CONVERTING ROTARY MOTION INTO UNIDIRECTIONAL MOTION

• US 3,653,269 A
• Filed: 05/15/1970
• Issued: 04/04/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard E. Foster
• Original Assignee: Richard E. Foster
• Inventors: Foster, Richard E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kaufman, Milton
• Application Number:
  US05/037,661
• Time in Patent Office: 690 Days
• Field of Search: 74/84S,84 244/1SB
• US Class Current: 74/84.00S
• CPC Class Codes: F03G 7/10 Alleged perpetua mobilia using hydrostatic thrust F03B17/04
• CPC Class Codes: F03G 7/125 creating a thrust by violating the principle of momentum conservation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/18536 Space machines

Abstract

Unidirectional thrust and consequent unidirectional motion are achieved by rotating thrust producing units in a circular orbit. The thrust producing units involve weights or masses which are caused to accelerate in the direction of the orbital travel during all or a portion of the one-half of the orbital travel which is away from the direction of the desired thrust. The reaction to this acceleration occurs and manifests itself at an orbital location-i.e., away from the axis of rotation-and provides the unidirectional thrust. During the one-half of the orbital travel which is toward the direction of the desired thrust there either is no such acceleration or the reaction to such acceleration is directly transferred to the axis of rotation, and consequently in either case no reaction is manifested at an orbital location. Hence, there is no thrust in the direction opposite that desired.

Claims

1. A system for converting rotary motion into unidirectional motion which comprises:

a. a wheel rotatable about an axis;

b. thrust producing means carried by and rotatable with the wheel and exerting, when actuated, a thrust in a direction generally opposite the direction of its rotational travel; and

c. means alternately actuating and deactuating the thrust producing means to yield thrust in the direction selected for the unidirectional motion of the system.

2. a second rotatable shaft, and and

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the trust producing means comprise a plurality of thrust producing units positioned at essentially equal angular intervals on the wheel in proximity to its periphery and wherein each such unit is equipped with its own means alternately actuating and deactuating the unit, each such means actuating its own unit when the arcuate travel of the unit with the wheel is away from the direction selected for the unidirectional motion of the system.

4. means for axially rotating said second shaft, said second shaft being operatively carried by and rotated with said first shaft such that the second shaft describes, as it travels 360* about the longitudinal axis of the first shaft, a circle which falls in a plane essentially perpendicular to the circular face of said disc;

and d. means axially rotating said first shaft when the biaxial rotational unit which includes said shaft is being carried by the rotating disc in an arcuate path away from the direction selected for the unidirectional thrust of the system, said means failing to rotate said first shaft when said unit is being carried by said disc in an arcuate path toward said direction.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said thrust producing means comprise two thrust producing units positioned at 180* intervals on the wheel.

6. A system for converting rotary motion into unidirectional thrust which comprises:

a. a disc rotatable about the center;

b. means for rotating said disc;

c. a plurality of biaxial rotational units positioned in proximity to the periphery of the disc and spaced at essentially equal angular intervals on its circular face, each said unit including

7. A system for converting rotary motion into unidirectional thrust which comprises:

a. at least one thrust producing units;

b. means carrying said unit in an orbit around a common axis; and

c. means causing each said unit to produce unidirectional thrust during all or a portion of the time it is orbiting in the semi-circle leading away from the direction in which the unidirectional thrust is desired and causing each said unit to not produce unidirectional thrust during the time it is orbiting in the semi-circle leading toward the direction in which the unidirectional thrust is desired.

8. The system of claim 7 further characterized by having a plurality of said units positioned at approximately equal angular intervals of the orbit.

9. The system of claim 7 further characterized by having a plurality of said units positioned at approximately equal angular intervals of the orbit, each said unit including (1) a movable weight, (2) a source of kinetic energy positioned in proximity to the orbit and away from the common axis and (3) means causing said weight to accelerate in the direction of orbital travel during approximately all of the time its unit is orbiting in the semi-circle leading away from the direction in which the unidirectional thrust is desired and causing said weight to decelerate in the direction of orbital travel during approximately all of the time its unit is orbiting in the semi-circle leading toward the direction in which the unidirectional thrust is desired, the kinetic energy utilized by said means in effecting the acceleration of the weight being derived from said source.

10. The system of claim 9 further characterized in that said source is a freely rotating inertia wheel.