Two stroke engines
AssigneeJaguar Cars Limited
InventorsRobert Flack, David Thornhill
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Abstract
A two stroke internal combustion engine includes a cylinder with a piston slidably sealed in the cylinder, a plurality of transfer ports open into the cylinder and at least one exhaust port leads from the cylinder, the transfer ports are connected to a common inlet manifold and a common valve member is provided to regulate the flow of air from the inlet manifold to the transfer ports and to vary the flow of air through one transfer port relative to the flow of air through at least one other transfer port.
Claims9
A two stroke internal combustion engine comprising a cylinder with a piston slidably sealed in the cylinder, the cylinder including a plurality of transfer ports and at least one exhaust port, each of said transfer ports being connected to a common inlet manifold, a common valve means being provided to selectively regulate flow of air from the inlet manifold to each of said transfer ports and to vary the rate of flow of air through one of said transfer ports relative to the flow of air through at least one of said other transfer ports.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.