Vortex turbine cleaner
OwnerHerman Stoltzinventor
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Abstract
A suction type turbine-driven pool-cleaners utilizing vortex turbines to propel and steer the pool cleaner is disclosed. The cleaner includes a housing for one or more vortex-turbine mechanisms, each with a chamber and a turbine, tracks for movement over submerged surfaces, a differential mechanism for steering purposes, a reverse of inlet flow mechanism, a cam design for engagement of steering and reversing mechanisms, a means of controller inlet flow for steering purposes, and a means of controlling flow for reversing direction of cleaner movement.
Claims17
A device for cleaning a surface submerged in a fluid comprising:
- a vortex turbine mechanism, where the vortex-turbine mechanism comprises an inlet, an outlet, a vortex chamber, and a turbine, where fluid will flow from the inlet to the outlet and form a vortex in the vortex chamber when suction is applied to the outlet, where the turbine is located within the vortex chamber and not within the direct flow path between the inlet and outlet, where the turbine rotates as a result of the vortex created in the vortex chamber, and where the turbine produces drive power when it rotates,
- where the vortex-turbine mechanism further comprises a reverse flap and an orifice, where the reverse flap has an open position and a closed position, where the reverse flap allows fluid to flow through the orifice when in the open position, whereby fluid entering through the orifice reverses the rotation of the vortex and therefore the rotation of the turbine.
A device for cleaning a surface submerged in a fluid comprising
- an inlet, an outlet, two chambers, and two turbines,
- where each chamber has one of the turbines therein, where fluid travelling through the inlet and then through the outlet forms a vortex in each of the chambers, where the vortex drives the turbines within the chambers, and
- further comprising a steering flap, where the steering flap has an open position and a closed position, where steering flap causes the vortex in one chamber to be faster than the vortex in the other chamber when in the open position.
A device for cleaning a surface submerged in a fluid comprising
- an inlet, an outlet, two chambers, two turbines, and a reverse flap,
- where each chamber has one of the turbines therein, where fluid travelling through the inlet and then through the outlet forms a vortex in each of the chambers, where the vortex drives the turbines within the chambers,
- where the reverse flap has an open position and a closed position, where rotation of the vortex within the chambers is reversed when the flap moves from the open position to the closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.