Liquid-fueled rocket
OwnerLutz Tilo Kayserinventor
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Abstract
A liquid-fueled rocket has a storage tank for the fuel components of a liquid fuel and the storage tank is able to communicate with the combustion chambers of the rocket via normally closed valves. The storage tank is enclosed and the fuel components only in part fill the latter. A body of gas is confined in the storage tank and has a pressure exceeding that in the combustion chambers. Thus, when the valves are opened, the fuel components are caused to flow from the storage tank to the combustion chambers by virtue of the difference between the pressure of the gas and the pressure in the combustion chambers.
Claims6
In a liquid-fueled rocket, a combination comprising propulsion means including a combustion chamber;
- enclosed container means for accommodating the fuel components of a liquid fuel and including two container portions;
- a membrane separating said portions;
- normally closed valve means interposed between said combustion chamber and said container means;
- fuel components of a liquid fuel in said container means and only in part filling the same, one of said fuel components being accommodated in one of said container portions and another of said fuel components being accommodated in the other of said container portions;
- and a body of gas confined in said container means in one of said container portions only and having a pressure in excess of the pressure in said combustion chamber so that when said valve means is opened the pressure differential due to the difference between the pressure of said gas and the pressure in said combustion chamber causes tearing of said membrane and flow of the fuel components from both of said container portions into said combustion chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.