Patents by Inventor Paul E. Pinney

Paul E. Pinney has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4076464
    Abstract: An apparatus for the conversion of complex surface motion of the sea or other fluid body into useful energy, comprising a pair of floating bodies, each of which constitutes a wave motion pump; the pair of floating bodies being linked by a lever whose motion serves to initiate and multiply the pumping energy of each. Each floating body contains two piston operated water cylinders with water intake check valves at their bases and a third cylinder serving as a pressure chamber. Each floating body contains its own fulcrum such that it rocks about one end of the lever. The downward pivotal motion of the lever on the piston shaft of the piston in one of said water cylinders forces water out of the cylinder. Simultaneously, the upward motion of the lever on the other side of the fulcrum pulse the piston shaft of the other piston upward, causing water to be taken into the other cylinder through the intake check valve at its base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1978
    Inventor: Paul E. Pinney