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US 3,948,226 AGranted
Internal combustion engine
OwnerEdward Howard Green, Edward Howard Green, Jr.inventors
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An internal combustion engine comprising a translation case or gear case, a combustion chamber and a rotary valve. The rotary valve is adjacent to and on one side of the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber contains a rectangular piston plate. The piston plate is hinged at one end to a shaft and adapted for oscillatory movement in the combustion chamber. The walls of the combustion chamber are formed by the inner wall of a first circular disc, the inner wall of a second circular disc, the inner wall surfaces of the engine block and the surface of the piston plate. The rectangular piston plate is integral with or fixedly connected to the shaft, which shaft is fixedly connected to a first linking means. The piston plate, shaft and first linking means are movably connected to a second linking means, a throw and a drive gear. The fixed relationship between the piston plate, shaft and first linking means and their movable relationship to the second linking means, throw and drive gear are such that during the combustion-power cycle, when a compressed fuel-air mixture is burned in the combustion chamber the pistion plate is made to oscillate. The oscillatory motion of the piston plate through the action of the linking means and throw is translated to rotary motion of the drive gear. The engine has a main shaft which is fixedly connected to a main gear and the rotary valve. The drive gear drives against the main gear causing rotation of the main gear, the main shaft and the rotary valve relative to the combustion chamber and translation case. The rotary valve provides means for removal of the combustion gases from the combustion chamber and for the introduction of fuel into the combustion chamber.
An internal combustion engine comprising, an engine block containing at least two combustion chambers, translation gear means and rotary valve means, means which oscillate back and forth in said combustion chambers, a separate shaft fixedly connected to each of said oscillating means, and a main shaft carried by said engine block, the translation gear means being disposed adjacent only a single side of the combustion chambers and the rotary valve means being disposed adjacent only a single side of the combustion chambers and opposite the side on which the translation gear means is disposed, the combustion chambers including exhaust outlet means and fuel intake means and the engine block containing ignition means, the main shaft being connected to the rotary valve means, said translation gear means operably connecting each of the oscillating means shafts to the main shaft, whereby during the combustion power cycle, the oscillatory motion of said oscillating means is transmitted and converted to rotary motion of the main shaft and rotary valve means.
An internal combustion engine comprising, an engine block, at least two combustion chambers, a translation gear means and a rotary valve means operably connected to said combustion chambers, piston plates which oscillates inwardly and outwardly in said combustion chambers, a separate shaft fixedly connected to one end of each of the piston plates and operably connected to said engine block and a main shaft, said combustion chambers having an inlet and outlet means, said rotary valve means having an inlet and outlet means, the combustion chambers inlet and outlet means being operably connected to the rotary valve inlet and outlet means, such that during the oscillatory motion of the piston plates and the rotary motion of the rotary valve means, the respective inlet and outlet means are in turn brought into communication each with the other, said translation gear means including first linking means fixedly connected to each of the piston plate shafts, second linking means operably connected to each of said first linking means;
An internal combustion engine comprising an engine block, at least one combustion chamber and a translation gear case, said translation gear case being spaced away from said combustion chamber;
An internal combustion engine comprising an engine block containing at least one combustion chamber and a translation gear case, said translation gear case being spaced away from said combustion chamber, means which oscillate back and forth in said combustion chamber, a shaft fixedly connected to said oscillating means, a main shaft carried by said engine block, the translation gear case being disposed adjacent only a single side of the combustion chamber, heat expansion means providing radial and lateral heat expansion of portions of the engine block and combustion chamber relative to portions of the translation gear case, means in the translation gear case operably connecting the oscillating means and shaft to the main shaft, whereby during the combustion power cycle the oscillatory motion of said oscillating means is transmitted and converted to rotary motion of the main shaft.
An internal combustion engine comprising an engine block containing at least two combustion chambers, a translation gear case and a rotary valve means, said translation gear case being spaced away from said combustion chambers, means which oscillate back and forth in said combustion chambers, a shaft fixedly connected to each of said oscillating means, a main shaft carried by said engine block, heat expansion means providing radial and lateral heat expansion of portions of the engine block and combustion chambers relative to portions of the translation gear case, said combustion chambers having inlet and outlet means, said rotary valve means having inlet and outlet means, the combustion chambers inlet and outlet means being operably connected to the rotary valve inlet and outlet means, such that during the oscillatory motion of the oscillating means and the rotary motion of the rotary valve means, the respective inlet and outlet means are in turn brought into communication each with the other, means in the translation gear case operably connecting the oscillating means and shafts to the main shaft, the main shaft being connected to the rotary valve means, whereby during the combustion power cycle, the oscillatory motion of said oscillating means is transmitted and converted to rotary motion of the main shaft and rotary valve means.
An internal combustion engine comprising an engine block, at least one combustion chamber, a translation gear case and a rotary valve means, said translation gear case being spaced away from said combustion chamber, a piston plate which oscillates back and forth in said combustion chamber, a shaft fixedly connected to one end of the piston plate and operably connected to said engine block, and a main shaft carried by said engine block, the translation gear case being disposed adjacent only a single side of the combustion chamber, heat expansion means providing radial and lateral heat expansion of portions of the engine block and combustion chamber relative to portions of the translation gear case, said combustion chamber having an inlet and outlet means, said rotary valve means having an inlet and outlet means, the combustion chamber inlet and outlet means being operably connected to the rotary valve inlet and outlet means, such that during the oscillatory motion of the piston plate and the rotary motion of the rotary valve means, the respective inlet and outlet means are in turn brought into communication each with the other, the translation gear case containing a first linking means fixedly connected to the piston plate shaft, a second linking means operably connected to said first linking means, a throw, a drive gear and a main gear, the main gear being connected to the main shaft which is connected to the rotary valve means, the rotary valve means being disposed adjacent only a single side of the combustion chamber and opposite the side on which the translation gear case is disposed, said throw and drive gear being operably connected to said second linking means, whereby the oscillatory motion of the piston plate is transmitted during the combustion power cycle, through said piston plate shaft and first and second linking means and throw and is converted to rotary motion of said drive gear which drives against the main gear causing said main gear, main shaft and rotary valve to rotate.
An internal combustion engine comprising an engine block containing at least one combustion chamber, rotary valve means and a main shaft carried by said engine block, and linking means;
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