Patent CA-2604167-A1 (CA)
Inventor: VOON GERARD
IPC: F03G3/00
Filed: 2007-10-03
Abstract: We will possibly use ball bearings/rollers on top of the top wheel (which will be almost entirely be solid steel and/or platinum with possible embedded circular (steel and/or platinum and/or carbon steel, eg. chisel material, and/or tungsten carbide...) rods and also sideways for a cage effect - possibly further reinforced with nano particles, tubes, wires and/or nano fibers). The ball bearings/rollers maybe encased in -Option 1.- shell (--Option 2.- if the chain (Teflon...) were to glide directly over the ball bearings/rollers some of the ball bearings may not move in a straight direction and cause the Teflon to become misaligned). In -Option 1.- the shell over the ball bearings on each side is sandwiched between the ball bearings/rollers and the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...) would spin over.  We may place guards/rims (rollers can be positioned below the chain (Teflon/nano fibers..) and on both sides - rollers are probably more smooth than ball bearings, where the path of the chain (Teflon/nano fibers) is straight, and the rollers on the side are least friction alternative to guide the chain (teflon/nano fibers) and to on the side to prevent the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...) from slipping off. We also many wheels made of light weight material whose grooves/spokes/teeth are caught and spun by the chain (Teflon...strong/lightweight/low friction/flexible material. The purpose of the top solid/reinforced cylinder is to support the weight of the entire structure - in fact the lower wheels might be smaller to avoid inertia clumsiness -- although the downside to different sized wheels is the extra cost to customized sizes.  Re: DRAWING 4 and 5 The top wheel is also solid, with ball bearings/rollers next to the surface, the difference is that it umbrella shaped to spread the down pulling weight of the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...) with all its weights on each side. The spread ensures that dense concentration of weight is not focused on a small location The downside is that more surface contact between the mechanisms (eg. surface - more ball bearings/rollers or larger ones and more horizontal spread slows down the - adds dead drag to the - counters the movement - goes against and takes away from the movement of the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...)) of the top wheel and the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...) taking away from the unbalanced force since an umbrella shape top wheel would cause the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...) to move more across a horizontal path which in the rules of physics and our Cumulative Effects Theory says that the unbalanced forces that drive this invention is its vertically stacked up high; imbalance of tanks/reservoirs each couplet being heavier on one side, lighter on the other.   We plan to use strong/very thin/lightest weight of material for the skin of the tanks/reservoirs such as the material used to make air bags or thin Teflon...   We could also make the (many wheels and very high up - tall as a sky scrapper) shifting weights move by rollers/ball bearings on a guide that is at a horizontal angle from side to side on each side of the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...) with the weights made of carbon steel or iron.   We will possibly use ball bearings on top of the top wheel (which will be almost entirely be solid steel and/or platinum with possible embedded circular (steel and/or platinum) rods and also sideways for a cage effect - possibly further reinforced with nano particles, tubes, or spun nano wires and/or nano fibers) or other very strong/probably lightweight/material - that can be cast or moulded. The ball bearings maybe encased in --Option 1.- shell (-Option 2.- if the chain (Teflon...) were to glide directly over the ball bearings some of the ball bearings may not move in a straight direction and cause the Teflon to become misaligned). In -Option 1.- the shell over the ball bearings on each side is sandwiched between the ball bearings and the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...) would spin over. We may place guards/rims on the side to prevent the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...) from slipping off. We also many wheels made of light weight material whose grooves/spokes are caught and spun by the chain (Teflon ...  strong/lightweight/low friction/flexible material. The purpose of the top solid/reinforced cylinder is to support the weight of the entire structure - in fact the lower wheels might be smaller to avoid inertia clumsiness.  