Wind turbine cross wind machine

A cylindrical turbine machine for generating power by the rotation of a generally cylindrical rotor which is rotated about an elongated axis by a fluid stream moving relative to the rotor, comprising, a first number of generally equally spaced fluid guide vanes having front and rear surfaces, inner and outer elongated edges and upper and lower ends, a second number of elongated rotor blades which are generally equally spaced around the periphery of the rotor and having inner and outer elongated edges, front and rear surfaces and upper and lower ends, said first number of guide vanes being greater than said second number of rotor blades, said rotor blades being mounted at their upper and lower ends to a first pair of opposing upper and lower plate means having a diameter generally equal to the rotor periphery diameter, the rotor having an open central area defined between said first pair of upper and lower plate means and centrally of said rotor blades, said central area being unobstructed and forming an open cylindrical space between said rotor blades having a diameter not less than one sixth of the overall diameter of the turbine machine, said rotor blades defining open passageways for directing fluid generally centrally of and through said open cylindrical space, said guide vanes being oriented in surrounding relationship to said rotor blades, said upper and lower ends of the guide vanes being carried by a second pair of opposing upper and lower plate means, means for rotatably mounting said first pair of plate means relative to said second pair of plate means so that the rotor is rotatable with respect to said guide vanes, said guide vanes being oriented so that said front and rear surfaces of adjacent vanes converge relative to one another toward said inner edges thereof so as to form wedge-shaped fluid flow compartments, pairs of said fluid flow compartments and said passageways being aligned on opposite sides of the machine to thereby create inlet and outlet flow paths which are in communication through said central area to thus define fluid passageways throughout the machine, said guide vanes being disposed generally radially with respect to the elongated axis and having a generally uniform symmetrical airfoil cross section defined by front and rear arcuate surfaces, said outer edge of each guide vane being curved and said inner edges being pointed, at least first and second fluid flow ducts through each of said guide vanes and said rotor blades, each of said first fluid flow ducts extending between an inlet in said front surfaces of said guide vanes and said rotor blades and adjacent the outer edges thereof to an outlet in said rear surfaces adjacent said inner edges thereof, and said second fluid flow ducts extending from an inlet in said rear surface of said guide vanes and said rotor blades adjacent said outer edges through to an outlet in said front surface adjacent said inner edges thereof.

A cylindrical turbine machine for generating power by the rotation of a generally cylindrical rotor which is rotated about an elongated axis by a fluid stream moving relative to the rotor, comprising, a first number of generally equally spaced fluid guide vanes having front and rear surfaces, inner and outer elongated edges and upper and lower ends, a second number of elongated rotor blades which are generally equally spaced around the periphery of the rotor and having inner and outer elongated edges, front and rear surfaces and upper and lower ends, said first number of guide vanes being greater than said second number of rotor blades, said rotor blades being mounted at their upper and lower ends to a first pair of opposing upper and lower plate means having a diameter generally equal to the rotor periphery diameter, the rotor having an open central area defined between said first pair of upper and lower plate means and centrally of said rotor blades, said central area being unobstructed and forming an open cylindrical space between said rotor blades having a diameter not less than one sixth of the overall diameter of the turbine machine, said rotor blades defining open passageways for directing fluid generally centrally of and through said open cylindrical space, said guide vanes being oriented in surrounding relationship to said rotor blades, said upper and lower ends of the guide vanes being carried by a second pair of opposing upper and lower plate means, means for rotatably mounting said first pair of plate means relative to said second pair of plate means so that the rotor is rotatable with respect to said guide vanes, said guide vanes being oriented so that said front and rear surfaces of adjacent vanes converge relative to one another toward said inner edges thereof so as to form wedge-shaped fluid flow compartments, pairs of said fluid flow compartments and said passageways being aligned on opposite sides of the machine to thereby create inlet and outlet flow paths which are in communication through said central area to thus define fluid passageways throughout the machine, at least first and second fluid flow ducts through each of said guide vanes and said rotor blades, each of said first fluid flow ducts extending between an inlet in said front surfaces of said guide vanes and said rotor blades and adjacent the outer edges thereof to an outlet in said rear surfaces adjacent said inner edges thereof, and said second fluid flow ducts extending from an inlet in said rear surface of said guide vanes and said rotor blades adjacent said outer edges through to an outlet in said front surface adjacent said inner edges thereof.