Furcurequs wrote:Jim Williams wrote:Dwayne:
I'm glad the Patent Office has class 415 subclass 916 - perpetual motion as in doing so they also assume they could be wrong, Also there is IPC F03B17/04 for international searches.
I didn't realize Enya was Maire's sister. I hadn't heard of Enya, until Jim L. mention his preference for her. What a surprise he would prefer her! I enjoy Patrick Ball's Celtic harp music while I'm writing as it is unobtrusive, while not being elevator music either.
http://youtu.be/VOtkjOJ2oMY
This one caught Russians' attention, for the reason of: I have no idea.
Jim W.
Hey Jim,
I believe the U.S. Patent Office's policy in regards to "perpetual motion machines" is quite sensible and pragmatic, actually. They don't want to waste their time evaluating claims and designs that based upon past experience are almost certainly unworkable, so it's basically "just show us a working device and we'll then process your patent application and grant you your patent".
Oh, the fact that Maire and Enya are sisters was news to me, also. Although I was a bit aware of their and their siblings'/family's band Clannad, I hadn't really researched them to find out how they were all related. Apparently they are from a rather large musical family with nine, I believe, siblings.
I've not heard enough of either Maire's or Enya's music to proclaim a favorite, but I know I really liked Enya's album Watermark (which had the song "Orinoco Flow") back in the day.
Since we're talking music, here's a link to my own latest musical inspiration that I posted in another thread for those who may be curious - and in case you missed it. I tend toward instrumentals mostly.
It's a bit rough and not very long here. I did the parts in a single take and it was all so new that I was a little unsure of what I was playing. So, feel free to ignore whatever sour notes there may be.
https://vimeo.com/71106673
I threw in the spinning wheel animation just to have something to stare at.
Dwayne
Dwayne,
That's alright. it was when I heard Orinoco Flow that I took a liking to Enya.
I had a room mate once tell me I couldn't play her Watermark Album unless it was late. He couldn't stay awake past the second song.
If you want, you can try modifying the wheel in the video to give the "weights" a little motion. I changed a capture a little bit to show it.
With what I am working on with the Mt 127 build I am doing, I'll be using 2 sets of cross bars or 4 weights. This means that I would be using 2 sets of coupled bellows.
And unless I'm mistaken, if 12 lbs. of force at 24 inches can lift a column of water that is 100 ft., then I would think that 2 lbs. of force at the same 2 ft. could lift water 24 inches.
And with 4 ft. lbs. of torque, engineering suggests that lifting by vacuum would allow 2 lbs. to be easily lifted. Of course, this is if we consider engineering.
With compression, we would need to consider the surface area in square inches multiplied by 14.2 to have the equal but opposing force. it's one of those little details that is quite important.
If you look at Mt 80 and then Mt 81, it shows the change from using bellows to pump by means of compression to pumping by use of vacuum.
I guess my schooling is finally starting to pay off after all these years, lol.
Jim
p.s., if you notice, the bellows in Mt 81 perform no work but do show what the pump is doing associated with that particular bellow. And Mt 81 uses the same style of pumps found in Mt 85 with the person swinging which is how Bessler's weights got their force.
Sorry for being long winded Dwayne :-)
edited to add the modified pic of Dwayne's wheel.