GB2580071A - Portable electricity generator - Google Patents

Abstract

A portable electricity generation wheel or machine which revolves on fixed axle supports, comprising a hollow wheel hub 4, numerous hollow spokes 13, 8, 10, 11 and a hollow wheel rim 1 at the spoke end 5. The machine parts remain filled with water, that is circulated through the parts by numerous pumps in the spokes working from an external power source which passes through electricity cables located at the centre of an external hub 4. The pressure of flow of circulating water activates numerous turbines 6, 15 in each of the spokes that also supply electricity to pumps, and revolve the wheel, the turbines thereby providing adequate power to drive the machine. The revolutions of the machine regularly position the spokes vertically, causing the downwards flow of circulating water in the spokes to increase pressure on the turbines by gravity effect, thereby providing some energy for industrial use which exits the machine via cables extending from the central hub 4.

Description

Portable Electricity Generator This patent specification describes an Electricity Generator that is a portable machine, for the provision of electricity in isolated areas, such as deserts and on sea surfaces, and particularly to work air pumps in great numbers, for producing liquid air, for forming ice sheets.

The machine has the form of a vertically positioned wheel, that is mounted upon an axle of two hollow external hubs and hub supports, to revolve. The hub supports are fixed to the ground. An electric motor in contact with the wheel periphery, causing the wheel to revolve, is fixed to the hub supports.

A number of hollow wheel spokes extend from the hollow hub axle to a circular tube, that is the wheel rim. The wheel rim and the spokes and the hollow hubs are connected together and revolve as one unit.

The circular tube or wheel rim and the hollow spokes are filled with water and the water flows and communicates within them. Each spoke is provided with a turbine placed between the hub and the rim.

As the wheel revolves at perhaps one revolution per minute, depending on the required rate of flow of the water, the spokes successively take up an inclined or nearly vertical position, and water flowing from the upper part of the wheel rim to the lower part, will cause the turbine in the spoke to operate, thereby producing electricity.

The liquid flowing from the upper part of the wheel rim, having flowed through a spoke and having operated an upper turbine, will flow through the hollow hub and enter a lower opposite spoke, and the provided turbine there will also be operated. All the turbines will be provided with a reverse direction of action means, for operation in the upper or the lower half of the wheel. 2.

The downwards flowing water will then come to the end of the spoke and it will re-enter the lower part of the circular tube or rim, mixing with water circulating in the rim, that is flowing upwards.

The water in the wheel rim is caused to circulate within and around the wheel rim and within and through the spokes by means of pumps that are located at a suitable position within each spoke. The pumps are positioned in pairs so as to pump water in opposite directions, according to the position of the revolving wheel.

The pumps receive external operating electricity from a power cable that connects to the central point of one of the external hubs, and thence to each spoke. The power cable receives energy from an electricity generator that operates on a supply of fuel or by batteries, that is not a part of the invention, to provide external power to the system, as being a requirement of physics law.

The electricity generator that operates on a supply of fuel must supply enough electricity to ensure that the invention has available,or produces by its turbines, all the electricity that it requires, to permit this invention to accomplish the following performance; 1. To replace most but not all of the amount of energy used as fuel.

2. To drive the eight water pumps.

3. To provide the circulation of water through the spokes and rim.

4. To drive the motor that makes the wheel revolve.

5. To drive the eight turbines by water pressure from the pumps.

6. To supply a required amount of electricity to industry, by driving other generators or air pumps.

The operation of the pumps, positioned within the spokes, creates a flow of water along the spokes, that operates an upper turbine, and this water then descends and operates the turbine of the lower opposite spoke. The pumps then cause the water to flow into the wheel rim where it mixes with an upwards circulation flow of water provided by the pumps.

Therefore, in the drawing Fig 1/1 of the generator, eight pumps activate 3.

eight turbines to obtain electricity, that replaces most of the external electricity available to start the machine, by working the pumps, by working the motor to turn the wheel, and by providing a circulation of water within the machine that works the turbines.

The amount of electricity obtainable depends on the diameter of the piping, that may be ten centimeters for a wheel of diameter one metre, that would represent a water load to be pushed by the pumps of nine kilograms per pump, through a length of one metre per pump. The turbines must correspond to these requirements and to the work effort that is required of them to produce electricity according to the amount of water pressure that must be applied to them to make them operate correctely. . Since it is believed that all energy expenditures have now been accounted and provided for in this description, it may be considered that some water pressure applied to operate the turbines will also derive as a gain in kinetic energy from the free fall of the water through each spoke by an effect of gravity, as this fall pressure on the turbines combines with the pumped water pressure on the turbines, thus producing a very considerable economy in the available external driving fuel.

