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ContentWavegenerators for Leisure + Surfi ng

Waterslides

Torrent Rivers

API Play & Spray®

The API PLAY & SPRAY® ground offers you:

colourful above ground features shoot, spray and gush water. Below ground elements provide water sprays, jets and cascades that shoot from specially designed fi ttings.

most features can be computer choreographed to make the water dance and spray and to create a challenging guessing game for every one.

a child‘s hand passing by the infrared activation bol-lard sets your API PLAY & SPRAY® into wet motion. The infrared sensor assures that the API PLAY & SPRAY® operates only when kids are present to enjoy the fun.

our control assures an automatic start-up in the morning and shut down in the evening.

thrilling water fun with no need for swimming pool - thus no standing water, no danger of drowning, no need for lifeguards

low cost to build and low operating cost.

for public swimming pools indoor and outdoor, leisure centers, theme parks, Hotels and Resorts

for Camping and public playgrounds

The API PLAY & SPRAY®

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Bad Aibling, Germany

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The Origin

Together with Prof. Dr.- Ing. S. Schuster, inventor and patent owner of the principle to create artifi cial waves pneumatically, Wolfgang Teichmann and his engineers of Jmhof & Co GmbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany, reali-zed in 1967 / 1968 the fi rst Pneumatic Wave Genera-tor in the world in an outdoor wave pool operated with seawater in Horumersiel, a small town at the North Sea in Germany. The innovation got around very quickly in Europe, was taken up with enthusiasm outside Europe and initia-ted several innovative solutions in the pool building industry.It was already in 1970 that the fi rst wave pool on the American continent was realized in Decatur, Alaba-ma, USA with the know-how and technical assistance of Wolfgang Teichmann and his team. In 1973 the fi rst Pneumatic Wave Generator of Asia was opened in Tochi-gi, Japan. In 1971 Pneumatic Waves were generated in an Olympic sized pool equipped with an inclined movable fl oor as beach area in Warnemünde, Germany. Multi-pattern waves were realized for the fi rst time in the world in 1973 in Rheinkamp, Germany. In 1975 the fi rst combined 50 m sports and wave pool opened successfully equipped with our fi rst Pneumatic Quick Wa-terlevel Change System in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

The pneumatically generated waves are produced by a periodical oscillation of air pressure in the wave cham-bers. The wave chambers are placed at the deep end of the pool and are open below waterlevel towards the pool. With the appropriate tuning, the waves travel along the pool and form the breakers in the shallow beach area.

More than 500 Pneumatic Wave Generators in 500 different wave pools realized in 38 countries around the world are on our steadily growing reference list. Since years we continuously optimise and harmonize the com-ponents and the pool designs in order to assure that you as the investor and operator are always a wavelength ahead on what is an attractive and safe wavepool in daily operation.We invite you to share our experience already in the planning phase and to invest our experience into your successful wave pool.

The Technology

Our Experience

The API PLAY & SPRAY® ground...

. . . the wetter the better!

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we create waves...... worldwide since 1967 in more than 500 pools

The Pneumatic Wave Generator

The BigSurf Wave Generator

The FlowRider®

The APIBALL, the funny wavemaker

Our Torrent River enables you to offer to your guests a wet-get-together with high capacity and safety.

Buffered by the high amount of water your guests swim, paddle and slide down through varying widths and water depths, they accelerate on integrated rapids and land in intermediate pools equipped with additional attractions for a rest before they continue their ride. The capacity of the Torrent River in comparison to a typical waterslide is thus much higher and reaches up to 2.000 guests per hour.

A few meters of level difference between start and lan-ding are suffi cient to create a more than 100 m long splashy and wild adventure.

The space requirement can be adapted to your local situation. In an indoor waterpark project in Korea we realized a Torrent River besides a wavepool on a foot-print which is only 5 to 8 m wide and 25 m long.

A more generous design and integration of the mean-derings into a natural slightly descending landscape can be realized if the Torrent River is built as an outdoor attraction.

The installed pump power can be used to have your guests ride a more calm and gentle River or a real chal-lenging Torrent. Down-hill competitions with small mats or boards can be organized as special events.

Nearly every Center Parcs has been equipped with our Torrent River since 1982.

Are you interested in further information ?Give us a call. We are looking forward to show you one of our references and submit a proposal which fi ts your situation.

