US 8,231,327 B2Granted

River high pressure energy conversion machine

OwnerAlbert Hamilton Davis, Sr.inventor

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Abstract

A river high pressure energy conversion machine which has no moving parts, comprising a machine (or pump) having a pipe attached to a river bed, with a flexible pipe to an enlarged water inlet attached to the underside of a float, to assure entrance of water just below the river water surface. A discharge pipe from the machine rises above the river bank to a water-driven accessory, through a stop valve and a pressure regulating valve. The discharge pipe from the accessory discharges river water back to the river. Water stacks up inside the sloping machine pipe on the river bed, and creates higher water pressure at the machine pipe outlet for driving the accessory. This is a continuous process, generating electricity twenty-four hours every day, using only gravity as the pressurizing force on water to generate electricity, without using fossil, nuclear or artificial energy forces.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A gravity powered above-ground river high pressure energy conversion machine, comprising:

a mainline pipe running longitudinally down the river;
an inlet to the mainline pipe to allow water to fill the pipe at an upriver origination point of the mainline pipe;
one or more accessory supply pipes, each having a first end connected to the mainline pipe and a second end terminating above land;
stop valves and pressure regulating valves in the accessory supply pipes;
provisions at the second ends of the accessory supply pipes for connection to above ground water driven accessories;
discharge pipes, each having a water-tight connection on a first end to one of the above ground water driven accessories and an opposite second end through which water from the accessories can be discharged back into the river;
feeder river machines that collect water and discharge it into the mainline pipe;
and backflow prevention valves in the feeder river machines;
wherein the accessory supply pipes and discharge pipes are located throughout the extents of the main pipeline.

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Facts

Application: 13/104,971Filed 10 May 2011 · continuation in part
Priority: 16 May 2010
Published: US 2011/0204642 A125 Aug 2011
Granted: 31 Jul 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

F03G 7/04
Mechanical-power-producing mechanisms, not otherwise provided for or using energy sources not otherwise provided for: using pressure differences…
Y10S 415/906
Natural fluid current motor: having specific features for water current
F03G
Spring, weight, inertia or like motors
Y10S
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