Title: Passenger powered rotating amusement ride

Abstract: A passenger carrying cage pivotally mounted at one end of a movable support structure is rotatable completely about an elevated horizontal shaft. The passenger cage is stabilized by a positive mechanical connection between the cage and the shaft so as to maintain the same cage attitude relative to the ground in any of its rotatable positions about the shaft. The rotation is made possible by power supplied from within the passenger carrying cage by the passengers themselves reciprocating a lever whose reciprocation is transmitted by another positive mechanical connection between the cage and the horizontal shaft.

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Inventors: Bacon, Karl W. (Mountain View, CA, US)

Application Number: 623146
Filing Date: 1975-10-16
Publication_date: 1976-08-03
Assignee: Arrow Development Co., Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Primary Class(es): 472/16 472/22
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1139232	May, 1915	Schwarz	272/33.
1557942	Oct, 1925	Matthews	272/33.
1867996	Jul, 1932	Baer	272/49.
1935558	Nov, 1933	Haskell	272/33.
2403593	Jul, 1946	Franklin	272/33.

Other Refs: 215,408409,620492,135

Oct, 1909	DD
May, 1934	UK
Sep, 1938	UK

Primary Examiner: Pinkham, Richard C.
Assistant Examiner: Kramer, Arnold W.
Attorney: Limbach, Limbach & Sutton