F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons – 03 – G
Patent
F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons
03
G
F03G 3/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2463868
The only present method of harnessing the power of gravity for the generation of electricity is by constructing dams and using the gravity-driven force of falling water descending through penstocks to generators in the power plant below. The Conveyor Belt Generator is a method of harnessing the power of gravity for the generation of electricity and consists of a belt made of steel cables reinforced with iron bars which is thirty feet wide and travels between rotating spindles set three hundred feet apart. Large steel troughs which are mounted at intervals on the conveyor belt are filled with earth and rock or other heavy materials at the top of the belt. Their weight drives the belt and causes the spindles at each end and inbetween the ends to rotate and drive generators connected to them by drive belts. The ballast is dumped out and disposed of at the bottom of the belt. The Conveyor Belt Generator has three alternative applications. The first is vertical and is entirely or partially set into the side of a hill whose upper level provides the ballast required for the operation. The second application generates electricity in the same way but here the installation is on the slope of a long hill and the conveyor belt is supported by structural steel towers mounted on masonry piers implanted in the hill. The ballast delivery and discharge systems are the same, but there are modifications to other parts of the installation. The third application of the system is its vertical installation in the shaft of a decommissioned but serviceable mine, which would take advantage of its underground galleries for the disposal of ballast.
Mills Donald Hugh
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