Motors: expansible chamber type – Moving cylinder
Patent
1979-01-10
1980-07-01
Geoghegan, Edgar W.
Motors: expansible chamber type
Moving cylinder
60369, 74 57, F01B 1500
Patent
active
042100631
ABSTRACT:
A fluid actuated power device which includes a reciprocal cylinder rotatably mounted on a central, tubular shaft for back-and-forth movement along the shaft between a pair of end support members. The cylinder has first and second sets of spiral grooves on its outer surface, the first set of spiral grooves being in mesh with the spiral teeth of a first ratchet gear and the second set of spiral grooves being in mesh with the spiral teeth of a second ratchet gear, the ratchet gears being carried by a cylindrical body fixed relative to the shaft. The ratchet gears permit the cylinder to rotate only in one direction relative to and about the shaft as the cylinder moves back and forth along the length of the shaft. The cylinder is coupled by spline means to a gear assembly which, in turn, is connected to a rotatable second shaft, the latter serving as a power takeoff means which can be connected to external work-producing apparatus. A piston within the cylinder and rigid to the central part of the first-mentioned shaft allows a fluid under pressure to be alternately applied to the two chambers of the cylinder on opposite sides of the piston to thereby cause the back and forth movement of the cylinder relative to the shaft. A 4-way valve communicates with the opposite ends of the shaft to sequentially connect the chambers to a fluid pressure source and to the atmosphere.
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patent: 1773366 (1930-08-01), Lear
patent: 2261444 (1941-11-01), Neubert
patent: 3090244 (1963-05-01), Davis
patent: 3388548 (1968-06-01), Vieths
Geoghegan Edgar W.
McGannon John L.
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