Patent CA-2801122-A1 (CA)
Inventor: WOODS TIMOTHY JOHN
IPC: F03G3/00
Filed: 2013-01-04
Abstract: This apparatus provides perpetual motion in virtually any medium without the need of fuel, or expensive parts. Of two circuits of chain¨one set, which is in the form of a circle/circus; and a second set/pair, called dragon chains, which follow a more direct route from one side of the circle to the other¨each set conveys a feedback loop to, and for, the other.  Both circuits share certain wheel-shafts in common: a fixed place 'lamb shaft', and a swing-place 'bear shaft'. The lamb shaft carries lamb sprockets and lion sprockets (serving as regulators).  The bear shaft carries bear sprockets and bull sprockets. The ratio lamb: lion equals the ratio bear: bull. Lamb and bear are smaller than lion and bull, respectively, with the bull sprockets being biggest of all. Free strands of the multi-strand circus chain ride on the lamb and bear sprockets. The bear shaft swings on lever legs from and about the center/elephant shaft.  Another pair of lever arms/wings swing from the center shaft and reach past the radius of the bear shaft to a wolf shaft. The dragon chains ride on the lion and bull sprockets and are also comprised of multi-strand chain, and have the free strand inboard of the bull sprockets (i.e. facing each other, toward the mid-point of the motor). A wolf sprocket, found at each end of the wolf shaft, engages each free strand of the two dragon chains. When the wing levers are moved up or down, the wolves, in effect, chase the dragons, which move the bulls (and the bears, which share the same shaft); the bears move the circus;  the circus moves the lambs (and the lions that shares the same shaft), as the dragons also moves the lions. The dragon chain also moves around fixed-place dove sprockets found on the same side of the circus as the bull sprockets, as the chain would de-synchronize if it traveled directly from the bull wheels to the lion wheels. The dove sprockets (on each side of the bull sprockets) are synchronized to the circus via sparrow sprockets, and also engage the dragon chain on the inner/free strand (minimizing risk of a collision between bull and dove wheels). As the circus size is increased, relative to the other wheels, the need for intermediate dove wheels becomes less acute; but also the use of an expansive (circle seeking) chain tensioning ring between bulls and lions, or of some other form of chain tensioning device becomes more necessary. The circus may be comprised of multi-strand sprocket chain, having at least one strand exposed to serve as an ersatz internal gear to lamb and bear sprockets, which in turn serve as complimentary 'cogs'. The circus may also instead be comprised of a very large internal gear, in which case the lamb and bear wheels are cogs instead of sprockets. The circus may be in the form of two flanking wheels that are connected to the center/elephant shaft; or it may be a single ring that is unconnected to the center shaft, but is instead supported by monkey wheels on its inner circumference, or by turtle wheels on its outer circumference. Such support wheels serve to maintain the ring's alignment, and to prevent it from climbing (when the wolf cranking force is applied), instead of rotating.   A variation of the single ring design is one that eliminates the center (fulcrum) shaft, and allows there to be a void within the machine, owing to the presence of suspension arms on each side of the motor, to swing "cradles" carrying bear shafts and wolf shafts according to the direction of exerted force. In this case the dragon chains take a foreshortened route from bull to lion, to lion, to bull. This 'walk-through' feature may be useful within a vehicle's fuselage, hull or shell. The cycles continue 'perpetually', until force is removed from the wing levers, or from the suspension wings, accordingly.