Regarding DRAWING April 6th, 2007 - 2.: The top wheel is also solid, with ball bearings next to the surface, the difference is that it umbrella shaped to spread the down pulling weight of the chain (Teflon/nano fibers... ) with all its weights on each side. The spread ensures that dense concentration of weight is not focused on a small location. The downside is that more surface contact between the mechanisms (eg. surface - more ball bearings/or larger ones and more horizontal spread slows down the - adds dead drag to the - counters the movement - goes against and takes away from the movement of the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...)) of the top wheel and the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...) taking away from the unbalanced force since an umbrella shape top wheel would cause the chain (Teflon/nano fibers...) to move more across a horizontal path which in the rules of physics and our Cumulative Effects Theory says that the unbalanced forces that drive this invention is its vertical imbalance. We could also dig a very deep vertical tunnel (100 to 1,000 floors deep) and lengthen the solid centre cylinders (core) of the wheels (some or probably not the wheels) (the outside of the wheel can be ball bearings (encased on each side?). The solid centre cylinder (core) can be reinforced with very strong forwards and backwards and sideways rods, and stuck into the sides of the tunnel walls with a big strong stopper plugged deep into the wall using concrete and very strong (eg. rebar) cage, and especially encased in a large chunk of concrete at the end of the centre cylinder anchored by the big strong stopper. We are not quite sure of the implications of gravity on the machine underground, since the walls have sideways gravity mass. Or we could combine a vertical tunnel down until the water table and rising hundreds of stories above ground.  Whereby the tunnel could support the wheels' solid centre cylinder (core)s, while the above ground could be supported by Micro Gravity Chain Machine Version 4.   In this invention the chain will be made of spun/woven nano fibres. These chain is much lighter so the top wheel (fairly large with rollers/ball bearings and guard/rails that must carry the weight of the entire system can be smaller; thus the wheels in-between are also smaller, leading to an allowable height relative to width of the system.   Since nano fibres are stronger than steel, we could hang more weights/reservoirs/tanks vertically (optimizing size of weights/reservoirs/tanks relative to level lengths relative to number high - Cumulative Effects Theory).   Nano fibres are flexible enough to wrap around the rollers on the top wheel, yet strong enough to hold up a lot of weights/reservoirs/tanks. The Cumulative Effect Theory isolates the forces as primarily the height and number of weights/reservoirs/tanks on one side is offset by (a levered - weight on the outside end of lever - magnified) a heavier cumulative/sum the total of each weight on one side heavier than the other side.     The reason this model works where similar wheels have failed; is because firstly our width is small while our height is huge - this allows our invention to generate more movement forces in one direction that overcome's the weight's friction and inertia when they are at the top and bottom of the system - consider that on a wheel, the number of weights on the sides and on the top and bottom. The movement force's success is dependent on the huge number of weights/reservoirs/tanks stacked high up versus the few that are situated on the top and bottom (interfering with movement).   Additionally, Chain design updates are being applied for patents for all Gravity Chain Machines, and PCT/CA2005/000145, and Tall Gravity To Electricity Invention.   We will have a large wheel at the top (too carry all the weights below), it will have a pathway of rollers/ball bearings that are in size aligned to place the teeth of the chain in perfect unionson like a chainsaw, the reason for the teeth on the chain is to turn the wheels (which have counter teeth) below. In the alternative we could make the chain taut or weave/spin the nano fibers into sequences of knots that catch the wheels below's teeth. We could also make the chain have tiny wavy hills and valleys shape (intervals of nodules rather than teeth), avoiding the most friction with the top wheel (and its rollers and/or ball bearings) while catching the teeth of the wheels we need to spin below to generate the electricity.   A more complex design is to put longer teeth on the chain, and a micro hinge in-between.  The top wheel will have a protruding mechanism that folds the hinge (eg. by pokes into it, causing an unhooking) just before the chain's teeth reaches/approaches the top wheels rollers/ball bearings, thus avoiding friction. Then as the chain's teeth leaves the rollers/ball bearings, the Top Wheel mechanism such as a protruding poking mechanism unfolds/rearms the chain's teeth for catching and spinning the electricity generating wheels below. Or we could have guards/rails all the way from top to bottom to keep the chain's teeth facing inside - the down side with this design is that the teeth of the chain the a not properly aligned my scrape against the guards/rail, unless we made it wide enough.   