Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – External-combustion engine type
Patent
1976-09-07
1978-02-21
Gordon, Clarence R.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
External-combustion engine type
123 809, 123 823, 418 12, 123 815, F02C 502
Patent
active
040745228
ABSTRACT:
A main rotatable shaft is journaled relative to a support structure and a pair of rotary pumps are driven from the main shaft. The rotary pumps include independent inlets and independent outlets and the outlets converge toward and are joined at the inlet portion of juncture structure including an outlet opening into a combustion chamber. The individual outlets for the air pumps include check valves intermediate the pumps and the aforementioned juncture structure and the combustion chamber includes ignition structure for igniting a combustible mixture therein. Further, the combustion chamber includes an outlet and a rotary motor including a rotor portion drivingly connected to the main shaft includes an inlet to which the outlet for the combustion chamber is connected. Accordingly, the rotary pumps are driven from the main shaft which is in turn driven by the rotary motor, one of the rotary pumps being operative to pump air therethrough and into the juncture structure and the other of the rotary pumps being operative to receive an overly rich air and fuel mixture from a suitable charge forming device and to pump the overly rich air and fuel mixture into the juncture structure for commingling with the air pumped to the juncture structure by the first rotary pump. Thereafter, a mixture of air and the overly rich air and fuel mixture is discharged into the combustion chamber for admission therein and the rotary motor is driven by the exhaust from the combustion chamber.
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patent: 940474 (1909-11-01), Piestrak
patent: 1147428 (1915-07-01), Peterson
patent: 3844117 (1974-10-01), Ryan
patent: 3932987 (1976-01-01), Munzinger
patent: 3989011 (1976-11-01), Takahashi
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