Patent CA-2665419-A1 (CA)
Title: "mouse in a barrel" energy motor (class # f03g 7/10)
Inventor: WOODS TIMOTHY J
IPC: F16H25/16
Filed: 2009-04-24
Abstract: In a motor for generating energy, a Very Large Wheel (VLW) is engaged by one or more fixed-site, feed-back wheels on its periphery, and by one or more wheels that are attached to a "wolf" shaft that can swing slightly about the circumference of the VLW, owing to the fact that the wolf shaft is situated at the end of a pair of lever arms whose fixed-place fulcrum is a "sun" shaft at the center of the motor. The wolf shaft carries three kinds of wheel: the wolf, which engages the VLW; the "ox", which receives feedback force via chain from other fixed-place sites on the circumference of the VLW; and the cage wheel.  The cage wheel has at its circumference a wall that extends out at right angles from the plane of the wheel such that it allows room for a small "mouse" wheel to fit up against its inside wall/barrel. The mouse wheel is attached to a mouse shaft, which is itself attached to the end of a separate pair of "mouse" lever arms that also pivots on the sun shaft independently of the wolf lever arms. The VLW may be a "halo" having no hub; or it may be an "angel" having a hub.  Also, it may be in the form of a rigid sprocket chain circle; or an internal gear ring;  or both an internal, and an external gear ring/s. The feedback wheels are attached either to "lamb" shafts, or to "dove" shafts.  It is the lamb or dove wheels that are in fixed places, and are either sprockets, or gear pinions, according to the design of the VLW. The lamb shaft is fixed within the circumference of the VLW, and it also carries lion sprockets, which cycle "lion" chain back to the ox sprocket in order to hold the wolf shaft to a constant equatorial position as it is forced to spin in like direction with the VLW  perpetually, rather than away from it, as might otherwise be the case. The dove shaft is fixed outside the circumference of the VLW, and it also carries dragon sprockets, which cycle "dragon chain" back to the ox sprocket in order to hold the wolf shaft to a constant equatorial position as it is forced to spin in like direction with the VLW perpetually, rather than away from it, as might otherwise be the case. In some cases, the chain might be cycled from lion to ox, or from dragon to ox, via gate sprockets, which serve to present the chain to the ox such that it cannot impede the ox as it swings slightly from its at-rest position. The dragon sprocket might also cycle multi-strand chain to a sun sprocket on the sun shaft, from which an ox sprocket picks up the rotation from the convex, vacant strand of chain. The cage wheel might be in the form of a large sprocket~in which case it may carry a multi-strand sprocket chain about the periphery that serves as an ersatz internal gear, allowing the mouse sprocket to act as a 'pinion.' The cage wheel might instead be in the form of an internal gear ring attached to a support disc~in which case the mouse is a pinion. Finally, the cage wheel might be a support disc to which is attached a short-length cylinder that reaches toward the middle of the motor. In this case, the mouse is simply a roller wheel. When the mouse is forced away from its equatorial at-rest position, the cage wheel on the wolf shaft is also forced to rotate in order to keep to its constant distance from the sun (center) fulcrum shaft. In turn, the other wheels of the wolf shaft must also rotate, and a other wheels too must spin. In effect, the idler wheels also become driver wheels; and during the cycle, the primary driver/s become/s the driven wheel/s: the wolf chases the mouse and the lamb (or the dove) follows;     but the mouse also helps the wolf (via an assist slot in each mouse lever over the wolf shaft) to overcome the inertia of the rest of the system, and to prevent itself from jamming against the barrel. I.e. the mouse is locked into/against the far side of the "barrel" such that the two elements must spin in unison, but not so tightly that the motor is stalled. There is sufficient freeway between the mouse and the barrel that they can continue to be influenced by the feedback returning from the lion or dragon sprockets.  Although it is possible to produce the desired effect using only one of each major element, it is generally more efficacious to design the various options using symmetrical pairings of several of the wheels so as to keep the lever units swinging with minimal wracking. The cycling of the system will be perpetuated until force against the mouse levers is stopped. The dove-dragon feedback option also allows the motor to be double-ended, i.e.  having wolf shafts at both ends of the motor, and the added wheel assemblies and lever forces that pertain thereto. The motor may be actuated manually, or by weight/mass on one end of a mouse lever (in a gravitational environment), or by movable floatation bulbs, or through pulley systems, block and tackle systems, magnetic attraction systems, capstan wheel systems, etc.   It does not require fuel and can be used in virtually any environment.