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US3906908A
US3906908A US306039A US30603972A US3906908A US 3906908 A US3906908 A US 3906908A US 306039 A US306039 A US 306039A US 30603972 A US30603972 A US 30603972A US 3906908 A US3906908 A US 3906908A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F01P—COOLING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; COOLING OF INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F01P1/00—Air cooling
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    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
    • F02B1/00—Engines characterised by fuel-air mixture compression
    • 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
    • F02B33/00—Engines characterised by provision of pumps for charging or scavenging
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    • F02B33/04—Engines with reciprocating-piston pumps; Engines with crankcase pumps with simple crankcase pumps, i.e. with the rear face of a non-stepped working piston acting as sole pumping member in co-operation with the crankcase
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
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    • F01B9/04—Reciprocating-piston machines or engines characterised by connections between pistons and main shafts, not specific to groups F01B1/00 - F01B7/00 with rotary main shaft other than crankshaft
    • F01B9/042—Reciprocating-piston machines or engines characterised by connections between pistons and main shafts, not specific to groups F01B1/00 - F01B7/00 with rotary main shaft other than crankshaft the connections comprising gear transmissions
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F02B1/02—Engines characterised by fuel-air mixture compression with positive 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
    • F02B75/00—Other engines
    • F02B75/02—Engines characterised by their cycles, e.g. six-stroke
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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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    • 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
    • F02B2275/00—Other engines, components or details, not provided for in other groups of this subclass
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    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
    • F02B2700/00—Measures relating to the combustion process without indication of the kind of fuel or with more than one fuel
    • F02B2700/02—Four stroke engines
    • F02B2700/023—Four stroke engines with measures for charging, increasing the power

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  • a piston is reciprocable in the cylinder and defines a power chamber with said head and an air compression chamber with said bottom.
  • Controlled intake and exhaust ports are formed in said cylinder and adapted to communicate with said power chamber.
  • Igniting means are operable to initiate a combustion of a fuel-air mixture in the power chamber.
  • An inlet is formed in the cylinder and adapted to communicate with the compression chamber A valve controls said inlet.
  • Said piston is adapted to perform in response to the combustion a power stroke toward a dead center near the bottom, whereby air is compressed in the compression chamber.
  • Transl'er means are provided to transfer compressed air from the compression chamber to said exhaust port after the power stroke.
  • This invention relates to an internal combustion engine, particularly a four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine, which comprises at least one cylinder, in which a piston is reciprocable and which cylinder comprises controlled intake and exhaust ports and an igniting device or a fuel injection nozzle, the piston being preferably rigidly connected to a piston rod.
  • an igniting device the invention relates to an Otto engine.
  • the piston is preferably rigidly connected to a piston rod
  • the invention is applicable to other engines too, namely, to so-called rotary piston engines, such as are shown, e.g., in the French Patent Specification Nos. 1,321,071 or 798,519, in which, for instance, the cylinder assembly constitutes a rotor and is rotatably mounted in a housing, which is designed as a stator.
  • the piston may be formed with a slot, which extends substantially transversely to the piston, and which receives a pin that is rigid with the stator, or the piston or a pis ton assembly may be constrained, e.g., by a crankshaft, to move eccentrically relative to the cylinder assembly.
  • a compressor is combined with a power piston of an internal combustion engine in a very compact arrangement.
  • That design which is known in connection with twostroke cycle engines is based on the concept of feeding the power chamber of chambers of the engine entirely through the precompressor.
  • This object is accomplished according to the invention in that in a manner known per se the underside of the piston acts on a compression chamber which is defined by the cylinder and disposed over the bottom of the cylinder, the inlet disposed over the bottom of the cylinder is controlled by a valve, and compressed air from the compression chamber is supplied to the exhaust port after the power stroke, particularly for afterbuming.
  • the compressed air may be conducted into the exhaust port through the power chamber or directly through a special conduit. It is surprising that purer exhaust gases are discharged in this case from an internal combustion engine which is provided with an igniting device.
  • the outlet of the compression chamber of the piston, the transfer duct (26, 62-65, 99, leading from the compressor is open after the power stroke, and compressed air is forced through the power chamber and through the exhaust port for the afterburning in the lat ter.
