NL1034590C2 - DEVICE FOR GENERATING ENERGY FROM LIQUID PRESSURE. - Google Patents

Description

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Device for generating energy from fluid pressure.

The invention relates to a construction in which the pressure of a liquid, for example water, in a reservoir can be converted into energy. By assembling the device described below 5. a series of forces can be assembled which results in a rotating movement of an axis. The energy can be taken via this axis to drive another device. The device is designed as follows. A round disk (1) fixedly mounted on a shaft (2) located in the center of this disk. The disc is mounted perpendicular to the shaft.

The shaft rotates on bearings 2A and 2B. From the outside of the disc facing the center there is a rotatable shaft, (no. 3) rotatable on 2 bearings, (no. 4 and 5) connected to the disc. On this shaft there is a lever (No. 6) parallel to the shaft 2 on which the disk is mounted. The lever is supported on the shaft 3 by a support. (No. 7) There is a tooth sector on both sides of this lever (No. 8 and 9). The tooth sectors 8 and 9 are equally spaced from the shaft. 3 on which the lever turns. See figure 1. On both sides of the axis 3 there is an air chamber within a certain angle.

(No. 10 and 11). See Figure 2. An air chamber consists of a moving part, which hinges on one side, at a hinge point (12.1 and 12.2) on the side of shaft 3. This moving part is as it were a lid (no. 10a and 11a) This lid makes an angle of about 40 degrees from the minimum volume to maximum volume position.

The chamber further consists of a flexible part, so that the volume becomes larger and smaller with the movement of the lid. (bellows principle) 90 2.

The whole is designed such that the chamber closes on the central disk 1.

The two covers, i.e. air chambers, are mechanically connected to each other by means of a rod (No. 13) hingedly mounted on the covers. When one has the maximum volume, the other has minimum volume and vice versa. Both rooms are connected via a channel (no.14)

The enclosed air can move freely from one room to the other. The pressure difference on the covers determines which chamber 10 goes to maximum volume. The installation is in a liquid. The area of the covers in square cm. partly determines the force on the lids (air chambers)

The pressure per square cm. is determined by the height of the liquid column on a lid and the specific gravity of the liquid. Because both lids are a certain distance apart, the force difference is equal to the area per lid times the difference in height of the liquid column between the two lids times the specific gravity of the liquid.

20. Example: opp. 200 square cm. distance 15 cm sg. 1 Power 200 x 15 x 1 = 3000 grams.

The two air chambers (covers) are connected via rod no.13 on the covers.Fig.2. There is also a connection (no.15) between a lid of a chamber, via support 7 to lever 25. 6. The movement that causes the force difference on the lids is thus transferred to lever 6. See figure 1 Force difference occurs when one air chamber is above the other, this is the case when axis 3 is horizontal. Figure 3 A. Chamber 11 is now above chamber 30. The distance of 15 cm mentioned in the example. is the difference in height between the rooms. This 15 cm is 15 cm. liquid column. Room 10 is lower. The force on this is 15 x 200 = 3000 grams greater than in room 11.

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(see example sum) This force is transferred via rod 13 and 15 to support 7 to lever 6. This force will cause a rotating movement as described below. This rotating movement brings chamber 11 to 10.

5. Axis 3 is vertical. 3B. There is no difference in height, so there is no difference in strength either. When the rotating movement continues, room 11 comes under room 10. There is then again a height difference and therefore a power difference.

Axis 3 is horizontal again. The maximum difference is again 10.15 cm. however, now room 11 is lower and has a difference of 15 cm. (3C). The power difference is again 3000 grams.

The cycle is completed when the whole is turned further until the axis 3 is vertically upwards. (3D)

The difference in height is again zero, so the power difference is also zero. The following revolution follows.

The flywheel. FIG. 4 The rotating movement is maintained because a flywheel (no.16) coupled on shaft 2 absorbs power if there is a force difference between the two chambers and delivers power if there is no force difference. The rotating movement is initiated by placing the whole in position A or C, i.e. in the position that force is released according to Fig. 3 A-B-C-D. The revolving movement is caused by the tooth sectors 8 and 9 alternating between two gear wheels. On the side 25. of the gear sector 8 a gear wheel 17 and on the side of the gear sector 9 a gear wheel 18. These gear wheels are mounted on freewheel bearings 17A and 18A. The gears therefore run freely to one side. In situation A, chamber 10 transfers its force via connection 15 to support 7, to lever 30.6 to tooth sector 8 to gear wheel 17. Gear wheel 17 is pressed in the non-freewheel side and is fixed.

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In response, lever 6 now presses disc 1 down through bearing 5 and 4, and the rotating movement is created.

