SHADOW wrote:Hi Fletcher,
Can we not question the law of levers on a rotating system?
Mornin Shadow .. of course we can - we are trying to find a workaround to "levers" in some form, to get the lifting/reset that is required, and still allow the carrier wheel to accelerate and gain momentum/RKE at the same time, as well as complete the required lift ..
A couple of points to consider imo ..
A balanced ( torque balanced ) lever of the rectangle kind as Graham showed above can be substituted for a circular disk ( a wheel ) - both have a Center of Rotation ( fulcrum/axle ), and if they have even mass distribution then they each have a moment of inertia which resists acceleration but also equally resists deceleration .. a lever and a disk are one and the same in this context ..
Comment .. I bring to your attention MT's 48 and 44, specifically the final comments B. made about them .. from JC's MT ..
Digital Copy .. No. 48 This is a sphere invention having a paternoster with pockets. A is a wheel. As the pocket-paternoster C raises the spheres, it passes over B, the axle of the wheel. At D the spheres are ejected into a channel. At E the spheres fall into the wheel, and at F they are ejected again into the paternoster.
Here, an insufficient number of spheres is carried to the wheel A by means of the paternoster. The principle is good, but this figure will bring about
no mobility by itself until completely different, additional structures have been provided.
Hard Copy .. No. 48. This is a round-weight invention, with a bucket conveyor. A, is a wheel of whose axle B, the bucket conveyor C. Passes as it raises the balls, and ejects them into a chute at D. At E the balls fall onto the wheel, which ejects them back into the bucket conveyor at F. Not enough balls are supplied by the bucket conveyor in this invention. The principle is good, but the figure as it is will not give birth to any motion until completely different structures bless this marriage.
Digital Copy .. No. 44 The sphere-method is reintroduced here. The problem shows 2 wheels: A is the main wheel, the axle of which has a gear at B. B drives the somewhat larger wheel C at point D. At side E are spheres which fall out of side G at point H below and into wheel C at point I and then out of C again into A at point F. This problem looks good, but as sketched
it does nothing special as long as no other application is present, for the wheel A must revolve several times before C revolves a single time. Thus not enough spheres move from the former into the latter.
Hard Copy .. No. 44. Here the spherical weight method is reintroduced. The illustration shows 2 wheels. A is the main wheel, and its axle has a cog B. B drives the slightly larger wheel C at point D. In the latter wheel, C, at side E, are rounded weights which have fallen out of side G at point H, below, and enter wheel C , at point I, and they are then put back into the wheel, A, at F. This proposed model looks good, but as sketched it does nothing special as long as nothing else is applied: for, the wheel A, must rotate several times before C revolves a single time. Thus not enough spheres move from the latter to the former.
What imo he is saying imo is that both are satisfactory temporary overbalance systems ( well known ones ), but on their own there is no special motion or continued mobility ( i.e. the standard problem )
UNTIL .. "completely different, additional structures / as long as no other application is present / as long as nothing else is applied" ..
He imo is
not saying that some small tweaking of gearing etc is required to speed up the ball delivery rate etc ( it can never keep up ! ) -
unless his PHYSICAL PM Principle is ADDED and enacted - and his PM Principle embodiment is
not a small thing like compartments .. it is additional STRUCTURES
( interesting choice of words - suggesting something physically intimidating/having presence, of size and substance ) which have an APPLICATION
( i.e. are physically applied to a non-working OOB wheel ) ..
IOW's imo,
a large structure with presence is then added to and applied to the non-working overbalance format wheels so that they can both achieve the required lift to reset, and, have an a growing acceleration ( "gain " ) and do external Work ..
ETA imo .. the Physical PM Principle is a structural and significant ADD-ON ? - additional too ! - the basic ( many to choose from ) non-working overbalance wheel format - and then, the 2 systems brought together interact, building and reinforcing each other via a positive feedback over and over, forming a "true mechanical PM wheel" - i.e. using the strengths of the other to grow and self-sustain carrier wheel rotation, do external work, and fully restore/reset internal GPE of the entire assembly each revolution ..