  • Another desirable feature resides in such an engine in that in a known manner the outlet of the compression chamber is connected to the power chamber of the cylinder by a transfer duct, which incorporates a valve, which connects to a branch duct leading to the exhaust duct, and said valve is controlled in such a manner, par ticularly by a camshaft, that the transfer duct is connected to the power chamber of the cylinder after the intake stroke and the branch duct is connected to the exhaust port after the power stroke.
  • the power chamber of the cylinder is filled in normal manner with the mixture by the intake stroke and additional compressed air flows in when the power chamber has been filled. This affords the additional advantage that this compressed air when flowing in results in an internal cooling of the power chamber.
  • valve is controlled by the stator in dependence on the setting of the camshaft, possibly also by means of the cylinder, which constitutes a rotor.
  • a compression chamber is provided and is operated in synchronism with the at least one power piston and delivers to the power chamber of the cylinder and, to promote the discharge of purer exhaust gases, into the exhaust port.
  • the transfer duct leading from the compression chamber is open after the power stroke and compressed air is forced through the power chamber to scavenge and cool the same and through the exhaust duct to promote the afterburning therein.
  • a particularly preferred embodiment of the inven tion constitutes a four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine, in which the cylinder at its end remote from the power chamber defined by the piston is sealed in known manner by a bottom, a piston rod extends preferably through a seal (this is particularly the case in engines having stationary cylinders), the cylinder chamber under the piston (this chamber will be referred to hereinafter also as a compression chamber) is connected to an intake pipe by a valve which is, e.g., positively controlled and consists preferably as a check valve, the cylinder is provided near its bottom with an opening, from which a transfer duct extends into the cylinder chamber over the piston, and an outlet opening of said transfer duct is disposed above the piston when the latter is at its lower dead center.
  • a valve which is, e.g., positively controlled and consists preferably as a check valve
  • This arrangement is particularly compact, and during the operation of this engine compressed air can be delivered after the intake stroke of the power piston, as described hereinbefore, and compressed air is fed also after the power stroke of the piston because the compression chamber is effective during each power stroke of the piston so that compressed air is blown through the power chamber of the cylinder for scavenging and for afterbuming.
  • This has the advantage that the power chamber is scavenged faster and more effectively after the power stroke and that the afterburning is much improved.
  • the valves which are controlled particularly by a camshaft, are arranged so that the exhaust valve opens before the compressed air is fed when the piston has reached its lower dead center. in this case the piston may be used also as a sliding control valve.
  • each of the openings connecting the transfer ducts to the compression chambers is connected to another transfer duct which is associated with another piston in the same region, in a two-cylinder engine one cross-connecting duct is provided whereas in a fourcylinder engine two cross-connecting ducts are provided which differ in cross-section so that they have the same volume, and valve controls are provided so that compression chambers under two or more pistons are connected to the power chamber of each cylinder before the compression stroke and, in an engine having more than four cylinders, a large number of correspondingly controlled crossconnecting ducts are provided.
  • a transfer duct in a two-piston engine which may consist of an in-line engine or an opposed-cylinder engine, will meet corresponding requirements.
  • con trolled valves are incorporated in the transfer ducts above the cross-connecting ducts and are operated, e.g., by means of a camshaft and speed-reducing transmissions, in such a manner that the above requirements are met.
  • the cylinder which constitutes a rotor and contains two pistons, which are connected by a piston rod, which incorporates a cam slot member forming part of a Scotch yoke.
  • piston rods ex tend through cylinder bottoms, which are disposed at the cylinder ends disposed toward the center of the rotor, and the housing, which constitutes a stator, and the valve bushing is rotated in dependence on the power stroke in response to the rotation of the cylinder assembly to establish suitable connections. This is included in the scope of the invention.
  • This invention relates also to such an internal combustion engine which constitutes a rotary piston engine comprising at least one cylinder which rotates in a sta tor and in which a piston is reeiprocable, the stator being provided at substantially opposite housing portions with an igniting device or fuel injection nozzle on one side and with intake and exhaust openings on the opposite side, which openings are controlled by the cylinder, which constitutes a rotor.
