| STATISTICS: Tilt Motor VOLITION: 5 (10 active u /2 dual-axial u) EQUILIBRIUM: 1 (1 u / 1 stem / 1 cycle) EFFICIENCY: 5 ( 5 Ve / 1 VE ) VOLITIONAL STATEMENT: theoretically the high number of active and uni-directional units plus the dual-axial nature of all fixed elements results in a design that transcends other notions of machine. Emphasis should be placed on low-weight high-tension levers that provide little resistance when indirectly activated. |
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NATHAN COPPEDGE--Perpetual Motion Concepts
Tilt Motor: A Perpetual Motion Machine Concept Using a
Rolling Cone Set on a Circular Pivoting Track
Taken from my blog entry on the subject:
We all know that if you push a coffee cup it rolls in circles. It seemed to me
that so long as that rolling could be used to provide a constant slope, the
rolling might continue and continue. The result is a new perpetual motion
concept: The Tilt-Motor. (Should I call it God's Rolling Pin?) Click here to
skip to the diagrams.
It consists of a weighted cone shaped (approximately) like a coffee cup that
may be made to spin along a track around a vertical axis. Along the outside
perimeter of the track are eight pressure plates, each attached to the long
end of a lever.
The short end of each lever has a "wicket" attached, which allows one of
the earlier levers to pass through without being obstructed. When the long
end of the lever is activated by the weight of the rolling cone, leverage acts
underneath the track through the wicket positioned 90 degrees behind the
cone. Since the track is made in such a way that it pivots downward
wherever the cone is rolling, the point 90 degrees behind the cone is always
sloped towards the cone. By pushing upward at precisely that point, it may
be possible to raise that portion of the track, thus extending the range of the
slope.
The intention then is to keep the cone rolling around the track, since it is
continually activating a pressure plate that shifts the tilt towards a point just
ahead of the cone. When it rolls to that point it would then theoretically
activate another pressure plate, causing the tilt to shift once more. The
system is efficient because the entire force utilized is the weight of the
cone,which is otherwise supported by the track. The weight contributes to
leverage which acts not directly underneath the cone, but 90 degrees behind
it, a point that is much easier to lift. Since very little slope is necessary to
keep a round thing rolling, the leverage may be sufficient to create
continuous motion.
Because the keys or pressure plates are only weighted when the cone rolls
over them (since the track is not positioned directly over them, but rather
over the wickets on the other end of the levers) the cone meets little
resistance in one direction--simply having to lift the non-operating keys--yet
considerable resistance in the other direction from the leverage acting
through the activated pressure plate.
Note that the inner track is separate from the pressure plates, and even from
the wickets (just above them), so that it is actually unnecessary to adjust the
sizes of the wickets to accommodate lean and skew. It could be built in
such a way that the lowest point of swivel for the track allows the current
pressure plate to be fully activated, with the highest point of the
corresponding wicket--when the lever is activated--being slightly higher than
the height of the track at 90 degrees behind the activated pressure plate.
This actually means that the point of the track 90 degrees ahead of the
activated pressure plate is lowest, since the wicket opposite that point is the
highest. In this way the rolling cone is always approximately in the middle of
the slope, according to theory. Since theoretically the slope begins 90 degree
behind the cone, there is no need for the cone to ever reach the lowest point
of the track, so long as the current location is sloped downward.
The best way to implement this is to raise the average height of the track to
the extent that the cone is rolling at the point when it fully depresses the
pressure plate. If that pressure is sufficient to shift the point of slope, then
the process might continue.
This might be possible because the size of the rolling cone permits the keys
to be raised above the lowest point of the track. If the transition from one
pressure plate "step" to another is not completely smooth, then size of the
outer end of the cone would accommodate for this, the way large wheels can
handle small bumps.
With 66% levers as depicted, there is a 1/2 transfer of distance, so that 2
inches of depressed pressure plate would produce 1 inch of upward tilt 90
degrees behind the cone. However, as noted earlier, not much tilt may be
necessary to move a rolling cone.
Tilt Motor Diagrams nathancoppedge.com
Rolling Cone Set on a Circular Pivoting Track
Taken from my blog entry on the subject:
We all know that if you push a coffee cup it rolls in circles. It seemed to me
that so long as that rolling could be used to provide a constant slope, the
rolling might continue and continue. The result is a new perpetual motion
concept: The Tilt-Motor. (Should I call it God's Rolling Pin?) Click here to
skip to the diagrams.
It consists of a weighted cone shaped (approximately) like a coffee cup that
may be made to spin along a track around a vertical axis. Along the outside
perimeter of the track are eight pressure plates, each attached to the long
end of a lever.
The short end of each lever has a "wicket" attached, which allows one of
the earlier levers to pass through without being obstructed. When the long
end of the lever is activated by the weight of the rolling cone, leverage acts
underneath the track through the wicket positioned 90 degrees behind the
cone. Since the track is made in such a way that it pivots downward
wherever the cone is rolling, the point 90 degrees behind the cone is always
sloped towards the cone. By pushing upward at precisely that point, it may
be possible to raise that portion of the track, thus extending the range of the
slope.
The intention then is to keep the cone rolling around the track, since it is
continually activating a pressure plate that shifts the tilt towards a point just
ahead of the cone. When it rolls to that point it would then theoretically
activate another pressure plate, causing the tilt to shift once more. The
system is efficient because the entire force utilized is the weight of the
cone,which is otherwise supported by the track. The weight contributes to
leverage which acts not directly underneath the cone, but 90 degrees behind
it, a point that is much easier to lift. Since very little slope is necessary to
keep a round thing rolling, the leverage may be sufficient to create
continuous motion.
Because the keys or pressure plates are only weighted when the cone rolls
over them (since the track is not positioned directly over them, but rather
over the wickets on the other end of the levers) the cone meets little
resistance in one direction--simply having to lift the non-operating keys--yet
considerable resistance in the other direction from the leverage acting
through the activated pressure plate.
Note that the inner track is separate from the pressure plates, and even from
the wickets (just above them), so that it is actually unnecessary to adjust the
sizes of the wickets to accommodate lean and skew. It could be built in
such a way that the lowest point of swivel for the track allows the current
pressure plate to be fully activated, with the highest point of the
corresponding wicket--when the lever is activated--being slightly higher than
the height of the track at 90 degrees behind the activated pressure plate.
This actually means that the point of the track 90 degrees ahead of the
activated pressure plate is lowest, since the wicket opposite that point is the
highest. In this way the rolling cone is always approximately in the middle of
the slope, according to theory. Since theoretically the slope begins 90 degree
behind the cone, there is no need for the cone to ever reach the lowest point
of the track, so long as the current location is sloped downward.
The best way to implement this is to raise the average height of the track to
the extent that the cone is rolling at the point when it fully depresses the
pressure plate. If that pressure is sufficient to shift the point of slope, then
the process might continue.
This might be possible because the size of the rolling cone permits the keys
to be raised above the lowest point of the track. If the transition from one
pressure plate "step" to another is not completely smooth, then size of the
outer end of the cone would accommodate for this, the way large wheels can
handle small bumps.
With 66% levers as depicted, there is a 1/2 transfer of distance, so that 2
inches of depressed pressure plate would produce 1 inch of upward tilt 90
degrees behind the cone. However, as noted earlier, not much tilt may be
necessary to move a rolling cone.
Tilt Motor Diagrams nathancoppedge.com
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