RU2717730C2 - Hydraulic ball engine - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: electricity.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to devices for producing electrical or mechanical energy. Hydrostatic engine comprises at least one water intake pipe for feeding water into buckets of at least one vertical elevator from side of its at least one drive sprocket, rigidly fitted on the drive ball-bearing shaft, on which at least one driving sprocket of the vertical ball-lifting elevator is rigidly mounted, vertical ball-lifting elevator comprising upper ball-feeding sprocket, rigidly mounted on driven power shaft with flywheel and connected via flexible gear to lower ball-bearing sprocket, guide chute through which balls move away from driving sprocket of globose-lifting conveyor to upper sprocket, ball-lifting elevator, through which balls from upper sprocket extend to lower sprocket, from which balls on supply chute are diverted to driven sprocket of ball-lifting elevator. Weight of water collected in buckets is at least twice less than weight of balls located in ball-lifting elevator. Diameter of drive sprocket of elevator is at least twice larger than diameter of driving sprocket of ball-lifting elevator.

EFFECT: invention is aimed at increasing the amount of mechanical or electrical energy.

7 cl, 13 dwg

Description

Technical field

The proposed invention relates to devices for generating electrical or mechanical energies where the initial force for its production is water.

In more detail, the proposed invention relates to engines for converting water energy into electrical or mechanical energy.

The proposed invention relates to hydropower equipment and construction and is intended to produce energy in which the working fluid (initial force) is water, with the help of which electrical or mechanical electrical energy is extracted.

Prior art

In the modern World, there are many bucket conveyors (elevators) with which earthmoving and loading and unloading operations are performed. One of them is a grain loader (see Agricultural machinery and implements, under the editorship of K.A. Polevitsky, SELKHOZGIZ, Leningrad, 1960, pp. 386-387). His work consists in the fact that on both sides of his main bucket, using the right and left augers, wraps grain onto the main bucket conveyor, which is located in the middle, with the right and left augers, which can also be fed with the self-propelled movement of the grain loader forward. The bucket elevator is connected to an electric motor through a star-belt transmission, which drives it. The elevator transports the grain to the top where it throws the grain from the bucket to an ordinary rubber transport conveyor, which is driven by another electric motor, and then to the car or simply to the ground to form a new pile of grain.

In my proposed invention, water is self-loaded into the bucket conveyor due to its (own) gravity, setting it in motion, and with it the shaft on which the load-carrying conveyor with a load-bearing sprocket and a load made in the form of a core (ball, for example, understand , from where the terms used in this description originate: hydrospherical or hydronuclear, which are identical synonyms, moreover, the wording of the load-giving in this invention has synonyms ball-feeding or nucleus-feeding. Since the ode in the bucket conveyor tends to go down, the cores in the load conveyor tend to go up due to a one-time difference in diameter between the bucket sprocket and the load conveyor. Water in the bucket, when it goes down the conveyor, drops out and goes further along the river, stream, canal, etc. Cargo on the other hand, made in the shape of a core (ball), rising to the top it continues the path along the given route, according to my invention, as a result of which mechanical energy will be generated, which can be easily converted into electrical energy. The route of the ball will be described in detail later in the present description.

The second, vaguely reminiscent action in my invention is a water mill wheel, see patents Nos. US412, US4517, which, when water enters its blades, starts to spin it, turning the shaft on which it sits with which they receive mechanical energy, which can also be converted, without much effort, into electrical energy. Water, having slipped off the blades of the mill wheel, continues its movement further down the stream, river and its channel, irrigation canal, in a word - along any water artery. My proposed invention also uses the energy of water that has fallen into the conveyor bucket, descending to a certain lower point, is self-emptying from the bucket and goes further down the water artery.

Consider my proposed invention in more detail.

The essence of the invention

The objective of the proposed invention is to increase the extraction of the amount of mechanical or electrical energy from 1 m ^{3 of} water.

Another objective of my invention is the development of new engines for converting water energy into mechanical or electrical electricity, the use of which allows to increase the extraction of energy from 1 m ^{3 of} water.

Other objectives and advantages of my invention will be disclosed below as the present description and figures.

When considering an example of my proposed invention, narrow terminology is used. However, the proposed invention is not limited to the accepted terms and it should be borne in mind that each such term covers all equivalent elements that work in a similar way and are used to carry out the same tasks.

