Compound coaxial windmill

Patent · Tue Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6491147

Sleeper, H J

A horizontal axis windmill in which there is employed a conventional propeller mounted at one end of a fuselage housing a generator, and there is also located in the fuselage an induction fan. The fan functions to increase the volume of air moving through the propeller and in a direction coordinate with the direction of rotation of the propeller, thus to improve the efficiency of the windmill.

• Assignee: EDB-83-066447
• Patent Number(s): US 4370095
• OSTI ID: 6491147
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 3 Nov 1980; Other Information: PAT-APPL-203319
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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