Water slide with modular, sectional flume construction

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1978-06-06

1980-04-15

Pinkham, Richard C.

Undertaking

46 1K, 104 70, 193 2R, 405119, A63G 2118

Patent

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041980433

ABSTRACT:
A multiple flume water slide includes individual starting pools for each flume and a common landing pool mounted at different elevations on an earth foundation and connected by way of modular sectional flumes. Each flume consists of a minimal number of end reversible, end abutting, end-to-end sealed acrylic module flume sections which are generally concave upwardly away from the earth formation and are of generally semi-circular transverse cross-section, with each terminating along respective edges in integral upwardly convex hand rails. Straight sections have hand rails of the same height. Curved sections have lower radially inner and higher radially outer walls with the outer walls terminating in hand rails higher than those of the inner walls. Transition sections between a straight section and a curved section or between abutting curved sections of opposite throw have longitudinally inclined hand rails along one side from one end to the other to meet the radially outer wall hand rail of the abutting curved section. Specially constructed acrylic starting and concrete landing pools are connected to the flume by way of specially configured starting flume and landing flume sections. The flume sections are joined by the use of integral flanges at respective ends of the sections and through the use of an arcuate spacer at each joint and a packing strip radially inwardly thereof and flush with the longitudinal walls of the sections. A plurality of the flumes have water selectively circulated thereto by multiple supply and return pipes through common headers and a plurality of pumps, which pumps may be selectively operated, depending upon the extent of flumes in actual use.

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Alpine slide. Skateboarder Magazine, Jan. 1978, p. 157.

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