Abstract: A transport system according to the invention comprises a guide device having a first guide rail in the form of a first pipe (11) and a second guide rail in the form of a second pipe (12). The transport system comprises a toothed driving disk (330), which is engaged with an engagement element (340) extending along the lower pipe (12) and forms a positive drive. The engagement element (340) comprises counter-toothing, disposed along the pipe (12).

Abstract: A ride in particular for amusement parks, comprising: a drive track, comprising a guide device (3) for guiding at least one vehicle (2) along said guide device (3) in a movement direction (v); at least one vehicle (2), comprising a normal vector (n), fixated relative to the vehicle (2) and oriented perpendicular to the movement direction (v); and a drive pattern (1), comprising at least a first track section (5, 6), comprising an incline/decline, and a second track section (8, 9), comprising an incline/decline, comprising a prefix, which is inverse to the prefix of the incline/decline of the first track section (6, 7), wherein the first track section (6, 7) and the second track section (8, 9) are connected amongst one another, forming at least a partial section of a loop, wherein the guide device (3) is configured, so that the normal vector (n) in the first track section (6, 7) is rotated from an orientation to the outside or to the inside with reference to the loop at the entry into the first track section (

Abstract: A security arrangement for passengers in transport systems and fun-rides, more particularly amusement devices such as roller coasters or the like, comprising a holding means (3), with the aid of which the passenger to be secured is prevented from leaving a secured ride position, more particularly a seat (2), the holding means being able to assume at least one open and a plurality of securing positions, the different securing positions of the holding means being associated with at least two secured position ranges, which are detected by a signal producing means (7, 9 and 10) associated with the holding means (3).

Abstract: A retaining system for amusement rides, more particularly roller coasters, carrousels or the like has a chair member for a passenger to sit on and which comprises a seat and a back rest and furthermore a retaining device with at least one locking part able to be moved between at least one getting on position and at least one retaining position, the retaining device possessing an essentially U-like retaining part, which at least to a major extent surrounds the pelvic region of the passenger to be secured, the retaining part being inclined in an anthropometrically optimized plane, which is inclined in a range of 30° to 60°, more particularly 40° to 50°, preferably approximately 45° to the horizontal and/or the seat.

Abstract: A ride comprises two rails 4a, 4b, which extend in parallel at least in a certain section, on which rails respective vehicles 2a or 2b move. The rail 4a comprises a reversal section 3, in which the rail 4a is wound, so that a vehicle 2a driving through the reversal section 3 is rotated into an overhead position. The first rail 4a extends in the inversion portion above the second rail 4b so that the heads of the passengers received in the vehicles 2a and 2b point towards each other in this section. At least the first car 2a runs through an acceleration track B in overhead position, wherein a launch drive disposed in the acceleration track increases the velocity of the first vehicle 2a.

Abstract: A fun-ride more particularly for amusement parks, fairs and the like comprises at least one rail vehicle 1 and a guide lap for the vehicle 1. In a lateral projection a lap section 2 of the guide lap essentially constitutes a loop, the lap section 2 comprising a first uphill section 3 and a second downhill section 4 and the top ends of the sections are connected together. At least in the uphill section 3 the means 5 for engagement with the vehicle 1 is arranged. This means may for example be a holding brake or a coupling device. It is preferably operated when the vehicle 1 comes to a halt after a downward movement owing to the action of gravity on the vehicle 1.

Abstract: A security arrangement for passengers in transport systems and fun-rides, more particularly amusement devices such as roller coasters or the like, comprising a holding means (3), with the aid of which the passenger to be secured is prevented from leaving a secured ride position, more particularly a seat (2), the holding means being able to assume at least one open and a plurality of securing positions, the different securing positions of the holding means being associated with at least two secured position ranges, which are detected by a signal producing means (7, 9 and 10) associated with the holding means (3).

Abstract: A fun-ride more particularly for amusement parks, fairs and the like comprises at least one rail vehicle 1 and a guide lap for the vehicle 1. In a lateral projection a lap section 2 of the guide lap essentially constitutes a loop, the lap section 2 comprising a first uphill section 3 and a second downhill section 4 and the top ends of the sections are connected together. At least in the uphill section 3 the means 5 for engagement with the vehicle 1 is arranged. This means may for example be a holding brake or a coupling device. It is preferably operated when the vehicle 1 comes to a halt after a downward movement owing to the action of gravity on the vehicle 1.

Abstract: A bridging device for joint gaps (1) between building parts (2, 3) including bridge parts, with an expansion joint construction (4) bridging a joint gap (1). The expansion joint construction (4) permits position changes of the building parts (2, 3) with respect to one another. A safety construction (12, 15) is provided which permits a position change of the building parts (2, 3) with respect to one another without a separation destroying the function of the bridging device. The safety construction (12, 15) comprises at least two mutually firmly connected elements which upon exceeding of a defined threshold load are separated and movable with respect to one another. One element is firmly arranged on one of the building parts (2, 3) and the other element is part of the expansion joint construction (4) or receives the latter. The two connected element are defined by a rail (24)and a slide (25).

