AMUSEMENT RIDE, PARTICULARLY A ROLLER COASTER

• US 20190308112A1
• Filed: 09/18/2017
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mack Rides Gmbh & Co. Kg
• Original Assignee: Mack Rides Gmbh & Co. Kg
• Inventors: Gordt, Dennis
• Granted Patent: US 11,241,632 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63G 7/00 Up-and-down hill tracks; Switchbacks

Abstract

An amusement ride, particularly a roller coaster, comprising a guide track, a number of first vehicles that can move along said guide track and comprise a first person receiving arrangement, a number of second vehicles that can move along the guide track and comprise a second person receiving arrangement differing from said first person receiving arrangement, an in-coupling device, by means of which the first vehicles and/or the second vehicles can be coupled into the guide track, and a launch section by means of which said in-coupled first and second vehicles can be accelerated.

Claims

1. An amusement ride, comprising:

a guide track,

a first vehicle that moves along the guide track and has a first person receiving arrangement,

a second vehicle that moves along the guide track and has a second person receiving arrangement which differs from the first person receiving arrangement,

an in-coupling device that couples the first vehicle and/or the second vehicle into the guide track, and

a launch section that accelerates in-coupled first and second vehicle.

2. The amusement ride according to claim 1, wherein the first person receiving arrangement is configured in rows and the second person receiving arrangement is configured in of a circle.

3. The amusement ride according to claim 1, wherein the second person receiving arrangement has at least one degree of freedom more or has a different degree of freedom with respect to mobility from the first person receiving arrangement.

4. The amusement ride according to claim 1, wherein the second person receiving arrangement comprises a number of rotatably mounted plates.

5. The amusement ride according to claim 1, wherein the first person receiving arrangement comprises a number of seats for seated accommodation of people and the second person receiving arrangement comprises a number of personal safety posts for securing people who are standing.

6. The amusement ride according to claim 1, wherein the first person receiving arrangement comprises a number of seats for seated accommodation of people and the second person receiving arrangement comprises a number of seats for seated accommodation of people, wherein the seats of the first person receiving arrangement have a different orientation from the seats of the second person receiving arrangement.

7. The amusement ride according to claim 5, wherein the seats, the personal safety posts, or both the seats and personal safety posts, are rotatably mounted.

8. The amusement ride according to claim 1, wherein the in-coupled first and second vehicles can be braked by means of the launch section.

9. The amusement ride according to claim 1, wherein the launch section extends across a front end and a rear end of the in-coupling device.

10. The amusement ride according to claim 1, wherein the amusement ride detects whether a first vehicle or a second vehicle is coupled into the guide track.

11. The amusement ride according to claim 1, wherein the first person receiving arrangement has at least one degree of freedom more or has a different degree of freedom with respect to mobility from the second person receiving arrangement.

12. The amusement ride according to claim 1, wherein the second person receiving arrangement comprises a number of seats for seated accommodation of people and the first person receiving arrangement comprises a number of personal safety posts for securing people who are standing.

13. A system, comprising:

a first vehicle that moves along an amusement ride guide track and has a first person receiving arrangement with a first person receiving arrangement degree of freedom;

a second vehicle that moves along the amusement ride guide track and has a second person receiving arrangement with a second person receiving arrangement degree of freedom;

an in-coupling device that couples the first vehicle and the second vehicle into the amusement ride guide track;

wherein the first person receiving arrangement differs from the second person receiving arrangement; and

wherein the first person receiving arrangement degree of freedom differs from the second person receiving arrangement degree of freedom.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising a launch section that accelerates the first vehicle and the second vehicle along the amusement ride guide track.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the first person receiving arrangement is configured in rows and the second person receiving arrangement is configured in a circle.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the second person receiving arrangement degree of freedom includes rotational freedom.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the first person receiving arrangement comprises a plurality of rider seats;

wherein the second person receiving arrangement comprises a plurality of standing rider safety posts;