Here is also a different PDF File, unfortunately one needs to pay to get access:
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/53831037/I extracted this part from the OCR section there:
FBIDAY, MAECH31; 1939 THE DAILY NOTES, CANON8BUBO. PA.
GRAVITY FORCE USED TO RAISE MOTOR POWER Miami Inventor Calls Principle
Enormous Energy Saver
MIAMI, Fla., March 31. 0i W. F. Skinner proudly displays hi; latest invention,
a device that multiplies power in a startling fashion. Skinner had great -hopes
for the principle he embodied in his deivice, which he calls "a gravity power
machine.
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1 1 r T MmBmm he believed the machine's principle could be carried to a point
where a one-horsepower motor would produce electricity for a community of 3,500
people at a total cost of only $5 a month. "Almost any engineer will tell you
that what this machine does is impossible," said Skinner, and then proceeded to
demonstrate in his workshop here. His working model of the "gravity power
machine" was run by a one-eighth horsepower motor. The device, in turn,
operated a heavy duty, 12-foot lathe, a six-foot drill press and a hack saw
from the from several children's toys and special types of furniture he has
invented. Skinner said some skeptics were inclined to wonder whether his
"gravity power machine" was obtaining power from some other source than the
one-eighth horsepower motor because the shop was electrically operated. To make
the demonstration more convincing, he obtained a one-fifth horsepower gasoline
motor manufactured to run model airplanes, which he said he would install to
produce the power for the shop. same shaft at the same time. "Almost any
engineer will tell you that to run even that heavy duty lathe and produce the
quar inch shaving on a steel "bar that it does would take a two-horsepower
motor," Skinner said. $2-95 4.40 The "gravity power machine" stricKen about two
weeks ago KECKEATI0X CENTER HAS VARIED ACTIVITIES consists of a steel framework
con taining four shafts controlled by on the eccentrics- On each shaft is an
off-balanced weight which Skinner said was "about the secret of the whole
thing." He explained that the shafts, turning in the eccentrics, moved the
weights in a circular motion at 60 revolutions a minute. Because the weights
are off-balance, he vaid, they are always "falling," producing the
multiplication of power. The "falling," Skinner said, is more correctly a
following of the weights to new centers of gravity caused by the changing
positions of the shafts. The weights do not actually fall. The one-eighth
horsepower electric motor. Skinner said, was used only for power to turn the
eccentrics and the "gravity power machine 'provided the power, in turn, to
operate the hop. U'OO Per Cent Step I'p Skinner estimated the "gravity power
machine" would increase the horsepower of a motor about 1,200 per cent. A one
horsepower motor, he believed, with a perfected "gravity power machine" to
multiply its output, could be made to drive a generator large enough to produce
electricity for 3,500 persons. And the operating cost would be only about $5 a
month, he estimated. The machine Skinner exhibited was the fifth he has built
in the 14 years he has been "working up the idea." A number of engineers have
inspected his invention, he said. One of them was A. P. Michaels, a
Jacksonville, Fla., consulting engineer, who gave Skinner a letter describing
the machine as "a practical device and will have a definite . field where it
is necessary to use power to drive equipment. It should result in a very large
saving of power used." One Engineer Silent George C- Estill, electrical
engineer and retired president of the Florida Power and Light company here, was
another who examined the device but he said his check was not complete enough
to allow him to form a conclusion. Skinner turned to inventing after the
collapse of the Florida real estate boom of 1926. He recently perfected a
device for recharging dry cell batteries.