Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps – Float supported or buoyant runner
Patent
1978-12-22
1980-09-16
Smith, Leonard E.
Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps
Float supported or buoyant runner
415 91, 415193, 4151995, F01D 2528, F03B 304, F03B 316
Patent
active
042227003
ABSTRACT:
Turbine apparatus that includes a tubular housing, a rotor assembly drivingly mounted on a shaft and having a hub and a plurality of circumferentially spaced, generally V-shaped blades extending radially outwardly of the rotor hub, each rotor blade having first and second leg portions oppositely inclined relative to a plane perpendicular to the shaft that passes through the vertex of the blade, first and second stator assemblies on axially opposite sides of the rotor assembly that have a plurality of circumferential spaced blades that are respectively inclined relative to said plane at about the same angle as the adjacent set of the first and second leg portions, at least one stator assembly having the shaft rotatably extended therethrough, whereby the rotor assembly will be driven in the same direction whether fluid passes through the housing in one axial direction or the opposite axial direction. More than one set of first and second stator and rotor assemblies may be provided in the housing.
In a second embodiment the turbine apparatus is mounted on a float, for example a barge or ship, and the rotor assembly has gear teeth that drive a gear mounted in a gear housing.
REFERENCES:
patent: 135459 (1873-02-01), Yarrell
patent: 1396609 (1921-11-01), Weisenborn
Johnson Clayton R.
Smith Leonard E.
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