eryone is properly seated or as a delivery mechanism floating
an empty tube back to the start so guests don’t have to carry
their tube to the beginning of the ride. This is one of the keys
that allowed Magic Carpet® Lifts to grow so rapidly in the last
two decades – innovations that allowed them to expand past
the ski-hill market.
“As far as the amusement ride industry, they came to us
because they couldn’t find a manufacturer that would build
anything to load ride vehicles,” said Kelly. He also revealed
the company is working with Universal Studios to develop
conveyors with the proper electrical and safety controls that
would match the speed of the ride vehicles going through the
stations. “Typically, that would increase the capacity of the
ride vehicles 20 to 30 percent, and it’s less wear and tear on
the system,” said Kelly.
Innovations such as these are developed everyday. Not only
is RMCE constantly improving the basic design of Magic Car-pet
® Lifts, but they are under secrecy agreements with many
major players in the amusement industry. In the past, they’ve
developed loading and unloading conveyors for The Wizard-ing
World of Harry Potter, also at Universal Studios, along
with conveyors for Busch Gardens and Cowabunga Bay.
There are a number of reasons the ski resort and amuse-ment
industries keep going back to Magic Carpet® to move
LIFT TECHNOLOGY
their customers, not least of which is how easy their convey-ors
are to install and maintain. Though ski resort lifts require
soft ground and a site engineer to do the geotechnical evalu-ation
of where the lift will be placed, once that is done, the
actual installation takes about one or two days, depending on
the length of the conveyor.
“We use a type of construction called hook and rod,” said
Kelly. “All our sections are pre-made, and they just hook to
each succeeding panel, so you just place the head section and
then you just build it up going down the hill.”
The head section contains all the power transmission,
components, bearings, covers and the control panel nec-essary
to run the moving belt. The electrical hook-up can
be done concurrently with the installation of the conveyor,
saving even more time. Plus, it’s easy to use. Only one per-son
is required to operate lifts up to 400 feet long and only
two people when the lift is greater than 400 feet long.
Finally, in the unlikely event that there’s a problem,
RMCE/Magic Carpet® Lifts provides unlimited phone sup-port
for the life of unit. RMCE/Magic Carpet® Lifts keeps in-ventory
of spare parts that customers can draw from and,
since the majority of issues are primarily electrical, RMCE/
Magic Carpet® Lifts has an in-house electrical team that’s
always available for support and the suppliers that RMCE/
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