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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1990
Ian Yellowley, West Vancouver, CA;
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA;
Abstract
A propeller system is formed on a shaft by at least one pair of axially spaced propeller blades each having a first and a second blade section extending at a selected acute (or obtuse) angle to the axis of the shaft, the first sections and second sections respectively of the pair of propeller blades are substantially parallel to each other and the tips of the first sections of each of the blades are connected to the tips of the second section of each of the blades respectively to form a box shape. The shaft is connected to the propeller system in a manner so that the axis of the shaft extends substantially diagonally of the box shape whereby the parallel sections of the blades move in opposite directions relative to the fluid in which they are contained when the shaft is rotated to facilitate improvement of the efficiency of the propeller system. The shaft preferably is mounted oriented to the direction of relative fluid flow between the propeller blades and the fluid so that each blade section extends substantially perpendicular to the direction of relative flow over a significant portion of its rotation and each blade section will be substantially parallel to the direction of fluid flow relative to the propeller blade during a further portion of the rotation of the propeller blades.