Sliding-blade heat engine with vortex combustion chamber

A sliding-blade heat engine comprising:

• a vortex combustion chamber for mixing a fuel with air, igniting the mixture, and discharging the heated product as a working fluid;
• an oval-shaped turbine chamber having a peripheral side wall which is oval-shaped in cross section, parallel opposed facing flat end walls, and a continuous guide groove formed in each said end wall;
• a cylindrical turbine rotor having a circular side wall, parallel opposed flat end walls, a concentric shaft extending outwardly from each said end wall, and at least two mutually perpendicular slots extending radially through said turbine rotor with a radial extending portion of each said slot extending through said end walls, said turbine rotor rotatably mounted by said shafts eccentrically in said turbine chamber relative to the major axis of said turbine chamber;
• at least two elongate rectangular turbine blades, one slidably mounted in each of said slots extending through said turbine rotor in mutually perpendicular relation and each independently movable relative to the other in a radial direction, each said turbine blade having a guide element extending from opposed sides and through said radial extending portion of each said slot outwardly from said turbine rotor end walls and slidably received in said guide groove in said turbine chamber end walls;
• an oval-shaped compressor chamber adjacent said turbine chamber having a peripheral side wall which is oval-shaped in cross section, parallel opposed facing flat end walls, and a continuous guide groove formed in each said end wall;
• a cylindrical compressor rotor having a circular side wall, parallel opposed flat end walls, a concentric shaft extending outwardly from each said end wall, and at least two mutually perpendicular slots extending radially through said compressor rotor with a radial extending portion of each said slot extending through said end walls, said compressor rotor rotatably mounted by said shafts eccentrically in said compressor chamber relative to the major axis of said compressor chamber;
• at least two elongate rectangular compressor blades, one slidably mounted in each of said slots extending through said compressor rotor in mutually perpendicular relation and each independently movable relative to the other in a radial direction, each said compressor blade having a guide element extending from opposed sides and through said radial extending portion of each said slot outwardly from said compressor rotor end walls and slidably received in said guide groove in said compressor chamber end walls;
• said turbine rotor and said compressor rotor connected together by said shafts in concentric relation whereby rotation of said turbine rotor causes simultaneous rotation of said compressor rotor, and upon rotation of said turbine and compressor rotors said guide elements traveling in said guide grooves causing said turbine blades and said compressor blades to extend and retract radially with their outer ends following the inner periphery of the respective oval-shaped side walls of said turbine chamber and said compressor chamber with a constant clearance between the outer tip ends of said blades and said inner peripheries;
• working fluid inlet and outlet means formed in said turbine chamber side wall configured to receive a working fluid from said combustion chamber tangentially to the axis of rotation of said turbine rotor and impart a force on said turbine blades to cause rotation of said turbine rotor and to discharge the working fluid tangentially to the axis of rotation of said turbine rotor;
• air inlet and outlet means formed in said compressor chamber side wall configured to draw air into said compressor chamber tangentially to the axis of rotation of said compressor rotor upon rotation thereof, and as rotation continues said compressor blades compressing the air drawn into in said compressor chamber and discharging the compressed air through said air outlet means;
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• thermal exchange recuperator means connected with said air outlet means, said working fluid outlet means, and said combustion chamber to mix compressed air discharged from said compressor chamber with a portion of heated working fluid discharged from said turbine chamber and conduct the heated compressed air to said vortex combustion chamber.