WATER PRESSURE CONVEYANCE DYNAMIC ORNAMENT

Abstract

The present invention particularly uses directional continuous flowing pressure shocks to drive a freely disposed rolling cylinder, thereby providing an ornament with dynamic pictorial images, which mainly consists of a fixed cylindrical body of circular cross-section provided with refractive effectiveness, the surface of which is provided with scenic patterns. The lower end of the cylindrical body is joined to a base thereby sealing the cylindrical body. A water pressure driven rotating drive device is installed in the base, the output of which is primarily outputted to affect a liquid at the inner bottom of the cylindrical body, whereupon pressure is divided to produce an upward resultant precession force, which radially drives the rolling cylinder freely disposed in the interior of the cylindrical body. The surface of the rolling body is provided with decorative patterns, and the radial relative motion produced achieves a dynamic pictorial image, decorative design effect.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

(a) Field of the Invention

The present invention provides an ornament that uses continuous water flowing rotating pressure waves to drive a rolling cylinder, thereby causing dynamic drifting of decorative patterns thereon to achieve a visual dynamic aesthetic effect.

(b) Description of the Prior Art

In order to provide our living environment with an increased sense of visual aesthetics, ornaments provided with visual dynamic aesthetics are often added to our living space.

Ornaments 13 drifting in water (as depicted in FIGS. 1, 2) are commonly seen in simple dynamic ornaments, in which a dynamic ornament 1 primarily comprises a container 11, the bottom portion of which is sealed by a base 2. The ornaments 13 with specific gravity equal to or close to equaling that of a liquid 10 are placed in the liquid 10, and the liquid 10 is affected by heat from a heating element 12 fitted to the bottom portion or the action of a water pressure drive device 3 to cause dynamic flow of the liquid 10. In which heat waves produced by the heating element 12 are transmitted to the liquid 10 to produce a thermal current effect, causing current flow in the liquid 10, whereupon this current flow is used to drive and displace the ornaments 13. Moreover, the thermal current flow further produces an effect similar to a turbulent flow, thereby causing even more angular variations in the positions of the ornaments 13.

Referring to FIG. 2, which uses blades 31 fitted to the water pressure drive device 3 to cause agitation of the liquid 10 inside the container 11, thereby producing pressure flow lines. The pressure flow lines exert forces on the ornaments 13, thereby causing the ornaments 13 to make circulating movements in the interior of the container 11. However, because the front and rear ends of the ornaments 13 are different, and because the pressure waves along the flow lines formed by agitation from the blades 31 affect all points on the surfaces of the ornaments 13, thus, the drifting directions of the ornaments 13 are not fixed, and the aesthetic lifelike simulation effect is lost.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

A primary objective of the present invention is to provide an ornament comprising decorative patterns which produce a dynamic visual aesthetic effect able to imitate the directional drifting of the living behavior of animals. The ornament has a simple structural design, and uses a fixed circular cylindrical body having refractive ability, the exterior surface of which is provided with scenic patterns, and the interior allows a rolling cylinder to be freely disposed therein. The diameter and height of the rolling cylinder is less than that of the cylindrical body, and the surface of the rolling cylinder is provided with decorative patterns. An internal electromechanical working operation at the base of the rolling cylinder affects a resultant precession force which produces relative motion between points of the two corresponding surfaces of the rolling cylinder and the cylindrical body, thereby achieving a dynamic visual pattern effect.

Another objective of the present invention is to install illuminating LEDs (light-emitting diodes) to the base of the cylindrical body facing the internal space thereof, thereby enabling producing changes in light within the cylindrical body.

A third objective of the present invention is to install a modulation circuit within the electromechanical operating system to enable changing the power output thereof, and further enable producing variations in pulse of the power to enable the resultant precession forces formed by the power pulses to produce different energies, thereby changing the shifting speed or behaviour of the patterns.

To enable a further understanding of said objectives and the technological methods of the invention herein, a brief description of the drawings is provided below followed by a detailed description of the preferred embodiments.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a dynamic ornament of the prior art.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view depicting a water flow driven ornament of the prior art.

FIG. 3 is an external appearance of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a cutaway schematic view depicting production of force components according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an instructional diagram depicting the principal flow rate according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view depicting transformation of force components according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic view depicting resultant forces affecting the rolling cylinder according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an elevational view depicting resultant forces affecting the rolling cylinder according to the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The present invention primarily provides a continuous water pressure driven free rolling cylinder, which enables producing a dynamic pictorial image ornament, primarily comprising a cylindrical body that is fixed and which is provided with refractive effectiveness. The lower end is sealed by means of a base, and the interior of the cylindrical body enables an entire rolling cylinder of even mass to be freely dropped and disposed therein. The rolling cylinder is affected by a water pressure drive device installed in the interior of the base and driven by pressure obtained from water fluid. There is a non-coupling relationship between the drive device and the rolling cylinder, the structure is simple, and the structural configuration enables easy replacement of different patterned rolling cylinders; moreover, direction of the dynamic patterns can be maintained.

