Heron's Fountain : principle and manufacturing

Things that are able to work independently, without any external source of energy, not so much, and a special place among them is Gerona fountain.Its main advantage is that it works through the natural laws of nature, not wasting a third-party power.
In fact, it's not quite true - this is not a perpetual motion machine, and certainly not gratuitous source of energy.Such need regular fountain "recharge" - according to the design, it may be necessary every 15-50 minutes.In principle, it is a simple procedure that will require a person to swap a couple of tanks.This independent work interesting fountain Heron, an independent production of which we discuss in this article.At the site of Dream House, we will deal with its design, learn the principles of work and answer the question, how to make this miracle with their own hands?

How to make a fountain Heron photo

Heron's Fountain: How it works

If rush clever terms, the basis for the work of Heron Fountain put gidropnevmatiki principle - work on the expulsion of the water jet makes up the air and the liquid itself.Of course, the point here is not without gravity, whereby the necessary pressure is created in the fountain system.This fountain is composed of at least three tanks.

1. Bowl.We call it the starting point - the start, with which the liquid begins its movement in the system of Heron Fountain.It is usually open container made by the type of bowls or plates.Therefrom through a thin tube in the water enters an empty container situated in the bottom of the fountain.
2. Lower empty container.It serves two purposes.First, water flowing from the bowl compresses the air contained therein, thereby creating the pressure necessary for ejecting a jet of water upwards.And, secondly, the water collected in it, which generates this pressure (that is, one that flows downward).There it remains until the next recharge fountain.
3. upper capacity - in the charged state it with water.It is this liquid and is pushed outwardly as a thin water jet.It pushes it through the compressed air - pressure formed in the bottom of the flask.The air on a thin tube into the upper flask, displacing fluid out that pouring fountain, falls back into the bowl, where, again, runs in the bottom flask.
   

   Heron's Fountain: principle of photo

As you can imagine, this fountain will work as long as is consumed liquid in the upper container - then requires recharging, thanks to which this system has nothing in common withperpetual motion or an endless source of energy.Recharging Heron Fountain is elementary simple - complete the bulb (the one that was the bottom) is installed instead of the empty container, mounted on top of that, in turn, is placed instead of the full capacity.After recharging the fountain will be necessary to run - in the upper bowl will need to add a little water.

As you can see, everything is quite simple, and no exception is even a fountain principle manufacturing Heron with his hands.In the elementary variant it is going out of plastic bottles and transparent tubes - naturally need a cup mounting structure and various little things, with which we will deal in the course of studying the issue of how to make a fountain Heron with his hands?

How to Heron's Fountain: features build

So action fountain Heron principle is clear, now it is necessary to deal with the intricacies of options and its assembly.Various designs There are several.

1. Heron Indoor Fountain Indoor.The advantage of this is a fountain of two things: First, it is very compact and, secondly, it is collected so that the water does not kontachit with ambient air.It is not sprayed, and all the action takes place in a transparent housing that is divided into sections, which are interconnected tubes.Moreover, another of the important advantages of this system is the fountain elementary recharge - all that for this you need to do is turn over the installation as an hourglass, wait until the water flow into the desired container and turn it back.Once you do this, the fountain working again.In the manufacture of technologically this is a very complex structure - can be collected, but it is advisable to practice on a simplified version before.At the same time and understand the principle of work - this will give the opportunity to make their own additions to the structure.
   

   Heron's Fountain photo

2. Classic outdoor fountain Gerona.The simplest system in which you have to train and - as mentioned above, it can be easily assembled from plastic bottles.The only thing that is difficult is to make a foundation - the very fountain rack.In principle, this point could be solved by a pair of conventional inexpensive plastic basins and threaded rod - one basin will act as a support, and the second as the fountain bowl.In the latter you need to make a couple of holes - one to set the nozzle (through it will flow a trickle) and the second to drain the water.After that, the rack hung two plastic bottles, which also covers a pair of drilled holes.Then all you need to connect the pipes according to the scheme below.That is from the drain pipe is lowered to the bottom of the bottle (at the very bottom of it) from her second tube is laid into the upper bottle (both ends should stay at the top of the bottles).The last tube lowered to the bottom of the top of the bottle is connected to the fountain nozzle.

In principle, it is the whole system of Heron's fountain.The only thing that you need to add here, so it's clarify a few details.Firstly, the whole system must have exceptional leak - there must be only a few open seats (out of the bowl and drain the fountain nozzle).And, secondly, the height of the jet of the fountain depends on the distance between the upper and lower tanks - the whole thing will have to customize on your own.

How to make a fountain Heron: What can be improved

said that there is no limit to perfection, and practically any thing can be upgraded to infinity - it is not so, but still room for improvement of any product is almost always there.Heron's Fountain in this regard is no exception - it is possible to upgrade to a lot of things.

1. very first thing - is to increase the water flow.We have already said that it depends on the distance between the upper and lower capacity - you know what to infinity (or, at least, to the required torque) to increase this distance can not be obtained.There is one trick - if correctly paired two such systems of tanks and tubes, the minimum height of the jet will be doubled.In general, you will need not one, but two complete with two bottles of water and the same blank, interconnected tubes consecutively - full, empty and then full again and again an empty bank.Full top banks, empty bottom - otherwise will not work.
   

   principle of operation of the fountain Heron photo

2. Improve recharging system.In fact, not difficult to change places with the water tank, but it is much more attractive than it looks in the fountain if its recharging will be done at the lowest cost.The method may be many, but the most interesting is the one that you come up with on their own - without manual intervention can not do in any case, so the best option is not thinking through ways to recharge, and increase capacities to the maximum possible, and reducing the rate of water flow tothe same limits.
3. Decorating.Due to the fact that the most popular decor is by far the lights, immediately raises the question, with its provision of electrical energy.Of course, the easiest way to connect a fountain into an outlet, but much more interesting to maintain energy independence of the fountain - believe me, it's not so difficult today.Use can be as solar panels and water movement.For example, a downward flow of water can be installed a water wheel, which is connected to a small electric current generator - it will be quite enough for the couple to light LEDs.

In general, despite the fact that in general the Heron Fountain is a very thoughtful article, space for its improvement there is still a limit, and this place, apparently not.In conclusion, the theme remains to add that the principle described above can be made a lot of variety of systems ranging from small experimental models of fountains, to huge working models.With the latter, however, there is a charge problem to solve that very, very difficult without a pump or other ingenious devices of today.

author Vladimir Belov