CA2378772A1 - E-z motor - Google Patents

Abstract

In previous efforts to construct a weight motor, 'equal and opposite' reactions have thwarted success. In the design of this motor, two shafts (a sun shaft and a moon shaft) with fixed bearing/journal positions, and their respective wheels, flank a middle 'floating' (planetary) shaft and its gears, and through their unequal positions of support, split the force into a dominant force (which determines the order of rotation) and a recessive force, which must follow the dominant order.
On the middle, floating, planetary shaft are two gears: one (Mercury gear) with a very small diameter, and a second (Jupiter gear), which is very large when compared to the first. Both gears travel in unison around the floating, non-anchored, shaft.
On one side of the floating shaft is a large (sun) gear, which engages the smaller of the two floating gears. The apparent weight (whether gravitational, or induced by some other directional force) of the middle shaft assembly imposes pressure against the periphery of the large outer gear, causing it to rotate away from the float assembly.
Paired with the large outer gear is a similarly large sprocket, which sends its rotational power to a much smaller (moon) sprocket on the opposite flank of the middle floating assembly via a transfer chain. The small 'hub' moon sprocket rotates in unison with a large moon gear fixed to the same shaft. If the sun sprocket is the same diameter as the sun gear, the ratio of the hub sprocket to its complementary large gear is the same as the ratio of the small inner floating gear to its large outer counterpart. However, if the sun sprocket is a larger diameter than the sun gear, the moon sprocket may be larger also, so that the necessary ratios are maintained.
The torque which is generated by the extremely large wheels on one side of the system are enough to force the power through the system as continuing rotational energy, such that the small middle Mercury gear is forced to continue to 'climb' the largest gear, producing the required harmony of rotations throughout the system and holding the middle assembly to a relatively fixed attitude of engagement.
Because the large sun wheel on one side of the floating system supports more of the pressure exerted against the floating assembly than does the small opposite wheels assembly, it is able to send surplus rotational energy through the system, such that power may be drawn off one or more of the wheels, and/or the system may be allowed to accelerate.

The motions and forces generated can be perpetuated so long as the same directional pressure is exerted against the middle shaft. If the pressure is reversed, the directions of all wheels and chain reverse also. Thus we see that the device is not strictly a weight motor, as artificial 'weight' can be induced from any attitude of system placement - whether in a strong gravitational field or not, whether in space, or in air, or in water, or in some other fluid medium -there needs not be an 'up' and 'down.' The efficiencies of the motor system may be improved through introducing additional planetary and lunar/moon elements (planet-moon vectors) to the in-common gears and sprockets of the single sun shaft. Multiple planet-moon vectors can radiate about the sun shaft, whose rotations induce greater relative pressure differentials than can be achieved through the employment of only one planet-moon complement.

Because pressure is the only necessary volition for such a motor, many pressure source options are available to us: pneumatic 'ram', hydraulic 'ram', magnetic (natural or electro-), thermal contraction/expansion, variable floatation actuators (e.g. tidal, flood, drought), or barometric.