The aforementioned cylindrical body and rolling cylinder are of identical form, and the cylindrical body or external form of the free cylindrical body can at the minimum be straight tubular shaped, or drum shaped or waist drum-shaped.

Regarding the detailed structure and operational principle of the present invention, please refer to the drawings. The following gives a detailed description thereof:

Referring first to FIG. 3, which depicts the basic configuration of the present invention, and primarily uses a cylindrical body 4 of circular cross-section and provided with refracting power; the lower end of the cylindrical body 4 is joined to an interface opening 21 of a base 2. The interface opening 21 seals the cylindrical body 4, thereby enabling the interior of the cylindrical body 4 to be filled with liquid 10. The external surface of the cylindrical body 4 can be provided with scenic patterns 41 such as water plants or ocean-bottom plant ecology. A rolling cylinder 5 having a circular cross-section and diameter smaller than that of the cylindrical body 4 is movable disposed within the interior of the cylindrical body 4 by allowing it to freely settle therein. The specific gravity of the rolling cylinder 5 can be equal to, slightly greater or slightly less than that of the liquid 10.

The interior of the base 2 is fitted with an electromechanical device, which drives and causes the liquid 10 to produce an upward resultant precession force F. Pressure waves from the resultant precession force F function together with the surface of the rolling cylinder 5 to cause a viscous effect with the liquid 10, thereby rotatingly driving the rolling cylinder 5 to form radial directional rotation thereof. The surface of the rolling cylinder 5 is provided with decorative patterns 51, and the relative motion produced between the decorative patterns 51 and the scenic patterns 41 achieves a dynamic simulated, embellished transfiguration effect. Essentially, the rolling cylinder 5 is a freely disposed object, which does not need the connective support of any other component member, and is driven by being subjected to the momentum of liquid to achieve a rotating effect thereof. Production of the present invention is extremely simple; moreover, the decorative patterns 51 can be fashioned to resemble fish, with the drifting direction thereof being maintained. Furthermore, the present invention enables easy replacement with different patterned rolling cylinders 5.

Referring to FIGS. 4-6, which show a dynamic ornament 1 of the present invention primarily comprising the cylindrical body 4, the upper end of which is covered and sealed by a sealing cover 40, and the bottom portion is joined to the base 2. The interior of the base 2 is fitted with an electromechanical drive device 3, and the output power of the drive device 3 is evenly dispersed to affect any plane angle position of the inner bottom of the cylindrical body 4 to form a resultant force that drives and rotates the rolling cylinder 5.

The operating mode that drives the liquid of the present invention primarily uses the power outputted by blades 31 fitted to the water pressure drive device 3 to evenly affect the inner bottom of the cylindrical body 4, at which time a working pressure is produced that functions according to the orientation within a cavity 32 to cause a compensatory negative pressure at liquid drawing openings 321 of the cavity 32, whereupon pressure output is released through pressure outlet openings 322. Regarding the direction of pressure release, please refer to FIG. 5, a principal flow rate C is produced according to the pressure direction angle of the blades 31, and the momentum of the principal flow rate C affects the inner circular surface of the rolling cylinder 5, which further indirectly affects the inner circular surface of the cylindrical body 4. The principal flow rate C produced at the bottom portion of the cylindrical body 4 can be regarded as a flowing pressure FC. The flowing pressure FC is restricted by the spatial shape of the inner surface of the bottom portion of the cylindrical body 4, and an upward pressure F1 is produced, from which a diagonal force component F2 is obtained. The diagonal force component F2 further functions in coordination with the direction of the principal flow rate C to form a resultant precession force F, as depicted in FIG. 7. The resultant precession force F thereby affects proximate positions of the inner circular surface of the cylindrical body 4 to enable forming an upward spiral precession.

The aforementioned blades 31 are driven by a motor 30, and can be implemented through a single shaft linkage, or coaxial alignment of separately joined magnetic elements 311 and 312, with mutual attraction of magnetic forces being used to separate the linkages.

Referring to FIGS. 6-7, the pressure outputted from the water pressure drive device 3 forms the aforementioned force component F2, and the force component F2 is affected by the curvature specification of the inner circular surface of the rolling cylinder 5 to form an upward resultant precession force F. Resistance is produced between the flow of the resultant precession force F and the inner circular surface of the cylindrical body 4, at which time this resistance is transformed on the surface of the free rolling cylinder 5 to form a pressure and viscous force which drives the rolling cylinder 5.

