Buoyancy engine utilizing linked lifting bodies

Details Buoyancy engine utilizing linked lifting bodies Buoyancy engine utilizing linked lifting bodies

1987-09-23

1988-05-03

Roskoski, Bernard

Prime-mover dynamo plants

Fluid-current motors

290 1R, 415 5, 60496, F03B 900

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047422424

ABSTRACT:
A buoyancy engine having a wheel, incorporating recesses on its periphery to contain linked buoyant lifting bodies, is attached by arms to a driveshaft and immersed in a vessel of liquid. The driveshaft is rotably mounted on sealed bearings in the vessel walls. The buoyant lifting bodies are linked into a continuous loop by flexible attaching hinges. The lifting bodies are introduced at the base of the wheel through an injection tube. The injection tube contains air injectors, powered by a compressor or blower, and the volume of air injected is controlled by a computer controller programmed with the amount of air required to allow the injection of the lifting bodies into the vessel, without significant loss of liquid from the vessel. When operating, the lifting bodies are injected into the vessel at a point below the wheel, and are held by the recesses on the wheel during their ascent through the liquid. As lifting bodies reach the top of their ascent, they are routed out of the vessel, over idler pulleys to the base of the vessel and are reintroduced through the injection tube. The buoyancy of the lifting bodies thus attached to the wheel imparts an upward rotary motion to the wheel, which energy is transmitted via the driveshaft to rotate an electric generator. The driveshaft may also be connected to other devices or apparatus, should it be so desired.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4135364 (1979-01-01), Busick
patent: 4326132 (1982-04-01), Bokel
patent: 4392062 (1983-07-01), Bervig

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