Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps – Float supported or buoyant runner
Patent
1977-12-14
1979-10-30
Powell, Jr., Everette A.
Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps
Float supported or buoyant runner
415 2, 60398, 290 42, 290 53, 417330, F04B 4806
Patent
active
041726898
ABSTRACT:
A device for deriving power from the energy of water waves, such as ocean waves, includes a buoyant support base, such as a raft, adapted for floating in open waters and having a keel extending from its bottom surface for stabilizing same in a horizontal position. A plurality of open funnels are mounted on the top surface of the base for collecting a wave and directing it into a manifold mounted at the small ends of the funnels for operating a turbine generator in communication with the manifold. The bottom walls of the funnels extend outwardly of their larger ends so as to define artificial shoals lying beneath the bottom surface of the raft and thus beneath the surface of the water. The shoals cause the waves to break into the funnels, the broken waves tumbling along the funnels and increasing in speed upon movement toward the smaller ends thereof. The smaller ends of the funnels are staggered relative to one another so as to funnel the water into the manifold at different intervals for constant operation of the blades of the generator.
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