My invention, money down the drain :'(

A useful invention is one that addresses a problem or fills a need. The only thing you mention is the centrifugal effect around a propeller, which I assume you mean the efficiency losses it incurs. If you compare that efficiency loss versus the friction in that complex assembly, the dozens of moving parts the weight of the frame and so on, putting wings on a track makes no sense... ever. Before investing time and money into an invention, one must ask what need is the invention filling and could it do it better than the solutions that already exist. Before you went ahead and built those prototypes, what did your research tell you about the efficiency gains you could expect. Or at least, what efficiency is lost with current solutions...

Man. I feel your heartbreak. I almost missed deadlines and repeatability filled for extensions on my patent. I did get it but then businesses I thought would license my invention flaked out. Now, beating my head against the mysteries of manufacturing. Then, it'll be engineering certification. The obstacles never stop. You've gotta be willing to push on through.

here's 1 of many reasons, your design (and Peter's design) is destined to fail: in any machine with moving parts, one must make sure all the parts can slow down and accelerate following a smooth curve; for example, the pistons in an ICE accelerate and slow down following a sinusoidal curve, being linked to a rotating crank. The valves follow the curve set by the cams and the rotation of the different shafts is buffered by the mass of the rotating parts... and so on. As an exercise, plot the rotational speed of your wings and you'll find that they have to abruptly accelerate and slow down where the curved part of the track meet the straight ones. Every time a link passes over of those 4 junctions, it hammers the parts together causing friction losses, wear and vibrations. To counter this, the track would need to be an ellipse rather than a sausage and the ideal track would be a circle... ironically.

Back in 1980, I thought I invented the cyclogiro, until I did some research and found out it was already invented. It looked good on paper and my models worked as expected, but the mechanics were complicated and the materials to build a real one weren't available to hobbyists back then. Nowadays, it's a feasible design and built by college students. Perhaps if you keep refining your design and bide your time, you'll see progress one day. I felt bad I was never able to get mine to fly, but did feel vindicated after seeing others get it to work.

My condolences. ☹️ Whenever I have an idea I think of the price of patents and say screw it, I'm going open source on everything. Patents serve patent trolls more than anyone creative.

Dont give up brother, i watched peters video and i was fascinated by this idea in particular! Ive been getting more and more into design and have a few 3d printers and id love to help in any way possible! I think theres a lot that could be done with the tank tread propeller

Have you not been paying attention to the behavior of the USPTO these past 50 years?? There is absolutely no reason to obtain a patent now. But sure; you keep fighting the good fight, Don Quixote!

DO NOT CONTINUE with this pursuit. It has so many flaws that it's difficult to even begin. It is borderline perpetual-motion-machine level bad and lacks the efficiency required at almost every turn. There's just no point in this day and age starting with a design level knowledge as low as da'vinci. You can learn so much in a few hours to outweigh his entire lifetime of design failures. You should start past his finishing point, not at it...

Maybe you can make a cool fan with these. Then most problems with efficiency will not matter. Make it run smooth with minimal noise, add some RGB lights and some people will like it.

felt bad until I saw your pfp.

You perused your dreams, often they don’t work out but at least you gave it your all.

reinventing propulsion is not an easy task, and this falls under "am going to reinvent the wheel!" cause that was the track to the wheel, the jet to the prop shaft. so on so forth. you're not a fool for inventing something, sometimes you just invent shit for original purpose. and it's only a failure if you don't learn from it. as for hydro electric systems though... i can definitely see that working though needs modification. if you pursue that area i can say it has something going for it. and if i get a machine shop up and running i can do some poking on my end and maybe help out actually making it work. you're an engineer, this is proof. and if you think the internal combustion engine was a hit immediately, oh boy do you have a lot to learn mate. how many iterations? how many failures? how many "i am a fool for even trying this" 's? look at the diesel engine with the diesel cycle. that was made for vegetable oils and plant oils. we now run it on kerosote type fuels (an narrowed the SHIT out of the injectors resulting in their original purpose not being a viable situation). take a step back, give yourself time to reel and heal form this. you're only a fool if you don't and refuse to see what CNA be done.

That is awesome! amazing design idea man

I watched Peter's video and wondered how he came up with the idea. I just watched it again and I am sure he didn't explain where he got the idea. Would just be interested if there was any link to your patent 🤔🤔

Test comment. My comments on this video are invisible, and idk why. If you see 2 that look similar, thats why.

Nice work prototyping! Let me know if you have any other new ideas. I’ve too been in the place where you’re fearful someone else has already come up with it… not fun when you find out it’s been done. If you have priority date it still might be something you can keep alive.

can i use the design for a fictional vehicle?

Almost everything is stupid until it works. Do something cool with it, you have defenetly proven that you can make cool shit so make make something that uses this for something.

Yeah I designed a stylus for the tablet and made it while in college. The provisional patent was $25,000.00 Sorry what all happened. I don't see replies.

It's interesting. But you realise it would need to go very fast to create real traction and thus putting a lot of pressure on the frame. While an axis it perfect for rotating.