I'm Looking for Latch Ideas

[rlortie]

ovyyus,

My dictionary leads me from dispose directly to incline which states " to deviate or cause to deviate from the horizontal or vertical".

As for the principle part, I have never considered the stampers or waterwheel to be an intrinsic part required in the wheels operation. I am hoping that Bessler did not either.

Remember a while back I was hung up on trebuchets or as Jim put it, equating oranges to apples ( vertical forces transfered to horizontal) or as Bessler puts it to dispose or deviate from vertical to horizontal.

All I had in mind at the time was my own idea of using vertical force to move weights on an inclined plane. And now, Wow! I am right in the middle of it. Who is to tell me I may have not stumbled into something. I am not proud, I ask for help in proving me wrong or right.

Ralph

[jim_mich]

Yes I am well aware that we have discussed this before on a number of threads. Problem is I have never seen any substantial proof of a second wheel existing or not existing.

Well, I have never seen any substantial proof of a cat existing or not existing inside the wheel. If a design I'm working has a cat running around inside should I then think that there might have been a cat inside Bessler's wheel?

There is NO evidence of a second wheel inside Bessler's wheel. This whole concept came about because of one poorly translated paragraph. There is NO evidence of a cat inside either. If you can assume one then you can just as easily assume the other.

Now let's put an end to this discussion! There is no proof one way or the other that there was a secondary wheel inside. Same goes for the cat. Logic says "No Cat". Logic also says secondary wheel "Very Doubtful".

[AgingYoung]

The circuit of the weights might be thought of as one wheel and the position of their combined centers of gravity as it makes its circuit might be considered to be the 2nd wheel. An invisible wheel of mass. One thing that Bessler mentions is how the weights work in pairs. You could consider the circuit of one of the pairs as one wheel and the other weight as another wheel and their resultant cog's as a third. One thing's for certain Bessler had a lot going on in this wheel. He might have had a cat with buttered toast strapped to its back and that strapped to the axle. While the cat's trying to land on its feet the toast is trying to land buttered side down. I tried that with my friend's cat, Katy, and she won every time. Maybe I need more toast.

Gene

[meagain]

I presume that the pendalummm is a shortt one if the rod is fixed a simple ratchett at the top should suffice

dose it have to be complicated

an electromagnet would hold it fine

Meagain

[meagain]

then again a simple wooden or plastic clothes peg coud do the trick you could attach it in such a way that it would release
again as the axle turned

Meagain