Patent ID: 7731595

Claim:
A waterslide amusement device for entertaining a first user and a second user consecutively, said device comprising: (a) a waterslide for supporting and directing a user; (b) a conveyor system coupled to the slide, the conveyor system having a first variable speed conveyor belt interfaced with the slide and extending therealong, the first conveyor belt having an entrance portion at an end thereof for receiving the first user onto the first conveyor belt and an exit portion at the opposite end thereof for discharge of the first user from the first conveyor belt; and (c) a first control system constructed and arranged to increase the speed of the first conveyor belt with the first user thereon from a starting or launch speed of substantially zero to a fast moving second speed as the first user travels from the entrance portion to the exit portion of the first conveyor belt, the control system being constructed and arranged to automatically return the first conveyor belt to a speed of substantially zero after the first user is discharged from the first conveyor belt so as to be in position for loading the second user on the entrance portion of the first conveyor belt followed by acceleration and discharge thereof.