Turbine blade skirt

Abstract

The disclosed propeller/turbine blade enhancement will be used in the moving fluid kinetic energy conversion field. This turbine blade skirt enhancement to a propeller/turbine bladed assembly will increase the kinetic energy conversion of the assembly on which the enhancement has been made a part of. The disclosed turbine blade skirt will contact and redirect a portion of the moving fluid the propeller/turbine bladed assembly is converting into mechanical rotational energy. The contacting and redirecting the fluid from the least efficient conversion areas of the assembly to the more efficient conversion areas of the assembly increases the amount of mechanical rotational energy obtained from the assembly.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A turbine blade skirt enhancement to a propeller/turbine blade assembly in which the skirt enhancement contacts and redirects a portion of the center section of a moving fluid current from the center of the bladed assembly towards the outer sections of the bladed assembly. 
     
     
         2 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , wherein the enhanced propeller/turbine blade assembly is used in the kinetic energy conversion field. 
     
     
         2 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , wherein the enhanced propeller/turbine assembly will be located and aligned within a moving fluid in such a manner that the assembly will rotate as the result of being subjected to the kinetic energy contained within said moving fluid. 
     
     
         4 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , wherein the propeller/turbine blade assembly upon which the turbine skirt is added shall be comprised of: a plurality of propeller/turbine blades on the assembly's rotational hub. 
     
     
         5 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , wherein the propeller/turbine blade assembly upon which the turbine blade skirt is added shall have a rotational hub located coaxially about a longitudinal centerline axis and be connected to a rotational horizontal shaft along the longitudinal centerline axis, wherein the horizontal shaft will convey the rotating assembly's produced mechanical rotational energy. 
     
     
         6 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , wherein the propeller/turbine assembly on which the turbine blade skirt is added will be comprised of multiple blades that have the following features:
 a blade root that is joinable to the assembly hub,   a blade tip,   a blade leading edge extending from said root to said tip,   a blade trailing edge extending from said root to said tip,   a blade frontal facing surface extending from said blade root to said blade tip and extending between the blade leading edge and the blade trailing edge,   a blade rearward facing surface extending from said blade root to said blade tip and extending between the blade leading edge and the blade trailing edge   
       and that an assembly of 8 blades has been disclosed. 
     
     
         7 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , wherein the overall shape of the skirt is circular in nature. 
     
     
         8 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , wherein a common nose cone may be an integral formed part of the turbine blade skirt that is added to the propeller/turbine bladed assembly. 
     
     
         9 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , wherein a common nose cone may be added separately from the turbine blade skirt to the propeller/turbine bladed assembly. 
     
     
         10 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , wherein the turbine blade skirt would be placed under a common nose cone and over a propeller/turbine bladed assembly's hub section. 
     
     
         11 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , in which the turbine blade skirt enhancement may be formed with the propeller/turbine bladed assembly's blades. 
     
     
         12 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , in which the turbine blade skirt may be constructed separately from the propeller/turbine assembly's blades and then be affixed to the propeller/turbine bladed assembly. 
     
     
         13 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , in which the turbine blade skirt enhancement shall have petal segments that fit in between the propeller/turbine blades of the bladed assembly and that these petal segments when joined together form the turbine blade skirt. 
     
     
         14 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , in which the turbine blade skirt shall have petal segments that fit in between the propeller/turbine blades of the bladed assembly and that those segments may be formed, bent or molded in order to channel the moving fluid outward from the face of the petal segment. 
     
     
         15 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , in which the shape of the turbine blade skirt enhancement may vary in; thickness, diameter, blade opening spaces between the petal segments, petal segments ratio per blade and petal segments spacing. 
     
     
         16 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , in which the turbine blade enhancement may have petal segments of varied shapes, thicknesses and include different contoured frontal facing surfaces. 
     
     
         17 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , in which the turbine blade enhancement may have petal segments of varied shapes, thicknesses and include different contoured rearward facing surfaces. 
     
     
         18 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , in which the turbine blade skirt may be constructed of any number of various materials, including but not limited to, various types of; woods, metals, fiberglass, carbon fibers, polymers, molded plastics, ceramics and or a combination of these items. 
     
     
         19 . A turbine blade skirt of  claim 1 , in which the assembly may be changed to a clockwise rotational assembly and that in that case; the design of the turbine blade skirt shall be altered in order to assist in the new rotational direction.