An interactive water attraction and system of game play is provided wherein the gaming is carried out within a pool, water park or water attraction. The game utilizes electronically identifiable objects, cards, bands, tags and/or the like, to provide an interactive game play experience generally simulative of a computer adventure game experience. Play participants are challenged to work and cooperate with other play participants to find identified objects, clues or other information and to use t...

An amusement ride for catapulting a human rider, enclosed within a capsule, into the air in much the same fashion as ancient armies would hurl large boulders over the walls of castles. The ride provides many of the sensations and thrills encountered by fighter pilots launching from the decks of aircraft carriers without the requirement for flight training or the associated dangers. The ride essentially consists of a siege type catapult and a releasably connected launch pod. When in the launch po...

An entertainment system comprises a housing, a first ejection mechanism in the housing for ejecting a first entertainment device from the housing, a second ejection mechanism in the housing for ejecting a second entertainment device from the housing, and a control unit operatively connected to the first ejection mechanism and the second ejection mechanism for sequencing the operation of the first ejection mechanism and the second ejection mechanism. Upon lapse of a predetermined interval after e...

A play enclosure for interchangeable use as an artwork center, paper cutting and coloring area, a sand and water play enclosure includes an open top, rectilinear, box-like structure having short side walls as compared with a length and a width of the rectilinear structure. A peripheral shelf slopes inwardly from peripheral top edges of all sides of the open top of the rectilinear structure. The top surface of the peripheral shelf is spaced from a bottom of the enclosure and has an inward extensi...

A vertical tower which participants ascend by means of an internal stairway. At the top of the tower there are several horizontal arms. Each participant walks through a horizontal arm to its open, outward end. The participant is then connected to a resilient band that is also attached to the horizontal arm. Subsequently, the participant leaps from the open, outward end and undergoes dampened vertical oscillations before being lowered to the surface of the earth. The stairway and multiple horizon...

A recreational device for producing the thrill of a series of consecutive free falls, which includes a housing, a shock absorbing cushion throughout the bottom of the housing, an inwardly extending peripheral deck near the top of the housing arranged to provide a launching platform for allowing persons to jump into the housing, and a plurality of horizontal planar non-woven nets of elastic bands arranged at different levels within the housing with each net spanning the whole horizontal cross-sec...

A children's amusement toy of a resilient base member removably supporting several resilient upstanding members is disclosed. The base member is of a length and width sufficient to permit several children to sumultaneously run and play thereon. The upstanding members, certain of which are at least twenty-four inches high, are mounted in supportive depressions in the base to provide spaced resilient obstacles and play toys for the amusement of children.

A recreational device for producing the thrill of a free fall on the users, which includes a housing, a shock absorbing cushion throughout the bottom of the housing, and an inwardly extending peripheral deck on the top of the housing. The deck has an area sufficient to accommodate a predetermined number of persons and arranged to provide a launching platform for allowing persons to jump into the housing. A plurality of elastic bands have their two opposite ends fixedly attached to the interior s...

A vertical wind tunnel flight simulator comprises a flight chamber wherein a flier may experience a freefall simulation. Airflow to support the flier is induced by fans connected above the flight chamber through a duct. A staging area having openings to the flight chamber is adjacent to the flight chamber. One or two return air ducts are used to return air from the fans outlet to the fans inlet. Opposed louvers are included on at least one duct segment thereby regulating the temperature via forc...

For operating pumps above the respective system resistance for all volume flows, for a spring-loaded, directly acting overflow valve for limiting the pressure in a system in which a liquid is lifted by a positive-displacement pump and flows through the system with varying rates of flow, the valve chamber (1) and the valve body (22) with the valve head (14) placed therein are constituted in such a way that the valve head, after lifting off from the valve seat (3), has a second active diameter whi...