From weight driven clock to gravity engine.

For centuries, man has used weight-driven mechanical clocks that powered by the gravitational pull of heavy weights slowly falling down. If the clock is equipped with a strike (gong, bell, rods, etc.), then a second or even third weight is used to put them in motion. Today a "Gravity Light" allows a cheap LED kit to run for up to thirty minutes free through no more than a three-second pull on a cord. It is known many others mechanisms that use this principle. Unfortunately, all of them have the disadvantage - we must return weights to their upper position by hand hourly, daily or weekly. If not, they stop. They stop working not because gravitational force terminates but because a cord wound on the winding drum of the main wheel unwinds over all its length. However, this situation is not hopeless and known devises can be developed to non-stopping version making some changes in weight driven mechanism design. My invention Gravity engine and method is an example how to develop of such mechanisms http://www.ipaustralia.com.au/applicant/zenin-vladimir-mr/patents/AU2013267055/ Here are two of the main pictures describing the invention

The invention is very difficult to understand because it uses mechanical design, never before used in mechanical engineering. The purpose of this article is to introduce a unified kinematic scheme of the engine and give a simple explanation of its operating principle. The gravity engine 1 includes frame 4, rotor 6, dynamic stator 17 and at least one transmission 18 (Fig. 1) for transmitting torque, rate and the rotation direction from the dynamic stator 17 to rotor's shaft 2. Engine uses a heavy weight 7 in the form of a cylinder as a source of gravitational force F. There is the inlet in the centre of the weight with internal splines. Rotor’s shaft 2 with platform 3 installed on a frame 4 has external splines that fit into corresponding internal splines in the weight inlet. Weight 7 installed on said external splines for providing the weight with the possibility of vertical sliding on the rotor's shaft over platform 3. Multiple bell crank assemblies 5 arranged along the edges of said platform. They provide the decomposition of the gravitational force F, acting downward, into equal component forces F/n, and acting in a horizontal plane in a radial direction. Every bell crank assembly 5 is comprised of an "L" shaped crank 8 which upper horizontal hand is under the heavy weight 7 and lower vertical hand placed against the power rod 9 with a guiding wheel 10 on its end. The power rod 9 installed on a bell crank assembly base 5 with the possibility of horizontal sliding in a radial direction. The guiding wheels 10 finalize the structure of the rotor. They are the major parts emitting gravitational component forces F/n on the dynamic stator 17. A dynamic stator has multiple cylindrical wheels 11 with the same diameter, each having its own shaft 13 connected to the shaft of the next cylindrical wheel by means of a flexible joint 15. Both ends of joints 15 seat in the bearing bracket 16 fixed on the engine frame 4 and arranged about the rotor in a main endless transmission consisting of wheels 11 and flexible joints 15. Every cylindrical wheel 11 of the dynamic stator has helical rails 12 affixed at an acute tangent angle upon the wheel. The helical rails finalize the structure of the dynamic stator. They are its major parts, taking the gravitational push of the rotor guiding wheels 10. Multiple bell cranks 8 of the rotor transmit the weight's gravitational force components to multiple power rods 9 with guiding wheels 10 on their ends, which permanently push all guiding rails 12 of the dynamic stator wheels at an acute tangent angle. This action sets all dynamic stator wheels 11 and the rotor 6 with heavy weight 7 in rotary motion at the same time. At least one additional transmission 18 consists of a set of bevel gears for transmitting torque, rate and the rotation direction from the stator's guiding wheels 10 to the rotor's shaft. This transmission provides the gravity engine with the synchronization and stabilization of the rotor's guiding wheels 10 rolling along the dynamic stator's endless helical rails 12. Due to the high density of the engine components in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, some of them remain closed for viewing. This makes it difficult to determine the links between them and understand their interactions. To get out of this difficult situation I has removed all bell crank assemblies 5 from platform 3 except one, and all helical rails 12 from wheels 11 with the exception of one. This provides a good overview of the remaining components of the design on following picture Fig. 2 - 1.

