Six-cylinder double-acting hot gas engine

Details Six-cylinder double-acting hot gas engine Six-cylinder double-acting hot gas engine

1978-01-24

1981-04-14

Ostrager, Allen M.

Power plants

Motor operated by expansion and/or contraction of a unit of...

Unit of mass is a gas which is heated or cooled in one of a...

60526, F02G 104

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ABSTRACT:
A compact six-cylinder, double-acting hot gas engine having a single central combustion chamber with the cylinders arranged in two groups of three and clustered around the combustion chamber axis at equal angular intervals. The engine has two crank shafts, one per group of three cylinders, rotating in the same direction and synchronized. Each crank shaft has three cranks with adjacent cranks angularly displaced 60 degrees. Each of the cranks of one crank shaft is directed oppositely to a respective one of the cranks of the other crank shaft.

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United Stirling Publication, The Engine, Jul. 1977.

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