Description

:E-Z MOTOR, Chain Motor (perpetual motion) Patent Application ,specification 'This invention relates to a perpetual motion device which uses an inequality of pressures to achieve the desired result. The design supports a rotating wheel assembly such that one side of the system receives a greater proportion of the apparent weight of that falling assembly than the other side does. Note: The wheels on each shaft (gears and sprockets) are fixed to that shaft and rotate synchronously.
A chain motor is comprised of a minimum of three shafts and their constituent parts: A (sun) shaft 1 on one flank, and a (moon) shaft 12 on the opposite flank, both of which shafts are held to a constant position and are supported through bearings 2 and 13 respectively, by a frame or armature 21. On the sun shaft 1 are at least one large gear 4, and one large sprocket 5. On the moon shaft are at least one large gear 15 and one small sprocket 16. Between the two flanking shafts is a middle (planet) shaft 7 and its constituent parts, which is allowed to 'float' between the sun and moon support wheel assemblies upon its gear teeth, and upon the gear teeth of the adjoining (sun and moon) gears. The planet shaft 7 has attached to it a small (Mercury) gear 10, and a large (Jupiter) gear 11. The Mercury gear 10 engages a large (sun) gear 4 on one flank of the planet shaft 7, while the Jupiter gear engages a large (moon) gear 15 on the opposite flank of the planet shaft. The planet shaft 7 is held to a constant distance from the adjacent (sun) shaft 1 via bearings 10 which are enclosed by stand-off arms/levers 9. The stand-off/lever arms 9 are connected to the planet shaft, through the sun shaft which serves as a fulcrum as well as a rotation/pressure processing element. The lever arm 9 is allowed to pivot slightly about the sun shaft via bearings 2, and thus to exert pressure 46 against the teeth of the gears on the planet shaft. Because the teeth of the Mercury gear 10 are closer to the center of 'gravity'/pressure, they receive the greater degree of force, and it imposes that greater amount of pressure upon the sun gear 4 with which it is engaged. The Jupiter gear also 'experiences' such pressure, but it is slight relative to the dominant force received by the Mercury gear. The rotational result imposed by the Mercury gear 10 upon the sun gear 4 is transferred to the sun sprocket 5 which rotates synchronously with the sun gear. The sun sprocket 5 sends the rotational force to the moon sprocket 16 via chain or non-slip belting 6. The moon sprocket 16 shares the rotational force with t:he moon gear 15. The moon gear 15 in turn overcomes the slight oppositional force imposed upon the teeth of the Jupiter gear 11 by the lever pressure, to cause the Jupiter gear to rotate in agreement with the greater force imposed upon the teeth of its neighboring Mercury gear 10. The net result is that the Mercury gear 10 is forced to continue to 'climb the tooth ladder' of the sun gear 4 with which it is engaged, and the rotational motion is perpetuated until the levered force is withdrawn or reversed.
(heater efficiencies can be realized when multiple planet-moon sets (or 'vectors') radiate from a common sun assembly. A double vector can be achieved by installing/loading a planet shaft and its gears etc. into both sides of the lever arms 24 which pivot about the sun shaft 1. Of course this also requires the installation of another moon shaft assembly 12, 15, 16 and its bearings and a different frame design within which to support it (moving from Figure 14 for the simplest design, to Figure 15 for the double ended design).
To move beyond an in-line model, spider plates 9 pivot about a single sun shaft 1 via bearings 2.

'The spider plates 9 support an array of planet shafts 7. The planet shafts are equidistant from the sun shaft 1, and receive equally the pressure 46 which is imposed upon the spider plates via one or more lever arms 24 which islare attached to them. Pairs of lever arms 24 are joined by a lever =yoke 29 at one end of the lever arms, or at both ends of them. For each planet shaft 7 which is loaded onto the spider 9, a corresponding moon shaft 12 must be loaded onto the static .frame/'crab' 21. Each moon shaft 12 holds at least one moon gear 15 and one moon sprocket 16.
'The moon sprocket is connected to the central sun gear 4 via a chain or non-slip belt 6, and the moon gear meshes with the Jupiter gear 11. Planet spiders 9 and machine frames 21 must be designed according to the number of planet-moon vectors which radiate from the central shaft 1.
'Where many planet-moon vectors radiate from the sun shaft 1, a peripheral chain 37 may connect moon sprockets via inter-lunar sprockets 38, so that fewer chains need to travel from the sun sprockets 5 out to moon sprockets 16 than would otherwise be the case. When a peripheral chain 37 is used, satellite sprockets may also be used to insure consistent and well aligned tracking of the chain from one inter-lunar sprocket to the next. When only two planet-moon vectors exist in t:he design, a sun wheel hybrid 42 may be used, which is at once both a gear and a sprocket. This necessitates fewer wheel trains and allows a more compact machine. However, it is generally good practice to have a minimum of two sets of wheels on each shaft, to minimize mechanical distortion/'racking' in the machine system, to share ware more evenly among wheels, and to afford greater safety/less chance of breakdown.
if a sun sprocket 5 is used which is larger in radius that the sun gear 4, the moon sprocket 16 may be proportionately larger, as the transition ratios must be maintained. This greater sized moon sprocket 16 furnishes somewhat more torque for the moon gear 15 against the Jupiter gear 11 with which it engages. Additional support posts 39, 40 in the frame 21 allow the sun shaft 1 to tolerate with less mechanical distortion and less friction the burden of having the whole spider ~~ssembly (i.e. planet shafts 7 and other planet elements) and the lever arms 24 borne by it.
'JUhere gravity is the chosen and sole source of motivation, weight may be applied to one end of the lever yoke only (unless a weight and pulley system is devised for the second end), or the weight of the planet assembly alone may sustain its motion. In virtually every other case however, both/all lever ends may easily be utilized to apply pressure through the lever yokes, to the planet spiders, to the planet shafts, to the planet gears, and through the rotational result of the system. Because pressure is the only necessary volition for such a motor, many pressure source options are available to us: pneumatic 'ram', hydraulic 'ram', magnetic (natural or electro-), thermal contraction/expansion, variable floatation actuators (e.g. tidal, flood, drought), or barometric.
The system may work equally well in gravity or non-gravity, in air or in water or in space.

