Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Barrier or major section mounted for in situ repositioning;...
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-02
2002-10-29
Callo, Laura A. (Department: 3635)
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Barrier or major section mounted for in situ repositioning;...
C052S079100, C052S079120
Reexamination Certificate
active
06470630
ABSTRACT:
This application is based on Patent Application No. 11-156360 (1999) filed on Jun. 3, 1999 in Japan, the content of which is incorporated hereinto by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an amusement facility to be provided within a building.
2. Description of the Related Art
In general, there have been known amusement facilities such as a theme park, an amusement park, a movie theater, a game arcade and so on. In recent years, a relatively large scale amusement facility is provided in one building.
Different from a game arcade, in which arcade game machines are mainly arranged, the amusement facility provided in one building includes amusement equipment on the basis of a particular concept similar to the theme park. For example, such an amusement facility is provided with playland like vehicle type amusement equipment running on rails, a floor or the like, amusement equipment projecting a three-dimensional video image, simulator equipment reproducing acceleration feeling, up-and-down feeling of vehicles, such as a roller coaster, an air plain or the like by moving a seat or the like or a movie theater with satisfactory acoustic equipment, projection equipment and interior design and so on. Normally, the amusement facility is collectively provided with four to fifteen number of the above amusement equipment in combination.
Such an amusement facility can be provided in a busy downtown street in an urban area if a large building can be constructed. It is also possible to provide the amusement facility in combination with a shopping facility in the shopping facility and the like in a suburb area of a city. Accordingly, in a certain locational condition, marquee can be expected with the amusement facility alone, and in addition, a synergy effect in enhancing marquee can be expected in cooperation with the shopping facility.
Even the above amusement facility of relatively large scale to be provided in a large building, there is a low possibility that a proportion of tourists visiting from a remote area becomes high like a theme park. Conversely, there is a high possibility that a proportion of customers visiting from a close area becomes high.
Accordingly, the amusement facility set forth above is not necessarily unique over a relatively wide range. Even if similar amusement facilities are located in various places, there should be a little influence for marquee of each individual amusement facility. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a plurality of similar amusement facilities in suburb areas of a large city or to provide similar amusement facilities in respective cities and suburb areas thereof.
However, when a plurality of similar amusement facilities are provided, difficulties should be encountered, in view of locational conditions, to provide substantially the same shape and size for buildings, in which respective amusement facilities are installed. Therefore, each of amusement facilities has to be designed individually corresponding to the building, in which the facility is installed. Accordingly, a difficulty is encountered in that significantly lowering equipment cost cannot be expected even by a chain-store operation.
On the other hand, since the foregoing amusement facility requires larger scale amusement equipment in comparison with the arcade game machine, construction of the building, power sources and other equipment have to be adapted for the large amusement equipment. Therefore, the amusement facility is difficult to be installed in an existing building, and construction of a new building becomes necessary to possibly cause high costs.
On the other hand, in the amusement facility of the type set forth above, and particularly in the case of the chain-store operation, residents in a relatively narrow area should be primary customers. Therefore, it is important to catch repeaters repeatedly visiting the facility. However, in the amusement facility of the type set forth above, there are amusement facilities including not only amusement equipment expected to catch repeaters, such as a movie theater, in which repeaters can be attracted by sequentially exchanging movies to be played, but also amusement equipment which can be gotten tired of after playing for one or several times. In the later amusement equipment, a problem is encountered in that marquee can be lowered according to elapse of time after installation.
Furthermore, the amusement equipment of larger scale than the arcade game machine or the like, requires a substantial cost and a period from planning and designing until an installation of the amusement equipment when the existing amusement equipment is to be exchanged with new amusement equipment. In addition, a long period and a high cost should be required for actual refitting. Accordingly, in view of an economic viability, a difficulty is encountered in exchanging the amusement equipment even when marquee is lowered.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has been worked out in view of the problems set forth above. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an amusement facility, a container for amusement facility and an installation method of amusement equipment which can easily install amusement equipment in a building at a low cost and necessary amusement equipment can be refreshed at a low cost.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an amusement facility constructed by installing one or more containers containing amusement equipment therein, within a building, characterized in that;
the building is provided with an opening portion for carrying-in-and-out the container, and
a container supporting portion is provided within the building for supporting the container to be carried-in-and-out through the opening portion.
With the construction set forth above, the opening portion and the container supporting portion are provided on the building side, and the amusement equipment is preliminarily installed in the container. Then, the container is carried into the building and installed on the container supporting portion to install the amusement equipment. Thus, the amusement facility including the amusement equipment can be easily constructed.
On the other hand, the opening portion on the building side, the container supporting portion and the container are preliminarily standardized respectively, the amusement equipment can be installed in any building and modification of the design of the amusement equipment becomes unnecessary. Therefore, in a chain-store operation with similar amusement equipment, cost can be lowered. In other words, the chain-store operation can be easily effected with similar amusement equipment at low cost. Furthermore, by this chain-store operation, the same amusement equipment can be installed in a plurality of amusement facilities to facilitate collection of the investment for planning and designing of the amusement equipment.
On the other hand, since the container supporting portion of the building supports the container containing the amusement equipment for easily carrying-in-and-out through the opening portion, by replacing the container installed in the building with other container, the amusement equipment can be easily replaced. Accordingly, by replacing the amusement equipment, marquee of which is lowered, with another amusement equipment, the marquee can be easily recovered and increasing of repeaters can be promoted.
On the other hand, by replacing the container, the amusement equipment can be easily replaced. Therefore, a period required for changing the amusement equipment can be shortened remarkably. Thus, loss of income due to down period for face-lifting can be minimized.
The building can be any constructions as long as a large opening portion can be formed on at least one surface irrespective of building materials, such as structures, such as a reinforcement structure, a reinforced concrete structure, a reinforced steel frame concrete structure, such as by including bent. On the other hand, the open
Callo Laura A.
Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP
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