Re-Inventing The Wheel-Part1-Clemente_Figuera-THE INFINITE ENERGY MACHINE

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hanon


Once again I want to say : THANK YOU for Your GREAT WORK !
And to all who investigated time and resources to re-vive Clemente Figuera history . [...]

I second that. Thanks a lot, hanon !

[hanon]

Hi all,

Here I have traslated some letters that Clemente Figuera sent in 1902 to the newspapers. You can follow cronologically the sequence of events prior to the filing of the 4 patents in September 1902. Before filing the patents there are some references in the newspaper (in april- may - june 1902) . Later he filed the patents  in the 20th of september 1902, and, four days later he signed the sale of the patents to an international banker union. Later... all is silence ... until the 1908 patent few days before his death.

It is curious to note that Mr. Figuera said many times that the principle os his invention is very simple.

Regards

[hanon]

Hi,

For people who may read spanish texts, you can find many more newspapers clippings about Clemente Figuera. I have just translated some of them, but spanish readers will enjoy for sure reading all those documents. --> search for Newspaper report II at the bottom side of the page.

http://www.alpoma.net/tecob/?page_id=8258

Regards

[Kator01]

Hello Hanon,

I watch this topic since 3 Days and one question might be of interest: What was the technique for building electromagnets at 1900 ? What kind of core-material was used ?
Why do I ask this seemingly trivial questions ? Reason : Remanence.
We have to check all paramters in order to get closer to a solution.

I found this here, it is in german but you can see all details: core is plain iron.. so we will have remance:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/LEHRMITTEL-Spulen-Magnet-ELEKTROMAGNET-Physik-EXPERIMENTE-Unterricht-Schule-/360488430954

I do not believe that Figuera was using stacked core-material

Second question to focus on  : did Figuera use U-shaped core-material so he  had both rows of electromagnets influencing each other if current was changed ?
The patent does not give an answer which means more effort to spend on experiments.

Last thought about the magnetic flux-density across the gap where the laod-coils are place within.
My impression is: the overall magnetic tension across the gap is not changing, only the density of the fieldlines exiting the frontside of each S and N- core changes. This would mean that the load-coil in between the two pole-faces would get a massage with changing flux-field-density moving with each step form left to right and back again. So in this way there will be generated a potential-difference between both terminal of the load-coil y with one exeption: if the partial-currents for S and N-coils are equal. If this is the case than this would only make sense with a longer load-coil in order to have this effect. This gives a clue of the probable physical dimension of the set-up.
In other words: a constant change of flux-field-density between right and left pole-face of the load-coil is created while the overall magnetic tension in the gap is constant thus reduced Lenz-action. Because of the slow reacting iron-material there is also a smoothing out sharp voltage-peaks caused by the discrete steps of the commutator-brush

Just some thoughts of mine.

Regards

Kator01

[hanon]

Hi Kator,

The only source of technical info about Figuera´s devices are his 5 patents. There it is clearly stated that the cores were composed of soft iron. I think that the idea was to has a composition which could react quickly to the changes in the magnetization. The aim was to create a changing magnetic field in the electromagnets to try to emulate a normal magnet that is spinning inside a generator (N,S,N,S,N,S,...)

In some newspapers is written that Figuera ask for some material to a german company. I think he was looking for very pure iron. The purer the iron the greater the magnetic permeability , therefore, the stronger the filed created  (check in this link the huge increase in the magnetic permeability:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permeabilidad_magn%C3%A9tica

The best source of technical details are his patents. You can find them in the webpage.