We could also have guards/rails that funnel in the chain just before each wheel to align the teeth of the chain to point inwards.   Another design is to design the chain widely and divide its width into center segment or segment on both sides surrounding the centre. Either the centre will have teeth in which case both surrounding sides will have no teeth or both sides will have teeth, in which case the centre will have no teeth (in this case the top wheel could be surrounded by larger roller with inner rollers adding to overcome friction inside the large roller; with rims/guards/rails or standing up rollers to keep the movement of the chain smooth and straight) -the inner rollers surround the non moving neck of the Top Wheel; it must strong enough to carry the total weight of the entire system. The Top Wheel will have rollers to match the area of the chain that has the no teeth 1) inside or 2) surrounding sides while the lower wheels will have teeth aligned to match area of chain that has teeth 1) inside or 2) surrounding sides of width of chain.   ADDITION: New Gravity Chain Machine; Tall Gravity To Electricity Invention;  Micro Gravity Chain Machine Version 4.; New Chain and Wheel Designs We are looking covering the entire Gravity Chain Machine of whatever versions with solar panels.     We are looking at developing Building windmills.   1. Our first design is to put the rotary blades (hereinafter referred to as blades) on the roof (with the blades horizontal) (see Drawing 1.).   2. Our second design is to put the blades on the side of the building (vertically) possible on all four sides (see Drawing 2.).   We prefer the first design because it allows clearance between buildings and the wind needed to may be blocked by other buildings in the second choice (in the case of vertical blades connected to the side of the building). There is usually more wind on the top of the buildings.   Even if there currently was clearance, in the future a developer may build a new building the blocks the wind needed for the blades.     We could also put windmill blades on our Gravity Chain Machine.   If the building is tall enough we could even line up the vertical blades one above the other (see Drawing 3.).   Additionally we could do a combination 1) roof, 2) on side, 3) on all four sides, 4) multiple vertical blades up along each side of the building (see Drawing 4.).   We could also add rings (at multiple levels) to allow the blades to catch the wind, the way normal windmills spin to catch the wind (see Drawing 5.) (Ch 2%).   As well we could put elongated neck with blades near the top, like a regular windmill, except under the circular disc base of the windmill(s) is a building.   1. We also have a design to vertical walls that funnel wind either inwards (in which case blades could be positioned on both sides of the funnel walls and wind would be channeled into the funnel. We could also stack the blades vertically. 2. The other design is to have the same funnel but position the blades on the narrow end of the funnel on the outside. 3. There is a base at the bottom that is circular or disc shaped that spins to channel the wind in the case of 1.) the wind goes inside the entrance of the funnel and in the case of 2.) the wind is divided by a sharp narrow divider (possibly vertical triangular shape - other end of the funnel.     We could place these designs on top of buildings.   We could also build windmills with multiples blades stacked vertically, and one horizontally on top and blades on each side of the stand.   We could also build a mixed use Energy focusing on the most productive/efficient use of the land - our buildings have zero effluent unlike oil/gas/nuclear never mind coal:   1. At the centre are Gravity Chain Machines.     2. Windmills stacked vertically or on each side or on horizontally top of the support walls of the Gravity Chain Machine. 3. On the side walls are possibly multiply stacked on each far end of the total length ends of the Gravity Chain Machine side by side condensed blue print design. 4. Pyramid/greenhouse, where each level has perhaps 10 trays (of corn) that rotate.  Each level further away from the Gravity Chain Machine centre extend out of the shade of the levels of trays above it and therefore each level extends further out sideways to capture maximum sunlight for the rotating trays of that level.  This sideways pyramid structure keeps extending out and down until level by level until the trays reach ground level. The trays and the Gravity Chain Machine reservoir/tanks are enclosed in the same structure, where heating sharing (best use of energy for heating) in winter may be needed. 