US852232A - Wave-motor. - Google Patents

Wave-motor. Download PDF

Info

Publication number
US852232A
US852232A US34419306A US1906344193A US852232A US 852232 A US852232 A US 852232A US 34419306 A US34419306 A US 34419306A US 1906344193 A US1906344193 A US 1906344193A US 852232 A US852232 A US 852232A
Authority
US
United States
Prior art keywords
float
column
wave
gear
motor
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired - Lifetime
Application number
US34419306A
Inventor
Ernest Kohler
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Individual
Original Assignee
Individual
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Individual filed Critical Individual
Priority to US34419306A priority Critical patent/US852232A/en
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of US852232A publication Critical patent/US852232A/en
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Expired - Lifetime legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03B—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS
    • F03B13/00—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates
    • F03B13/12—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy
    • F03B13/14—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using wave energy
    • F03B13/16—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using wave energy using the relative movement between a wave-operated member, i.e. a "wom" and another member, i.e. a reaction member or "rem"
    • F03B13/18—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using wave energy using the relative movement between a wave-operated member, i.e. a "wom" and another member, i.e. a reaction member or "rem" where the other member, i.e. rem is fixed, at least at one point, with respect to the sea bed or shore
    • F03B13/1845—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using wave energy using the relative movement between a wave-operated member, i.e. a "wom" and another member, i.e. a reaction member or "rem" where the other member, i.e. rem is fixed, at least at one point, with respect to the sea bed or shore and the wom slides relative to the rem
    • F03B13/187—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using wave energy using the relative movement between a wave-operated member, i.e. a "wom" and another member, i.e. a reaction member or "rem" where the other member, i.e. rem is fixed, at least at one point, with respect to the sea bed or shore and the wom slides relative to the rem and the wom directly actuates the piston of a pump
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/30—Energy from the sea, e.g. using wave energy or salinity gradient

Definitions

  • t My invention relates to wave motors. its
  • object is to provide a simple, practical apparatus for conserving and utilizing the energy of the waves; and especially for converting Wave energy into electrical energy for producing light, or for operating machines and industries of various kinds.
  • T'ie invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having relerenee to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my wave motor, partly'in section.
  • Fig. 2 is a plan view, showing general arrangement oldna chinery.
  • Fig. 3 shows a mmlified form for operating the bell.
  • l ig. et is a plan view of casting 3.
  • Fig. 5 shows general arrangement of a power station.
  • Fig. (i is a plan view of same. i
  • A represents a suitable platform or base supporting the iron post or column or tower This structure rests upon the botton where the apparatus is to be located, and the base is firmly anchored in suitable foundations, which ordinarily will he a rocky roof or other substantial support.
  • Column 2 is preferably composed of heavy channel irons and the parts are braced and made sulliciently strong and rigid to with stand the heaviest seas.
  • a buoy or lloat 3 Surrounding the central column or pillar 55, and slidable up and down thereon is a buoy or lloat 3 which has a shaft or stem '-l connected with it and extending up inside of the, column and the casil'ig 5, which latter houses The machinery.
  • the casing 5 is lixedly mounted on a platform. supported on. the column and disposed above the range of action of the waves.
  • the lloat I may be of any suitable construction. As here shown it comprises a sheet metal annulus clamped between the two castings 3 by means of the bolts 3.
