MULTILANE WATERSLIDE WITH A COMMON SLIDING AREA
A waterslide is provided that is mainly used for the purpose of entertainment and sports and that offers a more than one lane sliding path to enable racing. The riding experience is through a vehicle such as a raft, tube or boat, which takes the rider in various directions in line with its route and enables the rider to experience a back and forth swing movement while ensuring a safe sliding experience.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field Of The Invention
The invention relates to slides providing opportunity for use with or without water and used for entertainment of people in parks.
The invention particularly relates to a cobra head snake waterslide that is used for the purpose of entertainment and that offers lanes to enable racing and takes the rider in various directions in line with its route to offer more entertainment with increased functions.
2. Description Of Related Art Including Information Disclosed Under 37 CFR 1.97 And 37 CFR 1.98.
The slides in playgrounds are manufactured in sizes specially designed for children. Thanks to developed technology and by use of this idea slides of bigger sizes for both adults and children have been manufactured. Then slides of big sizes have been moved from sandy playgrounds to waterparks. Then the sliding made for both entertainment and sports has been provided with falling of riders into pool and thus has been combined with swimming.
As seen, there are sliding embodiments offering use with or without water in sandy playgrounds or waterparks in the related art. Regarding the states of arts existing in the literature the: following can be given as example.
One of them is the patent publication numbered U.S. Pat. No. 4,196,900. The said patent discloses improvements made on supports containing elbows reducing the costs of support feet carrying more slides.
Another example is the patent publication numbered GB 2224948. The said patent discloses a sliding allowing free fall of the rider which comprises one person entrance part and exit part on the bowl. However, as far it is understood from the figures and abstract part of the patent, more than one person cannot slide and the exit point of the bowl is opening to a pool. The bowl part of the sliding covers the pool completely. Such types of slides do not allow sliding and racing of more than one person at the same time. Moreover, since the bowl covers the pool completely, the outdoor pool becomes an indoor pool.
The water slides provided in the parks having pools allow sliding of more than one person at the same time by means of riding a boat or without riding a boat because of its wide surface. The structure of such slides is changed by means of various members of various forms. However, the spiral water slides embodied in a manner allowing same distance where more than one rider slides separately without going into the lane of others and thus can race have not been seen. In addition, additional embodiments wherein the slope is decreased at the end of the lane and the race can continue with direction of the water have not been seen.
Furthermore, the riders to slide have to wait in queue until completion of ride of the person before them. This waiting continues until the sliding lane is free so as to not damage the rider in the front. In this case, the fact that the length of the slide is long makes the waiting time longer.
As a result, the said disadvantages regarding the existing embodiments have made necessary to make a development in the related art.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONFrom the status of the related art, the purpose of the invention is to enable the riders to slide at equal distances and thus race as it comprises at least two sliding lanes of equal distance in sliding part developed to enable riders to experience more action and excitement and to race in the slides in waterparks.
A similar purpose of the invention is to provide several forward and backward swinging on the wide area by means of directing the rider usually on a boat in the water flowing direction as it comprises an area of less slope and wide plane in the form of a bowl-like structure starting from end of lane sliding part.
Another purpose of the invention is to encourage the riders to race and have entertainment by help of cobra snake form of the water sliding.
A further purpose of the invention is to prevent passing into the lane of other rider by a rider by help of a separator extension extending from middle section of the lane sliding part. Accordingly, passing into the lane of other rider by a rider is prevented by help of a separator extension extending from middle section of the wide surface of sliding area.
