WIND POWER PLANT Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: wind power engineering. SUBSTANCE: plant has a double-arm lever provided with a cupola positioned at its top part and constructed as disks and foam plastic spacers interposed between them. The diameter of the spacers is grater than diameter of the disks. A transmission is provided with guides, spring loaded counterweights, which is set in guides for movement, two drums, one of which is coupled with the lever and the other one with the counterweight, additional ratchet mechanism, and three horizontal shafts. The shafts and main shaft is positioned in pair and coupled with each other through a gear. The pairs of the shafts are parallel to each other and the shafts of each pair are coaxial. The drums and ratchet mechanism are positioned at the ends of corresponding shafts of each pair, and free end of one of the shafts is coupled with a generator. The plant is provided with an additional generator coupled with free end of one of the horizontal shafts. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency. 2 cl, 3 dwg