  • the float has a free up and down sliding movement on the flanges of the column 2 by virtue of the.
  • rollers 6 the axles of which are jonrnalcd in the brackets 7 of the castings
  • the rod 4- l l I l is .laslened securely to the float and its upper end l'll'lllllltli-CS in the rack 4., which operates as the limit rises and falls on the gear 8 suit ably journaled in the casing 5.
  • the gear Soperates through its shaft and suitable clutch mechanism 9 to actuate a gear 10 which meshes a gear 11 on the crankshalt ol' the air compressor 12.
  • the mechanism 6 is a guide roller acting onthe rack to and charged to a certain pressure and carrying a suflicient supply, so that if the, waves are temporarily quiet, there will be a sufiicient pressure maintained in the reservoirs to continue the operation oi the mechanism or machineryadapted to be run by the appa ratus.
  • 14 represents a pressure gage and 15 a safety valve.
  • the casing which forms a housing for the mechanism is )IOVldGCl' with one or more closures or manholes 5, through which access maybe had to the interior of the casing.
  • the energy thus stored in the reservoirs may be. utilized for any desired purpose.
  • I have shown the apparatus adapted to operate a signal light 16, and a. warning bell 17. The light is o erated through suitable connection from the ynamo 18 which may be run from the tiu'bine 19; power to run the turbine being furnished by the air pressure in the reservoirs.
  • the lights may be arranged in any suit able manner, and there may be interposed in the electric lighting circuit the usual circuit breaker 2D and voltage regulator 21:
  • the bell may be operated automatically by a. variety of ways. In the present instance I have shown the bell as being sounded according as the float rises and falls by means of the cord 22 attached to the top of the rod 4, and passing over guide pulleys 2324-25 A: 26, and having a weight 27 attached to its other end.
  • the pulley .24 is provided with a series of pins '28 which act on the lever 29 to oscillate the bell and cause its hammer to sound the bell.
  • Fig. 3 l. have indicated a modification of the means for operating the bell in which the turbine shaft has a worm 30 to engage a. corresponding gear 31.
  • the shaft of this gear carries a pulley around which passes a rope or be t 22 to an upper pulley 24, which latter is providedv with pins 25. These pins 25 engage a lever-arm 29 to sound the bell in the manner already described.
  • the supporting structure for the compressors and exposed mechanism is sufficient to withstand the strain and bufleting to 1 which the apparatus may be subjected.
  • a wave-motor comprising a suitably supported vertical channel-iron-columu, a float slidably mounted on said column and having grooved rollers engaging the flanges of the column, said float comprising a buoyant annulus clamped between separable castings which surround the column and carry said rollers, and mechanism with operative connection with the float for storing the energy generated by the; rise and all of the float.
  • a wave-motor comprising a suitably supported vertical column, a float slidably mo inted thereon, a platform supported on the column above the float, said that comprising a buoyant annulus clamped between separable castings which surround the column, a rack-bar connected with the float, a gear mounted on said platform and engageable by said rack, said gear having a shaft, a loose-gear on said shaft, clutch-mechanism. for intermittently locking said loose gear to the shaft, an air-compress)! operably connected with said loose-gear, and means on the platform for storin the energy generated by said compressor.
  • a waveunotor a plurality of fixedly supported vertical columns carrying a platform, a float slid able on each of said columns, said float comprising a buoyant annulus clamped between separable castings which surround the column, an aircompressor corresponding to each float mounted on said platform, means'connected with the float for operating said compressors, a main-servicepipe receiving the compressed-air from said compressors, a series of connected reservoirs connected with said service-pipe, and motors operated by the energy stored in said reservoirs.