So, according to the proposed invention, a hydrospherical engine, characterized in that it contains:

- at least one water intake pipe for supplying said water to the buckets of at least one vertically located bucket water elevator from the side of at least one driving sprocket fixedly mounted on a leading spherical shaft on which at least one leading sprocket of vertically located ball elevator, while the diameter of the drive sprocket of the elevator is at least two times the diameter of the drive sprocket of the ball elevator,

- a vertically arranged ball feed conveyor comprising an upper ball feed sprocket, rigidly mounted on a driven power shaft with a flywheel and connected through a flexible gear to a lower ball feed sprocket,

- a guide chute along which the balls extend from the leading sprocket of the ball-lifting conveyor to the upper sprocket of the ball-feeding conveyor,

- the weight of the water collected in the buckets of the elevator is at least two times less than the weight of the balls located in the ball elevator,

- a ball-accompanying elevator along which the balls from the upper sprocket of the ball-feed conveyor go to the lower ball-feed sprocket from which the balls along the inlet chute the balls are relegated to the driven sprocket of the ball-lift conveyor along the inlet chute.

Also, according to the proposed invention, the engine comprises a ratchet sprocket with a lock, sitting on the drive sprocket of a ball-lifting conveyor.

Also, according to the proposed invention, the engine comprises a base with support columns arranged thereon for mounting the engine.

Also, according to the proposed invention, the intake pipe contains a water supply tap.

Also, according to the proposed invention, the engine contains an electric energy generator connected to the power shaft.

Also, according to the proposed invention, the generator is connected via a cardan transmission to the power shaft.

List of figures

FIG. 1 is a view from the left side of the proposed invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a top view with the arrangement of two ball-feeding and ball-tracking mechanisms.

FIG. 4 is a view from the right side of FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 is an end view of FIG. 1, that is, directly, without a view of the dam and the intake pipe.

FIG. 6 is a view of FIG. 5, with a truncated view of them of the proposed invention.

FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the top of FIG. 1.

FIG. 8 shows a ball feed elevator from a cargo trough to a drive ball-lifting sprocket.

FIG. 9 is a side view of FIG. eight.

FIG. 10 is a plan view of FIG. eight.

FIG. 11 - shows the intake ladles sitting on a chain,

FIG. 12 is a side view of FIG. eleven.

FIG. 13 is from above FIG. 11 with an asterisk sitting on the shaft.

In the above figures 1-13, the following designations of parts and mechanisms are shown:

1 - water level in the water body of the river;

2 - dam (dam);

3 - water intake pipe;

4 - crane;

5 - water guide pipe;

6 - bottom;

7 - the basis for the installation of the proposed invention;

8 - mounting pole bucket water elevator;

9 - leading spherical shaft;

10 - bearing housing with a bearing;

11 - ratchet sprocket ball conveyor;

12 - latch (tongue) ratchet sprocket;

13 - the leading sprocket of a bucket water elevator;

14 - bucket water elevator;

15 - water intake bucket;

16 - driven shaft bucket water elevator;

17 - core (ball);

18 - driven shaft ball-lifting conveyor;

19 - chain ball-lifting conveyor;

20 - a leading spherical asterisk;

21 - driven ball-lifting sprocket;

22 - inlet trough;

23 - ball lift;

24 - a directing trench;

25 - spherical spore elevator;

26 - spherical chain;

27 - upper spherical sprocket;

28 - power shaft;

29 - lower ball bearing shaft;

30 - lower spherical sprocket;

31 - flywheel;

32 - mounting pole spherical conveyor;

33 - mounting pole ball-lifting conveyor;

34 - flywheel mounting post;

35 - cardan connection;

36 - generator;

37 - generator platform;

38 - output wires of the generator;

39 - ball-lifting bar;

40 - driven sprocket of a bucket elevator;

41 - supporting column of the generator.

Also in FIG. 3 Roman numbers I and II depict:

I - the first unit (engine) of the invention;

II - the second unit (engine) of the invention.

The operating procedure of the proposed invention and its device

As can be seen from FIG. 1, the water level 1 behind the dam 2 is located above the location of the hydrospherical engine (GSH). Dam 2, equipped with a water intake pipe 3, with a crane 4 and a water guide pipe 5.

Due to the presence of a water level 1 behind the dam 2, water through the intake pipe 3 enters through the water guide pipe 5 into the buckets 15 of the bucket water elevator 14. The elevator 14 consists of a leading 13 and a driven 40 sprockets, which are connected by a chain 14. In this case, the leading sprocket 13 is located in the upper part of the elevator 14 and sits rigidly on the leading spherical shaft 9, and the driven sprocket 40 is located in the lower part of the elevator 14 and sits on the driven shaft 16.

When the buckets 15 are filled with water, the elevator 14 starts to roll the shafts 9 and 16 due to the gravity of the water in the buckets 15. The bucket 15 with water reaching down to the pick-up point, due to the location of the driven sprocket 40 at the bottom of the elevator 14. Water is drained from the bucket 15 and continues its journey through the waterway.