  • the cylinder is closed at one end by a bottom and provided with at least one transfer duct, which is known per se and leads from the closed end to the open end of the cylinder in such a manner that the at least one transfer duct opens at such a distance from the open end of the cylinder that that piston exposes the opening of the transfer duct when the piston is disposed relative to the cylinder at its dead center near the closed cylinder end,
  • this at least one transfer duet incorporates an intake valve
  • a transmission is connected between a crankshaft connected to at least one piston, and a shaft for rotating the at least one cylinder, which constitutes a rotor, and said transmission is designed so that the crankshaft has reached a position corresponding to a rotation through 270 when the cylinder constituting a rotor has rotated through
  • the valve consists of an intake valve so
  • valve is a controlled valve, which in dependence on a crankshaft operatively connected to the piston is operable to connect the compression chamber over the closed end of the cylinder after the power stroke therein to the power chamber of another cylinder.
  • a speed-reducing transmission having a transmission ratio of 1:3 is desirably provided so that the rotor assembly rotates at a lower peripheral speed than the crankshaft.
  • the exhaust opening begins suitably about 90 behind the igniting device or fuel injection noule in the direction of rotation of the cylinder.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic sectional view showing a piston-cylinder engine assembly and illustrates the in vention only as applied to one engine cylinder unit, the section being taken, for instance, on line I-I in FIG. 2 although this is stated only to indicate the section plane in an engine because FIG. 2 illustrates further modifications.
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic vertical longitudinal sectional view showing a four-stroke cycle, four-cylinder, in-line engine.
  • FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic side elevation showing a modified embodiment of a four-stroke cycle, fourcylinder, in-line engine.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic sectional view taken on line IVIV in FIG. 3.
  • FIGS. 5 to 8 are vertical transverse sectional views illustrating the mode of operation of a rotary-piston engine embodying the invention.
  • FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken on line IXIX in FIG. 6 and illustrates the arrangement ofa plurality of pistons in such engine.
  • FIG. I shows part of an opposed-cylinder engine.
  • a crankshaft housing 1 contains two cylinders, one of which is shown at 2.
  • a piston 3 is reciprocable in the cylinder 2.
  • the piston is rigidly connected to a piston rod 4, which is terminated by a member 5 having a cam slot, which extends preferably at an oblique angle to the axis of the piston.
  • a crankpin 7 of a crank is rotatably mounted in a sliding block 6, which is guided in the cam slot of the member 5. This crank rotates about the axis 9 around a dotted-line circle 8.
  • the oblique orientation of the cam slot member has the advantage that the piston can move more easily through its dead centers.
  • FIG. 2 shows a crankshaft 57 and a crankpin 138, which corresponds to the crankpin 7.
  • the cylinder 2 is formed in its cylinder head with two openings l0, 11, each of which contains a camshaftcontrolled valve, namely, an intake valve 12 communicating with an intake port 14 and an exhaust valve 13 communicating with an exhaust port 15.
  • the intake port 14 communicates in the usual manner through a conduit with the unit 136, which comprises a carburetor and a fuel tank.
  • the exhaust port 15 terminates in a so-called exhaust pipe 137.
  • the valves may be con trolled in known manner by rocker levers l6, l7 and a camshaft 18, which is connected by a transmission 19 to the crankshaft 9. Such transmission is shown with the same reference characters in FIG. 2.
  • the cylinder head contains the igniting device 20, which is operated by a distributor, known per se, when a predetermined time has elapsed after the compression.
  • the cylinder 2 at that end which is remote from the cylinder head provided with the valve-controlled ports is sealed by a partition 21 from the crankshaft housing 1.
  • the partition 21 contains a sealed passage 22, which is defined, e.g., by a stuffingbox and through which the piston rod 4 extends.
  • the piston rod moves along a straight line because it is connected to a Scotch yoke. The latter could be replaced by an eccentric.
  • the chamber under the piston 3 is connected to an intake port 23, which contains a check valve 24 or other means for positively controlling the intake.
  • the check valve 24 or equivalent means opens to the interior of the cylinder 2.
  • This cylinder chamber 28 may be described as a compression chamber and is provided above the partition 21 with an opening 25, which communicates with a transfer duct 26, which leads to an opening 27, which communicates with the power chamber of the cylinder 2 and is disposed at a point which is above the piston 3 when the latter is at its lower dead center.
  • compressed air will be fed also after the power stroke of the piston, i.e., when the exhaust valve 13 is open in the position shown.
  • the compressed air which is transferred scavenges the power chamber of the cylinder so that the walls and the exhaust valve are cooled, and air is fed into the exhaust port 15 so that an afterburning can be effected therein.
