Internal-combustion engines – Combined devices – Generating plants
Patent
1975-11-19
1976-10-19
Gordon, Clarence R.
Internal-combustion engines
Combined devices
Generating plants
123 43C, 418176, 418261, F02B 5514
Patent
active
039864839
ABSTRACT:
A rotary internal combustion engine includes an annular stator member having two pairs of sockets located in the periphery thereof, and a rotor member mounted to rotate about the stator member. The rotor member has side walls and an interior peripheral wall which, in cooperation with the periphery of the stator member, define a combustion cavity and a compression cavity therebetween. The combustion cavity and compression cavity are disposed on opposite sides of the stator member adjacent the periphery thereof. Two pairs of wedge-shaped vanes are pivotally mounted at their vertices on the periphery of the stator member to pivot in and out of respective ones of the sockets as the rotor member is caused to rotate about the stator member. A cam track is defined in the side walls of the rotor member to guide cam followers extending from the sides of each vane such that the vanes are caused to pivot in and out of the sockets and to maintain sliding contact with the interior peripheral wall of the rotor member. As the rotor member rotates and the vanes pivot in and out of the sockets, the space between the vanes successively increases and decreases. A fuel mixture is introduced into the space between the vanes when the rotor member is rotated to a point where the space coincides with a portion of the compression chamber. As the rotor member continues to rotate, this space and the fuel mixture is compressed and at a point where the space coincides with a portion of the combustion chamber, the fuel mixture is ignited. Igniting the fuel mixture causes the rotation and shortly after combustion of the fuel mixture, the combustion products are exhausted from the space between the vanes.
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Foster Lynn G.
Gordon Clarence R.
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