What this source is
This source is a partial text of French patent FR2716123, titled Device for Activating Fluids & Solids and dated 1995-08-18, as reproduced on a source page devoted to the inventor Jacques Ravatin. The page mixes the patent abstract and description with fragments of surrounding commentary, and it repeats the same abstract and description blocks several times. What survives is enough to reconstruct the patent's central claims, its stated geometry, its process parameters, and the inventor's reported observations — but not enough to reconstruct the full specification, the drawings, or any test data.
The subject is a claimed class of device that "activates" fluids and solids: that is, treatments said to modify certain physical and chemical properties of a liquid or a solid by passing the fluid through conduits of a specific curved shape. The patent is a claim document. It records what the inventor asserts and what the French patent office accepted for publication; it does not record independent verification, and the source contains no measurement protocol, no instrument readings, and no replication by a third party.
The claimed geometry: the recursive cycloid C_N
The distinguishing feature of the device is the shape of its fluid circulation pipes (labelled 51 and 52 in the patent's numbering). The pipes take the form of a curve C_N, where N is 2 or greater, defined recursively:
- C₁ is a left-handed cycloid in an ortho-normal reference frame.
- For every integer N ≥ 1, C_{N+1} is a left-handed cycloid in the curved reference frame of C_N.
In ordinary language, the conduit is a cycloid — the curve traced by a point on a rolling circle — and then that whole cycloid is itself rolled along another cycloid, and so on. The patent distinguishes the stringent cycloid (the tracing point lies on the rolling circle), the lengthened or elongated cycloid (the point lies farther from the centre than the radius), and the shortened cycloid (the point lies closer than the radius). The preferred embodiment uses an elongated left cycloid for the final curve.
The inventor further reports that the effect varies with N, and that activation is maximum for conduits shaped as a C₃ curve — an elongated left cycloid C₃ rolled around an elongated left cycloid C₂, itself rolled around an elongated left cycloid C₁. This is a specific, checkable geometric claim, and it is the most concrete technical content in the source.
The process and the apparatus
The device is described as a treatment unit (2) sitting between an inlet tank and an outlet tank. Fluid is driven through the unit by at least one compressed gas supply, and the claimed activation process circulates the fluid through the treatment unit using compressed gas at a pressure of 1–8 bar. The patent also claims that the effect is reinforced when the compressed-air supply lines are themselves shaped as C_N curves, on the reasoning that the compressed air used to move the fluid is itself activated on the way in.
The patent's stated field is the activation of fluids and solids, where "activation" means a treatment that modifies certain physical and chemical properties of the fluid or solid, the treated material then being described as activated. The stated object is a device with characteristics "strongly different" from prior apparatus, for effective activation of fluids and for purification of some of them, such as water or smoke.
Claimed uses
The patent claims four uses on top of the device and process claims:
- Desalinating and purifying water.
- Treating fumes.
- Activating glass with a fluid activated as above: heat the glass to 850–1800 °C (preferred 900–1000 °C) and immerse it in the activated fluid.
- Activating metals, ceramics, hard plastics and terracotta with a fluid activated as above: immerse the material in the fluid and cool it below −40 °C (preferred −80 °C) for at least 1 hour.
The inventor's reported observations
The description attributes the following observations to the inventor, introduced with the phrase "the inventor noted that, of surprising manner":
- Fluid forced under pressure of 1 to 8 bar through conduits according to the invention is activated — its physical and chemical properties are modified.
- This activation persists and is stabilized even when the fluid no longer circulates, provided the conduits are made of particular alloys. The patent therefore recommends conduit material consisting of an alloy between a base metal chosen from copper, chromium, iron, cobalt and nickel, with heavier metals added in very small weight fractions. Copper is preferred as the base metal, and the heavier alloying metals should be taken from those with atomic number Z between 38 and 45, or from the rare earths.
- Activation is reinforced when the compressed-air supply lines are also shaped as C_N curves.
The form-plus-field embodiment
A separate embodiment associates a main polygonal geometric form — the kind of form described earlier in the specification — with other geometric forms, preferably single geometric forms, and preferably associates an electric and/or electromagnetic and/or magnetic field with them. The forms are laid out inside a geometric volume, which can for example be moulded from an insulating material around the forms.
The patent states plainly that without the application of one of these fields, the effects obtained are "relatively not very exploitable", but that applying at least one such field increases the intensity of the effects, especially when the applied field is higher. This is an important internal qualification: the inventor's own text concedes that the purely geometric arrangement, on its own, does not produce much of use.
