US PATENT SUBCLASS 60 / 639
MOTOR ACTUATED BY ACCUMULATING AND DUMPING LIQUID OR FLUENT MATERIAL


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639MOTOR ACTUATED BY ACCUMULATING AND DUMPING LIQUID OR FLUENT MATERIAL {1}
640  DF  .~> Rocking member having opposite accumulating means


DEFINITION

Classification: 60/639

(under the class definition) Apparatus wherein the motor comprises movable means for accumulating and discharging a quantity of fluent material or a volume of liquid material from a flowing stream of the material which means moves under the influence of gravity in response to a predetermined accumulation of material from a first accumulating position to a second discharge position to provide power and in which a surface of such accumulation is open to the atmosphere during movement of the movable means.

(1) Note. The subcombination in a metering device of accumulating means of the type noted above is included in this subclass if the meter is not claimed but merely disclosed.

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185, Motors: Spring, Weight, or Animal Powered,

27+, for a motor in which kinetic energy is derived from the movement of a mass by virtue of the effect of gravity.