Patent ID: 6858958

Claim:
Method of transmitting force, in particular an impetus, magnetically by means of movable magnets which interact with one another, said method comprising: providing a plurality of supports to hold or position one or more magnets projecting from the supports; arranging each support such that it is movable on or by means of bearing means; connecting each support to one or more freewheel means so that the support is rotatable or movable, about an axis of rotation or along a straight or curved path in translation respectively, in only one direction, in which case the support may be part of the bearing and/or freewheel means, fitting each support with one or more individual magnets in a preset arrangement, and positioning a plurality of said supports relative to one another at a distance so that an impetus transmitted to a first support is transmitted by this first support to an adjacent second support by magnetic interaction, is transmitted by said second support to a third support adjacent said second support, and so on, in which case the freewheel means makes it impossible for a support which has been set in motion to go into reverse and this causes virtually the whole of the impetus to be transmitted to whichever is the next support at the time; and arranging the impetus transmitting magnets such that the vector of polarization extends in the moving direction, and further arranging like poles of the magnets belonging to adjacent supports such that they are directed towards one another.