"E-Z MOTOR" LIST OF PARTS
SUN PARTS parts related to the central/sun shaft 1 sun/central shaft bearings around the sun shaft 3 bearing housing/journal sun gear ;5 sun sprocket 8 chain or non-slip belting (for sun-moon circuit) PLANETARY PARTS parts related to the gears which engage the sun gears, or the moon gears, directly 7 planetary shaft 8 bearings around the planetary shaft 9 spider plate (holding the sun shaft and planetary shafts to a constant distance of separation, and transferring imposed pressure to planet shafts and gears) small-diameter planetary gear (Mercury gear) 'I 1 large-diameter planetary gear (Jupiter gear) MOON PARTS parts related to the wheels which engage the planetary wheels '12 moon/lunar shaft 13 bearings around moon shaft 14 bearing housing/journal moon gear '16 moon sprocket SATELLITE PARTS parts which assist in keeping the chains in proper alignment and tension 117 satellite shaft 18 bearings around satellite shaft 119 bearing housing ~0 satellite sprocket FRAME AND ACCESSORY PARTS
~!1 frame (support armature/ 'crab') ~2 distancing adjustment slot ~!3 distancing adjustment screw ~4 leveraging planet arm (attached in some cases to a planetary spider) ~!5 power take-off gear E-Z Motor Parts List (continued) 26 chain catcher post (An anti-fouling element, useful only in the event that a chain/belt should happen to break) 27 gear teeth 28 sprocket teeth 29 spider/iever yoke 80 lever let-through for planetary shaft and bearings :31 lever (or frame post) let-through for sun shaft and bearings 32 lever let-through for lever yoke 33 let-through for moon shaft 34 moon shaft avoidance slot :35 spider tie rods 36 connecting bolts (lever arm to spider) ;37 chain or non-slip belting (inter-lunar circuit) ;38 inter-lunar sprocket ;39 inner frame post 40 outer frame post 41 frame base 42 large dual-purpose gear and sprocket (hybrid sun) wheel 43 moon sprocket which can accommodate the chain or belt which comes from the gear/sprocket hybrid wheel 44 Mercury gear which can mesh with the dual gear/sprocket sun design 45 retaining ring 46 gravity or pressure vector When applied to both ends of a two-ended lever, the pressures applied are in opposite directions in order to be reciprocal/complimentary.
47 reverse pressure vectors (at stand-off position) used to stop, and/or to reverse the directions of wheel rotations and chain directions.

