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US 2011/0094335 A1Published application
Internal propulsion and energy source
OwnerKent Kidderinventor
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Abstract
An internally self-propelled mechanism having a string anchored to a point on a propellable object or on an object requiring power to function and where the string has two or more segments that are pulled in two or more tangential directions from a centrally located brace creating angles so that the tension force effected on the middle string segment causes propulsion.
Claims18
An internally self-propelled mechanism comprising:
- a propellable object;
- a string having a first end and a second end where the first end is anchored to a point on the propellable object and having two or more segments that are pulled in two or more tangential directions from a centrally located brace wherein the first string segment is tethered to a fixed perpendicular post and travels downward and sideward creating a first downward angle greater than 45° and wherein sideward tension is placed on the midpoint area of the string by the centrally located brace causing the second string segment to form a second angle of greater than 45° as it continues to travel laterally and tangentially from the first segment to an anchoring point at which point the string terminates and wherein as tension force is applied to the midpoint area of the string linear propulsion of the propellable object occurs.
An internal propulsion mechanism comprising:
- an object requiring power to function;
- a string anchored to a point on the object and having two or more segments that are pulled in two or more tangential directions from a centrally located brace wherein the first string segment is tethered to a fixed perpendicular post and travels downward and sideward at an angle greater than 45° and wherein sideward tension is placed on the midpoint area of the string which comprises a second string segment by the centrally located brace causing the second string segment to form an angle of greater than 45° and wherein the string continues to travel laterally and tangentially from the first segment to an anchoring point at which point the string terminates and wherein the tension force applied to the second string segment by the centrally located brace causes linear propulsion of the object.
A method of powering an object using only internal parts comprising the steps of:
- extending a string having a first end and a second end;
- tethering the first end of the string at a height on a perpendicular post anchored to an object so that the string travels downward and laterally from the perpendicular post creating a first downward angle of greater than 45° angle;
- passing the midpoint of the string partially around a moveable brace that is anchored to the object and that has one or more parts such that the brace exerts sideward frictionless tension on the slack in the string;
- anchoring the second end of the string to a point on the object that is located tangentially from the moveable brace such that as the string leaves the brace it creates a second angle of greater than 45°.
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