5. Probably extending in between the green houses are the stands that carry windmills' whose blades may tower above the level/step of the pyramid/greenhouse beneath it.  6. Structurally strong yet transparent or translucent material to hold up the pyramid/greenhouses (if even necessary), since each pyramid/greenhouses' rotating trays component is really not that high. 7. As well we could use the space under each level's tray to grow mushrooms, or germinate the next crop of corn, or shred and pelletize, or logs or particle board, bag, spin/weave...     Smaller Scale Gravity Chain Machine Version 3 The main difference in this invention is that the chain, instead of being made from Teflon, we use spun, woven nano fibres that can be stronger than steel with possibility mixture of nano particles in plastic, and give the chain teeth (for spinning the wheels that generate electricity like a windmill).   Since the chain material is so light we don't need as high a structure (for cumulative effects theory to work).   The cumulative effects theory says that the higher the structure the more total net differing weight (accumulating into force more down on one side than the other), this differing force must overcome, friction and inertia.   If we use nano material for the chain, the chain is far lighter, and therefore less friction and inertia (probably more flexible - then Teflon and stronger - than steel, so even less material is needed) to hold back the entire system from working.     This could allow for micro GCM (Smaller Scale).   We could also make the reservoir/tank structural cage out of a mix of nano particles or spray on fibres, mixed with plastic We could also make the reservoir/tank structural cage out of a mix of nano particles or spray on fibres, mixed with plastic or other mixable substances that make strong/durable yet light cage. (GP).   The skin of the reservoir/tank could be made of nano textiles (eg. that are water proof, fabrics, or diver's suit except thinner and lighter).     We could also make the skin out of mylar or air bag material.     In addition to reflective mirror surrounding a solar panelled boiler and boiling salt water that spins a propeller under pressure and creates fresh water at the other end:   1. We could put magnifying glasses in between the sun the reflective mirrors and the solar panel boiler. 2. In fact all solar panels could have moving magnifying or moving solar panels to capture maximum sun exposure throughout the day.     We could build comprehensive energy farms...  1. solar cells roof 2. direction of flow of rainwater 3. drain for slanted roof to pour and collect rainwater to reservoir below 4. New Gravity Chain Machine; Tall Gravity To Electricity Invention; Micro Gravity Chain Machine Version 4.; New Chain and Wheel Designs; Overbalanced Endless Chain Motor - the walls are covered with reflective material to reflect light to outer surrounding level of crops 5. slanted panels (shine light on to crops from centre out) that catch light from reflective (mirrors) below on the surrounding ground floor (at some point or both we could have - rotating panels to best capture the most sunlight and also magnifying the sun's energy) 6. One level/floor of surrounding crops. 7. windmills on to of each Overbalanced Endless Chain Machine 8. Ground level, or some higher up (eg. crisscross cheap towers) to reflect sunlight to the slanted panels that then re-reflect light back down to the crops at each level/floor below (at some point or both we could have - rotating panels to best capture the most sunlight and also magnifying the sun's energy).   We are planning to use possibly a layer of Kevlar straps, Teflon straps, cordura nylon, ballistic nylon, leather for the wheel surface (and chain)(possibly steel threads - especially on the wheels), as well as stamp a crisscross pattern on the exposed surfaces meet.   We are also looking at chinks of titanium possibly linked together by tightly and greased spun Kevlar chords to make up the chain, where the wheels have spokes that poke into the open spaces where the chain, end of the hole catches and spins the wheel.   We are also looking at keeping chain taut (eg. possibly a layer of Kevlar straps, Teflon straps, cordura nylon, ballistic nylon, leather). The tight surfaces between the chain and the wheel contact points, uses friction to drag the wheel in the vector direction of the chain. We could also use knots.     We might even make the wheel out of rubber (An).   