Swing Car Drive Patents (Class 104/81)
  • Patent number: 4831937
    Abstract: An amusement ride device comprises a track composed of a pair of parallel rails and having a central axis extending between the rails, and a car adapted to travel along the track. The car includes a car body, a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels adapted to be rotated in contact with the rails, thereby allowing the car body to travel along the rails, a swinging frame, having the rear wheels rotatably supported on each end thereof and extending substantially at right angles to the advancing direction of the car, and a bogie shaft attached to the car body so as to extend in the advancing direction of the car and pivotally supporting the swinging frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Togo Japan Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuo Yamada