CHARGING STATION FOR AMUSEMENT SYSTEM.

Abstract

Abstract An amusement ride loading terminal (10) having a revolving cirular platform (32) for continuous loading of passengers into a series of moving circular vehicles (12), the platform (32) cooperating with an endless track conveyer (36) to keep the vehicles (12) revolving with (1) the platform (32) without individual vehicles (12) spinning or rotating on their own axis, the conveyer (36) having a vertically disposed conveying surface (60) with an arcuate contact portion (42) displaced from and concentric with the periphery (34) of the circular platform (32), the track conveyer (36) being operated to provide a arcuate velocity to the contact surface equal to the equivalent extended diameter of the circular platform (32), wherein the vehicles (12) engage the periphery of the platform (32) and the arcuate contact portion (42) of the conveyer (36) and are moved with the platform (32) a portion of a revolution without roll or spin, for convenient loading of passengers into vehicles (12).

Inventors

• 👤 Robert Spieldiener
• 👤 Reinhold Spieldiener
• 👤 Alfons Saiko

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