Additionally, with regards to DRAWINGS 2 and 3, our new (novel) design will make the intervals between tanks (vertical gap between stacks thinner) as well as maximizing (peak efficiency) size of reservoir/tanks sideways and sticking out as well as maximizing (peak efficiency) of neck (tube/lever). The idea is to cram in the most (peak) of cumulative effects theory on a smaller footprint (especially the amount of unbalanced weight such as closer stacking distance between vertical tanks). In this respect we could also stack each level of tanks/reservoirs right next to each other, but with chain (eg. carbon graphite), and tanks/reservoirs able to separate and handle the curve at the top and bottom of the system.  We have developed a modular Gravity Chain Machine blocks (that expand to fit a plot of land while maximize the amount of energy produced in that plot's size of space), windmills are situated on top of walls surrounding the Gravity Chain Machines and at the solid sides of the collective.   Bascially each unit (block) of Gravity Chain Machine is surrounded by windmills, by placing the unit/blocks together (on any of all sides) to squeeze the most out of the usage of the land and the modular design makes it flexible to fit odd land shapes.   Pertaining to DRAWING 3.5 - Compressed version so you can get more net forces (more yield) for the same height (you won't have to stack it up as high to get the same yield) - and furthermore once you reach the maximum buildable height you could increase yield compressing (plus it may save building costs) that according to the cumulative effects theory, the more additional amount of extra by way of weight (water) switching to extremity of each side of the lever(s) means a net force of one side being heavier than the other side. The system of chains and the levers (weights) connected to the chains must be flexible enough at the top and bottom to allow spinning around the top end of the Top and Bottom wheel.  Furthermore we are experimenting with shrinking the wheel making a shorter (some may say it creates a steeper change in drag but there should be an equal and opposite pull on the other side of the wheel - nullifying each other out - even some) and less space to cover (given that the top wheel is strong enough (reinforced) which would not make sense to try to spin, therefore we would use rollers/ball bearings) my hypothesis is to maximize the size of the reservoirs/tanks (sticking/jutting out and width) and optimize usage of vertical space;  while minimizing the resistance to the flow/spin of the system from handling the top and bottom part of the system.   Possibly wheels have teeth that poke into grooves/holes in the chain to create firmer grasp on to the chain so the grasp doesn't slip when the wind blows. There could be two (an inner and an outer disc one for the chain drag and another for the windmill) so when the wind blows the right way both discs could spin, adding to thrust each other on. And when the wind blows the other way the windmill could either spin the other way or lock up so as not to interfere with the chain's movement.    The walls of the TALL GRAVITY TO ELECTRICITY INVENTION VERSION III enclosure could have holes or outer cylindrical supports with rollers/ball bearings (0.05%) we are studying whether to make the supports versus Windmill neck (which can be connected to the wheels) to be the inner or outer cylinder.   We could also put windmills on both sides with their necks protruding out far enough so windmill blades and the reservoirs/tanks don't get into each other's way.   We could also place windmill(s) on top of the structure (even neck facing up).   Perhaps if we used curved blades so the blades don't have to be as long this is especially good the multiple vertically stacked system.     One of the novelties in my invention is to connect the neck(s) of windmill(s) protruding from out the side of wheels of TALL GRAVITY TO ELECTRICITY INVENTION VERSION III to windmill blades outside (therefore making the invention more productive).   Additionally as seen in DRAWING 30. design allows for the windmill whose neck protrudes out to turn from side to side to catch the direction of the wind.   Whereby the out side vertical tanks or the walls on that side(s) are sharp to allow the wind to pass and not block the wind.   We could possibly have an inner and outer disc to allow co-thrust in union;  the chain and the windmill forcing each other in the same direction, but then separates direction (opposite spin) when the wind is blowing in the other direction. Also the would be a long neck to clear the sides of the reservoir/tanks and also the neck could be held up with surrounding support from a thick wall below or the multilevel cylinders could be balanced on the other side of the protrusion to keep from tipping, rollers and/or ball bearings could be used to compensate for two parts that don't spin in the same direction and/or one part that spinning and another part supporting it (from inside or from surrounding it from outside) of which the supporting part is too heavy to spin.