US 4,059,961 AGranted

Thermal motor of action and reaction forces

OwnerRodolfo de la Parra M.inventor

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Abstract

One embodiment of the invention is made up of two closed and joined containers which are in communication through an intermediate neck; the containers remain in an upper and a lower position, the lower container being supported on legs or a support structure. The lower container has an infeed orifice for the fluid agent which serves for its operation. This fluid agent is conducted through a tube to a pump which drives the liquid through further tubing to a hollow shaft which acts as the support for a turbine of hollow ovoid construction which acts as flywheel and distributor of the fluid used for its operation, and has a plurality of peripheral nozzles for the discharge of the fluid, this turbine being located in the upper container in the presence of vapor at a pressure and temperature which maintain of the proper proportions for its operation. This turbine shaft is mounted on rotary bearings carried on supports or frames joined to the inside of the upper container; this container permits the withdrawal and installation of the hollow turbine shaft, and at the ends of the upper container there are packing glands or seals which prevent the escape of the vapor to the atmosphere of the ends, but permitting the rotation of the shaft; and this provides a power take off to which a speed reducer or any other; device can be connected to transmit the power for desired uses.

A thermal engine which comprises a first closed upper container having a lower orifice;

a second closed lower container having an upper orifice and an inlet for liquid and a discharge for liquid, a neck member connecting the orifices of first and second containers, thus making up a double closed container with communication through said neck, a pump means having inlet and outlet, a driving means for said pump, a tube means which connects said discharge of said lower container to said inlet of said pump means, bearing means supported on the inside of said upper container, a hollow shaft rotatably supported in said bearing means, a tube means connecting outlet of said pump to said hollow shaft, fluid-tight hermetic sealing means installed integral with wall of said first upper container, by means of which the said connection between said tube means and said hollow rotating shaft is effected, said hollow shaft being closed at the end opposite to the end connected to said tube means and extending out through the wall of said first upper container, fluid-tight sealing means integral with said wall of first upper container through which the closed end of said hollow shaft extends in sealing relationship, power transmission means connected to said closed end of said hollow shaft extending out from said first upper container, reaction turbine means connected to said hollow shaft with internal communication of the fluid therewith, discharge means from the reaction turbine which project radially and tangentially therefrom, a liquid mass introduced into said second lower container through said liquid inlet, a heat source to raise the temperature of said liquid mass;
whereby said liquid mass when heated is driven by said pump through said tube means and said hollow rotary shaft to said reaction turbine, said hot liquid mass being discharged therefrom and converted into saturated vapor which is subsequently condensed, there being constant pressure and constant temperature inside said containers in presence of its liquid in the closed system.

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