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Wild Water Fun…...with our Torrent River

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Our four successful technologiesto create artificial waves:

The Pneumatic Wave Generator

for seabreakers in wave pools with a beach. Wave height: 0,90m to 1,25m

The BigSurf Wave

for surf competitions in wavepools with a minimum size of 30m x 120m.Wave height: 1,80m to 2,10m

The FlowRider®,FlowRider® Single and FlowRider Double

for Flowboarding, the new surf sport in water parks, leisure centers, hotel resorts and shopping malls

The APIBALL®,the funny wavemaker...

for waves in enclosed wave zones and wave pools without a beach.Wave height: 0,90m to 1,00m

Bodyslide

Tube slide

Family slide

ProBowl - Extreme

designed as a typical family ride with a predictable path design (average inclination of 10 to 12 %)

designed as a Turbo or Kamikaze slide with an extreme path design (average inclination of 15 to 40 %)

as a BlackWater Fun slide with sound and light-effects with our Light Twister in a tunnelled version

equipped with a Sofa or Aqua-Catch-Run-Out (6 x 3 m) made in polyester, with integrated overfl ow channel, recommended by the German TÜV (German Society for Technical Control and Safety) to ensure safe operations

double the experience, fun and capacity with a Tube slide designed for single and double tubes (average inc-lination of 10 to 12 %)

the compact and attractive outdoor slide, inner widths of 2,0, 3,0 or 4,0 m with typical lengths ranging from 7,0 to 25,0 m (average inclination of 20 to 25 %)

shoot down on a 40 % inclined tube before you spiral in a funnel and plunge into the reception pool, the ex-treme thrill

Outdoor pool Lörrach, Germany

First Indoor FlowRider® in Europe,Alpamare, Bad Tölz, Germany

Outdoor pool in Hermsdorf, Germany b = 2,00m, l = 19,00m

Ascot Sports World, Izunagaoka, Japan

Kreuzsteinbad, Bayreuth, Germany

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Meerwasser-Freizeitbad Langeoog, Germany

Custom - engineered waterslides which perform…

. . . great attraction using thrilling

path designs

Bodyslide

Tube Slide

Probowl Extreme

Family Slide

Seabreakers with our Pneumatic

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Agrippabad, Köln, Germany

Agrippabad, Köln, Germany

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in rectangular pools, circular or oval pools, in pools having a sophisticated geometry as they are linked to adjacent rivers, leisure pools and children pools.

in competition pools where the still water level is equal to the surrounding walking level. Our Pneumatic Quick Waterlevel Change System lowers and raises the water level within a few minutes only. Instead of pumps we use air to move large quantities of water from a specially designed storage tank back to the wave pool. During this procedure your guests do not need to leave the pool.

in competition pools equipped with our Pneumatic Mo-vable Wall. The Movable Wall serves as a turning wall at the 25 m mark and takes up start blocks and swimming lanes.

in Olympic sized competition pools which are equipped with a Movable Floor put into oblique position during the wave operation to serve as a beach area.

wave heights from 0,90m to 1,25msurfable waves for bodyboardingdifferent wave patters and wave heights

with air, air does not corrode and does not need large oscillating masses which require large foundations

with the lowest energy consumption per meter of pool width

with the lowest maintenance and service costs

in oceanariums, bird parks, pools for scientifi c purposes or Aircraft Rescue Training

in swimming pool water, sea water, thermal salt water or even polluted water for research and testing purposes (research of oil binders)

The Technology

The Safety

The Wavepool

The APIBALL® - protected by worldwide patents - is a bowl, freely fl oating on the water surface and moving up and down. An elaborate software is controlling and optimizing the movement of the APIBALL® and assures, that it keeps its position and attains the requested wave height from crest to trough of up to 0,90 m and more. The oscillating movement is generated by a mechanical driven crank mechanism which moves a weight up and down against a number of springs. A fl exible control and supply cable which can be guided through the ground of the pool or via the ceiling of the swimming hall supplies the APIBALL® with 12 V alternating current.A mechanical drive crank inside the APIBALL® produ-ces the oscillating movement. The energy (12 V) for the APIBALL® is supplied by a cable running either via the ceiling of the hall or via the pool fl oor to the APIBALL®.

The fi rst APIBALL® was approved by the „TÜV“, the German Society for Technical Control and obtained the GS-Label for “Tested Safety”.

Waves can be created in nearly any pool, if the pool wall is higher than the still water level. This can be achieved by either separating the wave zone with a wall high-er than water level from the rest of the pool (Example: Tuttlingen) or by lowering the water level for the wave session and pushing it back quickly after the wave session to its old level with pumps. Though higher investments are necessary for lowering the water level this approach allows you to turn a sports pool equipped with a movable fl oor within minutes to a wave pool (Reference: Agrippa-bad, Cologne). During the swim session the APIBALL® is parked in it´s “garage” and is pulled out by a swivel arm to its wave position.The proper size of the APIBALL® depends on the water surface to be activated with waves. Some guidelines are listed below for a preliminary check. API will submit an approved concept after having received and checked customers execution drawings.