Prior art cited
The description acknowledges three bodies of earlier work:
- FR-A-966735, a process and equipment for influencing modifications of state of the material, especially by the action of suitably directed emissive apparatuses.
- General "phenomena of activation due to the presence of forms, fixed or movable, and presenting a minimum of symmetry in plane or in space."
- AT-A-113 487, AT-A-122 144 and AT-A-134 543, attributed in the source to Schauberger, describing water pipelines of particular form allowing the regulation of torrents or rivers.
The patent frames its own device as "strongly different" from these, while simultaneously placing itself in the same family of form-based activation phenomena. That is a normal patent posture — distinguish the claims while acknowledging the field — but it also means the source does not establish that the underlying phenomenon is real, only that the inventor and the examiner treated it as a known category worth citing.
Evidence quality and limits
Everything in this source is an assertion by the inventor, recorded in a patent. The source supplies:
- No measurement data. No instrument, unit, or protocol is given for the claim that physical and chemical properties are modified.
- No replication. No independent party is reported to have reproduced the activation, the persistence effect, or the C₃ maximum.
- No mechanism. The patent does not explain why a cycloidal conduit should alter a fluid's properties, nor why alloy composition should stabilize the change.
- No reconciliation of its two mechanisms. The alloy-persistence claim (activation survives when flow stops) and the field-association claim (effects are "not very exploitable" without an applied field) are not brought into agreement in the surviving text. Whether the alloy is meant to substitute for the field, or to work alongside it, is left open.
The patent classification itself is informative about how the document was filed: the international classes include B01D53/18 (gas separation), B01J10/00, B01J19/12, B01J19/18, B01J19/24 (chemical and physical processes, including irradiation and reactor apparatus), and C02F1/00 (water treatment); the IPC1-7 set adds B01D53/14, B01D53/78, B01J19/08, C02F5/00 and C03B27/012 (glass tempering). The classification places the device among chemical-process and water-treatment apparatus, not among any recognized category of form-based physics.
Structured patent data
FR2716123 — Device for Activating Fluids & Solids — 1995-08-18
International classification:
B01D53/18; B01J10/00; B01J19/12; B01J19/18; B01J19/24; C02F1/00
IPC1-7:
B01J19/00; B01D53/14; B01D53/78; B01J19/08; C02F1/00; C02F5/00; C03B27/012
European:
B01D53/18; B01J10/00F; B01J19/12D; B01J19/18; B01J19/24D; C02F1/00M
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Compressed gas pressure | 1–8 bar |
| Glass activation temperature | 850–1800 °C (preferred 900–1000 °C) |
| Solid cooling temperature | below −40 °C (preferred −80 °C) |
| Minimum cooling duration | at least 1 hour |
| Preferred base metal | copper |
| Base metal options | Cu, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni |
| Heavier metal atomic number range | Z 38–45, or rare earths |
| Maximum-effect curve | C₃ (elongated left cycloid) |
How this relates to the rest of the wiki
The patent is the primary document behind FR2716123 — Device for Activating Fluids & Solids, and its central claim belongs to the same family as Form Emissions (Emissions Due to Shapes) — the proposition that geometric shape alone can alter the properties of matter. Earlier Ravatin packets in this collection referenced the patent; this source supplies the patent text itself, including the recursive cycloid definition and the process parameters that the earlier summaries could only gesture at.
The cited Schauberger Austrian patents (AT-A-113 487, AT-A-122 144, AT-A-134 543) connect the dossier to the broader tradition of specially shaped water conduits, but the source gives only a one-line description of them and does not reproduce their contents.
Open questions
- Has any independent party attempted to replicate the FR2716123 activation effects, and with what result?
- How are the alloy-persistence claim and the field-association claim meant to relate — does the alloy replace the applied field, or supplement it?
- Are the three Austrian patents correctly attributed to Schauberger, and do they in fact describe what the FR2716123 description says they describe?
- What did the omitted portions of the specification and the drawings show, and do they contain any test data the surviving text lacks?
Source notes & attribution
- FR2716123, Device for Activating Fluids & Solids , 1995-08-18 (partial text as reproduced on the Rex Research Ravatin page).
- FR-A-966735 (cited prior art).
- AT-A-113 487, AT-A-122 144, AT-A-134 543 (cited prior art, attributed to Schauberger).
- https://rexresearch.com/ElectroCulture/RavatinActivator/RavatinActivator.htm
- https://rexresearch.com/ravatin/ravatin.htm
- https://rexresearch1.com/ElectroCulture/RavatinActivator/RavatinActivator.htm