Amusement ride system

Abstract

An amusement ride system includes a chair assembly within which an occupant is seated during the course of a ride and first, second and third upstanding towers fixedly secured to the ground in a spaced and triangular relationship. A first pair of bungee cords are joined to one side of the chair assembly and have ends which extend toward the upper portion of the first tower, and a second pair of bungee cords are joined to the opposite side of the chair assembly and have ends which extend toward the upper portion of the second tower, and a windable cable which is joined to each of the extending ends of the first and second pair of bungee cords for tensioning the bungee cords to a stretched condition. A pull cable is releasably joined to the back of the chair assembly for tensioning the pull cable by way of the upper portion of the third tower as the bungee cords are being pulled to the stretched condition so the chair assembly is lifted from the ground by the bungee cords and the pull cable to a position adjacent the upper portion of the third tower. By releasing the cable from the back of the chair assembly when the chair assembly is positioned adjacent the upper portion of the third tower as aforedescribed, the first and second pairs of bungee cords are permitted to throw the chair assembly along a substantially horizontal path extending from the third tower and between the first and second towers.