Patent ID: 8419368

Claim:
A turbine rotor construction, comprising in combination: a) an expansive member having an axis of rotation, b) means at the axis, for mounting the member for rotation about said axis, c) a plurality of individual, thin upstanding vanes mounted rigidly on said expansive member and generally about the periphery of the member, each of said vanes having a substantially straight central portion and a pair of curved end portions, each of said central straight portions diverging outwardly along their respective lengths, d) at least one curved end portion of one vane being disposed near a curved end portion of at least one other adjacent vane, whereby wind impinging upon said expansive member is re-directed outwardly toward all of said vanes, and said vanes in turn re-directing said wind to spaces between each end portion of one vane and the end portion of an adjacent vane so as to be exhausted through the spaces between said end portions.