This situation may be compared to that of a generator placed beneath the water-fall of a natural situation, a river, whereby energy is obtained for industry, and in the case of this invention, this industrial application has the form of an artificially created state with an economy improvement as its product.

Operation An externally supplied electricity cable coming from a fuel operated electricity generator, that connects to a central point of an external hub at indication 4 of Figure 1, supplies operating energy to a number of water circulation pumps at indications 13, 8, 10 and 11 of 4.

Figure 1, that operate in pairs for reverse action, and to a motor that makes the wheel revolve at its periphery.

The circulation pumps cause the water to flow from the circular tube or wheel rim indication 1, Figure 1, into the spokes at indications 13, 8, 10, 11, Figure 1, and through the turbine positioned within each spoke as at indication 15, Figure 1, making the turbines function.

The water flows through the hollow hub at indication 4, and through the turbine at indication 6, Figure 1. The water then flows into the wheel rim circular tube at indication 5, Figure 1, where it is raised to a pre-fall position by the circulation flow.

As the water leaves the spoke end at indication 5, Figure 1, a force of reaction will push upon the spoke in an opposite direction, and the wheel is helped to revolve on its axle in a clockwise direction.

Electricity cables will carry the electricity produced by the turbines to a central point of one of the two external hubs at indication 4, Figure 1, and thence to a point of consumption.

The produced electricity will be used for various requirements, such as for sharing electricity with another generator; in order to drive the pumps, to circulate the water, and in order to work the turbines, and to turn the wheel, so that most of the the electricity produced by a second linked generator may be used industrially, such as to work air pumps.

Purpose.

The main immediate purpose of this invention is to provide a means of creating ice sheets on land or sea surfaces, that will reflect solar heat, and so lower Earth temperature. Ice sheets may be created by supplying lay-outs of carton piping by paste extrusion machines, through which lay-outs of piping liquid air may be pumped. Frost and ice sheets will form on the carton piping and reflect solar heat.

The liquid air may be produced by lowering the temperature of air, by pumping, to minus two hundred degrees Celsius.

The present invention will economically supply the electricity required for this air pumping. 6.

Claims (11)

1. What I Claim is; 1. A combination of machine parts having the form of a wheel, that functions as a machine, making use of the potential energy of falls from the wheel upper rim of water, falls and water that are provided by the machine, as it transforms this potential energy into kinetic energy and electricity by the provision of a numberof turbines, over which the falling water flows, thereby operating the turbines and providing electricity, and providing an economic advantage, this situation being comparable to that of a generator placed beneath a water-fall in a natural situation, that of a river, whereby electricity is obtained for industry; the industrial application of this invention therefore having the form of an artificially created state with an economy improvement as its product.
2. 2. As 1, a combination of machine parts having the form of a wheel, that functions as a machine, and also making use of the energy provided by a number of pumps, as they produce a flow of water that passes over or through the turbines to exert a pressure of water that is sufficient to operate the turbines, and to produce electricity to partly power and drive the machine.
3. 3. As 1 and 2, wherein parts of the machine having the form and operation of a wheel include a water filled tubular circumferential rim for liquid circulation, and a plurality of hollow water filled spokes containing turbines for operation by flowing water, and pumps for water circulation around the wheel rim and through the spokes, and a hollow water filled external hub or axle.
4. 4. As 1, 2, and 3, wherein flowing water in the spokes and in the wheel rim causes the wheel to rotate due to the angular shape of the spokes and due to a force of reaction to the flow of water. 7.
5. 5. As 1,2. 3, and 4, wherein a motor in contact with the periphery of the wheel helps to make the wheel revolve, being fixed to the hub supports of the wheel.
6. 6. As 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and the means by which the turbines function, being successively placed beneath the fall and flow of the water to gain kinetic energy, by means of the rotation of the wheel.
7. 7. As 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and the means by which the water circulates around the wheel rim, due to the action of the pumps, resulting in a raising action of the water from the lower part of the wheel rim to the upper part, of water that had fallen or flown downwards, through the spokes.
8. 8. As 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. and 7, and the means by which electricity coming from an external source is available to work the pumps, being carried by cable to a central point of an external revolving hub, and thence extending to the pumps.
9. 9. As 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8, and the means by which electricity produced by the turbines is delivered by cables through the central point of a hub to a point of consumption.
10. 10. As 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. and 9, and the means by which a cable receives external energy from an electricity generator that operates on fuel, that is not a part of the invention, but only the external energy; the cable then passing this electricity from the external source to the central point of a hub of the invention and thence to the water pumps to work them, and to a motor causing revolutions, thereby respecting the law of conservation of energy.
11. 11. As 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. and 10, substantially as described.