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The BigSurf Wave Generator

In 1988 we realized surfable waves with a wave height of up to 2,10 m in a 30 m wide and 120 m long wave pool for the Japanese Surf Champi-onship in Ascot Sports World, Izunagaoka, Japan. A water reservoir placed above the water level is released instantly so that a singular wave runs through the pool every few minutes. The BigSurf Wave Generator can be combined with a Pneu-matic Wave Generator in a way that pneumatically generated waves with a wave height of 0,90 to 1,0 m are generated in the same wave pool as the singular BigSurf Wave with a wave height of up to 2,10 m.

With pleasure do we submit a proposal for the refurbishment or the replacement of your old wave generator even if it is one which was not realized by our engineers.In 1997 we began to refurbish the oldest wave machine in the world known to us the “Undosa” Wave Machine in the Bilzbad in Radebeul, Germany. The wave machine is under the protection of his-torical monuments. Large wooden boxes moved by large connecting rods push down the water level in the wave chambers and create the breakers. The wave machine was in operation all summers since 1912. It was completely disassembled, defective components were especially re-manufactured to the original design and in 1998 the 86 years young Undosa Wave Machine went into operation again in a refurbished wave pool made of stainless steel.

Refurbishment and Replacement of old Wave Generators

Damian Hardman

BigSurf Wave, Ascot Sports

World, Izunagaoka, Japan

Wellenberg, Oberammergau,

Germany

Port el Kantaoui, Tunisia

Indoor wavepool at Chamalières,

France; Pneumatic Wavegenerator

with our Pneumatic Quick Waterlevel

Change System and our Pneumatic

Movable Wall

The APIBALL®, the funny wavemaker...

...for wave fun in any pool

Water depth below the

APIBALL® min. (m)

1,10 - 1,40

1,25 - 1,50

1,40 - 1,60

1,50 - 1,70

1,60 - 1,80

Watersurface

min - max (m²)

38 - 64

50 - 110

100 - 200

180 - 300

280 - 400

Weight

(Kg)

160 - 210

330 - 420

500 - 580

670 - 800

1.100

APIBALL®

APIBALL® 105

APIBALL® 130

APIBALL® 150

APIBALL® 165

APIBALL® 180

Diameter of

APIBALL® (cm)

105

130

150

165

180

Power

(KWatt) ca.

0,5 - 1,1

1,1 - 2,5

2,5 - 3,0

ca. 6,0

ca. 6,0

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The FlowRider® Single and FlowRider® Double

The FlowRider® with Action River

Flowboard Competitions

The FlowRider® Single and FlowRider® Double are the most compact and versatile member of Wave Loch’s worldwide patented FlowRider® family.

The space requirement for a surfable wave is reduced to a footprint of only 6,50m x 15,50m (FlowRider® Single, one lane of operation) or 10,00m x 15,50m (FlowRider® Double, two lanes of operation) in the stand alone version.The FlowRider® Double is delivered with a removable divider which allows you the operation of two lanes for bodyboarding. For competitive events or for stand-up Flowboarding the divider can be removed easily and offers you a width of approx 10,00m.

The integration of the FlowRider® into an Action or Lazy River concept increases the capacity of the overall design concept and offers additional attractive rides to your water park guests. The pumps used for the FlowRider® allow the simultaneous operation of an Action or Lazy River of 130 m to 250 m length and more as well as additional fun elements like a Flip Ramp or one or two Torrent Rivers which can be nicely integrated into the landscape. The design enlarges your offer and addresses different customer groups of your waterpark: Flowboarding for your sportive guests, a challenging Flip Ramp and one or two Torrent Rivers for your thrill see-king guests and the Lazy River for guests who prefer a relaxed ride in an innertube at low speed.

Your participation in the European Flowboarding Summer Series integrated into the worldwide Flowboarding com-petitions organized by the Wave Loch Federation empo-wers your water park marketing and creates continuous annual attention in the media.Are you interested in more information ? Please contact us.

...on the FlowRider® Single and FlowRider® Double

First Indoor Flow Rider® in Europe, Alpamare, Bad Tölz, Germany Aquapark Zambrone, ItalyAquapark Zambrone, Italy