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Water slide systems

  • US 4,805,897 A
  • Filed: 05/21/1987
  • Issued: 02/21/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Improvement in water slide recreational installations of the type that include a water chute slide for the participants, a platform at an elevated start end of the slide, a landing pool at the bottom end of the slide and a water pumping system that delivers water to the elevated end of the slide for flow down the slide for the occupants thereof, said improvement comprising a generally vertically rising water tower reservoir at some location upstream from the end of the slide, means for directing water from a source of the same into said reservoir, valve means having a valved outlet communicating with a bottom portion of the water tower reservoir for discharging water from said reservoir into said chute and means controlling said valve for suddenly releasing a quantity of water at selected intervals from said reservoir into said chute to provide gushes of water that flow in spaced relation one after the other down said slide.

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