Wave powered generator
First Claim
1. A method of generating energy from waves in water consisting of supporting a buoyant body in water, causing the body alternately to rise and fall under the influence of waves in the water while constraining it to one side of its centre of gravity for rotary movement in one direction only and employing the rotary movement of the body to operate an energy converter.
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Abstract
This invention relates to a method of and device for generating energy from waves in water. The device includes a cylindrical buoyant body which has a regular shape in cross-section and annular tracks on its end faces. Gears adapted to constrain the body for rotation about its axis in one direction only are engaged in axial alignment with the tracks on one side of the center of gravity of the body and movable and rotatable means such as a cam or the like is engaged with the track on the opposite side of the center of gravity of the body to inhibit buoyant upward movement of the body on that side of its center of gravity and encourage rotary movement of the other side of the body relatively to the constraining gears.
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- 1. A method of generating energy from waves in water consisting of supporting a buoyant body in water, causing the body alternately to rise and fall under the influence of waves in the water while constraining it to one side of its centre of gravity for rotary movement in one direction only and employing the rotary movement of the body to operate an energy converter.
- 3. A device for generating energy from waves in water including a buoyant body, means engaged with the body at a position displaced from its centre of gravity for constraining the body for rotation about an axis only in one direction when the body is subject to the influence of the waves and means for coupling the body to an energy converter.
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