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4295783 |
Fluid turbine
A fluid turbine designed for increased power output including an annular housing provided with a semispherical dome for directing incoming fluid flow from a fluid source in an angular and downward...
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4292535 |
Modular current power apparatus
A modular apparatus which converts the work of water flowing in a waterway into usable power. The apparatus comprises a plurality of modules, and each module comprises water contacting blades which...
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4288704 |
Wind driven generator with blade protecting means
A wind driven generator comprising a shaft having one end rotatably mounted in the apex of a conical wind deflector, a wind wheel keyed on the shaft in an open housing behind the deflector. An...
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4288703 |
Large diameter hydroelectric machine
An hydroelectric machine is disclosed wherein the rotor of an electric machine is arranged around the rotor of a hydraulic machine, the internal rotor comprising the turbine blades which engage the...
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4284899 |
Gravity fed power generator
A power supply generator system including a fuel cell, an impulse turbine, an electrolyzer and a regulator battery which serve to supply each other and a consumer with energy. The fuel cell...
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4284900 |
Closed loop energy conversion system
An energy conversion system utilizing gravity flow of water from a high elevation to sea level utilizing gravity to provide large pressure gradients in pipe lines as large quantities of water move...
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4282444 |
Method for deep shaft pumpback energy generation
A method and apparatus are disclosed for converting the potential energy stored in an upper reservoir of water into electrical energy, whereby, during periods of high energy demand, water is...
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4276481 |
Fluid velocity actuated structure for a wind mill/water wheel
A fluid velocity actuated structure for a wind mill/water wheel, comprising an elongated cylinder with blades/fins hingedly supported thereon. When exposed to the driving force the one blade/fin...
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4274009 |
Submerged hydroelectric power generation
Electric power is generated by power generators submerged to a substantial depth in a body of moving water. The generators are housed in bodies configured to create a large pressure differential...
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4272686 |
Apparatus for converting hydraulic energy to electrical energy
An improved electric power plant (10) includes a water turbine (30) and a drive wheel (34) contained within a housing (22) for converting hydraulic energy to electrical energy. The housing (22)...
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4270056 |
Undershot current motor
An undershot current motor is provided wherein a horizontal drive shaft is mounted on a float moored or anchored in moving water, the drive shaft being transverse to the moving water below, the...
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4262211 |
Liquid storage device and energy generator
A system of floating, elongate, liquid storage containers are arranged in circular fashion for rotation about a generator positioned centrally of the system. The containers may be floated in...
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4262210 |
Devaporizer-windmill system and apparatus
A devaporizer-windmill system wherein a rotary fan-like separator and motor-generator functions as a vertical, wind-powered, electric generator which also dehumidified the through going air and...
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4258271 |
Power converter and method
A method of and apparatus for increasing the power output of an impeller which is mounted in a stream of free flowing fluid, such as water or air. A portion of the free flowing fluid is received by...
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4248043 |
Apparatus for storing energy and generating electricity
Disclosed is apparatus for storing energy and generating electricity. The apparatus comprises (1) first means (10) for storing energy in the form of compressed gas and (2) second means (12) for...
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4241283 |
Hydro-electric power plant
A hydro-electric power plant for use in any location having flowing streams of water including a diversion dam which extends part way into the flowing stream to divert water to a spillway which...
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4224527 |
Fluid flow intensifier for tide, current or wind generator
A method is described of intensifying a relatively slow speed natural substantially horizontal flow of a natural fluid, such as a tidal flow, as opposed to a tidal rise, or a river flow, the...
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4219304 |
Water turbine
This turbine is pontoon supported on a body of water, and it consists primarily of a pair of angularly disposed and spaced-apart rotors, which when in operation, will cause a minimal amount of...
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4211076 |
Energy convertion engine
The present invention provides a new method of obtaining energy without using fuels. Basically the device consists of a conveyor belt that contains a continuous arrangement of cells or pockets that...
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4210821 |
Apparatus for extracting energy from movement of water
This invention relates to apparatus for converting into useful energy movements imparted thereto by movement of water, preferably sea waves and/or sea currents, the apparatus comprising two or more...
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4208873 |
Fluid flow energy extracting device or wind dam
A device for extracting energy from gaseous or liquid fluid flows, comprising two or more foils having openings on the foils' outer surface to tap the low and high pressures created by the fluids...
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4205943 |
Hydro-electric generator
The efficiency of a hydro-electric generator is improved by providing open-ended hollow tubes having influx ends proximate the axis and efflux ends proximate the periphery of a fan-bladed turbine....
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4193265 |
Transducer for converting the energy of ocean currents
A transducer for converting the energy of ocean currents to the energy of a high-pressure fluid comprises a plurality of transducer units each including a sea-water channel, a plenum room overlying...
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4188546 |
Hydraulic turbine with vertical axis
A hydraulic (water) turbine for the generation of electrical power has a single vertical shaft upon which are mounted the turbine rotor, the flywheel, the generator rotor, the oil pump, and the...
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4182123 |
Hydraulic power plant
A hydraulic power plant has a reservoir with a dam wall, a water turbine connected to a generator, a penstock extending from the reservoir to the water turbine and passing over the dam wall without...
