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Amusement ride including a rotating loading terminal

  • US 4,543,886 A
  • Filed: 03/09/1983
  • Issued: 10/01/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/09/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An amusement ride with a loading terminal for passenger loading of independent circular vehicles comprising;

  • at least one vehicle having an outer peripheral surface that is circular in configuration, and, a loading terminal including a revolving platform with an outer circular periphery, and an endless track conveyor having a vertically disposed conveying surface with a vertically disposed arcuate contact portion displaced from and concentric with the outer circular periphery, wherein said contact portion is operable at an arcuate velocity substantially equal to an arcuate velocity of an equivalent extended diameter of said platform were it extended to said arcuate contact portion of said conveyor, wherein said vehicle is simultaneously engaged by both said conveyor and platform and transported without uncontrolled roll or spin by joint action of both said platform and conveyor around a portion of a revolution of the platform, wherein said platform, vehicle and contact portion of said conveyor all have a same angular velocity.

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