Undulating amusement slide

• US 20030139218A1
• Filed: 11/18/2002
• Published: 07/24/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WhiteWater West Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: WhiteWater West Industries Limited
• Inventors: Hlynka, Marvin
• Granted Patent: US 6,729,963 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 472/117
• CPC Class Codes: A63G 21/18 Water-chutes

Abstract

A rider slides down an inlet slide to a low entrance opening of a separate exit slide. The exit slide has an inclined portion along which the rider decelerates from the entrance as he or she moves upward, followed by downward travel along a predetermined path of the separate exit slide from a high elevation, past the entrance, to a low elevation.

Claims

1. An amusement device for conveying a rider comprising:

an elongated exit slide defining a long predetermined path along its length from a high elevation at a first end portion thereof to a lower elevation at a second end portion thereof, the exit slide having a rider entrance intermediate its first and second end portions and at an elevation below the first end portion; and

means for introducing a rider through the entrance opening in a direction toward the first end portion and at a velocity sufficient for sliding of the rider along a portion of the exit slide upward to the first end portion for deceleration of the rider, followed by travel of the rider along the long predetermined path of the exit slide.