ARAWINGS
:Note that there need not be a strict 'up and down' in any of the drawings except where gravity is the source of pressure/movement, as virtually any attitude is as good as another.
In drawings which illustrate embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of one embodiment, Figure 2 is a top view of this embodiment, showing the chain as a broken line, Figure 3 is a top view of this embodiment, showing seeming redundancies in the system, indicating a double set of each wheel (to help prevent racking/distortion of the system, <~nd to distribute wear on the teeth more favorably, and as a safety feature:
The likelihood of two chains breaking at the same time is remote.) Figure 4 is an elevation schematic of this embodiment, showing how pressure exerted against the lever handle (which pressure need not be downward, but might be upward instead) pivots around the sun shaft to force the Mercury gear against the sun gear. Figure 4 further shows the direction of pressure, indicated through large arrows, and the resultant direction of rotation indicated through small arrows. Figure 5 is a top view of a sun shaft flanked by two planet-moon vectors.
1~ figure 5 also shows a double ended torquing lever/leveraging arm which teeters up or down about the sun shaft. (The sun shaft serves as a fulcrum in addition to its other roles.) Figure 6 is an elevation view of the embodiment illustrated in Figure 5, Figure 7 is an elevation schematic which shows how the pressure exerted on a one-ended (or two ended) torquing lever will influence the pressures and rotational directions within the rest of the system, Figure 8 is an elevation partly in section of a four vector motor showing how two chains are utilized to convey rotational integrity, and how an offset torquing lever attached to the hold-off spider negates the need to provide a moon shaft avoidance slot in it. At least two sun sprockets are required, and alternate moon sprockets must be offset also. Figure 9 is an elevation view of one spider plate designed for a four vector motor such as is shown in Figure 8, Figure 10 is an elevation view of a different spider plate design which also accommodates four planet shafts, and which also negates the need to provide a moon shaft avoidance slot. Figure 11 is an elevation view partly in section which shows how a six vector motor can be achieved. Notice how at least one chain must travel from a sun sprocket to a moon sprocket, but how the other vectors can stay activated through the traveling of a peripheral chain which induces rotation in all moon shaft elements, and the elements to which they are joined/enmeshed together. Notice also that the Jupiter gears must be positioned on alternating planes so that they will not interfere with one another, and that so long a.s their radii do not reach as far as the adjoining planet shafts no rotation is impeded. (Because the Jupiter gears are alternating planes, moon geaxs also must be on alternating planes to engage t:he Jupiter gears.) Figure 12 is an elevation partly in section where the sun sprocket is larger than t:he sun gear - even to the extent that its radius extends beyond the distance to the planetary shafts. Notice that the increase of the size of the sun sprocket allows the radius of the moon sprocket to be increased too, and the torquing value against the Jupiter gear is similarly increased. Figure 13 is a top view of the large sun sprocket embodiment shown in Figure 12.
Notice how this can be achieved through placing the sun sprockets outside the lengths of the planet shafts.
Figures 14 through 18 illustrate frames (armaturesfcrabs') which support different motor configurations. Notice that there is no support offered to the planet shafts and their attached elements except as they rest with the planet spider, for they are required to 'float' between sun and moon gears, and must move according to the pressures exerted against them through the levers to which they are, directly or indirectly, attached.