The cylindrical body 4 and the rolling cylinder 5 are both circular shaped, thus, the pressure at any point on the circumferences thereof is the same, thereby enabling the working axis of the rolling cylinder 5 to maintain axial superposition with the cylindrical body 4.

In the present invention, after the rolling cylinder 5 is driven by the resultant precession force F, then an equal relative distance is maintained between the circular surface of the rolling cylinder 5 and the inner circular surface of the cylindrical body 4; moreover, there is no mechanical friction between the two surfaces.

Referring to FIG. 8, the resultant precession force F affects the corresponding surfaces between the cylindrical body 4 and the rolling cylinder 5, thereby forming equal driving forces on the respective circumferences. In addition, viscosity of the liquid 10 and equal pressure effect on the surface of the rolling cylinder 5 are used to drive and maintain central rotation of the rolling cylinder 5.

The rolling cylinder 5 used in the present invention can have non-refractive or refractive ability, and the base 2 can be fitted with LEDs (light-emitting diodes) 60 (as depicted in FIG. 7) facing the interior of the rolling cylinder 5, thereby providing a backlit effect. The beams of light Bn produced by the LEDs 60 affect the liquid 10 or the afterglow is projected outside the cylindrical body 4.

The present invention further enables control of the LEDs 60 or the drive device 3 by means of a modulation circuit 6, for example, a pulse light can be produced by means of a pulse current. Under circumstances whereby the frequency of the pulse light produced is extremely low, then an inching movement of the decorative patterns 51 is produced, creating a distinct dynamic visual effect. The frequency can be adjusted to less than 18 times per second.

The motor 30 installed to the drive device 3 is a direct current motor, and is modulated by means of the modulation circuit 6, thereby enabling changing output turning speed. If the modulation circuit 6 modulates the output power to be in a pulsed state, then the resultant precession force F forms waveforms of unequal quantity, and changes in the vector angles will occur because of the pulses, thereby, under a fixed viewing angle, the decorative patterns 51 on the rolling cylinder 5 are made to not only rove forward but also form up and down curved drifting paths, thus achieving a richer visual transformational effect.

It is of course to be understood that the embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the principles of the invention and that a wide variety of modifications thereto may be effected by persons skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.

Claims

1. A water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament, provided with a simple structural ornament applied by continuous water flow pressure waves to drive a rolling cylinder that is disposed within the ornament, thereby enabling producing a dynamic visual aesthetic effect, comprising:

a cylindrical body, which is provided with optical refraction effectiveness, has a circular cross-section; wherein, a surface of the cylindrical body is provided with decorative scenic patterns;

a base, an upper portion of the base is provided with an interface opening to enable a lower end of the cylindrical body to be joined and sealed thereto, thereby fixing the cylindrical body and enabling an interior of the cylindrical body to be filled with liquid;

a water pressure drive device, which is installed in an interior of the base, and the power outputted from the drive device evenly affects an inner bottom portion of the cylindrical body;

a rolling cylinder having a diameter and height smaller than those of the cylindrical body, the rolling cylinder is smaller in volume than that of the cylindrical body but equal in mass thereto, the surface of the rolling body is provided with decorative patterns.

2. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 1, wherein the water pressure drive device is fitted with blades residing in a center of the bottom portion of the cylindrical body, a periphery thereof is provided with cavity specified pressure outlet openings which face the circumference of the bottom portion of the cylindrical body.

3. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 1, wherein the water pressure drive device is fitted with blades driven by a motor which is in coaxially alignment with two separately joined magnetic elements which enable separating the linkages.

4. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 1, wherein the specific gravity of the rolling cylinder is either equal to, slightly less or slightly greater that that of the liquid.

5. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 1, wherein the cylindrical body and the rolling cylinder are of identical shape, and in which an exterior form of the cylindrical body is at least straight tubular shaped.

6. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 1, wherein the cylindrical body and the rolling cylinder are of identical shape, and in which the exterior form of the cylindrical body is at least drum shaped.

7. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 1, wherein the cylindrical body and the rolling cylinder are of identical shape, and in which the exterior form of the cylindrical body is at least waist drum-shaped.

8. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 1, wherein LEDs (light-emitting diodes) are installed in the bottom portion of the cylindrical body, the beams of light produced by the LEDs face the interior of the cylindrical body.

9. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 1, wherein the water pressure drive device is fitted to a direct current motor, which provides a working power supply through a modulation circuit.

10. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 8, wherein a modulation circuit provides a working power supply to the LEDs.

11. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 9, wherein the modulation circuit provides a pulse current.

12. The water pressure conveyance dynamic ornament according to claim 10, wherein the modulation circuit provides a pulse current.