US1337820A - Amusement apparatus - Google Patents

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J. H. BUTCHER.

AMUSEMENT APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED JULY 14, I919.

Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

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JAMESI-I. BUTCIHISIR, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

Application filed July 14, 1919. Serial No. 310,531;

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J AMES H. BUTCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Amusement Apparatus, of which the following is a specifioation.

The obje t of the invention is to provide a novel amusement apparatus designed to embody the general principles of operation and movement of aeroplanes in the form of a merry-go-round or razzle-dazzle, the relations between parts being such as to provide for a relatively wide range of'modification in the plan and general form of the track or similar guiding means, so as to produce the variety necessary to render such devices interesting to the pleasure seeking public, and to this end the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that changes in form and proportion may be resorted to, within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the principles involved.

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Figure 1 is a plan view of the apparatus.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a detailed sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail section on the plane in dicated by the line ll ofFig. 1.

In the illustrated construction there is employed a track 10 of elliptical form disposed on an inclined plane, although it will be understood that both as to form and construction the track is susceptible to modification, supported by a frame work consisting for example of the uprights 11, base timbers 12 and braces 13, the latter being attached at their upper ends to a bearing collar 14 through which extends a vertical drive shaft 15 stepped as at 16 in a bearing block in the base of the frame. The rotary motion may be communicated to the drive shaft by means of an operating shaft 17 having bevel pinion 18 meshing with gear 19, and at its upper end the drive shaft carries the upper and lower spaced tables 20 and 21 with which are connected the inner ends of radial car supporting elements 22 and 23, the cars 24 preferably being constructed as shown to represent aeroplanes and being designed to follow orbital paths corresponding in plan and inclination'with and outside of the track 10. In the construction illustrated the car supporting elements consist of rods 01' bars of suilicient tensile and transverse strength to support the weight of the car and any reasonable load which may be imposed thereon, said rods being connected at their inner ends to the tables 20 and 21 by means of links 25 and 26 which are hinged to the tables and are adapted to swing outward at the ends connected with the rods as the cars follow the path defined by the track, the lower supporting elements having mounted thereon flange guide rolls 27 which traverse the track in orbital movements of the cars and preserve a uniform distance between the cars and the track. Obviously as the track recedes from the axis of movement or approaches the major diameter of the ellipse, when the track is of the form illustrated, the links swing outward to a position approaching or in alinement with the rods forming the body portions of the arms, and if, as indicated, the track is disposed on an inclination, the links are free to swing upward as the guide rolls traverse the elevated portion of the track as indicated in the side view in Fig. 2. The upper car supporting elements constitute braces offering a tensile resistance to the displacement of the cars while serving to steady the same while the lower supporting arms serve to maintain the cars in a substantially horizontal position.

In order that the propellers indicated at 27 may receive rotary movement in simulation of the propellers of aeroplanes, the spindles 28 thereof may be geared as at 29 to encounter shafts 30 having pinions 31 meshing with pinions 32 carried by the guide rolls 27, suitable supporting means being provided in connection with the rods 23 and the hubs of said rolls to maintain said gears in proper relation.

From the description it will be seen that in addition to the rotary and orbital movement of the cars around an axis rotated by the drive shaft, they will receive a down movement due to the modification in the altitude, and thus, supplemented by the rotation of the propellers will give to the occupants of the cars the general impression and sensation of aeroplane travel which 7 may be changed in its particular characteristics to render the movement of the cars more or less erratic merely by a modification in the disposition of shifting of the track which serves as the means for determining the path of movement of the tinuous elliptical track, a rotary shaft, cars having radial supporting elements connected at their inner ends with the shaft and provided at intermediate points with rolls traversing the track, the: car supporting 7 means being extensible to permit of the cars deseriblng an orbital path defined by the g g I r the latter are provided with rolls to traverse track. 7 7

2. An amusement device having a track, a central rotary shaft, the former being disposed at an inclination to the latter, cars having radial supporting elements provided at intermediate points with rolls to traverse the track, said supporting elements being connected at their inner ends with the shaft by means of links disposed in vertical 'which the latter is provided with rolls to traverse the track, upper and lower tables carried by the shaft and links connecting the inner ends of said upper and lower elements with said tables and. mounted to swing in vertical planes. I

at. An amusement device having vertical driving shaft and a continuous track, cars having supporting means each consisting of upper and lower radial members of which thetrack, upper and lower tablesf carried by the shaft, pivotal links connecting the upper and lower tables with said upper and lower members, propellers carried by the cars and connections between saidrolls and propellers. r

In testimony whereof I affix my si nature.

JAMES H. BUTC ER.

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