Figure 14 is an elevation end view of a frame which might support a motor such as is illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Figure 15 is an elevation end view of a frame which might support a motor such as is illustrated in Figures 5, 6, 7, 12, or 13. Where the larger sun sprocket option is adopted, longer vertical ;support arms would be required to allow sufficient clearance of the sun sprockets.
:Figures 16 and 17 are elevation end views of frames which might support a motor such as is :illustrated in Figure 8.
Figure 18 is an elevation end view of a frame which might support a motor such as is illustrated in Figure 11.
Figure 19 is a variation of the elevation view, partly in section, of a six vector motor - as was first indicated in Figure 11. However, in this variation satellite sprockets, one found between each inter-lunar sprocket, serve to maintain a constant level of tension in the chain or belting, and permit a wider arc of belt engagement with each inter-Iunar sprocket. This further insures that the chance of belt slippage is minimized. In this drawing the planetary shafts and their elements have keen omitted (but still must exist in actuality) to allow clarity of focus.
l~igure 20 is a schematic drawing which shows in more precise detail what was first indicated in broader, less defined scale in Figure 4. Notice how a total pressure of 4+ in this particular case, is :.hared, such that the dominant three + units is imposed by the gear teeth of the Mercury gear, which is 1 /3 the radius of the Jupiter gear, which is only allowed one + unit of pressure, which must recede from the dominant force. (When the ratio between Mercury and Jupiter gears is greater, which is the preferred case, the dominant force more closely approaches the theoretical ratio of planet gear radius diiTerence, as some of that dominant pressure force, in every case, must also be dedicated toward overcoming frictional forces.) Figure 21 is an elevation partly in section of an embodiment in which the separate sun gear and s~,un sprocket have been 'hybridized' to be a single wheel which serves both purposes. It is at once a large dual-purpose gear and sprocket (hybrid sun) wheel. This is a useful design in a one-vector or a two-vector (levered, but not spidered) machine, as the Mercury gear meshing sites are different from the chain/belting meshing sites. In this design, the moon sprocket is modified to accommodate the chain or belt which comes from the gear/sprocket hybrid wheel, and the Mercury gear is similarly modified to mesh with the dual gear/sprocket sun design, but the moon gear and the Jupiter gear need not be so modified.
Figure 22 is a top view of the embodiment shown in Figure 21. Notice that while a minimum of three wheel trains are necessary in the Figure 2 design, for example, a minimum of only two wheel trains are necessary when the hybrid gear/sprocket sun wheel is utilized.
F figure 23 is an end elevation view of a machine support frame for a six moon-vector machine, having also six peripheral/satellite chain sprockets. The satellite sprockets can serve to insure that there is sufficient meshing of moon sprockets and the chain/belting. They can also alter the alignment of chain and sprockets such that their meshing corresponds most efficiently. Note the incomplete chain reference imposed only as a reminder of how it is woven among the sprockets.
Note also that fewer satellites (than the number of moon sprockets) is another design option. This drawing also indicates chain catcher pOStS. These are anti-fouling elements, useful only in the event that a chain/belt should happen to break.
figure 24 is an expanded view of part of the frame/crab shown in Figure 23 indicating a bearing slot which would allow some re-positioning of the satellite sprocket if the tensioning or positioning of the chain had to be altered.

Figure 25 is an elevation view of a frame which shows four central support posts - two inner posts, and two outer posts. Thus the burdens of the sun shaft receive additional support within the outer support posts, negating the need for larger/stronger shafts and bearings. Because the :levers with/without spiders do not move very much, the necessary dynamic pressures, gear contacts, and chain movements can still take place unencumbered.
:Figure 26 is an elevation schematic partly in section which indicates how, when a two-ended lever is used and pressure is applied to both ends, the directions of pressure must be opposite in nrder to be reciprocal/complimentary. Notice also reverse pressure vectors (at stand-off position) ~~re used to stop, and/or to reverse the directions of wheel rotations and chain directions.
(VOTE: Teeth/cogs are not shown on any of the wheels, whether sprockets or gears in any of the drawings, except in Figure 20. Trust that they must be there however.
While the sun and moon sprockets 5 and 16 must share the same tooth configuration, the tooth size and coarseness for sun gear and Mercury gear 4 and 10 may be different from the tooth size and degree of coarseness for Jupiter gear and moon gear 11 and 15.
ALSO NOTE: Surplus slack must be kept out of the chain, lest the planet shaft be allowed to drift so far that its Jupiter gear 11 disengages from moon gear 15.

