Engine

Details Engine Engine

1986-09-25

1987-11-17

Casaregola, Louis J.

Power plants

Combustion products used as motive fluid

Rotating combustion products generator and turbine

60 3936, F02C 314, F02C 306

Patent

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047064528

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides an internal combustion engine comprising a main body portion defining a combustion chamber in the form of a toroidal cavity with a generally circular axis, an air intake, compressor means for drawing air from said intake and delivering it to said toroidal cavity under pressure in a generally tangential direction to impart a swirl motion to gases in said cavity about said circular axis, means for exhausting combustion gases from said cavity, drive means disposed adjacent said exhaust means so as to be acted on by said combustion gases to perform mechanical work and thereby provide an output of the engine, and means coupling said drive means to said compressor means for providing power thereto.

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patent: 2694291 (1954-11-01), Rosengart
patent: 2890570 (1959-06-01), Castles, Jr.
patent: 2981063 (1961-04-01), Wickman
patent: 3010281 (1961-11-01), Cervenka et al.
patent: 3058306 (1962-10-01), Schlumbohm
patent: 3126703 (1964-03-01), Oprecht
patent: 3892069 (1975-07-01), Hansford

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