In order to achieve the above mentioned purposes, the invention is a slide enabling riders to race by sliding with or without water on raft or inflatable boats and it is characterized in that it comprises at least two sliding lanes, at least one separator extension located between the said sliding lanes in a certain manner and a height preventing passing of the rider to other lane, separate sliding start parts where the said sliding lanes start, and that the said sliding lanes are open type sliding continuing with each other and/or closed type sliding.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the invention is a sliding offering racing with or without water and it is characterized in that it comprises descending parts starting to get wider from end of sliding lanes, middle part having wider surface area than the said descending part and almost parallel to ground and elevating part of slope elevating after the said middle part and of surface area narrowing down.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the invention is a sliding enabling riders to race with or without water and it is characterized in that the complete structure of the said slide in the form of cobra comprises sliding lanes in the shape of snake tail providing sliding and acceleration of the rider/riders from a certain height, wide surface sliding area in the shape of snake neck connected to the said sliding lane from the end and decreasing the speed of the rider/riders and allowing forward and backward swinging and exit/returning part of the slide in the shape of snake head connected from the end of the wide surface sliding preventing the rider/riders falling by influence of speed and moment without stopping.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the said tail part of the snake comprises at least two sliding lanes of equal distance combined to each other side by side or separating from each other at a point and re-combining at a point.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, it comprises separator extension between the said sliding lanes in order to prevent passing to other lane dining racing.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the said snake tail part comprises at least one or at least two lane sliding area of the said sliding lanes.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the said snake tail part comprises slowing counter flow nozzle to slow down the speed of the riders.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the top of the sliding lanes making the said lane sliding part is open type slide and/or closed type slide.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the said top part open type slide comprises wall of external side parts for security purposes.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the said wide surface sliding area comprises descending part starting to get wider from end of the sliding lanes, middle part having wider surface area than the said descending part and close to parallel to the ground, and elevating part of the slope elevating after the said middle part and having surface area getting narrower.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the wide surface sliding area where the said separator extension of the lane sliding part continues also comprises separator extension.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the said slide comprises next sliding lane in a manner the said slide continues after the wide surface sliding area.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the said slide comprises at least two exit lanes providing exit from the slide on the said wide surface sliding area.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the said slide comprises at least two exit stairs providing exit from the slide on the said wide surface sliding area.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the said slide comprises cage system or flat structured carrying feet located at a certain height from ground to carry the said snake head, neck and tail parts the slide.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the said exit/returning part of the slide comprises lights, fog and visually structured effects part to add more entertainment and excitement to the sliding sport.
The structural and characteristics features of the invention and all advantages will be understood better in detailed descriptions with the figures given below and with reference to the figures, and therefore, the assessment should be made taking into account the said figures and detailed explanations.
In order to make the embodiment and additional members being subject of the present invention as well as the advantages clearer for better understanding, it should be assessed with reference to the following described figures.
1. Lane sliding part
11. Starting part of the slide
12. Turnstile
13. Slowing down counter flow nozzle
14-1. First sliding lane
14-2. Second sliding lane
14-3. Separator extension
14-4. Wall
15-1. Open type sliding/cross-section
15-2. Close type sliding/cross-section
2. Wide surface sliding area
21. Descending part
22. Middle part
22-1. Open type middle pan/cross-section
23. Elevating part
24. Separator extension
25. Exit stair
26. Water discharge grid
3. Exit/returning part of the slide
31. Effect part
32. Next sliding lane
33. Exit lane
4. Carrier Feet
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTIONIn this detailed description, the preferred embodiments of the water sliding consisting of lane sliding part (1), wide surface sliding area (2) and exit-turning parts of the slide (3) being subject of the invention have been described in a manner not forming any restrictive effect and only for purpose of better understanding of the matter.
As it can be seen from
As it can be seen from
Thus one close (15.2) and one open (15.1) type sliding have been provided along lane sliding part (1). In an alternative embodiment of the invention completely close type sliding (15.2) or completely open type sliding (15.1) can be provided along lane sliding part (1).
The water sliding of cobra snake shape being subject of the invention is erected on carrier feet (4) connected from required areas from bottom. The said lane sliding part (1) is erected on carrier feet (4) of cage system type according to the area where it will be preferably used.
In the light of the figures, the detailed description of the invention is as follows. As known, preferably stairs (not shown in the figure) are used to go to start point of the sliding to start from a certain height. In this respect, the water sliding of the invention starts with a starting part of the slide (11). Main water inlet (not shown in the figure) providing water to the slide that is used for sliding is located on the starting part of the slide (11).
