Power plants – Motor having a buoyant working member – Working member actuated by the rise and fall of a surface of...
Patent
1981-02-27
1986-12-09
Chambers, A. Michael
Power plants
Motor having a buoyant working member
Working member actuated by the rise and fall of a surface of...
60497, 290 53, F03B 1312
Patent
active
046272402
ABSTRACT:
A wave powered engine including a float that rises and falls by wave action and which is guided by rails attached to the sea bed to restrict the motion of the float to vertical motion. The float having variable buoyancy and a depending skirt to increase the thrust of the float on upward and downward power strokes, and means on a framework fixed to the ocean bed that cooperates with means fixed to the movement of a shaft as a result of the reciprocating movement of the float.
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Chambers A. Michael
Chickering Robert B.
Grunewald Glen R.
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