Abstract: A motor produces a rotary motion by synchronizing the attractive and repulsive magnetic interactions of magnetic fields. A stator magnetically interacts with a rotor, cycling through changes in magnetic phase. A minimum of energy is required to spin the stator between modes. During a freewheeling state, the stator spins about its own axis while a rotor passes by. A second stator interacts with a magnetic field to create an equal and opposite magnetic force sufficient to rotate the stator. A rotor is mounted about a central axis and has a pair of diametrically opposing arcuate magnetic channels located substantially near the periphery of the rotor. A magnetic field extends substantially across each channel in which the polarities of the channels are equal and opposite extending radially outward or inward with respect to the central axis. When the rotor channel passes through a stator central axis of rotation, the rotor and stator are in magnetic proximity to one another.

Abstract: A metal scavenging device is disclosed which includes a frame carrying a plurality of generally parallel spaced-apart scavenger elements. In one embodiment the elements are comprised of flat plates having parallel walls. In another embodiment the elements are comprised of plates having inclined walls with the walls adjacent plates forming V-shaped spaces. In another embodiment the elements are comprised of elongate cylinders. A control circuit is provided to apply electrical charges of opposite polarities to adjacent plates. The circuit is closed when metal bodies contact adjacent surfaces of the plates. Current flow through the bodies creates a magnetic field, and strong permanent magnets provide a flux attracting the field about the bodies which are wedged and captured between the plates. The circuit includes a normally closed circuit breaker switch together with an indicator bulb which provides a visual signal when a metal body makes contact between the plates.