US2359065A - Double-shaft opposed-piston engine set - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
- F02B73/00—Combinations of two or more engines, not otherwise provided for
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
- F01B—MACHINES OR ENGINES, IN GENERAL OR OF POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT TYPE, e.g. STEAM ENGINES
- F01B7/00—Machines or engines with two or more pistons reciprocating within same cylinder or within essentially coaxial cylinders
- F01B7/02—Machines or engines with two or more pistons reciprocating within same cylinder or within essentially coaxial cylinders with oppositely reciprocating pistons
- F01B7/14—Machines or engines with two or more pistons reciprocating within same cylinder or within essentially coaxial cylinders with oppositely reciprocating pistons acting on different main shafts
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
- F02B3/00—Engines characterised by air compression and subsequent fuel addition
- F02B3/06—Engines characterised by air compression and subsequent fuel addition with compression ignition
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
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- F02B75/28—Engines with two or more pistons reciprocating within same cylinder or within essentially coaxial cylinders
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- the invention relates to an internal combustion engine set consisting of two double-shaft opposedpiston internal combustion engines, in which the crankshafts drive the main shaft through a central gear and the drive of the machine supplying the combustion air is taken from the central gear. It has already been proposed in double-shaft opposed-piston internal combustion engines to drive a scavenging-air pump from the central gear. The scavenging-air pump was then placed outside the internal combustion engineset, at the side of one of the engines. This gave rise to the drawback that the distances to be traversed by the air in passing from the pump to the engines were not always the same, so that regularity of working was disturbed.
- the scavenging-air pump also came outside the profile of the internal combustion engines, so that more space was required.
- a rotary blower is adopted for supplying the combustion air, this blower being arranged between the engines and driven from the central gear by intermediate speed-increasing gear which is also arranged between the engines.
- a flexible member or a slip coupling may also be fitted.
- the rotary blower will be driven in addition by an exhaust gas turbine. At full load, for instance, it may happen that the exhaust gas turbine develops a greater output than the machine supplying th combustion air can absorb. The excess power is then delivered in the contrary direction as useful work over the intermediate gear to the central gear, and thus transmitted to the main shaft.
- FIG. 1 shows a front view
- Fig. 2 a view from above.
- Two double-shaft opposed-piston internal combustion engines i and 2 form an internal combustion engine set, their crankshafts driving the main shaft 8 with the help of pinions 6 through a central gearwheel l.
- Combustion air is sup plied by a rotary blower 9 through pipes I! to the engines I and 2, the blower being coupled to an exhaust turbine II.
- the rotary blower 9 is arranged between the Switzerland, amignor Wintertlmr,
- a flexible member for instance in the form of a flexible coupling or a flexible shaft, may be fitted.
- the shaft Il may be of such dimensions that it acts as a flexible member.
- for example, the so-called Fiittinger coupling.
- Fiittinger coupling may be fitted between the central gear and the blower; this allows slip to take place and prevents the transmitting elements from becoming inadmissibly loaded, if the torque become excessively high, which may occur for instance in consequence of oscillation phenomena, or because of some trouble in the rotary machines.
- Internal combustion engine set consisting of two double-shaft opposed-piston internal combustion engines which comprises a main shaft, two shafts for each of the two engines, a pinion gear driven by each of the two shafts of the two wheel connected to the main shaft and in operative geared engagement with each of the pinions, said gears being on the ends of their respective shafts and said central gear being considerably larger in diameter than the pinion gears, a rotary blower for supplying the engines with combustion air and an exhaust gas turbine for driving the blower comprising a charging set which is arranged between the two engines, an intermediate speed-increasing gear connected to the central gear wheel, a shaft connected to the blower, and a slip coupling operatively connecting the shaft to the intermediate speed-increasing gear.
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Sept. 26, 1-944. 5 WAEBER 2,359,065
DOUBLE-SHAFT OPPOSED-PISTON ENGINE SET Filed D sc. 27, 1941 2 Sheets$heet 1 INVENTOR E/FW/N WAEEH? BY 7 A; W MM ATTORN Y5 WAEBER DOUBLE-SHAFT OPPOSED-PISTON ENGINE SET Sept. 26, 1944.
Filed D90- 2'7, 1 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR E/PWM/ nag/5'5? BY PM, W WMMM 'A'ITORNEYS Patented Sept. 26, 1944 2,359,065 DOUBLE-SHAFT OlgggED-IPISTON ENGINE Erwin Waeber, Wintertliur,
to Sulzer Freres, Socit Anonyme,
Switzerland Application December In Switzerlan 1 Claim.
