From early times man has sought better and easier ways of performing his day to day tasks, which required some form of energy to accomplish. In the earliest of times man could only count on his own energy to carry out these tasks. Eventually he had fire, then domesticated animals, soon he learned to make and use steam, and then came the internal combustion engine. Shortly thereafter came electricity. From the very beginning of the electric age man recognized the power of electricity, although he didn't know just what to do with it. He still used his own hands, the hands of friends, his livestock, steam engines and the internal combustion engine which was growing in popularity with each passing day. Electricity as we have learned, provides us with almost anything we need in the course of our lives from birth to death. Without electricity there would be no refrigerators, microwaves, televisions, radios, computers or a host of other electrified instruments useful to man. One only has to experience an electrical black-out to readily appreciate the vast array of uses electricity has been put to. As a matter of fact, man has now become almost completely dependent on electricity for every facet of life, whether at work or at home. Without it, he is in the dark, like his cave dwelling forefathers were and yet power failures are more frequent and longer than ever. Some power companies have even resorted to the tactic of strategic black-outs during the worst days of electrical demand, particularly in summertime due to the heavy demand of running air conditioners. One answer to the problem of electrical shortage is to buy more electricity from neighboring producers of electrical power, but this is not a long term solution.
Currently there is more demand for electricity. New uses for electricity are found everyday. As our population grows, new homes spring up everywhere, more factories are built to make more products and to supply jobs for all the new workers and for all that we require even more electricity. While the construction of new power plants is relatively infrequent, the need for emergency electric power generators has become common. Although the demand for emergency generators that are economical to use, dependable and affordable has never been greater this demand will be even greater in the future.
This invention seeks to meet the aforenoted demand and need for a portable, relatively light-weight, highly efficient, economical generator utilizing an internal combustion engine for driving an electro-magnetic coil to produce electrical energy.