US759053A - Carriage for roller-coasters. - Google Patents

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llNiT-ED STATES awaited May 3, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CARRIAGE FOR ROLLER-COASTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,053, dated May 3, 1904. Application iiled December 26, 1903. Serial No. 186,670. (No model.)

To rt/, whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, Oris RUGGLES WHITTE- MORE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Arlington, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new Carriage Jfor Roller-Coasters, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to a new kind of carriage for a roller-coaster, the object of my invention being to secure the new and novel carriage illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a perspective View 0i" the entire contrivance, and Fig. 2 across-section in the vertical plane running through the axle of the carriage.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the two gures.

The contrivanee consists of a drum-shaped skeleton of steel, (or other suitable materiah) around the outside and midway between the two sides of which is a grooved guide A, the whole being a peculiar-shaped wheel adapted to run upon a single round-top track B. Within the drum is a freelyehanging car C, sus- 25 pended from the axle D ot the wheel. At the extremities of this axle are two freely-moving flanged wheels E, which run upon elevated rails F on either side, keeping the carriage upright when running straight away and con- 30 pended within, the position of the carriage, 40

as a whole, being controlled by suitable guiderails at the sides, all substantially as set forth.

-OTIS RUGGLES WHITTEMORE. Witnesses:

B. ARTHUR WHITTEMORE, MARTHA E. VVHITTEMORE.

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