Patent ID: 6653007
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: B01J,C01B,H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
A hydrogen generator comprising a rotating electrode, said rotating electrode fixedly attached to a spool, said spool rotatively mounted on an axle, said axle mounted within a dispensing cartridge case, an electrical, brush in rotative contact with said rotating electrode, a consumable electrode wound upon said rotating electrode, said consumable electrode comprising a dispersion of an alkali metal suspended within a neutral medium, said dispersion being applied to a metallized surface of an impermeable tape membrane, hereinafter called the lower tape, an impermeable cover tape membrane placed upon said lower tape and said dispersion and hermetically sealed with the said lower tape at their contacting edges forming a tubular encasement, said consumable electrode passing over a guide roller and downward into a reaction chamber containing an electrolyte, a pin roller rotatively mounted in said reaction chamber, said consumable electrode passing under said pin roller and under an electrolyte roller also rotatively mounted in said reaction chamber, said consumable electrode being punctured by said pin roller opening the interior of said consumable electrode placing said interior holding said dispersion of alkali metal suspended in neutral medium in chemical reactive contact with water in said electrolyte, said consumable electrode passing upward from said electrolyte roller to a second guide roller rotatively mounted in said dispensing cartridge case, said consumable electrode passing over said second guide roller to a rewind spool operating in said dispensing cartridge case, said hydrogen generator having a holding tank, a fill pipe to fill said holding tank with water, a pump to supply water from said holding tank to said electrolyte in said reaction chamber through a pipe, said electrolyte flowing out of said reaction chamber over a weir into a baffle chamber, an electrolyte electrode submerged in said electrolyte of said baffle chamber, said baffle chamber electrolyte flowing out of said baffle chamber over a weir into an electrolyte reservoir, said punctured consumable electrode reaction with the said water in the electrolyte of said reaction chamber liberating gaseous hydrogen in said reaction chamber which passes from said reaction chamber through a hydrogen tube, electrons generated in said reaction of said punctured consumable electrode with said water in said electrolyte migrate by ionic charge through the said reaction chamber electrolyte to the said electrolyte of the said baffle chamber and are discharged at the said electrolyte electrode, said discharged electrons flowing out of said electrolyte electrode by electronic conduction through a conductor to the said electrical brush.