Air powered vehicle and power plant for the same
OwnerRobert L. Perryinventor
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Abstract
A new and improved air powered vehicle and power plant therefore which include an engine having an engine block and at least one cylinder therein. A piston is mounted for reciprocation within the cylinder and the cylinder is provided with an air inlet valve, and exhaust valve and an intake valve. The piston within the cylinder is connected to a crank shaft. The valves are also operatively connected to the crank shaft whereupon the valves are opened and closed in sequence as the crank shaft rotates whereby time blasts of air may be introduced into the cylinder through said air intake valve and air may be exhausted through the exhaust valve to rotate the crank shaft.
Claims23
A vehicle power plant comprising a four-stroke cycle engine having an engine block with at least one cylinder therein, a piston mounted for reciprocation within said cylinder, said cylinder having an inlet valve and exhaust and intake valves, said piston being operatively connected to a crankshaft, said valves being operatively connected to said crankshaft, said valves being opened and closed in sequence as said crankshaft rotates, said inlet and intake valves introducing timed blasts of an expandable gas at super atmospheric pressures into said cylinder through said inlet valve and exhausted through said exhaust and intake valves to rotate said crankshaft in a four stroke cycle.
A vehicle power plant comprising a four-stroke cycle engine having an engine block with at least one cylinder therein, a piston mounted for reciprocation within said cylinder, said cylinder having an inlet valve through which an expandable gas can be introduced into said cylinder and an exhaust valve, said piston being operatively connected to a crankshaft, said valves being operatively connected to said crankshaft, said valves being opened and closed in sequence as said crankshaft rotates, said inlet valve introducing timed blasts of an expandable gas at super atmospheric pressures into said cylinder through said inlet valve and exhausted through said exhaust valve to rotate said crankshaft in a four-stroke cycle, said inlet valve having a housing and a valve therein, said inlet valve having a bore extending therethrough, said housing having an inlet and an outlet diametrically opposed to each other, said bore being aligned with said inlet and outlet every 180 degrees of rotation of said valve.
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