Gear 18 is pressed in the other direction, which is, however, the freewheel direction, and thus the disk 1 set in a rotating movement is not stopped. See figure 5. When the whole turns, 180 degrees further, an inverted position is created. (situation 3 C) Gear 17 comes in the freewheel position and gear 18 in the fixed position. The movement of disk 1 continues in the same direction. The movement of 1 air chamber from minimum to maximum is approximately 40 degrees. This movement is converted via the connection to the tooth sector and the gear into approximately half a revolution of the disc 1. Because the two air chambers always, together, have the same volume, an upward force is created as a result. Archimedes' law. This upward force must be switched off in order for the compressive forces in the rooms to perform as well as possible. For this purpose a counterweight (balance weight) is provided, connected to axis 2, in the same position as the air chambers (on the same side) as compared to the axis 2. Because the volume of the air chambers also moves from one to the other The balance weight will also have to move in the same room as the volume of both air chambers is shifted. Since in the situation of moving the air chambers downwards the upper air chamber receives the largest volume and there is no longer any force difference in the lower position, the rotating movement can stop, because the upward force produces an opposite force. The balance weight which rotates slower in the downward movement than the disk with the air chambers will have to turn the air chambers through the lower dead center 5.

so as to generate power again through the lower air chamber. The balance weight which rotates faster in the upward movement than the disk with the air chambers will have to rotate the air chambers through the upper dead center in order to allow force to be generated again by the lower air chamber. (is the other room) (It is also possible to take a balance volume instead of the balance weight. This will then have to be mounted opposite to the balance weight. It is 10. that the air volume of both air chambers is compensated, because of the balance.)

Front and trailing counterweight.

The counterweight is mounted on an arm that rotates freely about a hollow shaft (29). This shaft is coupled to shaft 2 of the air chamber disk, and rotates on fixed shaft (37) in this hollow shaft. The weight of the counterweight is approximately equal to the upward force exerted by the two air chambers. FIG.

A fixedly mounted sprocket (30) is mounted on the fixed shaft.

20. Chain (31) connects gear 30 with gear (32)

The number of teeth is the same. Spacer 33 determines the fixed distance between the gear wheels. Gear 32 is mounted in the spacer 33. The lever (34) is fixedly mounted on the gear 32. During the rotating movement of the spacer 33, the lever 34 always points to the left, in case it is mounted to the left, so always point the same way. FIG. Mounted at the end of lever 34 is a pin (35). This extends into slot (36) of the balance weight. With the rotating movement of the spacer, the balance weight now lags behind or anticipates that same rotating movement.

The fact that pin 35 can move freely in slot 36 has the result that the balance weight determines the position in the 6.

lower position (O.D.P.) and thus places the air chambers in the correct position, this is something due to the O.D.P. where the air chambers start to deliver power again.

In the B.D.P. the counterweight does not rest on the hollow shaft 5. but still pushes the air chambers further in the right direction. The length X of lever 34 determines how many degrees the balance weight is at the front or rear. The length X or the distance of the balance weight to the axle 29 also determines, partly due to the slot lengths of the two slots.

10.The pin shifts the balance weight slightly to the side, slightly horizontally, to slightly adjust the working torque. (more or less) For the operation, this is only important for a finer adjustment.

The device must furthermore comply with the following conditions. Because the air chambers and a number of moving parts rotate in a liquid, it is necessary to streamline as well as possible i.v.m. resistance in the liquid.

All moving parts must be well balanced so that no opposite or unintended movements take place.

20. Leaks in the air chambers must be prevented.

Any leaked liquid must be pumped away.

A slight overpressure in the rooms can also prevent leaks. Power delivery can be provided on 1 side of shaft 2. Can also be used on 2 sides with other versions.

25. The larger the installation, the greater the effect.

(20 meter diameter very powerful)

Multiple constructions (discs with chambers) next to each other give a greater capacity. When evenly distributed over 360 degrees, a more even course.

30.A construction with 2 disks and 4 chambers gives double power. In this case, if the chambers face each other (180 degrees), the counterweight can be partially or completely canceled.

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For the right balance, however, a mechanism must be built in that the chambers before and after rave to ensure that the chamber volumes are always 180 degrees opposite each other (after all, the chamber volumes are not always in the same place on the disk)

This for the right balance. Before and after construction as previously described. (approximately up to lever 34) 1034590

Claims (6)

Device comprising, in the single embodiment, a shaft with a disc provided thereon with two air chambers, within an angle of approximately 60 degrees. As the disc rotates, the pressure on the air chambers changes 5. and then gives one chamber more power and then the other. This interplay of forces gives the possibility of forming a circular motion. The whole is placed in a liquid. For example a reservoir. 2. Balance device which ensures that the upward force that is created by the two air chambers, which together always have approximately the same volume, is canceled, so that this force cannot disrupt the process. This balance device may consist of a balance weight outside the liquid reservoir, or a balance volume in the reservoir. 3. Lever system that ensures that the force is transferred from the covers to the gears to create the rotating movement. When there is pressure on the gear on one side, 20. the other side will run free and vice versa. The gear is mounted on a freewheel bearing. The lever system can be mounted both close to the disc in the fluid, or in the reservoir, as well as via a rod system through the shaft on which the disc 25. is mounted outside the fluid reservoir. 4. If several of the installation described are mechanically connected to each other via the shaft (2), for example by means of gears, the power output is increased. 1034590 When the coupling takes place over an imaginary circle, and the coupled installations, for example, are divided over 360 degrees, so every 90 degrees, there is no longer a dead end point in the drive. 5. The installation will therefore not stop at the lower dead center or upper dead center, but will continue to run because there is always a unit that keeps the multi-installation composition moving. The flywheel will then ensure smooth operation. 10. There are 4 installations listed, but this can be any number. 5. If there are several coupled installations, a flywheel is able to ensure a smooth running and the balance installation as described is less necessary. 15. 6. When a single installation is built in a revolving circular space in which also the fluid mass is located and rotates along with the disc and the chambers, the resistance as with rotation in stationary fluid will not be present and the loss due to friction will therefore be 20 be reduced. The chambers and the disk on which the chambers are mounted then rotate at the same speed as the liquid mass in which everything moves. 1634590