Internal-combustion engines – Poppet valve operating mechanism – Overhead camshaft
Patent
1980-01-04
1982-06-08
Feinberg, Craig R.
Internal-combustion engines
Poppet valve operating mechanism
Overhead camshaft
123 9037, 123666, F02C 102
Patent
active
043334261
ABSTRACT:
An engine constructed with a hemispherically shaped combustion chamber having inlet and exhaust valves flush mounted in the surface of the chamber with centerlines perpendicular to the chamber surface and intersecting the cylinder bore centerline at a common point; the valve train components for each valve all acting in a single plane and having centerlines that together converge towards a common point adjacent the cylinder bore centerline, the valve train planes of each pair of inlet and exhaust valves being canted with respect to each other and to the camshaft axis, a single overhead camshaft being centrally located between the inlet and exhaust valves.
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Bodnar Louis G.
Gavasso John M.
Parker Walter E.
Feinberg Craig R.
Ford Motor Company
McCollum Robert E.
Sadler Clifford L.
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