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4163905 |
Electric generating water power device
A submerged water power machine in which a plurality of vertical blades are connected to two endless chains, one located at the top ends and the other located at the bottom ends of the blades. The...
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4163904 |
Understream turbine plant
An understream turbine plant is provided for generating electrical power by means of the flow of an understream effluent, such as the Gulf Stream off the Atlantic seaboard coast. Each turbine plant...
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4156347 |
Process for actuating a hydraulic prime mover through conversion of energy in water current
Process for actuating a hydraulic prime mover through conversion of energy in water current wherein the arrangement for carrying out the process comprises at least one set of three coaxially...
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4151424 |
Apparatus for utilization of energy from fluids
Improved apparatus for withdrawing useful energy from a fluent medium, the apparatus comprising supports with tension members spanning the distance between them, foils distributed along the tension...
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4151423 |
Flowing saline water magnetohydrodynamic electric generator
A magnetohydrodynamic electric generator for the direct energy conversion of the kinetic energy of saline water flowing through a magnetic field, preferably in the constricted part of a duct. Means...
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4149092 |
System for converting the randomly variable energy of a natural fluid
Emitters and rotary hydraulic displacement pumps are associated with one or a number of propeller-type transducers and connected to receivers each having a rotary hydraulic displacement motor...
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4142823 |
Current power plant
A current power plant including a shaft mounted turbine wheel for employment in water current, a housing adjacent said impellar and to which the shaft extends, a ramp positioned on the upstream...
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4142367 |
Domestic water pressure-flow powered generator system
A fluid motor including a rotatable output shaft and a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet is provided for serial connection in a domestic water system supply pipe. A rotary electrical generator is also...
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4135364 |
Air lift pump energy conversion apparatus
This apparatus has a plurality of vertical lift tubes immersed in water and arranged to discharge water into a hood at their upper ends for driving a turbine-like fluid motor. Each lift tube...
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4128800 |
Vehicular battery charging system
A vehicular battery charging system particularly adapted for railroad cars such as cabooses, in which an axle drive/hydraulic pump unit is coupled to the end of an axle via a flexible coupling and...
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4118636 |
Thermal air powered electric generator system
In combination, a generally conical structure for collecting air and providing a confined space for solar heating of such air, connected, at the upper end of the conical structure, with a...
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4104536 |
Stream -or river-powered turbine
A stream -or river-powered turbine consists of an elongated cylinder with radially-extending vanes, each vane having at its root a plurality of axially-spaced flap valves opening and closing...
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4102291 |
Electrical generator for a sailboat
A sailboat is provided with an electrical generator that is connected to its on-board battery. A propeller immersed in the water is connected via a flexible shaft to the input of this generator so...
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4095422 |
Vertical-axis composite swinging-blade water wheel
This invention relates to an improved vertical swinging-blade water wheel for converting a kinetic energy of a substantially horizontal stream into mechanical energy in which a pair or pairs of...
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4095918 |
Turbine wheel with catenary blades
A turbine wheel on a horizontal axis is coaxially mounted within a primary nozzle, for support in a fluid current below a platform carrying electrical power generation equipment. The turbine wheel...
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4053253 |
Power generating apparatus
A power generating apparatus, the construction and size of which may vary from a relatively small domestic version for individual homes to a larger commercial version for power stations, comprises...
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4053787 |
Modular hydroelectric power plant
A modular hydroelectric power plant which converts energy of water flowing in a stream into electric power. The plant comprises a plurality of modules which are removably mounted on piers embedded...
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4049300 |
Fluid driven power producing apparatus
An apparatus for generating electric current by the force of a fluid in motion. The device comprises a support structure; two substantially parallel axles positoned in an alterable vertically...
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3986787 |
River turbine
A turbine wheel on a horizontal shaft is coaxially mounted within a primary nozzle, for support in a river current below a platform carrying electrical power generation equipment. The turbine shaft...
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3984698 |
Waterwheel driven electrical generator
An electrical generator system including a waterwheel apparatus as a prime mover. The waterwheel apparatus as a plurality of pivoted buckets mounted in circumferentially spaced relation around a...
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3980894 |
Flow tubes for producing electric energy
An apparatus for producing electrical energy from unused, wasted, running rivers, ocean tides, and the like without creating any air pollution or harming the environment; the apparatus consisting...
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3978345 |
System for utilizing energy in a fluid current
Foil elements capable of generating lift forces and converting such forces into rotational movement of a body are suspended and submerged in a flowing stream or fluid current. Control means are...
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3974396 |
Electric generator arrangement
An electric generator arrangement has at least two wind or water wheels rotatably mounted on a common stationary shaft and coupled such that they rotate in opposite directions with a given ratio or...
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3970859 |
Hydro-electric generation of power from small bodies of water
The following specification discloses a means of converting a head of water from a lake into electric power by directing a flow of water onto a turbine disposed in a crib built below the floor of...
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3958130 |
Hydroelectric generating system
A hydroelectric generating unit includes a generator shaft about which buckets are pivotally mounted on a common carrier for travel in a common path at equal angular intervals. The bucket carrier...
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