Abstract: A low drag and low profile fluid driven impeller can achieve a large diameter by utilizing notched cylindrical tube sections as impeller blades in stacked relationship on a common shaft. Simplicity and economy are inherent in the structure.

Abstract: A fan blade assembly having a spider shaped or formed from rod, wire or bar stock.

Abstract: An impeller for producing a stirring action within a fluid medium contained in a vessel includes blades, each blade being shaped to produce a variation in the lift coefficient of the impeller from the rotational axis thereof to the blade tip, in order to provide a centrifugal or centripetal component, as case may be, of the outflaring or reduction imparted to the impeller blowing cone.

Abstract: A box fan comprising a box-like structure having front and rear openings interconnected to form a duct passing through said structure, said duct containing an electric motor and a large axial depth wide-bladed fan blade assembly operable by the motor to rotate about an axis of rotation, which fan blade assembly is so located that the center of gravity of said fan blade assembly is located near the rear opening, wherein the fan blade assembly has a plurality of blades each of which has a shape in a plane normal to the axis of rotation, which shape comprises a neck connecting the blade to a hub defining the center of the fan blade assembly, a slightly convex leading edge extending from said neck, a convex outermost edge, a slightly convex trailing edge and a chin portion connecting the trailing edge to the neck, said trailing edge being heavily set near said chin portion and being decreasingly heavily set as the outermost edge is approached along said trailing edge.

Abstract: The propeller includes a central hub with a plurality of blades extending radially from equal circumferentially spaced points on the periphery of the hub. The width of each blade at its root is equal to the spacing between adjacent blades and the width of each blade at its tip is equal to one half the width of its root. The leading edge of each blade is normal to a line tangential to the point of connection of the blade to the hub periphery while the trailing edge slants from the tip to the broader root. The length of each blade is one half the diameter of the hub and each blade has an angle of attack of about 17.degree.. This structural dimensioning results in a propeller providing a substantially constant air discharge from the roots to the tips of the blades with a substantial elimination of radial air flow, all to the end that a greater static thrust can be realized for a given horsepower input.

Abstract: A sheet metal fan blade of improved performance and efficiency has a varying camber angle and chord angle along radial positions of the blade, such that the angle of attack along at least 70% of the length of the blade is not less than 2.degree. or more than 10.degree.. The fan blade construction exhibits utility in an automotive radiator cooling system.

Abstract: A vertical axis wind turbine which comprises in combination a stationary frame member, a rotatable shaft vertically journaled in the stationary frame member, a wind rotor positioned on the rotatable shaft with the wind rotor comprising a rotatable frame which has at least a pair of oppositely disposed arms radiating outwardly from the rotatable shaft with one arm having mounted thereon a concave surfaced wind catching member and the oppositely disposed arm having mounted thereon a convex surfaced wind deflecting member.

Abstract: A moving-fluid-operated rotor for the utilization of a portion of the energy of a moving fluid, comprises a rotor rotatable about a vertical axis. The rotor has four blades, or wings, which may, for convenience, be described as semicylindrical elements. The first and second elements are of equal diameter and are arranged in the form of an S-shape with the diametral planes passing through the two edges of the semi-cylinder being coincident for the two wings. The other two wings are semi-cylinders of larger radius than the first two. They have their diametral planes coincident with those of the first two elements, and they are each substantially coaxial with one of the first two elements. Wind flow into the open ends of the first and third wings passes along the curvature of these elements and is redirected into the corresponding curvatures of the second and fourth wings, so that the wind exerts a forward pressure on one set, and a reverse pressure on the opposite set, providing additive torque to the rotor.

Abstract: A fan with a plurality of wide curved blades that eliminate air space and overlapping between blades has improved efficiency in that each of the blades is of a curvature that deflects most, if not all, of the air hitting the blades toward, and then forward along, the longitudinal axis of the fan.

Abstract: A two-phase power source comprises a rotor; a nozzle having an outlet directed to discharge a two-phase jet for impingement on the rotor to rotate same, the nozzle having means to subdivide flow therein; and means to supply a heated first fluid in liquid state to the nozzle for subdivided flow therein toward said outlet and to supply a second and vaporizable fluid in liquid state to the nozzle to receive heat from the first fluid therein causing the second fluid to vaporize in the nozzle and mix with the first fluid in essentially liquid state to produce said discharging jet.

Abstract: A one-piece blank for a propeller fan having a plurality of substantially identical blade portions extending outwardly from a central hub portion, each of the blade portions having leading and trailing edges which are joined at outer leading and trailing corners to an outer peripheral edge. The leading and trailing edges of adjacent leg portions define a narrow radially extending slot and the leading edges are shorter than the trailing edges. Each peripheral edge has a trailing portion extending from the trailing corner which is generally arcuate and a leading portion smoothly joined to the trailing portion and extending to the leading corner which generally follows an involute curve.

Abstract: A fan for use with pumps for pumping up sand from the bottom of a body of water having certain uniquely shaped vanes around the circumference of a truncated cone.