Charles Max Fry
Engineers at Brown Cir, Denver, CO

4084102, Apr 11, 1978

Jan 19, 1976

5/650186

Charles Max Fry - Aurora CO
Henry W. Hise - Austin TX

F03D 1100

290 55

Wind driven rotors are affixed along the length of a flexible power shaft, and the shaft is suspended at a great height above the earth by means of a swivel. The lowermost end of the shaft is connected to rotate a ground supported energy conversion device. The winds aloft impart rotational motion into the wind rotors, whereupon the rotational energy of the shaft is converted into electrical power or other form of power by the conversion device. The swivel enables the rotating shaft to be affixed to a nonrotating lifting or suspension device. The lifting device includes lighter-than-air lifting bodies, aerodynamic lifting bodies, as well as a combination thereof. In one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of lifting bodies suspend a plurality of wind rotors, with each of the rotors being affixed to the shaft by a clutch means, so that when a wind gradient is encountered, a slowly rotating rotor will become disengaged from the shaft, thereby avoiding induced drag of the slow rotor.

4165468, Aug 21, 1979

Mar 7, 1978

5/884134

Charles M. Fry - Aurora CO
Henry W. Hise - Austin TX

F03D 1100

290 55

Wind driven rotors are affixed along the length of a flexible power shaft, and the shaft is suspended at a great height above the earth by means of a swivel. The lowermost end of the shaft is connected to rotate a ground supported energy conversion device. The winds aloft impart rotational motion into the wind rotors, whereupon the rotational energy of the shaft is converted into electrical power or other form of power by the conversion device. The swivel allows the rotating shaft to be affixed to a nonrotating suspension device. The suspension device is ground supported and includes a member having opposed ends anchored to the top of two towers or two spaced apart mountains, with the generator being placed therebetween.