Machines and methods for producing very high intensity electric currents

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR GENERATING HIGH INTENSITY ELECTRIC SURGES WHICH COMPRISES, IN COMBINATION, A HIGH INERTIA ROTOR INCLUDING AN ELECTRICITY CONDUCTING MASS, SAID ELECTRICITY CONDUCTING MEANS HAVING TWO SURFACES OF REVOLUTION ABOUT THE AXIS OF SAID ROTOR, A STATOR COMPRISING AN ELECTRICITY CONDUCTING MASS SHAPED TO HAVE TWO SURFACES OF REVOLUTION EACH OPPOSITE ONE OF SAID SURFACES OF REVOLUTION OF SAID ROTOR, RESPECTIVELY, EACH OF SAID STATOR SURFACES BEING SEPARATED FROM THE CORRESPONDING ROTOR SURFACE LOCATED OPPOSITE IT BY A NARROW GAP, SAID ELECTRICITY CONDUCTING MASS OF SAID STATOR BEING LAMINATED BY MEANS OF CUTS PROVIDED THEREIN SO AS TO FORM SLICES BETWEEN SAID CUTS, MEANS FOR GRADUALLY DRIVING SAID ROTOR UP TO A HIGH SPEED OF REVOLUTION AND MEANS FOR INJECTING AN ELECTRICITY CONDUCTING LIQUID INTO SAID GAPS WHEN SAID ROTOR IS ROTATING FREELY AT SAID HIGH SPEED, SAID CUTS BEING SHAPED TO PRODUCE IN EVERY SLICE, WHEN THE ROTOR IS ROTATING, IN RESPONSE TO THE PASSAGE OF CURRENT THROUGH SAID STATOR MASS, A FORCE HAVING A COMPONENT PERPENDICULAR TO THE AXIS OF SAID ROTOR AND PASSING AT A DISTANCE THEREFROM, WHICH EXERTS A BRAKING TORQUE ON SAID ROTOR.