The invention relates to an internal combustion engine set consisting of two double-shaft opposedpiston internal combustion engines, in which the crankshafts drive the main shaft through a central gear and the drive of the machine supplying the combustion air is taken from the central gear. It has already been proposed in double-shaft opposed-piston internal combustion engines to drive a scavenging-air pump from the central gear. The scavenging-air pump was then placed outside the internal combustion engineset, at the side of one of the engines. This gave rise to the drawback that the distances to be traversed by the air in passing from the pump to the engines were not always the same, so that regularity of working was disturbed. In addition to that, the scavenging-air pump also came outside the profile of the internal combustion engines, so that more space was required. These drawbacks are avoided by the invention. It consists in that a rotary blower is adopted for supplying the combustion air, this blower being arranged between the engines and driven from the central gear by intermediate speed-increasing gear which is also arranged between the engines.
Between the central gear and the rotary blower a flexible member or a slip coupling may also be fitted. Preferably the rotary blower will be driven in addition by an exhaust gas turbine. At full load, for instance, it may happen that the exhaust gas turbine develops a greater output than the machine supplying th combustion air can absorb. The excess power is then delivered in the contrary direction as useful work over the intermediate gear to the central gear, and thus transmitted to the main shaft.
One example of the subject matter of the invention is illustrated diagrammatically in the drawings, in which Fig. 1 shows a front view and Fig. 2 a view from above.
Two double-shaft opposed-piston internal combustion engines i and 2 form an internal combustion engine set, their crankshafts driving the main shaft 8 with the help of pinions 6 through a central gearwheel l. Combustion air is sup plied by a rotary blower 9 through pipes I! to the engines I and 2, the blower being coupled to an exhaust turbine II.
The rotary blower 9 is arranged between the Switzerland, amignor Wintertlmr,
27, 1941, Serial No. 424,642
(1 April 28, 1941 engines, a central gear engines I and 2 in such a way that it can be driven from the central gearwheel I through an intermediate speed-increasing gear consisting of toothed wheels l8, l9 and 20, respectively and through a shaft ll.
When working with small partial loads, power is transmitted from the gearwheel to the blower, and when working with greater loads, or with full or overload, the excess power developed by the turbine ll-especially when working with high supercharging-is transmitted in the contrary sense from the exhaust gas turbine through the blower to the central gearwheel and the central shaft.
Between the central gear and the rotary blower a flexible member, for instance in the form of a flexible coupling or a flexible shaft, may be fitted. The shaft Il may be of such dimensions that it acts as a flexible member. In addition to that, also a slip coupling 2|, for example, the so-called Fiittinger coupling. may be fitted between the central gear and the blower; this allows slip to take place and prevents the transmitting elements from becoming inadmissibly loaded, if the torque become excessively high, which may occur for instance in consequence of oscillation phenomena, or because of some trouble in the rotary machines.
I claim:
Internal combustion engine set consisting of two double-shaft opposed-piston internal combustion engines which comprises a main shaft, two shafts for each of the two engines, a pinion gear driven by each of the two shafts of the two wheel connected to the main shaft and in operative geared engagement with each of the pinions, said gears being on the ends of their respective shafts and said central gear being considerably larger in diameter than the pinion gears, a rotary blower for supplying the engines with combustion air and an exhaust gas turbine for driving the blower comprising a charging set which is arranged between the two engines, an intermediate speed-increasing gear connected to the central gear wheel, a shaft connected to the blower, and a slip coupling operatively connecting the shaft to the intermediate speed-increasing gear.
ERWIN WAEBER.
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Cited By (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US2507946A (en) * | 1942-02-14 | 1950-05-16 | Sulzer Ag | Internal-combustion power plant combining two-shaft opposed-piston engine, air supply compressor, and exhaust-gas turbine |
US2688839A (en) * | 1948-12-31 | 1954-09-14 | Daub Rudolph | Internal-combustion engine with auxiliary exhaust turbine |
US2768616A (en) * | 1951-10-25 | 1956-10-30 | Thomas B Danckwortt | Two cycle opposed piston internal combustion engine |
US4586337A (en) * | 1984-01-17 | 1986-05-06 | Cummins Engine Company, Inc. | Turbocompound system |
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Cited By (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US2507946A (en) * | 1942-02-14 | 1950-05-16 | Sulzer Ag | Internal-combustion power plant combining two-shaft opposed-piston engine, air supply compressor, and exhaust-gas turbine |
US2688839A (en) * | 1948-12-31 | 1954-09-14 | Daub Rudolph | Internal-combustion engine with auxiliary exhaust turbine |
US2768616A (en) * | 1951-10-25 | 1956-10-30 | Thomas B Danckwortt | Two cycle opposed piston internal combustion engine |
US4586337A (en) * | 1984-01-17 | 1986-05-06 | Cummins Engine Company, Inc. | Turbocompound system |
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