Thus, the elevator 14 with buckets 15 moves, moving the shafts 9 and 16 in a circular motion. The crane 4 in this case serves to rationally supply water to the buckets 15.

The rotating ball-feeding shaft 16 transmits its rotation to the leading ball-raising sprocket 20, which is connected to the driven ball-raising sprocket 21 through a chain 19 of the ball-raising conveyor through which the balls 17 are fed to the leading ball-raising sprocket 20 from which the balls are moved along the guide groove 24 to the upper ball-giving sprocket 27, which connected through a ball-feeding chain (transmission) 26 to the lower ball-feeding sprocket 30.

The chain 19 of the ball conveyor is equipped at a certain interval (which depends on the diameter of the balls 17 and to ensure their effective lifting) with ball-lifting bars 39, fixed to the chain 19 cm. FIG. 8, 9, 10 through which the balls 17 are lifted to the top by a ball-lifting elevator 23, which is bolted to the support posts 33 and 8, the ball-lifting elevator 23 does not allow the balls 17 to jump out of the chain 19 during their lifting to the leading ball-lifting sprocket 20.

The driven sprocket 21 is fixedly mounted on the driven shaft 18. The inlet chute 22 contains a ball drive 17 for supplying and loading balls made in the form of a radial bend of the inlet chute 22.

Spherical conveyor consists of upper 27 and lower 30 spherical sprockets, which are connected through spherical chain 26 with spherical bars.

Balls 17 extending from the driven sprocket 21 along the guiding groove 24 go to the upper spherical sprocket 27, which is rigidly fitted to the power shaft 28 with the flywheel 31. As a result, the sprocket 27 starts to rotate and rotates the power shaft 28, while the flywheel 31 increases the inertia of rotation of the power shaft 28 from the power shaft 28 is the selection of mechanical or electrical energy. Electric energy is generated by a generator 36, which is connected via a cardan joint 35 to a power shaft 28. The generator 36 is installed on a platform 37, which is mounted on supporting posts 41.

From the upper sprocket 27, the balls 17 are retracted along the ball guide chain 26 with ball guide bars to hold the balls 17 along the ball spherical elevator 25 to the lower sprocket 30 which rotates the movement of the balls 17 along the inlet chute 22 to the driven sprocket 21 of the ball-lifting conveyor and the engine cycle is repeated.

The power shaft 28 sits on bearings in the housing 10, and they, in turn, are fixed by means of bolted joints on mounting posts 32 and 34. Then, through a cardan drive 35 they are connected to the generator 36, bolted to the generator platform 37, and so to the generator column 42.

Now that we know the main device of the proposed invention, we proceed to its work.

The main working conditions of the proposed invention:

- the diameter of the drive sprockets of the bucket elevator must be at least two times larger than the diameter of the drive ball-sprocket,

- the amount of water collected in the elevator buckets should be half the amount in kilograms of the weight of the shells sitting on the slats of the chain.

This means, as seen in FIG. 1, the right bucket part of the elevator 14 sitting on the drive sprocket 13, by weight of water, should be 2 times less than the weight of the balls 17 sitting on the left side of the ball-feeding sprocket 20.

Depending on the fastening of the ball-lifting bars 39, the chain step (the distance between them), balls 17 are weighted and weighted, given that at least three balls 17 will be constantly present in the cargo chute 22.

Now the very work of my proposed invention. The water located behind the dam 2, due to the fact that its level is higher than the main drain pipe through the pipe 3 through the valve 4 regulating its entry through the pipe 3 into the water guide pipe 5, fills them one by one as they lower down the buckets 15 by turning the elevator 14 of the sitting elevator, on the one hand, on the driving sprockets 13 of the elevator 14, and those, in turn, on the leading spherical shaft 9 sitting on bearings 10, mounted to their mounting posts 33 and 8, on the other hand, the elevator 14 sits on the driven sprockets 40 sitting on the driven shaft 16, also in housings under Shipnikov 10 and on the mounting posts 8 rotates the elevator 14, and with it the shafts 9, 16, 18 clockwise to the right.

Balls 17 are used as a moving load, which gradually from the inlet chute 22 falling onto the ball-raising bars 39, the ball-lifting chain 19, which in the upper part is fixedly mounted on the drive ball-bearing shaft 9, with asterisks 20, and in the lower part on the driven ball-raising sprocket 21, sitting on the driven shaft of the ball-lifting conveyor 18.

In order to prevent the balls 17 from being able to counter-flow, a ratchet sprocket 11 is provided in the ball-lifting elevator 23, which abuts rigidly to the leading ball-raising sprocket 20.

