BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to a roller coaster based on wheeled containers moving inside of tubes.

PRIOR ART

The classic roller coaster is based on carriages moving on rails in open air. Their main disadvantage is the fact that time and again they generate serious accidents involving death of the passengers. It is the object of this invention to provide a roller coaster or/and tubular passenger transport with a high degree of safety eliminating the possibility of endangering human lives, solving forever the problem of accidents and expanding the kinetic sensations associated with such rides.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The proposed tubular roller coaster eliminates the above disadvantage by the fact that involves: a tubular guideway, wheeled vehicles able to roll/move inside of this guideway, propulsion units based on fans, blowers, compressors and introducing/launching facilities for the wheeled vehicles in the tubular guideway, the propulsion system could be either based on flap valves and booster relay system or could be based on forced injection system where the containers are pushed inside the tube and then taken by the pneumatic propulsion; the essence of the invention is the fact that the roller coaster route, usually a spiralled up and down track, is made of a tube and the vehicle is a wheeled capsule containing people.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

The above will be better understood by reading the following detailed description in conjunction with the attached drawing in which FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the tubular roller coaster.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

In FIG. 1 is shown a tubular roller coaster, this being characterized by the fact that has: a tubular route 1 usually in form of a roller coaster route involving spiralling and ups and downs, this tubular route being possible to be made of transparent, partial transparent or opaque material or combination of these, at the beginning 2 of the roller coaster called the launching point being an injection mechanism 3 with a chain 4 which is introducing the containers into the tube, also at the beginning of the roller coaster being also a blower 5 which propels the wheeled containers/capsules 6 along the tubular route 1, these wheeled containers having accommodations/seats for passengers/riders and appropriate rollers 7 for rolling inside of the tube, preferably multiple rollers to be able to cope with spiralling/up and down evolutions in the roller coaster, these rollers being organized preferably in two rotary clusters--one in front 8 and one in the back 9, the said seats being able to maintain the vertical cruise position by appropriate shafts/articulations, in fact this kind of roller arrangement being known in the art of tubular transports. The way of operation of the above described tubular roller coaster is as follows: the wheeled capsules 10 with people inside comes over the chain 4 which pushes them inside of the tube 1 where the propulsion unit 5 is taking them pushing them by the force of compressed air along the tube, forcing them to roll & guide freely on the tubular guideway 1.