The riders go into the starting part of the slide (1). The riders sit on equipment such as preferably inflatable boat called boat or raft and start sliding on the water. The rider slides into the sliding from the turnstile (12) of decreasing slope and spiral from downward and along the sliding orbit.
However, in an alternative embodiment of the invention, the sliding may not contain any spiral orbited turnstile (12), instead of the said spiral turnstile (12) can be in form of smooth road fully in slope decreasing downward. In another alternative embodiment of the invention, the sliding lanes (14.1, 14.2) can be adjacent side by side and also separated from a point and re-combine at another point.
As also mentioned above, the sliding of the invention comprises two sliding lanes (14.1, 14.2) preferably side by side. Each lane (14.1, 14.2) is designed in a manner allowing use of it with inflatable boats capable to carry two riders at the same time. And this means that totally four riders can slide in the sliding with two sliding lanes (14.1, 14.2) at the same time. In addition, although the said two sliding lanes (14.1, 14.2) contain turnstile areas (12) for allowing racing, they are of equal distance. Thus the riders will also be able to race while sliding on the slide.
The turnstile (12) of the sliding can be made in the form of open type sliding (15.1 ) or close type sliding (15.2) or as shown in
The riders continue to slide downward after passing the turnstiles (12). The riders are slowed down by counter flow nozzles (13) before reaching descending part (21) located in start of wide surface sliding area (2). Thus, they enter the wide surface sliding area (2) in a secure manner and at low speed, which provides extra safety. Each sliding lane (14.1, 14.2) has been designed in a manner containing slowing down counter flow nozzle (13). The flow rate of the water supplied from the said slowing down counter flow nozzle (13) is equal at both sliding lanes (14.1, 14.2). Thus fair racing conditions are ensured.
After the riders are slowed down by the said slowing down counter flow nozzles (13), they enter in the constantly decreasing slope descending part (21) of the wide surface sliding area (2) at decreased speed. However, they continue to slide on the wide surface sliding area (2) under the effect of pushing forces created by kinetic energy and momentum gained. They can pass from descending part (21) to middle part (22) from middle part (22) to elevating part (23) by effect of this speed.
As mentioned, the wide surface sliding area (2) comprises descending part (21), middle part (22) and elevating part (23). The riders make forward, backward, swinging in wide surface sliding area (2) as shown in
The wide surface sliding area (2) can be used jointly by the riders (up to 4 riders) sliding in both sliding lanes (14.1, 14.2) just as it is for lane sliding part (1). Since there is a separator extension (24) separating the areas where both sliding lanes (14.1, 14.2) end, it is possible. The race also continues in this part. The swinging length decreases upon decrease of speed. The riders whose speed has lost leave from exit stairs (25) located on both side edges of the middle part (22) and thus complete the entertainment and race.
However, in an alternative embodiment as seen in
In an alternative embodiment of the invention as it can be seen in
In an alternative embodiment of the invention, various effects such as smoke effect, light effect other than the effect part (31) can also be used at the desired parts on the sliding.
In an alternative embodiment of the invention, the sliding can be ended with a cobra head like close ending part as well as ended with a separate sliding to be added to the said wide surface sliding area (2) (see
In preferred embodiments of the invention, sliding apparatus providing sliding by wheels or sledge like slide members on dry surface can be used instead of inflatable boat moving on water so as to be convenient for use without water.
Claims
1. A slide allowing sliding with or without water by raft or inflatable boats and allowing racing, and it is characterized in that it comprises at least two sliding lanes, at least one separator extension located between the said sliding lanes visible and at a height preventing passing of the riders to opposite side.
2. A slide according to claim 1 and it is characterized in that it comprises separate starting parts of the slide where the said sliding lanes start.
3. A slide according to claim 1 and it is characterized in that the said sliding lanes are open type sliding and/or close type sliding continuing together.
