US836708A - Amusement device. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED NOV. 27, 1906.

H. N. RIDGWAY.

' AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17. 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 27, 1906.

Application filed November 17,1904. Serial No. 23SI079' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT N. RrnGwAY,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Winthrop, in the county of Sufiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an 1111- provement in Amusement Devices, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel amusement device which will give to the occupant the sensation of taking a trip in a balloon or flying-machine.

My device comprises a suspended car having an open end through which the occupants of the car look outwardly onto a screen on which are portrayed things to be seen on the propose dtrip of the balloon-such as cities, natural objects, coacting therewith devices whereby the car may be tipped that the open or outlook end of the car may sweep up and down or laterally with relation to the screen, down as when a city or land was to be viewed and upwardly when supposedly going from one place to another.

Figure 1 shows my novel amusement device with the car in longitudinal section, the connections of the suspending-cords with the cylinder being omitted for clearness of illustration. Fig. 2 is an under side view of some of the parts shown in Fig. 1 chiefly to illustrate the cording; and Fig. 3, a section the line :1: looking to the left, some of the parts being omitted for clearness.

The car A comprises sills a a, sustaining an outer wall a herein represented as curved, as shown, and bottom a a, one end of the body being open and drawn in or contracted, as at the left, Fig. 1, and as shown in Fig. 3, to form an outlook-space b, at the rear of which are seats b for the occupants of the car.

The sills a are connected by timbers c, forming part of a swinging platform C. The cross-timbers c sustain at their ends sheaves 0, c c and c and the platform or timbers below the car sustain a cylinder D, containing a piston-rod d, having a piston-head (1. (Shown by dotted lines.)

The cylinder at its under side has connected therewith inside its heads two pipes 0 a, through either of which may be forced water from a pump (1 run by an electric motor (1 the water under pressure entering said clouds, &c.the car havingascending into the clouds in cylinder at one or the other side. of said piston-head and moving said piston-rod inone or the other direction in said cylinder.

The piston-rod is forked'at each end and receives two pulleys or sheaves e e f f The car is sustained by four ropes or cables, two of which, g g, are shown in side of the car. These ropes or cables are connected at their upper ends with suitable strong cross-timbers h h, resting on timbers connected with suitable uprights h". The rope g surrounds the "sheaves c and e and is connected at 2 to the cylinder near one end. The second I rope g is carried about the sheaves c and f and is attached to the cylinder at 3. (See Fig. 2.) The other two ropes g g at the opposite side of the car are passed one about the sheaves 0 and e and connected with the cylinder at 4 and the other about the sheaves c and'f and connected to inder at 5.

let into the cylinder to push the piston-head and piston to the ri ht, Figs. 1 and 2, the sheaves e and e wi be moved and drawing on the ropes g 9 will cause said ropes, acting on the sheaves a, to elevate the outlook end of the car, so that the occupants ,may look upwardly onto cloud effects portrayed on the screen m, and when moved inthe opposite direction will cause the ropes g and g to elevate the rear end of the car and lower the outlook end that passeners may through the outlook end of the car ook downwardly onto a picture displayed at the lower portion of the screen mas, for instance, a city or other natural object-which might be visible by lookin over and down from the basket of an or inary balloon or flying-ship.

The rear end of the car has an electricallyoperated fan n, that will create a breeze through the car as if in the air.

The views or pictures will be displayed on the screen, preferably a stationary sheet, by suitable stereopticons p, set on the floor of the building containing the device. The stereopticon will be capable of throwing onto the screen birds-eye views of any city-as Boston, New York, Washington, St. Louis, &c.- and any natural wonders-as Niagara Falls, the big lakes, &c., Pikes Peak. The skyviews may represent clouds in various conditions and daylight or moonlight, &c.

During the time that passengers are in the that when water is car the car may be swung from side to side or Fig. 1, two at each the cyl.

From the foregoing it will be understood IIO be made to sway more or less b a cord 7 connected to the latform and hel by an attendant outside pended in a dark place and will have one or more electric lights r, that may be turned off during asup osed trip, which owingto the motion of t c car is very realistic and affords much pleasure of a novel order to .IIS

both children and grownpeople. The cords g g'g g 'constitute flexible suspensions.

Havingdescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1 In an amusement device of the class described, a suspended car'having' an 0 en end for an outlook, a picture-screen in out of said open end, a fixed support for the car, and means attached to a polnt fixed relatively to the support for tipping said carup and down that its open end may be moved with relation to the screen to present different parts of the screen to the occupants of the car.

2. An amusement device of the class described, comprising a icture-screen, a car havinisides, a top an an 0 en e d for an outloo flexible suspenders or supportin said car from a non-movable'support, and

means acting on said suspenders to tip the car to thereby raise or lowerthe outlook end e car. The ,car will be susof the car that the occupant of the car may view different parts of the screen.

3. An amusement device comprising a screen, means for throwing various pictureson different parts .of said screen, a car provided with sides, a top, and an open end directed toward the screen, said car having seats for passengers, flexible sus ensions for said car, and means coacting wit said suspensions to tip the car to thereby raise and lower the cm end of the car that theoccupants thereof ay see the different views thrown on the screen.

'4. Ina device of thecharacter described, a car having an open end for an outlook, a picture-screen in front of said open end, a fixed support, suspending means for the car con nected at fixed points to said fixed support and means for tipping the car up and down

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