Power plants – Motor having a buoyant working member
Patent
1986-04-21
1987-12-22
Husar, Stephen F.
Power plants
Motor having a buoyant working member
F03B 1702
Patent
active
047139374
ABSTRACT:
A buoyancy engine having a plurality of vertically stacked drive units, immersed in a vessel of mercury, and rotatably mounted on axial drive shafts supported on sealed bearings in the vessel walls. The drive units are composed of capture modules, incorporating electromagnetic fields, fixed to the extreme ends of a plurality of arms extending from the drive shafts. The capture modules are designed to hold rigid-walled buoyant capsules injected through a pressurized airlock. When operating, drive units have capture modules moving upward, due to the buoyancy of the capsules, and empty capture modules moving downward. As a capture module containing a capsule reaches the top of its lifting arc, its electromagnetic field switches off and allows the capsule to be released into the next subsequent drive unit's lowermost capture module. As empty modules of the initial drive unit reach the bottom of their downward arc, the computer, programmed with the rotational speed of the drive unit, knows when the module is in position for capsule acquisition, and injects a capsule into the module, which then begins its ascent. Each drive unit is meshing-gear locked into synchronous rotation relative to other drive units. Modules containing capsules have great buoyancy and produce rotational force, transmitted through the drive unit's drive shaft axle, to turn the electric generator, or the like for supplying power for various uses. Capsules completing the power cycles through all drive units are removed through a vent in the top of the vessel and replaced in the magazine.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2135110 (1938-11-01), Platt
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