Two-stroke engine and handheld work apparatus

A handheld work apparatus comprising:

• a two-stroke engine including a piston, a cylinder, a crankcase, a crankshaft, and an intake channel;
• said cylinder having a cylinder bore in which said piston is mounted so as to reciprocate;
• said piston delimiting a combustion chamber formed in said cylinder;
• said crankcase defining a crankcase interior;
• said crankshaft being mounted in said crankcase so as to be rotatable about a rotational axis and configured to be rotatingly driven by said piston;
• said intake channel having a fuel supply unit in which at least one section of said intake channel is formed, said intake channel having an intake channel length;
• said intake channel over at least part of said intake channel length being divided into at least one mixture channel and at least one air channel;
• said at least one mixture channel opening into said crankcase interior via at least one mixture channel opening;
• said two-stroke engine further including at least one transfer channel which in the region of a bottom dead center of said piston fluidically connects said crankcase interior to said combustion chamber;
• said at least one transfer channel opens out at said cylinder bore via at least one transfer window;
• said at least one air channel opens out at said cylinder bore via at least one air channel opening;
• said piston having at least one piston pocket;
• wherein said at least one air channel opening, in at least one position of said piston, is connected via said at least one piston pocket to said at least one transfer window of said at least one transfer channel;
• wherein when viewed in a direction parallel to the rotational axis of said crankshaft, downstream of said fuel supply unit, said at least one mixture channel and said at least one air channel are formed to be curved over at least one section of a respective length thereof;
• said at least one mixture channel, when viewed in the direction parallel to the rotational axis of said crankshaft, downstream of said fuel supply unit up to a first spacing of 5 millimeters from said cylinder bore running exclusively straight or performing a right-hand bend;
• and,
• said at least one air channel, when viewed in the direction parallel to the rotational axis of said crankshaft, downstream of said fuel supply unit up to a second spacing of 10 millimeters from said cylinder bore running exclusively straight or performing a left-hand bend.