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US 5,597,288 AGranted
Screw type water flow generating apparatus
OwnerMiyoshi Hatanakainventor
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Abstract
A screw driving device is loaded within a box-shaped casing, straightening plates are disposed on the front surface of the casing so as to face to the front surface of screw vanes, and water holes are bored in a rear portion and side portions of the casing, the casing being held on a support frame mechanism capable of being adjusted in vertical movement.
Claims2
A screw type water flow generating apparatus, comprising:
- a box-shaped casing comprising an upper casing portion and a lower casing portion, wherein the upper casing portion is coaxially positioned vertically above the lower casing portion;
- an engine portion positioned in said upper casing portion for obtaining a rotating and driving force;
- a rotating and driving force transmission portion positioned in said lower casing portion, the rotating and driving force transmission portion being operatively connected to said engine portion and coaxially extending from said engine portion;
- a screw rotating shaft positioned in a horizontal direction in said lower casing portion and operatively connected to said rotating and driving force transmission portion, said screw rotating shift being substantially perpendicular to the rotating and driving force transmission portion;
- screw vanes mounted on said screw rotating shaft and substantially positioned within said lower casing portion at a recess in said casing;
- a frame fitted in the recess of said casing;
- and
- a plurality of perpendicularly intersecting longitudinal and lateral straightening plates secured to said frame and positioned in front of said screw vanes for straightening water flow, said plurality of intersecting longitudinal and lateral straightening plates defining a plurality of square-shaped spaces, and each of said plurality of intersecting longitudinal and lateral straightening plates being in the form of a thin rectangular flat plate, each of said plurality of longitudinal and lateral straightening plates having a plane intersecting at a right angle to a front surface of said screw vanes and being disposed symmetrically to an axis of the screw vanes;
- said casing having water holes bored in at least a rear portion of said casing, wherein rotation of said screw vanes sucks water in through said water holes and leads the water toward the straightening plates in a horizontal direction which is parallel to a rotational axis of said screw rotating shaft.
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A screw type water flow generating apparatus, comprising:
- a box-shaped casing comprising an upper casing portion and a lower casing portion, wherein the upper casing portion is coaxially positioned above the lower casing portion;
- an engine portion positioned in said upper casing portion for obtaining a rotating and driving force;
- a rotating and driving force transmission portion positioned in said lower casing portion, the rotating and driving force transmission portion being operatively connected to said engine portion and coaxially extending from said engine portion;
- a screw rotating shaft positioned in a horizontal direction in said lower casing portion and operatively connected to said rotating and driving force transmission portion, said screw rotating shaft being, substantially perpendicular to the rotating and driving force transmission portion;
- screw vanes mounted on said screw rotating shaft and substantially positioned within said lower casing portion at a recess in said casing;
- a frame fitted in the recess of aid casing;
- and
- at least two straightening plates secured to said frame and positioned in front of said screw vanes, said at least two straightening plates being in the form of a thin plate, each of said at least two straightening plates having a plane intersecting at a right angle to a front surface of said screw vanes and being disposed at least symmetrically to an axis of the screw vanes;
- said casing having water holes bored in at least a rear portion of said casing, wherein rotation of said screw vanes sucks water through said water holes and leads the water toward the straightening plates in a horizontal direction which is parallel to a rotational axis of said screw rotating shaft;
- said apparatus further comprising:
- a support frame mechanism portion including a fixed engaging portion engaged with and fixed to an edge portion of a water tank, a guide portion having a plurality of first pin holes attached to said fixed engaging portion and downwardly extending from said fixed engaging portion into the water tank, and a support portion comprising a vertical portion having a plurality of second pin holes which correspond to the first pin holes of said guide portion and a horizontal base portion on which said casing is placed and fixed, said vertical portion being positioned adjacent to said guide portion, said support portion being movably attached to said fixed engaging portion and adjustably movable in a vertical direction along said guide portion to adjust a height of said casing in accordance with a water level height, wherein a height of said support portion is selectively fixed by inserting a pin in corresponding first and second pin holes of the guide portion and the vertical portion, said support frame mechanism portion further including flange means extending from said vertical portion to said casing for fixing said casing to said vertical portion and on said support portion and maintaining a spacing between said rear portion of the casing and said vertical portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.