Trailer mounted roundabout amusement device

Claim 1

An amusement apparatus of the type having a generally horizontal circular track with angularly spaced curved vertical undulations therein, a plurality of angularly spaced arms extending radially outward from the center of the track, the arms being disconnectedly mounted at their inner ends by means for permitting universal movement thereof on rotatable means and having angularly spaced track engaging wheels at their outer ends, a flat car carrier platform affixed to each arm with each arm adapted to be driven around the track, other platforms movable relative to the car carrier platforms and filling the spaces therebetween, whereby all of the platforms provide a circular surface which continuously warps in the vertical plane as they rotate, means to rotate the circular surface, each car carrier platform carryinG a car rotatable thereon about an axis perpendicular thereto, whereby each car may also rotate about its axis while bodily rotating around the track, the track being constructed of arcuate sections removably connected together and said platforms also being removably connected together, the cars being removable from their respective platforms, the improvements, in combination, comprising: a. an elongated tractor-type trailer having a frame and supporting wheels near its rear end and a hitch near its forward end adapted to be supported by and towed by a tractortype truck, b. the major portion of said track sections adapted to be assembled around the front end of the trailer with the upper peak of one of said undulations formed by a fixed track section disposed above the trailer frame at an intermediate portion thereof, c. each arm and its attached platform adapted to be rotated onto said fixed track above said intermediate portion, d. elevator apparatus means carried by said intermediate portion for lifting a first arm and its attached platform when said arm is disconnected from the universal inner end means vertically a sufficient distance to permit the next and second angularly spaced like arm to be rotated therebeneath, said elevator apparatus means thence being connectible to said second arm after lowering the first arm onto the second arm, the two arms thence being bodily liftable when said second arm is disconnected from the universal inner end means until a third like arm may be rotated beneath the second, such rotating, disconnection and lifting continuing until all arms are stacked vertically above said intermediate portion.