ROTATABLE PLATFORM HAVING RIDER SUPPORTS ENCLOSED IN AN OPTICAL CHAMBER FOR SIMULATING A SPACE RIDE

• US 3,468,533 A
• Filed: 07/06/1964
• Issued: 09/23/1969
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Walter J. House Jr
• Original Assignee: Walter J. House Jr
• Inventors: House, Walter J. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US04/380,562
• Time in Patent Office: 1,905 Days
• US Class Current: 472/60
• CPC Class Codes: A63G 31/16 creating illusions of travel

Claims

1. APPARATUS FOR A SIMULATED EXTRATERRESTRIAL RIDE COMPRISING AN OPTICAL ENCLOSURE CHAMBER, SAID CHAMBER HAVING A ROOF AT ITS TOP AND, AT ITS BOTTOM, A PLATFORM ROTATABLE ABOUT A VERTICAL AXIS, A SUPPORT FOR SAID PLATFORM, A DRIVE MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID PLATFORM, MEANS PERMITTING ROTATION OF SAID PLATFORM ABOUT AXIS CONNECTING SAID PLATFORM TO SAID SUPPORT, CONTROL MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID DRIVE MEANS SETTABLE AT A PREDETERMINED SPEED OF ROTATION OF SAID PLATFORM, A PLURALITY OF SLED SUPPORTS FIXEDLY MOUNTED TO SAID PLATFORM IN AN ARRAY SYMMETRICAL ABOUT SAID AXIS, EACH SLED AT A DISTANCE R FROM SAID AXIS, A SPECTATOR SUPPORT SLED MOVABLY MOUNTED ON EACH SAID SUPPORT, EACH SAID SLED BEING SUPPORTED ON THE SLED SUPPORT THEREFOR FOR MOVEMENT IN A PLANE EXTENDING RADIALLY UPWARD AND OUTWARD OF SAID AXIS AT AN ANGLE A, THE RELATION BETWEEN THE ANGLE A AND THE LOCATION OF THE SLED AND SUCH PLATFORM BEING THAT 1/R IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO THE VALUE OF PRODUCT OF (SIN A) X (COS A), AND MEANS FOR GENERATING AN OPTICAL IMAGE ALONG SAID VERTICAL AXIS OF ROTATION OF THE ROOF OF SAID CHAMBER, AND WHEREIN THE RELATION BETWEEN THE ANGLE A AT WHICH THE SLEDS ARE SUPPORTED RELATIVE TO THE ROTATING PLATFORM, SPEED OR ROTATION OF AID PLATFORM AND THE LOCATION OF EACH SAID PLATFORM IN SET FORTH BY THE FOLLOWING FORMULA: