EP1201280B1 - Anlage für Vergnügungspark, genannt Achterbahn - Google Patents

Anlage für Vergnügungspark, genannt Achterbahn Download PDF

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EP1201280B1
EP1201280B1 EP01810983A EP01810983A EP1201280B1 EP 1201280 B1 EP1201280 B1 EP 1201280B1 EP 01810983 A EP01810983 A EP 01810983A EP 01810983 A EP01810983 A EP 01810983A EP 1201280 B1 EP1201280 B1 EP 1201280B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63G—MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; SIMILAR DEVICES FOR PUBLIC AMUSEMENT
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  • the present invention relates to a amusement park facility called roller coaster, and a vehicle for such an installation.
  • Roller Coasters are some of the most impressive and spectacular amusement park attractions. These are circuits consisting of one or more rails along which vehicles move. These vehicles are initially towed to the highest point of the circuit, then they travel the circuit under the combined effect of the route and the only gravity, and can reach speeds well over 100 km / h.
  • the circuit is arranged to offer passengers varied impressions and sensations that result to a large extent from the various sensations of acceleration that the route provides, including sequences of various acrobatics figures including loops, spirals and pull-ups. corks, but which also result from subjective impressions, namely feelings of vertigo, fear, illusion of risk or surprise in the face of the appearance of unexpected phenomena.
  • the goal is to offer roller coasters passengers an experience and sensations that are out of the ordinary.
  • roller coasters There are two main categories of roller coasters, depending on whether the vehicles ride on the rails or hang under the rails.
  • roller coasters In the category of suspended roller coasters, a very popular subcategory is that of roller coasters which have the particularity of having neither wall nor floor around the passengers. Such a roller coaster is described in the European Patent No. EP 0545860 . In this roller coaster, passengers sit in suspended seats bogies, the back perpendicular to the track formed by the rails.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a suspended roller coaster in which the passengers can make the journey along the circuit with the back arranged substantially parallel to the track, but of simpler design, the mechanisms necessary for the boarding and transportation. landing of passengers being less heavy to achieve.
  • the present invention relates to a facility amusement park called roller coaster, comprising a circuit formed of rails along which runs at least one vehicle having a first portion coupled to the rails so as to be able to move along the circuit and a second part, mounted in movable coupling on the first part and arranged so as to accommodate at least one passenger in at least one seat, backrest and seat, associated with a passenger restraint system in the seat, so that when the vehicle is traveling the circuit, the passenger is suspended under the rails with the sound plane non-perpendicular back to the plane of the track constituted by the rails, said installation being characterized in that the coupling of said second part of the vehicle to said first part allows said second part to rotate about itself around an axis substantially perpendicular to the plane of the seat back.
  • the present invention also relates to a roller coaster attraction installation vehicle, said vehicle comprising a first part comprising means for coupling the vehicle to the rails of the installation, so as to allow the vehicle to move along the circuit. , and a second part, mounted in movable coupling on the first part and arranged to accommodate at least one passenger in at least one seat forming backrest and seat, associated with a passenger restraint in the seat, so that the plane of the seat back, and therefore the plane of the passenger's back, is inclined at an angle between 0 and 30 ° with respect to the plane of the track formed by said rails and characterized in that the coupling of said second portion to said first portion allows said second portion to rotate about itself about an axis substantially perpendicular to the plane of the file of the seat.
  • One of the main features of the vehicles of this installation is that the tilting of the passenger support from a position substantially perpendicular to the track to a position substantially parallel to the path required in the installations described above, is replaced by a simple mechanism of rotation of said support on itself about an axis substantially perpendicular to the plane of the back of the passenger seat.
  • Such a construction has the particular advantage of being much simpler to achieve than that required for the switchover of known installations. On the other hand, it allows to board and unload passengers parallel to the wharf and no longer perpendicular to the wharf, thus shortening the downtime of the trains at the embarkation / disembarkation stations.
  • the name of the plane of the passenger seat back designates a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the back of the passenger restrained in the seat, the plane of the passenger's back being taken here in its usual sense, that is to say say it is an average plane determined by the shoulders and hips of the passenger.
