| 摘要 |
705,691. Power generating systems; wind-motors. CAPPS, M. W. R., CAPPS, N. C., and CAPPS, A. W. F. May 29, 1952 [June 4, 1951 ; July 5, 1951], Nos. 13160/51 and 15926/51. Classes 110 (3) and 122 (3). [Also in Groups XI, XIII and XXVIII] Wind-motors, Fig. 3.-The rotating tower 10 of a windmotor contains a transmission shaft 65 vertically reciprocated by link 64, crank 63 and bevel gearing 60, 61 rotated by the rotor 32. The rotor 32 is mounted on the leeward side of the tower so as to be self-setting to the wind. Power-generating systems, Fig. 1.-A wind-motor 32 located on the roof of a building drives a compressor 11 which withdraws water vapour from an evaporator 33 in the tower of the windmotor through a suction pipe 23. The superheat of the steam is removed by a heat accumulator 38 used for cooking and like purposes and by a domestic water heating unit 40 and the saturated steam flows through a pipe 25 to a subterranean storage tank 14 where it condenses. Radiators 43 are provided with low temperature steam from tank 14 which also heats the surrounding ground. If heating is not required in radiators 43, the steam is passed through valve 107 and pipe 106 to a manifold 21 leading to open-ended pipes 21a enclosed by porous pipes 20 located in the ground. The steam thus condenses in and heats the ground. Steam is bled off from the compressor outlet through a valve 51 and pipe 50 to drive a turbine 48 driving an electric generator 49, exhaust steam returning to the suction pipe 23 through pipes 52, 24. Heat is absorbed by the system from the atmospheric air when the ambient temperature is high enough by the evaporation of water in evaporator 33 due to solar radiation and the air stream around the wind-motor tower. When the ambient temperature is low, e.g. in winter, suction pipe 23 is connected to manifold 21 by opening valve 22 in pipe 24 and water is evaporated from the warm ground. According to the second Provisional Specification, a low pressure turbine may be connected to the manifold 21 for power generation purposes. |
