supporting structure, an incline, a double set of rails forming in effect, a straightaway single track, each set of rails being alternately extended' at intervals upon arcs of circles to form loops, the intersecting points of the two sets of rails forming frogs, a passenger car equipped with swiveled trucks, the

flanged traction wheels of which are adapted for travel vover said rails under the influence of gravity, a set of wheels tracking upon each set of rails, whereby upon reaching a loop, the rear set of.whoels follow the straightaway track, and the front set of wheels follow the loop, so as to cause the car to automatically reverse itself bodily without changing its course of transit.

In testimony whereof, I 'have hereunto signed my name. 4 THOMAS D. HOOPER, JR.

Witnesses: WILLIAM J. JACKSON, llinaiivv M. BYRNE.

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