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US 4,392,458 AGranted
Internal combustion engine with double oscillating pistons
OwnerHenry E. Gummeringerinventor
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Abstract
This disclosure is directed to an internal combustion engine having a plurality of double oscillating pistons disposed around the interior of the housing, each side of each oscillating piston having a cam arm which applies the force of combustion to a cam gear. The cam gear has a cam surface on its exterior which engages the cam arm and a ring gear on its interior which engages a plurality of planetary gears which in turn drive a drive shaft having a sun gear.
Claims3
An oscillating piston internal combustion engine comprising:
- a. a housing forming within a plurality of working chambers, and pivotally supporting between adjacent working chambers an oscillating piston, so that each side of each oscillating piston operates in one of the working chambers, and each said working chamber having therein a standard spark plug, and a fuel injection port, and an air input port and an exhaust port;
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- each side of each oscillating piston having a cam arm having an irregular nearly circular shaped cam surface,
- and a cam gear having an irregular exterior cam surface with a plurality of lobes, and said cam gear having means for engaging a drive shaft, and
- whereby when a combustible mixture is exploded in one working chamber on one side of an oscillating piston, the expanding gases from said explosion drive that side of the oscillating piston toward the cam gear, and the other side of the oscillating piston, having been exhausted and recharged with fresh air compresses the air therein and receives fuel by injection, and
- wherein each side of the oscillating piston as it travels toward the cam gear near the limits of its travel exposes air input ports and exhaust ports, and
- an air input blower which blows fresh air into the working chamber through the air input port and an exhaust blower which removes exhaust gases from the working chamber through the exhaust port, and
- wherein the housing between the working chambers and between the pistons has mounted therein a spring loaded oiler wick, and
- wherein the exhaust blower and the air input blower are driven from the driveshaft, and
- wherein the injection of fuel and the ignition spark for each working chamber are timed.
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