Jacques Ravatin: Form-Activation Patents and the source Dossier

This dossier, hosted by the source archive, reproduces the text of French patent FR2716123, "Device for Activating Fluids & Solids," dated 18 August 1995, together with a numbered list of effects attributed to the inventor, Jacques Ravatin. The patent describes a treatment unit in which a fluid is driven by compressed gas through pipes bent into a recursive cycloid curve, optionally built from a specific alloy and optionally exposed to electric, electromagnetic or magnetic fields. The accompanying list reports reductions in fuel consumption, changes in salt solubility, faster plant growth and the partial or complete removal of catalysts.

The material is a patent document plus inventor-reported figures. Nothing in the dossier describes an independent replication, a controlled measurement protocol, or a third-party assessment. The patent's legal claims establish what was filed, not what works, and the reported numbers are attributions to the inventor rather than verified results.

What the patent claims

The abstract states that a fluid circulates through a treatment unit between an inlet tank and an outlet tank under the action of at least one compressed gas supply. The treatment unit contains fluid circulation pipes shaped as a curve C_N, where N is 2 or greater, defined recursively:

• C₁ is a left-handed cycloid in the orthonormal reference frame.
• For every integer N ≥ 1, C_{N+1} is a left-handed cycloid in the curved reference frame of C_N.

The activation process circulates the fluid through the treatment unit using compressed gas at a pressure of 1–8 bar. The patent also claims four uses:

1. Desalinating and purifying water.
2. Treating fumes.
3. Activating glass by heating it to 850–1800 °C (preferably 900–1000 °C) and immersing it in the activated fluid.
4. Activating metals, ceramics, hard plastics and terracotta by immersing the material in the activated fluid and cooling it below −40 °C (preferably −80 °C) for at least 1 hour.

The classification data recorded in the dossier is reproduced below verbatim, since the exact identifiers matter for anyone tracing the filing.

Classification:
- international: B01D53/18; B01J10/00; B01J19/12; B01J19/18; B01J19/24;
  C02F1/00; 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

The geometry: recursive left-handed cycloids

The patent's distinctive element is the pipe shape. A cycloid is the curve traced by a point on a circle as the circle rolls along a straight line and turns around that line. The dossier distinguishes three cases: the stringent (ordinary) cycloid, where the tracing point lies on the circle; the lengthened cycloid, where the point is farther from the centre than the radius; and the shortened cycloid, where it is closer.

The recursive construction stacks these curves. C₁ is a left-handed cycloid in a flat frame. C₂ is a left-handed cycloid drawn in the curved frame that C₁ itself defines, and each further step repeats the operation on the frame left by the previous curve. The inventor reports that the effectiveness of the effect varies with N, and that activation is maximum for a C₃ conduit — a lengthened left cycloid C₃ wound around a lengthened left cycloid C₂, itself wound around a lengthened left cycloid C₁. The preferred embodiment uses elongated left cycloids for the final curve.

The dossier also states that the compressed-air supply lines can themselves be shaped as C_N curves, on the reasoning that the air used to move the fluid is itself activated and thereby reinforces the effect.

Materials and applied fields

Two further design elements appear in the description:

• Alloy conduits. The inventor reports that activation "persists and is stabilized" even when the fluid stops circulating, provided the conduits are made from particular alloys. The suggested alloy combines 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, with the heavier constituents taken from elements of atomic number Z = 38–45 or from the rare earths.
• Applied fields. In another embodiment, a main polygonal geometric form is combined with additional, preferably simpler forms, and an electric, electromagnetic or magnetic field is applied. The forms are preferably set inside a geometric volume that may be moulded from insulating material around them.

The description contains an internal tension worth noting. It states that without an applied field the effects are "relatively not very exploitable," and that applying at least one of the fields increases the intensity of the effects, especially at higher field strength. Yet the patent's central claim is activation by form alone, with the field presented as an intensifier rather than a requirement.

Reported effects

The dossier lists eight numbered effects. All figures are attributed to the inventor or to the patent text; none is accompanied by a described measurement method, control condition or independent check.

The fuel claim is stated as a report: at a high tension of approximately 45 kV, roughly 30% less coal was used to obtain the same thermal energy, with the reduction said to grow as the applied positive potential rises. For gasoline explosion motors, a consumption reduction of approximately 50% is reported relative to operation without the apparatus under the same conditions.

The solubility claim describes experiments with dehydrated sodium chloride, varying the water temperature in increments of 10 °C from 10 °C to 100 °C, with the starting water twice distilled at above-normal atmospheric pressure. The solubility coefficient of sodium chloride is reported to be multiplied by about 2.1 to 2.3 at a positive potential of approximately 45 kV. The dossier appends a bracketed note pointing toward solar ponds.

The plant claim states that growth speed and size increase appreciably, varying by plant, with an increase factor of at least 2 and up to 10 in certain cases. The catalyst claim is qualitative: a catalyst normally required in a chemical reaction may be partially or completely removed.

Prior art cited

The description positions the invention against earlier work:

• FR-A-966735 — a process and equipment for influencing state changes of material, especially by the action of suitably directed emissive apparatuses.
• AT-A-113487, AT-A-122144, AT-A-134543 — Austrian patents associated with Schauberger, covering water pipelines of a particular form for regulating torrents or rivers.
• General reference to activation phenomena attributed to the presence of forms, fixed or movable, presenting a minimum of symmetry in plane or in space.

The stated object is to differ strongly from prior apparatus by not concentrating or eliminating fluids by density, but instead acting through centripetal swirls produced by the precise forms of the process modules.

Evidence and limitations

The dossier's evidential basis is thin in a specific, identifiable way:

• No independent replication is reported. The effects are inventor-reported or patent-stated.
• No measurement methodology is given for the fuel, solubility, growth or catalyst figures — no instrument descriptions, baselines, sample sizes or statistical treatment.
• No controls are described. The gasoline comparison is stated as "same conditions without the apparatus," but the conditions themselves are not specified.
• The claimed effects span unrelated domains — combustion efficiency, aqueous solubility, plant physiology and catalysis — without a unifying measured mechanism. The stated mechanism, centripetal swirls from precise forms, does not by itself explain why the same device would alter all four.
• The persistence claim is unsupported. That activation "persists and is stabilized" in particular alloys is asserted without supporting data.
• The "activator" label is dossier framing. The term describes how the material is presented, not an established scientific category. The patent's own language is "activation," defined in the description as treatments that modify certain physical and chemical properties of fluids and solids.

A patent filing is a legal instrument. Its claims define a monopoly boundary; they are not evidence that the described device produces the described effects. The dossier should be read as a record of what Ravatin filed and reported, not as a demonstration.

Related work in this archive

The dossier belongs to a recurring pattern in the source archive collections: an inventor's own account of a device, presented with reported figures and no independent verification. Comparable cases in this wiki include the Moray radiant energy receiver, the Hendershot fuelless motor and the tetrasilver tetroxide claims, each of which pairs a patent or press record with an evidence gap.

Within Ravatin's own work, the form-based activation idea connects to Form Emissions (Emissions Due to Shapes) (emissions due to shapes), the cycloid-conduit geometry, and the form-plus-field-apparatus that combines shapes with applied fields. The patent itself is catalogued at FR2716123 — Device for Activating Fluids & Solids.

Open questions

Whether any independent replication of FR2716123's claimed effects exists is not established by this source. The dossier provides no replication, and the reported figures cannot be checked against the material presented here. The relationship between the form-only configuration and the field-assisted configuration also remains unresolved in the text: the description implies the form alone is weakly effective, while the patent's principal claim rests on form.