The Walt Disney Company

Walt Disney Productions

Gregory S Kadorian

David L Harbaugh

Richard J Fox

James E Poole

Douglas R LeBlanc

Maurice G Leasure

Donald A Hoffend, Jr

David W Spencer

A method and system is provided for moving passengers in and out of an amusement ride of the type having a passenger cabin capable of movement in multiple degrees of freedom within an enclosure. The cabin includes ingress doors on one side of the cabin and egress doors on the other side to admit and discharge passengers from seats within the cabin. Another set of ingress and egress doors are provided on opposite sides of the enclosure in respective alignment with the ingress and egress doors of the cabin when the cabin is at rest in a loading position. A plurality of ingress and egress platforms, located outside the operating envelope of the cabin when the cabin is in motion, are adapted to be moved to a deployed position when the cabin is in the loading position to connect the ingress and egress doors of the enclosure with the ingress and egress doors of the cabin. In this way, movement of passengers in and out of the cabin, which is spaced from the enclosure, is provided in a rapid and orderly fashion. Control means in the form of a computer also are included for controlling and coordinating the various movements of the doors, platforms and cabin. Restraints in the passenger seats also can be controlled by the computer so that the amusement ride cannot begin until the restraints in each occupied seat are fastened.

System and method of providing passenger ingress and egress in an

Amusement ride having pivotable ingress-egress bridges

A method and system is provided for moving passengers in and out of an amusement ride of the type having a passenger cabin capable of movement in multiple degrees of freedom within an enclosure. The cabin includes ingrees doors on one side of the cabin and egress doors on the other side to admit and discharge passengers from seats within the cabin. Another set of ingress and egress doors are provided on opposite sides of the enclosure in respective alignment with the ingress and egress doors of the cabin when the cabin is at rest in a loading position. A plurality of ingress and egress platforms, located outside the operating envelope of the cabin when the cabin is in motion, are adapted to be moved to a deployed position when the cabin is in the loading position to connect the ingress and egress doors of the enclosure with the ingress and egress doors of the cabin. In this way, movement of passengers in and out of the cabin, which is spaced from the enclosure, is provided in a rapid and orderly fashion. A control element in the form of a computer also are included for controlling and coordinating the various movements of the doors, platforms and cabin. Restraints in the passenger seats also can be controlled by the computer so that the amusement ride cannot begin until the restraints in each occupied seat are fastened.

A method and apparatus for regulating the speed of a multitrack audiotape machine while recording audio from a multitrack audiotape onto a videotape. The speed of the audiotape machine is regulated by correlating a video synchronization signal previously recorded onto the audiotape with a video synchronization signal controlling the videotape recorder during the recording. Highly accurate synchronization between the two machines is achieved. This allows for the transfer of multiple audio tracks from the multitrack audiotape onto the videotape and then onto multiple laser videodiscs, such that during playback of the multiple laser videodiscs, the laser videodisc players can be synchronized with each other.

System for synchronizing audiotape and videotape machines

Growing community of inventors

Simi Valley, CA, United States of America

Gregory S Kadorian