New Guide for Standard Guide for Design, Manufacture, Installation, Operation, Maintenance, Inspection, Major Modification, and Auditing of Dry Slides
1. Scope
1.1 This practice applies to the classi?cation, design, manufacture, construction, major modi?cation, auditing, and operation of dry slide systems.
1.1.1 Owner/operator requirements of this standard are required of all dry slide systems regardless of date of construction.
1.1.2 The design, manufacture and construction of an existing dry slide or portions of a dry slide system unaffected by a major modi?cation shall meet the standard requirements in existence at the time of the construction.
1.2 The amusement devices subject to this Practice are gravity rides in which patrons are transported down a purpose-built pathway; which do not employ wheeled vehicles or vehicle that float; and for which the action of the ride does not involve purposeful immersion of the patron’s body either in whole or in part in water.
NOTE 1–This description is not intended to exclude slides than employ fluids, including water, to facilitate patron transport.
1.2.1 Dry slides regulated by this Practice include those used with friction-regulating accessories such as mats, and those used without such accessories.
1.3 Within this Practice, “dry slide” and “slide” are used interchangeably. For the purposes of this practice, a dry slide system includes:
1.3.1 The ?ume or chute,
1.3.2 The starting platform with associated means of access and egress,
1.3.3 The device structure,
1.3.4 Means of slide termination.
1.3.5 Friction-regulating slide accessories, including mats, sacks, roller trays, tubes
1.4 This practice shall not apply to:
1.4.1 Playground equipment subject to Specification F1487,
1.4.2 Soft contained play equipment subject to Specification F1918,
1.4.3 Rides that involve purposeful immersion of the patron’s body either in whole or in part in water,
1.4.4 Water Slide systems subject to Practice F2376,
1.4.5 Inflatable slides (refer to Practice F2374),
1.4.6 Amusement rides and devices whose design criteria are speci?cally addressed in another ASTM standard,
NOTE 2–Slides incorporated as parts of other amusement devices, such as funhouses, are not excluded from this standard unless pre-empted by another standard.
1.4.7 Flumes or chutes which involve a wheeled vehicle,
NOTE 3 – this is intended to exclude devices such as log flumes, chutes rides, alpine slides, and similar devices.
1.4.8 Flumes or chutes which involve an ice- or snow-covered surface,
1.4.9 Flumes or chutes in which the ride vehicle floats on water.
While F2291 now incorporates previously "miscellaneous" ride types, the class of rides which are heavily patron-directed and/or do not feature ride vehicles are uncomfortable fits within F2291. This is in part why an F24.24 patron-directed task group exists, why lazy/action rivers are pursuing a separate standard within F24.70, and why adventure challenge areas and bungee jumps are pursuing new standards within F24.61. For many of the same reasons water slides developed their own standard in 2006, the time has come for dry slides to do the same. Even when the time comes that patron-direction is solved within F2291, slides will remain part of the broad class of rides which are difficult to interpret within F2291's grammar. Accordingly, there is still a need for specific standardization for dry slides. Additionally, as the level of technical enhancement and risk has increased in more modern slide designs, use of the comparatively antique language found in EN13814 and similar standards is no longer sufficient.
Year tags are not used in section 1, as a device that falls into any version of the referenced standards are excluded.
This standard cites to F3598, which is finished and has a reserved standard number, but which does not have a year assignment as it is waiting a final approval. It is cited herein as it is anticipated it will be approved and published prior to this standard.
Existing slides operated in an amusement context historically originate from one of three sources – traditional carnival rides, playground-style devices operated in an amusement context, and soft-contained play attractions. Accordingly, this standard accepts a device built to any of those structural requirements. While their details differ, they tend to result in a similar outcomes.
There is not yet a standalone impact attenuation standard for landing devices. Accordingly, the majority of the specifications are left to the design analysis and risk analyses with explicit callouts and a few default performance requirements. It is hoped this section will become more explicit as such standards come into being.
WK93943 - New Guide for Standard Guide for Design, Manufacture, Installation, Operation, Maintenance, Inspection, Major Modification, and Auditing of Dry Slides | ASTM
