Water slide with modular, sectional flume construction
First Claim
1. In a water slide for an elevated earth mass or the like, said water slide including at least one flume mounted on the surface of said mass and curving about said mass along an extended descent path and having upper and lower ends, a starting pool for said at least one flume connected to said flume at its upper end, a landing pool connected to said flume at its lower end, means for circulating water accumulating in said landing pool back to said starting pool for gravity passage over said at least one flume back to said landing pool, the improvement wherein:
- said at least one flume is formed of a plurality of end connected and end sealed modular molded plastic flume sections,each section being generally concave upwardly and being generally semi-circular in transverse cross-section and terminating along opposed edges in integral upwardly convex hand rails,said sections comprising at least straight sections with opposed sidewalls of common height and with straight hand rails at common height, curved sections having radially inner and outer walls with said radially outer walls being higher than said radially inner walls with the hand rail of each curved section for the radially outer wall being higher than that of the radially inner wall, and transition sections between the straight sections and the curved sections and between curved sections of opposite throw, said transition sections being straight and having one of the hand rails inclined upwardly in the direction from one end thereof to the opposite end for connection to a radially outer wall hand rail of a given curved section.
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Abstract
A multiple flume water slide includes individual starting pools for each flume and a common landing pool mounted at different elevations on an earth foundation and connected by way of modular sectional flumes. Each flume consists of a minimal number of end reversible, end abutting, end-to-end sealed acrylic module flume sections which are generally concave upwardly away from the earth formation and are of generally semi-circular transverse cross-section, with each terminating along respective edges in integral upwardly convex hand rails. Straight sections have hand rails of the same height. Curved sections have lower radially inner and higher radially outer walls with the outer walls terminating in hand rails higher than those of the inner walls. Transition sections between a straight section and a curved section or between abutting curved sections of opposite throw have longitudinally inclined hand rails along one side from one end to the other to meet the radially outer wall hand rail of the abutting curved section. Specially constructed acrylic starting and concrete landing pools are connected to the flume by way of specially configured starting flume and landing flume sections. The flume sections are joined by the use of integral flanges at respective ends of the sections and through the use of an arcuate spacer at each joint and a packing strip radially inwardly thereof and flush with the longitudinal walls of the sections. A plurality of the flumes have water selectively circulated thereto by multiple supply and return pipes through common headers and a plurality of pumps, which pumps may be selectively operated, depending upon the extent of flumes in actual use.
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19 Claims
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1. In a water slide for an elevated earth mass or the like, said water slide including at least one flume mounted on the surface of said mass and curving about said mass along an extended descent path and having upper and lower ends, a starting pool for said at least one flume connected to said flume at its upper end, a landing pool connected to said flume at its lower end, means for circulating water accumulating in said landing pool back to said starting pool for gravity passage over said at least one flume back to said landing pool, the improvement wherein:
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said at least one flume is formed of a plurality of end connected and end sealed modular molded plastic flume sections, each section being generally concave upwardly and being generally semi-circular in transverse cross-section and terminating along opposed edges in integral upwardly convex hand rails, said sections comprising at least straight sections with opposed sidewalls of common height and with straight hand rails at common height, curved sections having radially inner and outer walls with said radially outer walls being higher than said radially inner walls with the hand rail of each curved section for the radially outer wall being higher than that of the radially inner wall, and transition sections between the straight sections and the curved sections and between curved sections of opposite throw, said transition sections being straight and having one of the hand rails inclined upwardly in the direction from one end thereof to the opposite end for connection to a radially outer wall hand rail of a given curved section. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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