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US 4,538,415 AGranted
Potential energy accumulating system using multiple types of energy input
OwnerMaurice Lebecqueinventor
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This potential energy accumulating system is of the type adapted to harness multiple sources of energy, including those of non-variable input such as from fuel and those of variable input, such as from the wind, the sun, the geothermal steam, animal power or the water. The system is characterized by being made to reduce the effect of the variable input of such sources of energy by stocking the same in the form of potential energy, releasable under kinetic form, and by being compatible to be coupled to and driven by any kind or number of machines operated by variable and non-variable energy sources. This system includes a closed circuit arrangement to use and accumulate the potential energy of relatively heavy balls or bodies of water, and to mechanically regulate the output so as to compensate the variations in the energy input.
In a potential energy accumulating system, a weight lifting means operatively defined and extending from a lower entry to an upper exit and capable of successively conveying discrete weights from the entry to the exit, power input means driving said weight lifting means, upper and lower trough means communicating with said exit and entry respectively and each having an inlet and an outlet, said upper trough means having storage means for containing a multiple amount of such weights, the outlet of said upper trough means adapted to discharge discrete weights from an upper level, means to return said discrete weights back to the inlet of said lower trough means and a weight regulator positioned at the outlet of the upper trough means to time regulate the falling of the weights off said last-named outlet.
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