Question. Was the “clattering sound� continuous or intermittent?

[axel]

Have never read anything that said one way or another.
Many mechanisms would make the whole sound continuous, while each one is intermittent.
Can’t believe what I’m seeing.

[Silvertiger]

Intermittent...otherwise, witnesses would not have been able to distinguish what they thought to be eight weights falling. If the sound were continuous, then those speculations would not have been made.

[sequeen]

Continuous it was based on the mechanism it was 4 fold mechanism so there was 8 sound during one rotation.
If the wheel had 3 cross-bar there was 6 sound during one rotation.
My current wheel has two crossbars, so there is only 4 sounds during one rotation.

[Silvertiger]

If there were eight distinct sounds, then how is that continuous and not intermittent? It was continuously intermittent; not continuous lol.

[axel]

I’m experiencing vast progress with a breakthrough approach.
BTW. The clattering sound could sound off and on. The more mechanisms there are, the more continuous it becomes.
I’m working with each one being approx .5� off center.
As promised previously, John Collins will be the first to see it running other than me and possibly a patent lawyer. And he, if he wants to can tell you all all about it

[axel]

FYI MT 55 and 62 are the only drawings that have any clues as Bessler said. Still, they are a stretch.

[unstable]

Ah, then the secret of the wheel is just an airflow. I suspected it. :-)

[Georg Künstler]

Hi Axel,
maybe you overlook the ratchet function in MT 55. You find a second one on the child page.

A pendulum wheel with a ratchet function has a complete different function as a normal pendulum.

A normal pendulum will swing back and forth until friction has taken all its energy.

A pendulum wheel with a ratchet function will swing and because it is blocked for the reswing, the pendulum wheel is relocated by the radius distance of a excentrical roller.

[Silvertiger]

A pendulum wheel with a ratchet function will swing and because it is blocked for the reswing...

If it is blocked from the reswing, then how exactly is it a pendulum???

[rasselasss]

Georg k.,i like your line of thought on Pendulum with ratchet function as an aside,early 1930's electric-mechanical clocks used a type of reed relay(elecro-magnet)to keep the pendulum in "beat"unfortunately without any means to keep the amplitude of the swing in check is was not a success,nowadays it would be simple using an optical sensor...i would still call it a pendulum with its fixed fulcrum allowing it to swing controlled or not...Good Luck.

[Georg Künstler]

Hi Silvertiger,
obviously you know the function of an

stehaufmännchen

translator will pass me the word

bounceback

A

Stehaufmännchen

will swing but will not move on the ground sidewards.

When you put a pendulum in a hollow cylinder on an hollow shaft, then the pendulum will swing in the cylinder, but the cylinder will not move.

The function is like the

Stehaufmännchen

.

And now the interesting. The same construction with a ratchet on the axle will transform the movement in a side step. So we have a relocation of the weight, normally i use the radius from the cylinder for the relocation.

The construction of the pendulum wheel you can see in the other thread

mit die Ãœberwucht....