1939 Gravity Power - multiply power by 1200%

[TheCell]

At 0:27 regarding one of the four columns :the big short mass is directly mounted on its driving plate, the axle of the longer mass can freely rotate within this plate, and rotates only because of its centrifugal force.

[gyulasun]

Can somebody please locate the address of this William F. Skinner from Miami. Florida
in an old telephone book or address book ?

Maybe his children or descendants still live there and know what happened to this machine ?
....

Hi Stefan,

Some patent search revealed he got at least 2 granted patents of the era but the patents are not connected in any way to the gravity setup shown in the video. It also turns out from one of the patents that there existed the Skinner Manufacturing Co., Inc., Miami, Florida,  this may also help to locate him.

These are his patents I found:
US2199322 Method and means for reconditioning dry cell batteries, issued April 30, 1940
US2477210 Refrigerator drinking water cooler, issued July 26, 1949

I think member Chet here is also from Florida?

Gyula

[hartiberlin]

Okay, from the patents he seems to have a company:

William F. Skinner Manufacturing Co. Inc. Miami Florida.

But I don´t find the address.

Does anyone from the USA know, how to find old addresses of companies
from the 1950s time frame ?
Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

[MarkE]

Okay, from the patents he seems to have a company:

William F. Skinner Manufacturing Co. Inc. Miami Florida.

But I don´t find the address.

Does anyone from the USA know, how to find old addresses of companies
from the 1950s time frame ?
Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

If there are Thomas Registers that go back that far you might find it.

[hartiberlin]

Thank you, Stefan, for your research, DreamThinkBuild for your welcome, and you are right, the upper part of the device is providing high leverage to the second stage. On the second stage also, the shorter (upper) weight it seems to be "the first" which is starting to rotate, dragging after it the second one, heavier (0.30' on the movie).

Yes, you are right, it is a 2 stage machine.
The upper part just makes only the leverage to tilt these rods back and forth
and the lower second stage then makes the tumbling of the weights.
At the bpttom of the machine is a gear that couples the rotation out
for the load.

Very intersting machine.
I guess the upper part could somehow replaced by a Milkovic pendulum
device to further reduce the input power requirements.

Regards, Stefan.

P.S: have not found yet his old company address, maybe someone else can help and find
this ? WOuld be great if this machine would be recovered still from an old shed or somewhere...
and could be made to rework !