Weightless Weight

[Alexioco]

Hello all, I have a book with 32 mechanisms for a single weight to apply its own weight into lifting itself upwards therefore becoming light... Each design is a result of hard study... I have just made one of them and it does some special things and I thought I could share this with you to see what you think...

Below is an equal seesaw that pivots on a stand.
A weight hangs on a piece of string which runs up and over a pulley attached to the right hand side of the seesaw, then running down to the pulley attached to the stand and then up to the left hand side of the seesaw to which the string is attached.

The weight aplies its weight to the right hand side of the seesaw and also gives an equal downward pull to the left hand side of the seesaw creating a balance with just one single weight!

If you push the left hand side of the seesaw down, it takes hardly any effort causing the weight to slowly rise, once you stop pushing down on the left hand side of the seesaw, the weight does not fall back down but retains its height at any point of the lift. Also, an interesting thing to note is that when the weight is slightly raised, its slightly easier to push the left hand side of the seesaw down (lifting the weight) than it is to push the right hand side of the seesaw down (lowering the weight)...

Alex

[Lilhawk]

thanks Alexioco....looks simple to try out

[Lilhawk]

I made a picture...I like pictures   

From what Alexioco has said about this .... that regardless what load weight is used ...it will balance.  No matter if you use 1,10 or 100 kilos

the work to move the load up should very little and basically same for any weight.

Even when the load is off the device it is balanced and can return to a low position to pick more weight.

...now to go prove myself wrong

[Alexioco]

Hey, looks quite an interesting idea, few more things to note though, when the left side of the lever goes down and the right side goes up the string is being lowered but not as fast the the seesaw goes up therefore it lifts, but the weight does not lift very high, so you would nee a bigger seesaw to lift it that hight in ur pic

Alex

[Lilhawk]

Quick update ....tried a basic set up...does not look good ...I'll explain in a bit