Ball 17, having reached its highest lifting point due to its inertial force acquired when passing a semicircle on the sprocket 20 and the gravity present in any object due to its round shape along the guide groove 24, under a slight slope from top to bottom, rolls over to the ball-supporting elevator 25. Once in the ball 17 almost immediately hits the ball guide bars 39, chains 26 are further due to its gravity and the acceleration of free fall in the ball guide 25, ball 17 goes its short definite path about ruchivaya thereby sharopodayuschuyu right upper sprocket 27 and a power shaft 28 with flywheel 31.

From the ball-accompanying elevator 25, the ball 17 falls on the roundness of the lower ball-forming sprocket 30, sitting on the lower shaft 29. Having described the semicircle around their circles, the ball 17 acquires an inertial force tending to escape from the direction of movement specified by the asterisks 30. With these characteristics, the ball 17 makes a take-off from the bars of the ball-feeding chain 26 into the groove 22. The groove 22 has a slope, see FIG. 3 and bending (storage), see FIG. 2.

Thus, the ball 17 overcomes the rise in the chute 22 and under a different slope of the chute 22, collects up to 3 pieces in the drives near the ball lift 23, due to the slope of the chute 22, the balls 17 are pressured against each other, which ensures uninterrupted loading of the balls 17 into the ball lift 23.

This ensures the movement of the ball 17 in a closed circle while rotating the drive power shaft 28 with the flywheel 31 located on it. A generator 36 is connected to the power shaft 28 through a cardan joint 35, which rotates to produce the electricity we need.

Thus, the main engine generates mechanical energy, and the electric energy is produced from it.

According to the author of the general design documentation, due to its characteristics: openness in service staff, unpretentiousness in work, cheapness in mass production, when using a cubic meter of water in the calculation to produce electricity, compared to existing methods for generating electricity from hydroelectric power plants, it can generate 1.5 times more electricity . And this means that the use of water resources will be 1.5 times more efficient, which is also an undoubted advantage of the proposed invention. When using the proposed invention, it is difficult to imagine a more careful attitude to ecology and the resources of mother nature, since the upper layers of water will be used for their work, less to injure water inhabitants if appropriate filters are installed in front of the intake pipe.

The ability of the main road storage system to work as in reservoirs, ponds, rivers, streams, makes it more universal and gives it many unknown advantages about which we still do not expect.

The universal ability of the proposed invention lies in the fact that it can be used at existing hydropower plants by placing it behind existing dams on suspended platforms or creating stationary conditions for it, which makes it possible to obtain more electricity without modernizing existing hydropower plants, which is also an advantage of the proposed invention.

It is clear that the invention is not limited to the options that were provided by me.

In the example of FIG. Figure 3 shows the possibility of having one source of water intake, the ability to increase the number of power units of the main engine from two or more, both to the right and to the left.

Technical result

The technical result of the proposed invention is the creation of a hydrospherical engine the use of which allows to increase the amount of mechanical or electrical energy obtained from 1 m ^{3 of} water.

Claims (12)

1. Hydrospherical engine, which is characterized in that it contains: - at least one intake pipe for supplying water to the buckets of at least one vertically located bucket water elevator from the side of at least one driving sprocket, rigidly mounted on a leading spherical shaft, on which at least one leading sprocket is also rigidly mounted located ball hoist elevator, while the diameter of the drive sprocket of the elevator is at least two times the diameter of the drive sprocket of the ball hoist, - a vertically arranged ball feed conveyor comprising an upper ball feed sprocket, rigidly mounted on a driven power shaft with a flywheel and connected through a flexible gear to a lower ball feed sprocket, - a guide chute, along which the balls extend from the leading sprocket of the ball-lifting conveyor to the upper sprocket of the ball-feeding conveyor, - the weight of the water collected in the buckets of the elevator is at least two times less than the weight of the balls located in the ball elevator, - a ball-tracking elevator, through which the balls from the upper sprocket of the ball-feed conveyor go to the lower ball-feed sprocket, from which the balls are guided along the inlet chute to the driven sprocket of the ball-lift conveyor. 2. The engine according to claim 1, containing a ratchet sprocket with a latch sitting on the drive sprocket of a ball-lifting conveyor. 3. The engine according to claim 1, comprising a base with supporting columns arranged thereon for mounting the engine. 4. The engine of claim 1, wherein the water intake pipe comprises a water supply tap. 5. The engine according to claim 1, containing an electric energy generator connected to the power shaft. 6. The engine according to claim 5, in which the generator is connected via a cardan transmission to the power shaft. 7. The engine according to claim 1, in which the inlet chute from the location of the driven sprocket of the ball-lifting conveyor comprises a ball drive made in the form of a radial bend of the chute.

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