Reciprocating engine
OwnerEdward M. McWhorterinventor
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Abstract
The invention is a reciprocating mechanism for use in piston driven compressors and in internal and external combustion engines. The design comprises a piston and connecting rod which is driven by a crank with an intervening transfer linkage for extending and contracting the crank radius during each revolution of the crankshaft.
Claims11
A crankshaft comprising a plurality of axially aligned and axially spaced mainshafts, arms fixed on the adjacent ends of said mainshafts, a crankpin joining adjacent said arms forming a crankthrow of a crankshaft having a plurality of such crankthrows, upper and lower transfer bars rigidly attached to each said arm, said transfer bars holding a plurality of rigidly mounted resilient impactors, a transfer disc pivotally mounted on said crankpins, a secondary transfer crankpins fixedly attached to said transfer discs, said secondary transfer crankpins operating between said upper and lower transfer bars and intermittantly contacting said resilient impactors, a connecting rod having a major journal at one end for rotatively mounting on said transfer disc and smaller journal at the other end for pivotally attaching a piston.
A crankshaft comprising a mainshaft, an arm, a primary crankpin, and a counterweight, an upper transfer bar fixedly attached to said arm at the upper end and a lower transfer bar fixedly attached to the lower end of said arm conjunctively with the said counterweight, said upper and lower transfer bars holding a plurality of rigidly mounted resilient impactors, a transfer disc pivotally mounted on said primary crankpin, a secondary transfer crankpin fixedly attached to said transfer disc, said secondary transfer crankpin operating alternately between said upper and lower transfer bars intermittantly contacting said resilient impactors, a connecting rod having a major journal at one end for rotatively mounting on said transfer disc and a smaller journal at the other end holding a pin for pivotally attaching a piston, said pin passing transversly through said piston.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.