Abstract: An in-pipe turbine has uses in energy storage and circulation. Specific applications are in storage systems working by elevation, smart grid systems, pressure release, and heating/cooling systems. Storage and release of electrical energy are important parts of an electrical grid. A system for storage using particulates is presented. On a higher level, a water system can interact with an electrical grid in order to use and provide electricity and convey water in a more efficient manner. The connection of a smart water and smart electrical grid, which may include the use of an in-pipe hydroelectric turbine, is presented.

Abstract: Alternative hydroelectric power plant uses a volume of water necessary for operation in a closed circuit. Hydroelectric power plant consists of a structure for mounting a head water reservoir at a requisite height, the structure including a building with a machine room, a device for supplying water to a hydraulic turbine, the head water reservoir and a tail water reservoir and balanced conveyor-type water-lifting apparatuses which can be set into motion by wind energy, starting from a low-velocity wind, by the energy from the water used in the hydraulic turbine and by the actual hydraulic turbine, by transmitting rotational motion from the hydraulic turbine to the conveyor-type water-lifting apparatuses, which provide for lifting water to the requisite height in order to create the pressure necessary for operation of the hydraulic turbines.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein may include at least one pole including a plurality of projections disposed at incremental heights along the pole, an object, a first pulley positioned on a first side of the object, and a second pulley positioned on the second side of the object.

Abstract: A device employing multiple counterweights for enhancing rotation movement. The device employs a horizontally disposed counterweight coupled to a vertically offset second counterweight by an adjacent sprocket. The sprocket times the counteracting weights to provide a single rotational direction whose inertia is maintained by a flywheel. The device has a 6:3:1 ratio resulting in a near continuous rotational movement upon the operational movement of the first and second counterweight. A generator may be coupled to the device providing a ancillary source of power.

Abstract: An improved power transfer device utilizes an input power source supplemented by an unbalanced weight assembly which increases the torque on an output shaft as a function of load associated with the device. The input shaft is provided with a drive gear in operable engagement with an internal toothed ring gear, and the ring gear is provided with a plurality of diametrically opposed, radial extensions to which weight support arms are pivotably attached. The remaining free ends of the weight support arms are attached to the outer extensions of a cruciform support and are further in parallel alignment with and fixedly secured to elongated weights, such securement being offset from a central portion of the weights. A difference in load between the input shaft and output shaft results in the ring gear shifting in an unbalanced manner relative to the output shaft so as to deliver an additional torque to the shaft through the shifting of the unbalanced weights.

Abstract: A garden arrangement including a conveyor assembly with a plurality of longitudinally spaced mounting means supporting containers utilizing growth material, the conveyor being arranged along a predetermined path whereby the containers may be successively advanced to an accessible location for tending by a gardener.

Abstract: A plurality of translation rods are mounted in a cage for pivoting about a common axis and pass through the pivot axis, being at fixed circumferentially spaced positions but movable bidirectionally along their individual axes during rotation about the fixed axis shaft. Cam follower rods pivotably mounted on respective ends of the translation rods are slidable axially relative to their axis and through their pivot axis. The cam follower rods carry rotatable cam followers through tension springs, which normally maintain the cam followers at a predetermined distance from the cam follower rod pivot axis in the absence of cam follower contact with a fixed cam mounted in juxtaposition to the path of the rotation of the translation rods. The major surface of the fixed cam is generally at right angles to the direction of constant forces applied to respective ends of each translation rod.

Abstract: This invention relates to apparatus for conveying bulk materials, such as minerals, down a vertical or steeply inclined path of descent. An endless conveyor carries the material downwards by gravity, and at the same time drives an energy transformation unit, such as an electrical generator. The conveyor also drives an air compressor, which feeds compressed air to a reservoir. Air from the reservoir can drive a turbine for maintaining the speed of rotation of the generator in the event of a decrease in the conveyor speed. The speed may be monitored by a govenor. The compressed air may also drive apparatus for excavating the minerals. The material may be delivered to the conveyor by a succession of trucks on a circular track layout, which is inclined to the horizontal, the trucks moving towards the conveyor under gravity.