4. A slide according to claim 1 and it is characterised in that it comprises at least one turnstile along the said sliding lanes.
5. A slide according to claim 1 characterized in that the said sliding lanes and the sliding lanes of the turnstile are of equal distance.
6. A slide according to claim 1 and it is characterized in that the said top open type sliding parts on the said sliding lanes comprises walls of certain height on both external side edges.
7. A slide according to claim 1 and it is characterized in that it comprises at least one slowing down counter flow nozzle in each sliding lane providing opposite direction flowing of water in order to decrease the speed towards end of the said sliding lanes.
8. A slide offering racing with or without water and it is characterized in that it comprises a descending part starting to get wider from end of sliding lanes, a middle part which has a wider surface area than the said descending part and almost parallel to the ground, an elevating part of slope elevating after the said middle part and of a surface area narrowing down.
9. A slide according to claim 8 and it is characterized in that the height of the ending point of the said elevating part from ground is at a lower level than the start point of the descending part.
10. A slide according to claim 8 and it is characterized in that the said descending part, middle part and elevating part contain a separator extension in a continuing manner to prevent passing of the riders to opposite side.
11. A slide allowing racing and sliding with or without water and it is characterized in that the complete structure of the said slide in the form like a cobra snake comprises:
- a lane sliding part in the shape of the snake tail part providing rider/riders to speed up after a certain height through sliding,
- a wide surface sliding area in the shape of snake neck part connected to the said lane sliding part from the end and decreasing the speed of the rider/riders and allowing forward and backward swinging,
- an exit/returning part of the slide in the shape of snake head part connected to the said wide surface sliding part from the end and reaching the rider/riders by influence of speed and turning back from here.
12. A slide according to claim 11 and it is characterized in that the said lane sliding part comprises at least two sliding lanes combined to each other side by side or separating from each other at a point and re-combining at a point.
13. A slide according to claim 12 and it is characterized in that it comprises separator extension between the said sliding lanes in order to prevent passing during racing.
14. A slide according to claim 1 and it is characterized in that at least one or at least two of the said sliding lanes of the said lane sliding part comprises turnstile.
15. A slide according to claim 11 and it is characterized in that the said lane sliding part comprises a slowing down counter flow nozzle in order to slow down the speed of the riders.
16. A slide according to claim 11 and it is characterized in that the said sliding lanes forming the said lane sliding part are top open type sliding and/or close type sliding.
17. A slide according to claim 11 and it is characterized in that the said top open type sliding contains a wall of external side parts for security purposes.
18. A slide according to claim 11 and it is characterized in that the said wide surface sliding area comprises a descending part starting to get wider from the end of sliding lanes middle part having wider surface area than the said descending part and almost parallel to ground and elevating part of a slope elevating after the said middle part and of a surface area narrowing down.
19. A slide according to claim 13 and it is characterized in that also the snake neck part comprises a separator extension so that the said separator extension continues.
20. A slide according to claim 18 and it is characterized in that the said slide comprises next sliding lane in a manner continuing after top part of the wide surface sliding area.
21. A slide according to claim 18 and it is characterized in that the said wide surface sliding area comprises at least one exit lane providing exit after sliding.
22. A slide according to claim 18 and it is characterized in that the said wide surface sliding area comprises at least one exit stair providing exit.
23. A slide according to claim 11 and it is characterized in that the said slide comprises a cage system or flat structured carrying feet located at certain height from ground to carry the said snake head, neck and tail parts of the slide.
24. A slide according to claim 11 and it is characterized in that the said exit/returning part of the slide comprises lights, fog and visually structured effects part.
Type: Application
Filed: Mar 23, 2010
Publication Date: Jul 18, 2013
Applicant: POLIN SU PARKLARI VE HAVUZ SISTEMLERI ANONIM SIRKETI (Kocaeli)
Inventor: Ugur Degirmenci (Kocaeli)
Application Number: 13/583,347