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Combustion & Propulsion (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Other Liquid Machine Or Engine Such As Wave Power Use (AREA)

Description

No. 852,232. PATENTED APR. 30, E. KOHLER.
WAVE MOTOR.
APPLICATION FILED NOV. so. 1906.
' s SHEEN-SHEET 1.
WITNESSES:
852,232. PATENTED APR. 30, 1907.
- B. KOHLERP WAVE MOTOR.
APPLICATION FILED NOV. 20, 1006.
3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.
' INVENTOR I M WITNESSES:
No. 852,281 PATENTED APR 30, 1907. B. KOHLER. WAVE MOTOR.
APPLICATION FILED 'NOV.20,1906.
IN VENTOR UNITED STATES Pd'liliitl *r or ERNEST KOIILER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
WAVEl-MOTOR.
Specification of Letters latent.
Patented April 30, 1907.
Application filed November 20, 1906. Serial No. 344,193.
t My invention relates to wave motors. its
object is to provide a simple, practical apparatus for conserving and utilizing the energy of the waves; and especially for converting Wave energy into electrical energy for producing light, or for operating machines and industries of various kinds.
T'ie invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having relerenee to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my wave motor, partly'in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view, showing general arrangement oldna chinery. Fig. 3 shows a mmlified form for operating the bell. l ig. et is a plan view of casting 3. Fig. 5 shows general arrangement of a power station. Fig. (i is a plan view of same. i
A represents a suitable platform or base supporting the iron post or column or tower This structure rests upon the botton where the apparatus is to be located, and the base is firmly anchored in suitable foundations, which ordinarily will he a rocky roof or other substantial support.
Column 2 is preferably composed of heavy channel irons and the parts are braced and made sulliciently strong and rigid to with stand the heaviest seas. Surrounding the central column or pillar 55, and slidable up and down thereon is a buoy or lloat 3 which has a shaft or stem '-l connected with it and extending up inside of the, column and the casil'ig 5, which latter houses The machinery.
The casing 5 is lixedly mounted on a platform. supported on. the column and disposed above the range of action of the waves. The lloat I; may be of any suitable construction. As here shown it comprises a sheet metal annulus clamped between the two castings 3 by means of the bolts 3. The float has a free up and down sliding movement on the flanges of the column 2 by virtue of the. rollers 6, the axles of which are jonrnalcd in the brackets 7 of the castings The rod 4- l l I l is .laslened securely to the float and its upper end l'll'lllllltli-CS in the rack 4., which operates as the limit rises and falls on the gear 8 suit ably journaled in the casing 5.
The gear Soperates through its shaft and suitable clutch mechanism 9 to actuate a gear 10 which meshes a gear 11 on the crankshalt ol' the air compressor 12.
6 is a guide roller acting onthe rack to and charged to a certain pressure and carrying a suflicient supply, so that if the, waves are temporarily quiet, there will be a sufiicient pressure maintained in the reservoirs to continue the operation oi the mechanism or machineryadapted to be run by the appa ratus. 14 represents a pressure gage and 15 a safety valve. The casing which forms a housing for the mechanism is )IOVldGCl' with one or more closures or manholes 5, through which access maybe had to the interior of the casing. The energy thus stored in the reservoirs may be. utilized for any desired purpose. In the present instance I have shown the apparatus adapted to operate a signal light 16, and a. warning bell 17. The light is o erated through suitable connection from the ynamo 18 which may be run from the tiu'bine 19; power to run the turbine being furnished by the air pressure in the reservoirs.
The lights may be arranged in any suit able manner, and there may be interposed in the electric lighting circuit the usual circuit breaker 2D and voltage regulator 21: The bell may be operated automatically by a. variety of ways. In the present instance I have shown the bell as being sounded according as the float rises and falls by means of the cord 22 attached to the top of the rod 4, and passing over guide pulleys 2324-25 A: 26, and having a weight 27 attached to its other end. The pulley .24 is provided with a series of pins '28 which act on the lever 29 to oscillate the bell and cause its hammer to sound the bell.
In Fig. 3 l. have indicated a modification of the means for operating the bell in which the turbine shaft has a worm 30 to engage a. corresponding gear 31. The shaft of this gear carries a pulley around which passes a rope or be t 22 to an upper pulley 24, which latter is providedv with pins 25. These pins 25 engage a lever-arm 29 to sound the bell in the manner already described.
Where this invention is to be used for generating ower for commercial purposes, I employ t e same principle of construction as will be seen by reference to Fig. 1. In this case though I may employ a multiple unit arrangement with'a plurality of masts 2', each provided with its individual float 34, and each float operating its individual compressor; the air supply from the several compressors leading to a common air trunk 32, which runs to the main land where the Various storage reservoirs 13 and motors 19 are located.
The supporting structure for the compressors and exposed mechanism is sufficient to withstand the strain and bufleting to 1 which the apparatus may be subjected.
Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to securr by Letters Patent is- 1. A wave-motor comprising a suitably supported vertical channel-iron-columu, a float slidably mounted on said column and having grooved rollers engaging the flanges of the column, said float comprising a buoyant annulus clamped between separable castings which surround the column and carry said rollers, and mechanism with operative connection with the float for storing the energy generated by the; rise and all of the float. l i
2. A wave-motor comprising a suitably supported vertical column, a float slidably mo inted thereon, a platform supported on the column above the float, said that comprising a buoyant annulus clamped between separable castings which surround the column, a rack-bar connected with the float, a gear mounted on said platform and engageable by said rack, said gear having a shaft, a loose-gear on said shaft, clutch-mechanism. for intermittently locking said loose gear to the shaft, an air-compress)! operably connected with said loose-gear, and means on the platform for storin the energy generated by said compressor.
3. In a waveunotor, a plurality of fixedly supported vertical columns carrying a platform, a float slid able on each of said columns, said float comprising a buoyant annulus clamped between separable castings which surround the column, an aircompressor corresponding to each float mounted on said platform, means'connected with the float for operating said compressors, a main-servicepipe receiving the compressed-air from said compressors, a series of connected reservoirs connected with said service-pipe, and motors operated by the energy stored in said reservoirs.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.
- ERNEST KOHLER. Witnesses:
JonN KUHL, Jonn OAKES.
US34419306A 1906-11-20 1906-11-20 Wave-motor. Expired - Lifetime US852232A (en)

Priority Applications (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US34419306A US852232A (en) 1906-11-20 1906-11-20 Wave-motor.

