PADDLE - WHEEL WITH SYNCHRONIZED ROTATION BETWEEN ROTOR AND PADDLES
ΗIDRAULIC GENERATOR OF ROTOR AND MULTIPLE PADDLES WITH SYNCHRONIZED ROTATIONBETWEENROTORANDPADDLES"
The present invention refers to the rotor and multiple paddles hydraulic rotor with synchronized rotation between rotor and paddles that takes advantage of the superficial or submarine currents of the sea as well as the superficial or deep currents of rivers, because of the fact of being able to be installed on the surface, immersed in the water until the height of the rotor axle, or completely immersed in the water taking advantage of the submarine current drive or of rivers depth.
Hydraulic generators that I know are the ones of the turbines: Pelton, Francis, Turgo, Kaplan, Bulbo, Deriaz, and similar, there are new generators that are based on flux and reflux currents of the sea, as well as of the superficial currents of rivers .
The before mentioned generators as the turbines of the hydroelectric generating stations that are in use, some require previous dam of the water, big costs in infrastructure investment with currents of permanent water and of great volume as an example we will mention the Pelton turbines which are of action and have an efficiency of up to 90%, are used in falls of over 300 meters in height and are used to generate 400 KW and 110 MW, the Francis turbines that are of reaction are used in falls of 30 to 550 meters in height and are used to generate between 1 to 250 MW., the Kaplan ones that require a great volume and falls between 6 to 70 meters in height are used to generate between 20 to 600 MW, the Bulbo ones that work with a big volume and falls under 10 meters in height, are used to generate between 100 KW to 1MW, the Deriz ones
that are used in falls of 20 to 400 meters in height are used to generate up to 300
MW.
In the hydraulic generators that are based in the flux and reflux current of the sea are not all the efficient as desired and the generated investment energy cost is high.
The purpose of the following invention is to give a new economical and efficient alternative to generate energy, always that the water sources are each time more scant and in some cases it entails to destruct the ecological system of big zones of the planet to weight again the water, as well as to avoid the problems of the before mentioned models that use the currents of the rivers and the flux and reflux of the sea, taking the maximum advantage of the horizontal drive of the water so in superficial sea currents as the submarine ones and the ones of the rivers whether this are superficial or deep.
The peculiarities of this invention are original and unique, and it solves the problems before mentioned with a series of advantages that we will describe further on.
The hydraulic generator of axle and paddles with synchronized rotation between rotor and paddles, object of the present invention, characterizes by the fact that the rotor is a cylindrical body with two sprockets or pinions which is in the shape of a roller, which rotates on a central axle, in its basic model that can be good to generate energy in the rank of some tens of kilowatts, figure 1.
Figure 2, is a front elevation, in which we can appreciate the
fundamental parts of this invention and they are:
01. Axle of the rotor.
02. Synchronous pinion or pulley of paddle.
03. Synchronous chain belt or band.
04. Synchronous pinion or pulley of the rotor axle.
05. Chain turnbuckle or synchronous band of transmission.
06. Paddle axle.
07. Cylindrical body of the rotor.
08. Pinions or sprockets of the rotor.
09. Paddle.
10. Support.
11. Base.
Paddles have a rectangular prism shape and a longitudinal stationary axle that rotates over two bearings of balls or rollers, situated one in each sprocket or pinion of the rotor. In figure 3 the following elements are observed:
01. Paddle axle.
02. Paddle synchronous pinion or pulley. 03. Rotor pinion or sprocket.
04. Bearings.
05. Paddle.
The synchronized rotation of paddles on its own axle with respect to the rotation of the rotor on its own, is obtained thanks to the transmission that is exclusive design of this invention and consists in that the axle of the paddles juts out by the external lateral part of the pinions or sprockets of the rotor and
have a synchronous pinion or pulley in its ends, at the same time the rotor central axle between the rotor pinions and sprockets and the generator support, synchronous pinions and pulleys fixed to the axle in correspondence with the ones of the paddles, being the synchronous pinions or pulleys situated in the axle of the paddles two fold in diameter than the one of the rotor central axle, being obtained in this way that when the rotor makes a complete rotation on its axle, the paddles make half rotation on their own axle; which allows that the 50% of the paddles to present an ample area of resistance to the horizontal drive of water, taking advantage in this was by means of a leverage effect and the other 50% of the paddles their exposed area is minimal.
In figure 4 the following elements are shown: 01. Rotor axle.
Synchronous pinion or pulley fixed to the rotor axle.
Chain belt or Synchronous band.
Synchronous pinion or pulley of paddle axle.
Paddle axle.
Turnbuckle.
Rotor pinion or sprocket.
Virtual angle generated by two consecutive paddles.
Paddle.
For models of great capacity it is required to void that paddles will bend by effect of the water drive, which is achieved by means of interposed supports for the paddle axle as an example can be observed in figure 5.
Figure 1 shows a view in 3D of the hydraulic generator of rotor and
multiple paddles with synchronized rotation between the rotor and paddles.
Figure 2 shows a front view.
Figure 3 is a view of a paddle.
Figure 4 shows a lateral view where the transmission between the fixed pinions of the rotor and the ones of its paddles are observed, which are symmetrically distributed with respect to the rotor axle.
Figure 5 shows a front cut at the height of the central axle of the generator, where one of the alternatives of central support to avoid the bend of the paddles can be observed that this invention offers for its manufacture.
Mentioning figure 2, the hydraulic generator of horizontal axle 01, consists of a 07 cylindrical rotation rotors, with two 08 pinions or sprockets, that be in the shape of a roller activated by six rectangular paddles 09, over which water exercises its horizontal pressure and this is transmitted to the rotor through its pinions or sprockets by means of a leverage effect. The paddles 09 are distributed in a radial way and equidistant from the rotor axle, being the width of these such that allows its rotation on its central axle without colliding with the central body of the rotor.
The syncrhonous pinions or pulleys of the 02 paddles, are situated in the external part of the pinions or sprockets of the rotor directly on the ends of the axles of each paddle allowing its direct activation.
The synchronous central pinions or pulleys for the activation of each 04 paddle, are situated in the external part of the pinions and sprockets of the rotor and the base of the generator, stationary mounted on the rotor central axle, corresponding a syncrhonous pinion or a pulley to it for each one of the
paddles.
The force for the activation of the paddle rotation is obtained by means a chain belt or synchronous band 03, between the central synchronous pinions or pulleys and the synchronous pinion of pulley of each paddle.
The constant tension in the chain belt or the synchronous band is obtained by means of a turnbuckle for chain belt or synchronous band 05, situated between the central synchronous pinion or pulley and its corresponding of the paddle fixed over the pinion or sprocket of the rotor.
The internal value of the virtual angles that is generated between two subsequent paddles will be of 30° speaking about the present model described in the figure of six paddles.
Being the present invention an hydraulic generator of multiple rotor and paddles variable in its number, the value of the virtual angles that are generated in each model will depend of the number of paddles with which the hydraulic generator will be manufactured, being the larger the number of paddles; the smaller the value of the virtual angle, and the smaller number of paddles; the bigger the value of the virtual angle, but always equal between them in each model and being the sum of all these angles in each model 180°.
The hydraulic generator of rotor and multiple paddles, can be used to activate an electric generator, a transmission system for mills, pumps or any other type of equipment that will require an external propeller source.