3D view of the gravity engine after the removal components playing a supporting role This picture shows, the essence of the invention Patent Application No 2013267055 does not change if the engine has only one rail 12 on the dynamic stator’s wheels 11 and one bell crank assembly 5 with power rod 9 and guiding wheel 10 under weight 7 load with force F = mg. Gravity engine can really work using heavy weight 7, only one bell crank assembly 5 and one endless helical track 12. This is a point from which I begun to create this gravity engine. It was easy to create an experimental model, consisting of platform 3, one bell crank assembly 5, one dynamic stator’s wheel 11 with rail 12, one transmission 18 and weight 7 affecting bell crank assembly 5. Using this simple model, I could see how it works and make the appropriate experiments and measurements. A plurality of bell crank assemblies 5 and plurality helical rails 12 are necessary to distribute the powerful workload of gravity force F evenly for all wheels 11 of the dynamic stator 17. Fig. 2-2 is a perspective side view on the main components of the gravity engine Fig. 2-1 in part section illustrating in detail how the torque from the dinamic stator's wheels 11 is transmited to the rotor shaft 2. A vector diagram illustrates the tangential component of force action and curved arrows show the rotation directions of all revolving components and explain new conversion method of physical force into rotation.

We can see now the kinematic diagram of the gravity engine is such as simple as kinematic diagram of the weight driven grandfather’s clock.

Here both kinematic diagrams placed on one picture for detailed comparison of their abilities. The force of gravity F sets in motion the mechanism of the grandfather's clock by puling cord wrapped on a drum down in the tangential direction. The same thing happens in the engine. The force of gravity F affect the helical rail making one continuous track on the surface of the toroidal mechanical design, which is analogous to the cord on the drum, also in the tangential direction (at an acute tangent angle). The force F that pushes the horizontal arm of the bell-crank 8 down transmits to the guiding wheel 10 via power rod 9. Bell-crank 8 changes the direction of this force action from vertical to horizontal and increases it action in L1/L2 times, where L1 is length of upper horizontal hand of the bell-crank and L2 is length of vertical hand. All cylindrical wheels of the dynamic stator (the toroidal mechanical design) starts to rotate clockwise under the influence of this power, guiding wheel 10 starts to move along the endless helical rail and all engine components begins to rotate in directions indicated by the arrows. You can watch how it works here: http://makeagif.com/9V3eDX. As you can see, these two mechanisms have the same operating principle and use gravity as driving force. However, the behaviour of the weights at these mechanisms is very different. Weight of the grandfather's clock goes down and unwinds cord, but weight in the engine takes on rotation, but never changes its height position. Toroidal mechanical construction 17 never before used in engineering though has unique properties. The uniqueness lies in the fact that in the synchronous rotation of all cylinders 11, forming torus 17, helical rails on their surfaces create continuous endless railways on the inner surface of the torus, where the rotor’ guiding wheels roll under the influence of the physical force endlessly to breakage or complete wear of the engine components. Weight-driven clocks use the most primitive method of the gravitational force conversion into rotation and simple means to fulfil this action: a drum and long cord, which wound on a drum. When cord unwind, they stop working. Clocks stop working not because gravity stops working, but because this simple method has limitations that are directly related to using drum and cord for getting rotational movement. The cited figures illustrate the process of creating and development of the invention. The prototype of my engine was the grandfather's weight driven clock. I did not like the idea of using a cord wrapped on a drum. This idea need a periodic pull on a cord that lifts the weight to return mechanism to the original state. I have been looking for ways to ensure the continuous work of this mechanism under the influence of gravity. The result was the creation of continuous track on the surface of the flexible toroidal mechanical design. It replaced the drum and the cord of the grandfather's clock. The evolution of my idea occur in the order shown in the pictures. This means that the picture Fig. 2-3 was the beginning of the development of idea and Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 in my Application No. 2013267055 became the result of the engine creation. Now you can compare the performance of two engines, one of which with a full and another with a reduced composition of the working components http://makeagif.com/7D2w46 , http://makeagif.com/X4ZQuP , http://makeagif.com/9V3eDX. Gravity as an energy source is hard to beat. It is free, it is in endless supply, and we do not have to import it, mine it, refine it, or grow it. It is powerful force that keeps us rooted to the ground and could end up powering our house someday.