System and apparatusses to operate a transportable cinema room

• US 5,706,616 A
• Filed: 07/03/1995
• Issued: 01/13/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hector Raul Lopez Fernandez
• Original Assignee: Hector Raul Lopez Fernandez
• Inventors: Fernandez, Hector Raul Lopez
• Primary Examiner(s): Wood, Wynn E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CALLO, LAURA ANTOINETTE
• Application Number:
  US08/497,749
• Time in Patent Office: 925 Days
• Field of Search: 296/26, 296/24.1, 52/67, 52/143, 52/79.5
• US Class Current: 52/143
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/0252 the object being a theater, cinema, auditorium or grandstand

Abstract

A system for operating a transportable cinema room including a truck for carrying a trailer or body, hydropneumatic pistons with sufficient support to convert such body into a projection cinematographic room incorporating enough seats for a number of attending spectators, a candy shop with an electronic device to dispense different kinds of food or similar products, men and women toilet rooms, an illuminated marquee with collapsible sign, both illuminated access stairs and handrails which are also collapsible, independent air conditioner, distributing water reservoir for the toilet rooms, easily operated film projector, collapsible projection screen with adaptable outside viewers, a demountable electric power plant, a water hydropneumatic pumping, an emergency exit accommodation ramp including handrails and a ticket office with an electronic ticket dispatcher.

Claims

1. A transportable cinema room and system to operate the cinema room comprising

a trailer having a stationary part and two movable parts, slidable laterally away from the stationary part in opposite directions,

seats fixed to the stationary part of the trailer,

hydropneumatic pistons supporting the two movable parts, and having enough seats stacked in the stationary part above the fixed seats and movable to the movable parts for seating a number of attending spectators in the movable parts,

a ticket office in the stationary part of the trailer at one end of the trailer, said ticket office including an electronic ticket dispenser,

a candy shop in the stationary part of the trailer located at the one end of the trailer with electronic means for dispensing different kinds of products inside and outside of the trailer,

men and women toilet rooms in the stationary part of the trailer located at the one end of the trailer,

an illuminated marquee located above the ticket office at the one end of the trailer,

a collapsible billboard located at the one end of the trailer for displaying a title of a movie being shown,

illuminated access stairs and handrails to the one end of the trailer with collapsible means for storing the stairs and handrails in a compartment below a floor of the trailer,

means for air conditioning located in the trailer and controlled from the ticket office,

a distributing water reservoir in the trailer for the toilet rooms,

a film projector in the trailer and controlled from the ticket office,

a collapsible projection screen mounted at the other end of the trailer from the one end,

a demountable electric power plant in the trailer,

a water hydropneumatic pumping means in the trailer,

an emergency exit ramp including handrails located next to said access stairs at the one end of the trailer, and

a stair assembly located on a side of the trailer at the one end of the trailer to access the ticket office through a window in a side wall in the trailer and to access the candy shop through another window in the side wall of the trailer.

2. A transportable cinema room as claimed in claim 1, wherein an automatic audience quantity counter is located at the one end of the trailer adjacent to the access stairs.

3. A transportable cinema room as claimed in claim 2, wherein the quantity counter is controlled from the ticket office.