Patent ID: 8038384

Claim:
A turbine capable of receiving wind power and transferring wind power into mechanical energy, and capable of coupling with a generator, the turbine comprising: a generally flat horizontally mountable support plate capable of rotation about a central axis, the support plate having a plurality of pivot modifications located proximate to an outside circumference, a first vane coupled to the support plate at the pivot modification, the vane comprising: a vane shaft coupled between a pivot modification on the first support plate and a pivot modification on a generally flat horizontally mountable cap plate, a first rib being generally flat, and having a generally s-shaped airfoil-like profile, the rib having an head and tail, such that the width of the head tapers to a narrow tail, the shaft extending through the first rib at the head, a second rib substantially similarly shaped as the first rib, the shaft extending through the second rib at a second rib head, the first rib and the second rib having an exterior edge defined as the exterior circumference edge of the head and the interior circumference edge of the tail, the first rib and second rib being aligned such that their similar shapes approximately identically overlap so as to present a single profile when viewed from the shaft, the first rib and the second rib being separated by a distance “d”, a material attached between the exterior of the first rib and the exterior of the second rib, so as to present a substantially uniform surface there between; the cap plate shaped substantially similar to the support plate; a vertical drive shaft occupying the central axis, the vertical drive shaft coupled to the cap plate at a central point, and coupled to and extending through the support plate; a plurality of counterweights, each counterweight coupled to each pivot modification, each counterweight having a head, the head being the end of the counterweight opposite of the end of the counter weight coupled to the pivot modification; and a plurality of limiting pins, each limiting pin is coupled between a pivot modification and a counterweight head.