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US34419306A US852232A (en) 1906-11-20 1906-11-20 Wave-motor.

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
US852232A true US852232A (en) 1907-04-30

Family

ID=2920690

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
US34419306A Expired - Lifetime US852232A (en) 1906-11-20 1906-11-20 Wave-motor.

Country Status (1)

Country Link
US (1) US852232A (en)

Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4206601A (en) * 1978-06-26 1980-06-10 Benasutti Asst., Ltd. Compressed air producing, tidal and wave-power collection apparatus for installation in large bodies of water
US5167786A (en) * 1991-01-25 1992-12-01 Eberle William J Wave-power collection apparatus
US5986349A (en) * 1998-05-18 1999-11-16 Eberle; William J. Wave enhancer for a system for producing electricity from ocean waves
US20050237775A1 (en) * 2004-03-16 2005-10-27 Thomas Sabol Antirotational structures for wave energy converters
US20070089682A1 (en) * 2005-10-24 2007-04-26 Reynaldo Mariansky Integrated ocean wave harness unit
US20090072540A1 (en) * 2006-04-25 2009-03-19 Mccague James Movement and power generation apparatus
US20130341926A1 (en) * 2012-06-25 2013-12-26 John Edward Fay Wavewheel
US20160138556A1 (en) * 2010-06-09 2016-05-19 Michael Fuquan Lee Intelligent Control Wave Energy Power Generating System

Cited By (11)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4206601A (en) * 1978-06-26 1980-06-10 Benasutti Asst., Ltd. Compressed air producing, tidal and wave-power collection apparatus for installation in large bodies of water
US5167786A (en) * 1991-01-25 1992-12-01 Eberle William J Wave-power collection apparatus
US5986349A (en) * 1998-05-18 1999-11-16 Eberle; William J. Wave enhancer for a system for producing electricity from ocean waves
US20050237775A1 (en) * 2004-03-16 2005-10-27 Thomas Sabol Antirotational structures for wave energy converters
US7141888B2 (en) * 2004-03-16 2006-11-28 Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. Antirotational structures for wave energy converters
US20070089682A1 (en) * 2005-10-24 2007-04-26 Reynaldo Mariansky Integrated ocean wave harness unit
US20090072540A1 (en) * 2006-04-25 2009-03-19 Mccague James Movement and power generation apparatus
US7768143B2 (en) * 2006-04-25 2010-08-03 Mccague James Movement and power generation apparatus
US20160138556A1 (en) * 2010-06-09 2016-05-19 Michael Fuquan Lee Intelligent Control Wave Energy Power Generating System
US9790914B2 (en) * 2010-06-09 2017-10-17 Michael Fuquan Lee Intelligent control wave energy power generating system comprising a distance adjustor
US20130341926A1 (en) * 2012-06-25 2013-12-26 John Edward Fay Wavewheel

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US7948107B2 (en) Conversion of energy in waves and in tidal flow
US852232A (en) Wave-motor.
US7319278B2 (en) Ocean wave generation
US7188471B2 (en) Submersible power plant
JPH08210237A (en) Submarine hydraulic power plant
US7573147B2 (en) Gravity based power generator
EP2183436A1 (en) Buoyancy hydro power generator and method
US6476512B1 (en) Electricity generating wave pipe (or EGWaP)
EP3198138A1 (en) Submerged hydraulic air compressor with flowing water column with water suction pump
KR101505713B1 (en) A development device which uses the waves of the haesumyeon
US20140353976A1 (en) Hybrid Electro Magnetic Hydro Kinetic High Pressure Propulsion Generator
US875042A (en) Wave-motor.
US599756A (en) Wave-motor
US1377163A (en) Method and apparatus for deriving mechanical power from tides and waves
US1693125A (en) Tide-operated air compressor
WO2000017518A1 (en) Apparatus for harnessing wave energy
KR20140004454A (en) Power generating equipment using pneumatic and hydraulic
KR20000012441A (en) Method and device for generating electricity using hydraulic lift power turbine
WO1981001594A1 (en) Wave action generating system
KR101871824B1 (en) Tidal Current Power Device Having Inflatable Recovery Buoy
WO2019028492A1 (en) Gas buoyancy powered generator
GB2575336A (en) Subsea energy generation assembly utilising wave energy
WO2024042509A1 (en) Energy converting device
JP3243383U (en) Apparatus for producing electrical energy from sea wave energy and offshore energy islands
JP3806528B2 (en) Energy storage equipment