US886958A - Amusement-railway. - Google Patents

Description

No. 886,958. PATENTED MAY: 5, 190a;

J. H. DEWEY, AMUSEMENT RAILWAY.

ARPLIQATION FILED 'un; 22. 19.08.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS;

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PATENTED MAY 5, 1908.

J. H. DEWEY. AMUSEMENT, RAILWAY.

APPLICATION TILED JAN. 22, 190B.

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A TTORNEYS %TAT.E% ti e JAMES H. DEWEY, OF NEW YOEK, N. Y.

AIvEUSEMENTEAILWAY.

Specification of Letters IPatent.

Patented may 5, 1998.

ment railways, having for its purpose the provision of means causing a car in its travel to rise and fall and to cause the body of the our to revolve and rock from side to side, simulating the rolling end pitching of a host. This I accomplish by constructing the railway with two tracks, one of which is for supporting the car, which 1 term the supporting track, and the other for effecting the rocking movement of the car-body irom'side to side and at the same time keeping it in equilibrium, which I term the equilibrating track, both oi these tracks preferably having undulations, the undulations in the rails of the equilihieting1 track being in conformity with the undulations of the other track and with each other. The car which bodily moves over those tracks is provided with two sets of trucks, or oi her suitable supports, one set of which rests on the supporting-track andhos a universal connection with the cur-body, which it revolves, and the other rests on the equilibrating' track and has a hearing between it and the cur-body, permitting of the latter rotating with respect thereto, whereby as the car travels it receives a lateral motion, a vertical. motion, a rocking movement, and revolves.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a View of a portion of my improved railway in side elevation, showing the position taken by the cars in moving over certain ortions oi the track; Fig. 2 is a plan of s rai wiry embodying my invention; and Fig. 3 is a. cross section through the railway and centrally through one oi the cars, illustrating the car construction and the extreme positions of the car body in rocking from side to side.

More specifically desc ihed, a railway constructed in accordance with my invention includes an undulating supporting-track 5, which as herein shown, is of s sinuous nature, and may if desired, take the form of-e figure l E i i 1 i track may be disconnected at its ends. Preferably at a higher elevation than the sup-- porting-treck 5, and oil a wider gage, is an equilibreting track 6, a so of an undulating construction, the undulations of its two rails being in conformity to the undulations of the supporting-truck end to each other.

The car which 1 preferably use in connection with the railway is best shown in the en lerged sectional view of Fig. 3, and consists of a truck 7, mounted on the supporting truck, a truck 8, or other suitziole support mounted on the equilihreting track, and it body 9, having a hearing on the truck and a universal connection with the truck 7, this lastrnsmed connection being preiershly eir'ected. by providing the center piste it) of the truck, and the apex of a. conical neck 11,1'igid with the body, with a socket and bell, respectively. The truck 8,-it will be noted, in addition to the w ieleis roiling on the equilihrnting track, is provided with wheels or rollers 12, on which bears e circulartrcch 13, carried on the under face oi the car.

Fixed to one of the axles of the truck 7 is e bevel 1 in mesh with a somewhat larger gear 15 secured to a shaft 16, concentrically passing through the center plate 10 and having e jointed or pivotal connection as indicated at 7 with its upper portion, coine ident with the center of oscillation of the bell and socket joint, the upper portion of the shaft being keyed. or anchored in a. suit able way to make it rigid with the neck 11 and consequently with the car-body 9. The cenbody as shown is preferably of circular form, having a vertical mast 18 at its center and with a seat- 19 running continuously around the car at its perimeter.

It will be apparent from the construction of the car, that as the same is caused to bodily move over the supporting-track, the nonconformity in the undulations of the rails of the equiiibreting truck will cause the body of the car to rock from side to side, and by reason of the gearing in connection with the lower truck, said body wiil also revolve. The undulations in the simporting-treck will cause t 1e cor its entirety as it travels hits ally, to move up and down, and the sinuous nature of the track 'wiil give a further DIOVE'. meet to the cur, adding to the pleesure and excitement oi the psssen 'ers sestedwithin the cor-body. rocking movement of the car-hotly b0 the ob eight, although this is not essential as the The most 18 will magnify the i when t e body is thrown to the extreme incline'd positions by the equilibrating'track,

, that there will be no points in the car at .which the passengers will notexperience its motion. l

Theliilvention as shown and described,

whilebeing the preferred fdintmf m proved railway may obviously be mo ed in numerous particulars, without ,departin from the essentia )haracteristics as pointec l out in the claims annexed.

Having-,thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. Arailway having an'undulating suporti'n'g track, and an equilibrating track avinguilindulating rails, both of the tracks exten g over the same length of the rail way, and. the undulations of the rails of the equilibrating" track-being in inconflormity with each o ther and with the undulations of the en porting track.

travel over a predetermined course, means for causing, the car in its entirety to fall and. rise in its travel, and means for rocking thebody ofthe car from side to side.

3'. The combination of a car, a track, and

means for causing the body of the car to rise and fall, rock from side to side and revolve, as it travels over the track.

4. The combination of a supporting'track,

a truck mounted on said track, a car-body, f

a universtal joint connectingthe car-b0 with the ruck,-means for causing said bod to swing on said joint as the truck trave s over the track, and means for revolving the car. 7

5. The combination of a car having a cir- I, cular'body provided with a mast at its center, and. means for causing said body and mast to swing from side to side and revolve durin the travel of the car.

6. The combination of an undulating sinuous sup orting-track, an undulating sinu ous equ' ibrating track, with the curves therein conforming to the curves of the su porting-track, an the undulations in t e rails of the equ'ilibrating track being in inconiormity with each other and with the undulations in the supportin -track. v

7. The combination 0? a truck, a car-body pivo'tally supported on the truck, and a second truck on which the car-body is revolubly mounted.

he combination of a car adapted to ceases on the truck to swing in vertical planes, and

means for revolving the car-body 'in the travel of the truck.

9. The combination of a truck including an axle, a car-body pivotally'supported on the truck, and means for rotatin the body i and car-body together a secon from said axle in a plane at su stantially right-angles to the plane of movement of the body afforded by its pivot.

10. The combination of a truck, a carbody, a universal joint connectin the truck truck, on which'the car-body is revolubly mounted, and means passing through said joint for revolving the body from t e first mentioned truck.

'11. The combination of a truck, a circular car-body having a conical neck rigidl and centrally fixed -to the under side thereo provided with a portion'of a universal joint connectin it with the truck, a second truck throng which said neck passes, having rollers for supporting said .body, and means passing throug 'the universal joint for revolvmg the car-body'on said rollers driven from the first .mentioned truck.

12. The combination of a car, means for rocking the car, and means for revolving the car in a plane which bears a fixed relation to the axis of rockingmovement of the car.

13. The combination of a supporting track, an equilibrating track havin undulations in inconformity with each 0t er, a car movable over the su porti'n an engagement with t e e ui and means for causing the 0d of the car to revolve-when moved over sai track.

14. The combination of a'track, a car movable over said track, means for causing the body of the car torock as it moves over the track, and means for revolving said body as the car moves over the track in a plane which bears a fixed relation to the axis of rocking movement oi'the body.

15. The combination of a non-sectional supporting track, and an equilibrating track havmgundulating rails, the undulations of the rails of the equilibrating track being in track having .inconformity with each other and with the undulations of the supporting track.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. JAMES H. DEWEY.

Witnesses W. W. H0111, Jomv P. DAVIS.

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