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I have been getting detailed reports from an engineer who has become interested in evaluating Bob Neal's compression unit, US Patent 2030759.
The engineer believes that resonance is the principle of operation, but unlike the assumptions of myself and others, he thinks that the working wave is a traveling wave, not a standing wave.
I have started a new blog to deal exclusively with this engineer's work, pro and con. He is especially keen to hear from devil's advocates because he started out to prove his idea wrong and can't find any evidence against it. The new blog with all his writing is here:
The Self-Filling Air Tank
My page on standing waves is here:
Bob Neal Secret
In case you're new to this, Bob Neal was an Arkansas shoemaker who built a self-filling air tank in the 1930s, and took it to Washington DC to show it to the patent office, forcing them to give him a patent since his machine worked. He invented a way to put fresh air into a pre-charged compressed air tank without working against the pressure that was already in the tank. The result was a compression unit so cheap to run that it literally made extra air. The energy source is the ambient heat already in the air, being upgraded to a useful condition by being inserted into an air tank many times more cheaply than by the conventional means of being pushed in laboriously against resistance.
I have been researching this device since 1988, when another engineer first told me that the device must have been a tuned resonance circuit of some kind. In other words, it works by acoustic power; the air is hammered into the tank by sound waves, and the mechanical compressor only has to keep the air moving.
Luther
The engineer believes that resonance is the principle of operation, but unlike the assumptions of myself and others, he thinks that the working wave is a traveling wave, not a standing wave.
I have started a new blog to deal exclusively with this engineer's work, pro and con. He is especially keen to hear from devil's advocates because he started out to prove his idea wrong and can't find any evidence against it. The new blog with all his writing is here:
The Self-Filling Air Tank
My page on standing waves is here:
Bob Neal Secret
In case you're new to this, Bob Neal was an Arkansas shoemaker who built a self-filling air tank in the 1930s, and took it to Washington DC to show it to the patent office, forcing them to give him a patent since his machine worked. He invented a way to put fresh air into a pre-charged compressed air tank without working against the pressure that was already in the tank. The result was a compression unit so cheap to run that it literally made extra air. The energy source is the ambient heat already in the air, being upgraded to a useful condition by being inserted into an air tank many times more cheaply than by the conventional means of being pushed in laboriously against resistance.
I have been researching this device since 1988, when another engineer first told me that the device must have been a tuned resonance circuit of some kind. In other words, it works by acoustic power; the air is hammered into the tank by sound waves, and the mechanical compressor only has to keep the air moving.
Luther
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