Friction drive toroidal regenerator
AssigneeWilliams International Corporation
InventorsRobert H. Meyer, Ronald C. Pampreen, Kenneth W. Sawyer
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Abstract
A rotatable regenerator of toroidal configuration is frictionally driven by a single roller disposed internally of the toroid.
Claims4
In combination with a rotatable toroidal regenerator, a single drive roller having an outside diameter smaller that an inside diameter of said toroid said drive roller being disposed internally of said toroid and frictionally engaged therewith at a single contact, said drive roller being rotatable about an axis extending parallel to and spaced from the axis of rotation of said toroid, said driver roller effecting rotation of said toroid upon rotation of said drive roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.