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Title: Amusement ride
Claims: What is claimed is: 1. An amusement ride apparatus, comprising: a passenger-holding frame; image means including screen means viewable by passengers in said frame, and means forming a predetermined motion picture image viewable by looking at said screen means and representing the veiw from a moving vehicle; and drive means for selectively moving each of a plurality of spaced locations on said frame vertically to change the position of said passenger-holding frame in synchronism with changes in said image, in a manner that generates resulting physical forces on occupants of said frame simulating at least some of the forces that would be applied to them in actual motion of the frame of the type depicted by said image, said image means being constructed to move with said passenger-holding frame; said frame having a front portion nearest said screen means, a rear portion opposite said front portion, a pair of opposite sides, a centerline that lies halfway between said sides, and a vertical axis; and said drive means incuding three primarily vertical hydraulic rams, a first of said rams located at said front portion of said frame near said centerline, and a second and third of said rams being located at said rear portion of said frame on opposite sides of said centerline; each of said rams being tilted away from the vertical in the same direction rlative to outwardly and inwardly of the frame so that the upper ends of the rams are each spaced a predetermined distance from the vertical axis of the frame which is different than the spacing of the lower ends of the rams, from said axis, whereby each ram provides a small horizontal force to the frame which is always in the same direction. 2. The apparatus described in claim 1 wherein: the lower end of each of said rams is closer to said vertical axis than is the upper end of the corresponding ram. Other info: Inventors: Trumbull, Douglas (Santa Monica, CA, US) Application Number: 632222 Filing Date: 1975-11-17 Publication_date: 1978-01-03 Assignee: Future General Corporation (Los Angeles, CA); Standard Alliance Industries Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) Primary Class(es): 472/60 434/59 Other Classes: US Patent Ref:
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