Internal combustion engine

Details Internal combustion engine Internal combustion engine

1990-01-11

1991-07-23

Smith, Leonard E.

Internal-combustion engines

Rotary

123241, F02B 5300

Patent

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050334298

ABSTRACT:
An internal combustion engine having a pair of stationary housings of generally triangular configuration with sidewalls of each housing converging into one end of the opposite ends of a common output shaft, a compression chamber being disposed in each sidewall of a housing at the intersection of adjacent sidewalls; and a plurality of elongated connecting rods are mounted in each housing for rotation about a common axis of rotation, the rods disposed at pretermined angles to one another and each rod having a vane at an outer free end, the movement of one of the connecting rods parallel to one of the sidewalls in each housing causing rotation of the vane on another of the connecting rods into one of the compression chambers whereupon ignition of a fuel/air mixture in that chamber will impart movement of the other rod toward the next chamber in succession as it rotates the vane on the one rod through another chamber, and the successive, alternate firing of compression chambers in each housing causing rotation of the common output shaft to derive useful work.

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