Patents by Inventor Walter Bolliger

Walter Bolliger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7430966
    Abstract: A roller coaster installation comprising a stretch of water, along which runs a train of vehicles (104) provided laterally with hydrodynamic brakes comprising a fin (102) or a nozzle, becoming immersed in the mass of water (A) and discharging this in the form of rising sprays (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
    Inventors: Claude Mabillard, Walter Bolliger
  • Publication number: 20050211511
    Abstract: A roller coaster installation comprising a stretch of water, along which runs a train of vehicles (104) provided laterally with hydrodynamic brakes comprising a fin (102) or a nozzle, becoming immersed in the mass of water (A) and discharging this in the form of rising sprays (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Claude Mabillard, Walter Bolliger
  • Patent number: 6494675
    Abstract: Self-supporting wear rings (1a, 1b) for fluid flow machines are arranged at a radial sealing gap (18) to a rotor (9), and have an outer jacket surface (3) provided with a wear surface (2). The wear rings (1a, 1b), which are fixed in the axial direction, consist of a material with lower thermal expansion coefficients than their support and lie hollowly on their inner jacket surface, with a first conical holder surface (8) encountering with the apex of its cone a second holder surface (8″), which is designed as a straight shoulder, in the plane of the latter (19) on the axis of rotation or encountering a second holder surface, which is designed as a conical holder surface (8′), at its cone apex on the axis of rotation (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Sulzer Pumpen AG
    Inventors: Tomas Pesek, Walter Bolliger
  • Patent number: 6352034
    Abstract: The installation for amusement park, referred to as roller coaster, comprises a circuit made up of rails (6), mounted on supports (10), themselves fixed on a carrier beam (11), on which one or more vehicles run, designed to run on the rails, as opposed to a suspended roller coaster, and at least one station for the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers. Each vehicle comprises a main beam (1), at least one transverse chassis element (2) on which are mounted, on the one hand, wheels (3, 4, 5) interacting with the rails (6), and, on the other hand, seats (7) provided with retention means (8). The station, which comprises at least one platform (12) likewise comprises a fold-away floor (14), which replaces the floor, absent of the vehicle, when the vehicle is stopped in a predetermined position for embarkation and disembarkation. Due to this, the vehicle may be designed without any floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
    Inventors: Walter Bolliger, Claude Mabillard
  • Patent number: 6287211
    Abstract: The installation for amusement park, comprises at least one vehicle designed in such a way as to be able to accommodate at least one passenger in at least one seat, associated with at least one retention device. The retention device comprises a pivoting bar mounted on a retention element intended to retain the passenger in the seat. The retention element features a complex spatial shape, of which the lower part, intended to come in contact with the passenger's thighs, comprises for this purpose two recesses forming a hollow corresponding approximately to the size of the passenger's thighs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
    Inventors: Walter Bolliger, Claude Mabillard
  • Publication number: 20010007632
    Abstract: Shown with the invention are self-supporting wear rings (1a, 1b) for flow machines with a fluid, which are arranged at a radial sealing gap (18) to a rotor (9), and of which the outer jacket surface (3) is provided with a wear surface (2). The wear rings (1a, 1b), which are fixed in the axial direction, consist of a material with lower thermal expansion coefficients than their support and lie hollowly on their inner jacket surface, with a first conical holder surface (8) encountering with the apex of its cone a second holder surface (8″), which is designed as straight shoulder, in the plane of the latter (19) on the axis of rotation or encountering a second holder surface, which is designed as a conical holder surface (8′), at its cone apex on the axis of rotation (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Publication date: July 12, 2001
    Applicant: Sulzer Pumpen AG
    Inventors: Tomas Pesek, Walter Bolliger
  • Patent number: 5272984
    Abstract: The amusement ride comprises at least one seat suspended on a bogie moving along at least one rail. The seat is provided with a harness for the restraint of at least one passenger in the seat. The seat-harness unit is shaped so as to form a restraint imprisoning the passenger's body when the harness is in the closed position, each of the passenger's four limbs emerging from said restraint through a separate opening, so that the passenger is suspended with his legs in mid-air without a wall or a floor around him.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
    Inventors: Walter Bolliger, Claude Mabillard