Improvements in Roundabouts or Merrygorounds.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 27th May, 1889-Accepted, 29th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Roundabouts or Merrygorounds.
We JAMES PARKER, of 121 Lambert Street, and JOHN EDWARD COOPER of
70 Church Street, both in Hall, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention for Improvements in Roundabouts or Merrygorounds has for its
object to construct apparatus for recreation and amusement, and consists essentially in.
attaching a number of cars or vehicles surmounted by captive or dummy balloons to a
circular rotating platform, mounted on wheels, and running on a circular railway or
track, and in imparting to the said cars or vehicles in addition to the circular motion.
of the platform a vertical reciprocating motion, so that the resultant motion is of an
undulatory nature.
In carrying out this invention we employ a series of inflated or dummy balloons
and attach them to cars or vehicles suitably fitted for the accomodation of a number
of persons, and secure the whole to a circular platform carried upon wheels running in
a circular railway track.
This platform is rotated by means of an engine fixed in the centre of the apparatus,
or by any other suitable means.
The balloons with their cars attached have also imparted to them independently of
the circular motion of the rotating platform in a horizontal plane, a vertical recipro-
cating motion which, combined with the aforesaid horizontal motion gives to them a
resultant undulatory motion.
This vertical reciprocating motion we effect preferably by means of hydraulic rams
actuated by eccentrics, secured to the axles or shafts of the wheels carrying the
circular rotating platform. We may however replace the hydraulic rams by chains,
screws, toothed gearing, or any other suitable connections.
Dated this 97th day of Inl 1888
"
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
156, Strand, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Roundabouts or Merrygorounds.
We JAMES PARKER, of 121 Lambert Street, and JOHN EDWARD COOPER of
70 Church Street, both in Hull, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this in-
vention and, in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention for Improvements in Roundabouts or Merrygorounds has for its
object to construct apparatus for recreation and amusement, and consists essentially in
attaching a number of cars or vehicles surmounted by captive or dummy balloons to a
circular rotating platform mounted on wheels and running on a circular railway or
track, and in imparting to the said cars or vehicles in addition to the circular motion
of the platform a vertical reciprocating motion, so that the resultant motion is of an
undulatory nature.
In carrying out this invention we employ a series of inflated or dummy balloons
and attach them to cars or vehicles suitably fitted for the accomodation of a number
of persons and secure the whole to a circular platform carried upon wheels running in
a circular railway track.
This platform is rotated by means of an engine fixed in the centre of the apparatus
or by any other suitable means.

page_text: The balloons with their cars attached have also imparted to them independently of
the circular motion of the rotating platform in a horizontal plane, a vertical recipro-
cating motion which, combined with the aforesaid horizontal motion gives to them a
resultant undulatory motion.
This vertical reciprocating motion we effect preferably by means of hydraulic rams
actuated by eccentrics secured to the axles or shafts of the wheels carrying the circular
rotating platform. We may however replace the hydraulic rams by chains, screws,
toothed gearing or any other suitable connections.
In the accompanying two sheets of drawings
Fig. 1 represents an elevation of a roundabout constructed according to this
invention and
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of one member of the apparatus shewing the arrangement
of pumps and hydraulic ram for elevating the car and balloon.
A series of inflated or dummy balloons a are attached to cars or vehicles 6 suitably
fitted for the accomodation of a number of persons and the whole is secured to a
circular platform c running in a circular railway track d. The platform c is rotated
by means of the engine e fixed in the centre of the apparatus.
A vertical reciprocating motion is imparted to each balloon and car by means of a
hydraulic ram working in the cylinder g and secured to the casing a connecting the
balloon and car by the nut as shewn.
The hydraulic cylinder g is supplied with water at the requisite pressure by one or
more pumps m driven from an eccentric n mounted on the axle o of the carrying
wheels p running on the circular track d and supporting the balloon a and car b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The arrangement of dummy balloons attached to cars to which a vertical recipro-
cating motion is imparted and secured to a circular platform running on a circular
railway track substantially as described.
2. Imparting a vertical reciprocating motion to the balloons and cars simultaneously
with the rotary motion in a horizontal plane by means of hydraulic rams the pumps of
which are actuated from the axles of the platform carrying wheels substantially as
described.
3. The arrangement and construction of roundabouts or merrygorounds substantially
as described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 27th day of May 1889
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
156, Strand, Agents.