Claims (19)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1 A chain motor comprised of three shafts and their constituent parts: A (sun) shaft on one flank, and a (moon) shaft on the opposite flank, both of which shafts are supported through bearings by a frame or armature, and are held to a constant position.
On the sun shaft are at least one large gear, and one large sprocket. On the moon shaft are at least one large gear and one small sprocket. Between the two flanking shafts is a middle (planet) shaft and its constituent parts, which is allowed to 'float' between the sun and moon support wheel assemblies. The planet shaft has attached to it a small (Mercury) gear, and a large (Jupiter) gear, which rotate in unison. The Mercury gear engages a large (sun) gear on one flank of the planet shaft, while the Jupiter gear engages a large (moon) gear on the opposite flank of the planet shaft. The planet shaft is held to a constant distance from the adjacent (sun) shaft via bearings which are enclosed by a stand-off arm, or lever at each end of the planet shaft. The levers terminate just beyond the planet shaft at one end, and just beyond the radius of the sun wheels at the other. The levers are yoked at the end that reaches beyond the radius of the sun wheels (i.e. the sun gear and the sun sprocket). The lever arms are connected to the planet shaft, through the sun shaft which is fixed to a frame through bearings, and which also serves as a fulcrum. The lever arm is allowed to pivot slightly about the sun shaft via bearings, and thus to exert pressure against the 'floating' planet gears. The smaller Mercury gear receives the greater amount of the pressure, and imposes that dominant pressure upon the sun gear with which it is engaged, and causes the sun gear and any other wheels on the sun shaft to rotate away from the pressure. The sun sprocket, which shares the shaft with the sun gear, transfers that same rotational force via chain or non-slip belting, to the moon sprocket which is situated on the opposite flank of the planet shaft. The moon sprocket shares the same rotation with the moon gear. The moon gear transfers the rotation back to the Jupiter gear.
Which causes the Mercury gear to continue to climb the sun gear, and to perpetuate the process until pressure is changed or withdrawn.

2 A motor as defined in claim 1 in which the lever applying the necessary motive pressure is 'two-ended' in so far as it can exert pressure (through pushing and/or pulling) from either or from both ends of the extended lever.

3 A motor as defined in claim 2 in which an additional planet-moon set is engaged with the central sun assembly, and the chain or belting must extend to moon sprockets at both ends of the larger system.

4 A motor as defined in claim 2 or 3 in which an array of multiple planet shafts (i.e. three or more) and their assemblies are installed between two or more spider plates.

One moon shaft and its assembly must be loaded onto the static support frame for each planet shaft which is loaded onto the spider plate matrix so that maximal pressure and rotational transference occurs among all wheels.

A motor as defined in claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 4, in which at least one more set of gears and sprockets exists on each shaft (so that there is better ware performance and stability in the system, and a safer system.)

6 A motor as defined in claim 1, or 2, or 3, or 4, or 5, in which the sun sprocket is larger in radius than the sun gear, and the moon sprocket is proportionately larger than would otherwise be the case.

7 A motor as defined in claim 1, or 2, or 3, or 5, in which the sun wheel serves as both gear and sprocket. The moon sprocket and Mercury gear must be modified accordingly in order to accommodate the different design of cog and chain/belting.

8 A motor as defined in claim 4, in which, in addition to at least one chain/belt which cycles from the sun sprocket out to at least one moon sprocket, a peripheral chain is used to connect all moon sprockets, and thus to transfer that dominant rotational motion to all moon elements, and back in toward the center of the system.

9 A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 7, in which levers/leveraging arms are yoked to one another at one end or at both ends (to receive and to transfer pressure more evenly).

A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 9 in which pressure upon the planet shafts is induced through gravity upon one end of the planet levers.

11 A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 9 in which pressure upon the planet shafts is induced through gravity upon both yoked ends of the planet levers (where a pulley arrangement allows gravitational force to pull up instead of down on one end of the levers).

12 A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 9 in which pressure upon the planet shafts is induced through pneumatic 'ram' upon one end, or upon both ends of the planet levers.

13 A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 9 in which pressure upon the planet shafts is induced through hydraulic 'ram' upon one end, or upon both ends of the planet levers.

14 A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 9 in which pressure upon the planet shafts is induced through magnetic attraction upon one end, or upon both ends of the planet levers.

A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 9 in which pressure upon the planet shafts is induced through a floatation actuator upon one end, or upon both ends of the planet levers.

16 A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 9 in which pressure upon the planet shafts is induced through thermal expansion or contraction upon one end, or upon both ends of the planet levers.

17 A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 9 in which pressure upon the planet shafts is induced through increased or decreased barometric pressure upon one end, or upon both ends of the planet levers.

18 A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 9 in which pressure upon the planet shafts is induced through the input or output pressure induced by crystalline or biological growth or decay of a system or systems, upon one end, or upon both ends of the planet levers.

19 A motor as defined in any of claims 1 to 9 in which pressure upon the planet shafts is induced through increased or decreased muscle power of man or animal pressure upon one end, or upon both ends of the planet levers.