Wind driven electrical generating system
OwnerJoe L. Ammonsinventor
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Abstract
A wind driven electrical generating system consisting of a post with guyed cable supports, a spinner cage mounted on a square wheel on a circular race, sail elements on the spinner cage, a swash plate mounted upon under side of spinner cage and providing an inclined work surface, a rocker arm mounted for vertical displacement and having upper and lower ends, a caster follower member mounted on an upper end of the rocker arm for engaging the swash plate as it rotates, a double acting hydraulic cylinder driven by the lower end, and hydraulic motor responsive to the double acting hydraulic cylinder, and an electric generator driven by the hydraulic motor to produce electric current.
Claims8
Conversion apparatus for changing wind energy to electrical energy comprising;
- first conversion means for converting wind energy to rotary mechanical energy;
- second conversion means for converting said rotary mechanical energy to reciprocating mechanical energy;
- third conversion means for converting said reciprocating mechanical energy to hydraulic energy;
- fourth conversion means for converting said hydraulic energy to rotary mechanical energy and;
- fifth conversion means for converting said rotary mechanical energy to electrical energy.
A spinner sail assembly including;
- sail means for being driven by the wind;
- a square cross-section spinner cage with four sides on which sail means rotates;
- said sail means comprising four sails, each of a width less than one half a side of the said four sides;
- each of said four sails mounted at a corner of the square cross-section cage, the sails being collinear with a respective side of said cage along a width of each of said sails;
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- said sails each mounted with a nosepiece that is a semi-circular segment backed up by a flat triangular surface, and a continuing flat surface portion of said sail comprises most of the width of the sail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.