  • the path formed by the rails of the circuit when the circuit comprises two rails, a left surface tape as a whole and two generators are formed by the axes of the rails.
  • the corresponding portion of track is almost flat and that is why we talk about the plane of the track.
  • the plane of the track is the average tangent plane of said track portion.
  • FIG. figure 1 A first portion of a circuit showing two vehicles according to the invention in motion is represented in FIG. figure 1 .
  • the circuit comprises a track 1, constituted by two rails 2, 2 '(see figure 2 ) of tubular shape, and along which vehicles move 3.
  • the rails are integral with a structure (not shown in the drawing), itself fixed on the floor via columns. This structure, which is not directly the subject of the present invention, will not be described here in more detail, the person skilled in the art being otherwise quite capable of producing it.
  • Each of the vehicles 3 comprises a chassis 4 on which is mounted, by means of a ball bearing ring 12, a turntable 13 supporting seats 14 for receiving passengers.
  • each vehicle is secured to two pairs of bogies 5, 5 ', each of the bogies of one of said pairs cooperating with one of the rails 2, 2'.
  • each of the bogies has three pairs of wheels 6, 6 ', 6 "arranged to cooperate with the rail in a manner known per se and already described in the prior documents, particularly in the European Patent No. EP 0545860 .
  • the seats comprise backrest members 15 having armrest portions 16 and a seating element 17.
  • the passenger is held in the seat by means of an upper harness 19, of the forward tilting type and hinged to the seat. its upper part on the support of the seat 14, and a device 20 for retaining the legs, also tilting forwards and hinged at its lower part to the lower end 18 of the seat frame.
  • an upper harness 19 of the forward tilting type and hinged to the seat. its upper part on the support of the seat 14, and a device 20 for retaining the legs, also tilting forwards and hinged at its lower part to the lower end 18 of the seat frame.
  • the frame 4 comprises a front frame member 7 and a rear frame member 9 made integral by means of a central beam 10, on which they are fixed, said beam being hinged at 21 between the two frame members.
  • the front frame 7 comprises a front portion 8 of substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and a rear portion 22 having a lower inclined surface, for example 10 °, with respect to the front portion and on which is mounted an orientation ring 12 made integral.
  • a turntable 13 on which are fixed the supports 14 of the seats for receiving passengers.
  • a coupling bar 11 for coupling the vehicle to another vehicle is attached to the front end of the central beam 10.
  • the slewing ring 12 may be a slewing ring with cylindrical or tapered roller bearings, or any other known type.
  • Ball and roller orientation rings are for example marketed under the trademark "RKS” by the French company RKS (a SKF group company) in Avalon, France.
  • the turntable 13 is in its traveling position of the circuit, the plane of the seat backs, and therefore the plane of the back of the passengers, being inclined at an angle of about 10 ° relative to the plane of the track.
  • this inclination may be different and depends on the embodiment of the vehicle and in particular on its chassis.
  • this inclination can be chosen less than 10 °, for example close to 0 °, so that the passengers have their back substantially parallel to the track.
  • This inclination can also be chosen greater than 10 °.
  • an inclination in the range between 0 and 30 ° is preferably chosen.
  • the transverse axis vv of the plane of the track formed by the two rails 2, 2 ' which axis, in the stations of the circuits of the prior art, is usually in a horizontal position, is here inclined at an angle ⁇ relative to the horizontal, about 110 ° in the example shown in FIG. figure 2 . It then suffices to rotate the rotating plates 13 of the vehicles by about 90 ° so that the passengers are in the position represented in FIG. figure 2 .
  • the angle at which the rotating plates 13 must be rotated depends inter alia on the angle of the track in the station.
  • the angle that forms transversely the plane of the track relative to the horizontal in the loading / unloading station may be greater than or less than 110 °.
  • this angle will be chosen substantially equal to the angle between the plane of the seat back and the plane of the lane in the vehicle travel position, so as to allow easy disembarkation / embarkation of passengers.
  • the chassis 4 can be made in one piece with a single pair of bogies as in the case of the vehicle described in FIG. US Patent No. 5,979,333 .
  • the ball positioning ring 12 can be replaced by any other suitable device for rotation of the seat support member.
