Abstract: A windpower generator which includes a cupped blade design to be assembled from flat module sheets together with a resiliently biased mount to provide automatic feathering with a consequent speed control. A generator or alternating generator to feed electric output to an existing power system, as, for example, a residence or small business establishment, is associated with the windmill to serve as a counterbalance in the mounting and to cooperate with the self-governing blade assembly. A switching circuit is connected to feed generator power to the local utility power lines when net power is available at the winddriven alternator and in phase with utility power.

Abstract: A wind turbine for converting wind forces into usable energy has a main shaft rotatably mounted in the axis of rotation for the wind turbine, and a pair of coacting complementary longitudinally extending vane members are connected to each other by a plurality of support and transmission assemblies in the form of articulated members and to the main or driven shaft for driving engagement thereof. The coacting vane members may either have straight side edges or preferably have spiralled or helically shaped side edges which in the closed position are aligned and in abutment with each other to define and form a right circular cylinder in side elevation. The vanes are movable between a normally open starting position and a closed position to vary the total vane surface available for contact by the wind forces acting at any given time when the wind turbine is in operation.

Abstract: A propeller type wind motor arrangement having a blade mounting hub, a plurality of air foil blades, and blade receiving means for mounting the blades to the hub for pivotal movement about a longitudinal axis of the blades is provided with a governor for retaining the blades at a first high torque, relatively low tip speed ratio forming angle during motor start-up and at rotational speeds below a minimum normal operational speed, and for abruptly shifting said blades to a second high efficiency, relatively high tip speed ratio forming angle when said operational value is reached.

Abstract: An impeller and apparatus for use therewith are described, the impellers having collapsible cups presenting variable entrance areas with respect to the fluid, the areas being determined by the velocity of rotation around a shaft on which the cups are carried. The apparatus for utilization of the impellers comprises a wind driven machine for power output, a wind driven machine having a plurality of levels of impellers, a wind driven machine for starting another wind driven machine which is difficult to start on its own, and a wind driven machine utilizing the impellers for providing turbulence in a liquid.

Abstract: A system is disclosed for controlling the pitch angle of helicopter rotor blades to compensate for differences in lift generated by advancing and retreating blades during translational flight or due to gust loading of individual blades. Each rotor blade is free to move about its pitch axis to achieve an adjustable balance between a pitching moment exerted by the blade and centrifugal force exerted by weights rotating with the blade system. Collective and cyclic pitch commands from the pilot are transmitted through a conventional swash plate to a linkage which adjusts the relationship of the pitching-moment and centrifugal forces which produces a balanced condition. The system maintains near-constant blade lift as the blade rotates, and minimizes blade distortion and asymmetric coning, thereby significantly reducing vibration arising from a shifting of the center of mass of the rotor-blade system away from the center of rotation.

Abstract: A rotor blade extended radially from a hub, characterized by an elongated spar and a plurality of axially aligned shells pivotally mounted on the spar, each having an aerodynamic center located in trailing relation with the spar and supported thereby for simultaneous axial and angular displacement as centrifugal forces are applied thereto, and a pitch controller including a plurality of pivotal pitch limiting arms transversely related to the spar, each being characterized by a cam surface defined along one edge thereof, engaging in supporting relation a cam follower of a truck pivotally connected to a shell and supported thereby for pivotal motion about an axis coincident with a radius of said spar, and a push-pull link interconnecting the arms for imparting simultaneous pivotal motion thereto, whereby the angular relationship of the arms to the spar is varied for varying the motion of the trucks along the arms for thus limiting the pitch of the segments about the spar.