Thermal torque engine

A thermal torque engine comprising:

• a hot box heated by a thermal agent;
• a rotating wheel having a plurality of peripherally mounted canisters;
• said wheel mounted so that said hot box encloses a number of said canisters moving through said hot box;
• a top exit door on said hot box for canisters moving out of said hot box being higher than a bottom inlet door on said hot box for canisters moving into said hot box;
• wherein flap doors are located in the top exit and bottom inlet for said wheel to push through;
• diametrically opposed canisters connected by a conduit forming a closed system between diametrically opposed canisters;
• wherein the canisters include a plurality of interior chambers in which sliding fins matingly engaging sliding fin channels, each of said fins sliding in a separate channel extending from one end flat cover of the chamber to an opposite end flat cover thereof, and a conduit aperture for each canister located on a side of each canister adjacent one end flat cover thereof;
• each pair of diametrically opposed canisters containing a quantity of refrigerant;
• said thermal agent comprising a source of heat within said hot box to vaporize refrigerant within canisters passing therethrough causing vaporized refrigerant to move to the diametrically opposed cooler canister causing a shift in weight, causing wheel rotation, with the process continuing for subsequent paired canisters as long as there is a predetermined thermal difference between interior and exterior of the hot box.