  • the number of passengers of a vehicle can of course also be less than or greater than four.

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  1. Anlage für Vergnügungsparks, die als Achterbahn bezeichnet wird, umfassend eine Rundstrecke, die aus Schienen gebildet ist, entlang denen wenigstens ein Fahrzeug fährt, das einen ersten Teil, der so an die Schienen gekuppelt ist, dass er sich entlang der Rundstrecke bewegen kann, und einen zweiten Teil aufweist, der beweglich an den ersten Teil gekuppelt ist und so gestaltet ist, dass er wenigstens einen Fahrgast in wenigstens einem Sitz aufnehmen kann, der eine Rückenlehne und eine Sitzfläche bildet und mit einer Vorrichtung zum Festhalten des Fahrgastes in dem Sitz verbunden ist, derart, dass sich der Fahrgast, wenn das Fahrzeug die Rundstrecke durchfährt, unter den Schienen hängend findet, wobei die Ebene seines Rückens nicht senkrecht zur Ebene der von den Schienen gebildeten Fahrbahn ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kupplung des zweiten Teils des Fahrzeugs an den ersten Teil dem zweiten Teil ermöglicht, eine Drehung um sich selbst um eine Achse durchzuführen, die im wesentlichen senkrecht zur Ebene der Rückenlehne des Sitzes ist.
  2. Anlage nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Fahrzeug so gestaltet ist, dass in der Position des Durchfahrens der Rundstrecke der Winkel zwischen der Ebene der Rückenlehne des Sitzes und der Ebene der Fahrbahn im Bereich zwischen 0 und 30° gewählt ist.
  3. Anlage nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Drehung des zweiten Teils im Verhältnis zum ersten Teil mittels eines Drehkranzes erfolgt.
  4. Anlage nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, umfassend wenigstens eine Station zum Einsteigen/Aussteigen der Fahrgäste, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass in der Station die Ebene der von den Schienen gebildeten Fahrbahn transversal einen Winkel (α) in Bezug auf die Horizontale bildet, wobei dieser Winkel so gewählt ist, dass, nachdem der zweite Teil des Fahrzeugs eine Drehung von etwa 90° um sich selbst durchgeführt hat, sich die Ebene des Rückens der Fahrgäste in einer im wesentlichen senkrechten Position befindet.
  5. Anlage nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass in der Einstiegs-/Ausstiegsstation der Winkel, den transversal die Ebene der Fahrbahn in Bezug auf die Horizontale bildet, im Wesentlichen dem Winkel zwischen der Ebene der Rückenlehne des Sitzes und der Ebene der Fahrbahn in der Fahrtposition des Fahrzeugs entspricht.
  6. Fahrzeug für eine Vergnügungsanlage, die als Achterbahn bezeichnet wird, wobei das Fahrzeug einen ersten Teil, der Mittel zum Kuppeln des Fahrzeugs an die Schienen der Anlage aufweist, so dass sich das Fahrzeug entlang der Rundstrecke bewegen kann, und einen zweiten Teil umfasst, der beweglich an den ersten Teil gekuppelt ist und so gestaltet ist, dass er wenigstens einen Fahrgast in wenigstens einem Sitz aufnehmen kann, der eine Rückenlehne und eine Sitzfläche bildet und mit einer Vorrichtung zum Festhalten des Fahrgastes in dem Sitz verbunden ist, wobei die Ebene der Rückenlehne des Sitzes nicht senkrecht zur Ebene der von den Schienen gebildeten Fahrbahn ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Ganze so gestaltet ist, dass die Ebene der Rückenlehne des Sitzes, und folglich die Ebene des Rückens des Fahrgastes, um einen Winkel zwischen 0 und 30° in Bezug auf die Ebene der von den Schienen gebildeten Fahrbahn geneigt ist und dass die Kupplung des zweiten Teils an den ersten Teil dem zweiten Teil ermöglicht, eine Drehung um sich selbst um eine Achse durchzuführen, die im Wesentlichen senkrecht zur Ebene der Rückenlehne des Sitzes ist.
  7. Fahrzeug nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Drehung des zweiten Teils im Verhältnis zum ersten Teil mittels eines Drehkranzes erfolgt.
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