Prime-mover dynamo plants – Tide and wave motors
Patent
1975-06-20
1977-01-04
Tolin, Gerald P.
Prime-mover dynamo plants
Tide and wave motors
290 42, 417330, 60398, 60716, F03B 1312
Patent
active
040015971
ABSTRACT:
A plurality of base members are seated on an ocean bed adjacent the shore and they support at their shore ends normally expanded compression cylinders provided with fluid inlets and outlets controlled by check valves. The outlets are connected by conduits with the inlet of a turbine that is operatively connected with an electric generator. Rigid pressure plates are disposed above the base members and the cylinders thereon and are inclined downwardly from their shore ends to their opposite ends, where they are hinged to the off-shore ends of the base members. Waves passing over the pressure plates will force their upper ends down to compress the cylinders to force fluid through the conduits to the turbine, after which spring means will expand the cylinders and raise the pressure plates. The base members are located in such positions on the ocean bed that the pressure plates will be depressed in succession to provide substantially constant flow of fluid to the turbine. The turbine can be a water turbine alone, or there can be both a water turbine and an air turbine.
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