Abstract: An amusement apparatus and more particularly a roller-coaster has a more particularly closed travel path (1) which comprises guide means for guiding and/or holding a vehicle (11) on the travel path, the vehicle (11) and the travel path (1) being so adapted to each other that the passengers are aligned essentially perpendicularly to the travel path during travel and in the travel path a climb section (2) is provided, in which the travel path rises and at its top end (5) is so curved that the vehicle leaves the climb section (2) upside down and the vehicle is conveyed by a conveying means provided on the travel path, the climb section (2) extending at least partly essentially vertically or vertically with an overhang, the conveying means being so designed that the speed of the vehicle is able to be controlled at any time during said climb and/or the upside down exit has a radius of curvature of ?7 m, more particularly ?5 m and even more selectively ?3 m.

Abstract: A force absorption device is proposed which serves for receiving and diverting forces in bridge constructions in particular. Said device includes a housing (2) with at least one hydraulic liquid chamber (5). In said hydraulic liquid chamber (5) a movable hydraulic piston (3) is supported which is guided by a piston rod (4). In this manner forces acting on said hydraulic piston (3) are transmitted to said hydraulic liquid. In addition at least one compensation chamber (11) connected to said hydraulic liquid chamber (5) and filled with hydraulic liquid is provided for, which chamber can be changed in its volume in dependence on the density of said hydraulic liquid. Therein, said piston rod (4) at least partly is build in hollow shape for forming said compensation chamber (11) in the interior of said housing (2) and/or in said piston rod (4).

Abstract: A vehicle, a vehicle for a fairground ride in particular, with an undercarriage (3) guided in a track (8) and a top carriage (2) arranged on said undercarriage (3) and rotatable with respect thereto, a damping device (9) for damping the relative movement between the top carriage and the undercarriage is provided for, is characterized in that said damping device (9) is constructed as centrifugal brake and/or a locking and/or alignment system (10, 11) controlled by said track (8) is provided for, which blocks or permits rotations of said top carriage (2) in relation to said undercarriage and/or aligns said top carriage (2) with respect to said undercarriage (1).

Abstract: A system for accommodation, temporary storage and delivery of movable objects, pilotless, movable vehicles in particular, includes a tender (5) supported rotatably about a central axis, by which tender the vehicles are taken over from at least one entry platform (E) and are placed on a free one out of a plurality of platforms (3) or again are picked up therefrom and are handed over to an exit platform (A). The tender (5) therein includes at least two carrier arms (6) one of which being correlated to an entry platform (E) in entry and exit position of the tender and one carrier arm being correlated to an exit platform (A). Depending on the local situation the entry and exit platforms (E, A) can be embodied and arranged differently. They can also be formed as combined entry/exit platforms (E/A) for permitting adaption to varying demands.

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is a system for temporary storage and output of pilotless, movable vehicles in a parking garage as well as for transferring the pilotless vehicles froma transport platform 3 to a parking place and vice versa, including a means for lifting the vehicles, for moving them in the lifted position and for putting them down in another position. Carrier arms 13, 14, 15, 16 perpendicularly extending until into the area of the vehicle wheels are arranged on a longitudinal carrier 17 movable under the vehicle in longitudinal direction, at least two of the carrier arms being pivotable from a position directed in direction of the longitudinal carrier into the rectangularly extended position in which they under pressure bear on the lower area of the vehicle wheel and lift it from the standing place.

Abstract: The width of a pot bearing seal (8) is restricted to a minimum in such manner that it seals off the gap (18) between the internal pot wall (16) of a bearing pot (2) and a bearing cap (4) of a pot bearing (14) while providing a minimum overlapping between the pot bearing seal (8) and the bearing cap (4), whereas the height of the pot bearing seal (8) is such that the cylindrical surfaces (22) of the pot bearing seal (8) abuts the internal pot wall (16) even when the bearing cap (4) is inclined with respect to the horizontal line. Hereby the wear of the pot bearing seal is considerably reduced.

Abstract: A device for use in expansion joints in ramps, bridges, sidewalks, floors of multi-story car parks and the like having at least one cellular sealing strip made of an elastic material which when installed is supported on two opposite sides of the expansion joint. The strip has a number of planar faces that are at all times alined in a single common plane to form the top side of the sealing strip in every working condition thereof. Thus the top side of the strip is always planar no matter to what extent it is compressed or stretched. The webs forming the walls of the cells converge or diverge in relation to each other.

Abstract: The arrangement for covering over a gap in a roadway has bars running across the roadway. The bars are supported by transverse beams spanning the gap obliquely and which are supported at their ends in joint gap edge structures in such a way that the ends of the beams are able to slide and swivel in relation to the edge structures. The bars are carried on the beams by friction-reducing bearing parts so that sliding of the bars is possible. The bars have openings through the structure thereof (as for example holes in the bar itself or in a frame fixed thereto) to take up the beams and the bearing parts are adapted to allow sliding without swiveling between each bearing part and the associated beam and to allow swiveling between the bearing part and a bar joined thereto. The bearings are made of elastically yielding material and each have at least one bearing body.