  • FIG. 1 shows an alternative arrangement, in which the transfer duct 26 incorporates a control valve 29.
  • the latter is connected to the camshaft 18 by a linkage 30, which may incorporate a speed-reducing transmission.
  • the control valve 29 is succeeded by a branch duct 31, which leads into the exhaust port IS.
  • the con- 'trol valve 29 may be a check valve preventing reverse flow from the branch duct 31 to the transfer duct 26.
  • the linkage 30 and the means comprised therein are so designed that the transfer duct 26 between the openings 25 and 27 is open after an intake stroke so that compressed air is then trans ferred into the power chamber of the cylinder whereas after a power stroke of the piston 3 the control valve 29 has been shifted to establish a connection 'to the branch duct 31 so that compressed air is fed into the exhaust port 15. During the succeeding exhaust stroke, an afterburning in the exhaust port is thus ensured by the added air.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a basic concept.
  • the cam slot member 5 is also connected to another piston rod 32, which is associated with a cylinder-piston unit that is similar to the one desired hereinbefore.
  • the branch duct 31 may alternatively communicate with a transfer duct of that second unit and be controlled by the valves which are incorporated in the transfer ducts and one of which is designed 29.
  • the control is such in this case that the air which has been compressed under the piston 3 is fed into the cylinder after each stroke performed by a piston in the direction toward the crankshaft 7. This arrangement will result in a further increase of the power which is produced and, if the air after the power stroke, in an improved afterburning.
  • the compressed volumes under the two pistons may be transfered into the cylinder chambers after the power stroke so that both the cooling action and the scavenging action are much increased.
  • FIG. 2 shows diagrammatically four cylinders 33, 34, 35, 36 of an in-line engine.
  • the lead lines of the reference characters terminate in the cylinder chambers.
  • the associated pistons are designated 37 to 40.
  • the cylinder heads incorporate valve assemblies 41 to 44 and are provided with igniting devices 139 to 142.
  • the valve assemblies 41 to 44 may be designed like the valves 12, 13 in FIG. 1. so that each valve assembly comprises two valves, which are disposed one behind the other in the view shown in FIG. 2 and properly controlled by a camshaft 143, which is driven by the transmission 19.
  • the cylinders 33 to 36 are closed under the pistons by partitions 45 to 48, which are provided with sealed passages 49 to 52 for piston rods 53 to 56, which are connected in known manner to a crankshaft 57.
  • the piston rods rigidly connected to the pistons 37 to 40 may be connected to cranks, e.g., 138, of the crankshaft 57, in known manner by means of eccentric discs or preferably by means of a cam slot member such as is designated 5 in FIG. 1 and in its cam slot guides a sliding block 6.
  • the crankshaft 57 drives the transmission 19, which is connected to the camshaft 143.
  • the crankshaft 57 extends out of the cylinder block and carries an output element 146 consisting of a clutch, a gear or the like.
  • openings 58 to 61 are provided as described above the partition and communicate with transfer duets 62 to 65, which extend parallel to the cylinders and communicate through upper openings 66 to 69 with the power chambers of the cylinders when the pistons are at their lower dead centers.
  • Such transfer duct such as 62 with the openings 58, 66, corresponds to the transfer duct 26 in FIG. 1 with its openings, the upper one of which is designated, e.g., 27.
  • the lower opening is designated 144 in FIG. 1.
  • an intake port corresponding to the intake port 23 with check valve 24 in FIG. 1 opens on the level of the lower openings 58 to 61.
  • Such intake port is provided, e.g., at 145 under the piston 37 in FIG. 2.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show an arrangement which is similar to that in FIG. 2 in the same operating position so that like parts are designated with like reference characters.
  • FIG. 3 shows the engine in the same operating position as in FIG. 2.
  • the piston 37 has performed an intake stroke
  • the piston 40 has performed a power stroke
  • the piston 38 has performed an exhaust stroke
  • the piston 39 a compression stroke.
  • the valve as semblies 41 to 44 consisting each of an intake valve and an exhaust valve, and the diagrammatically controlled igniting devices or fuel-injection nozzles 70 to 73, are properly controlled.
  • the air compression chambers under the pistons 37 to 40 are interconnected by crossconnections ducts 74, 75, which open into the respec tive transfer ducts 62 to 65.
  • the crossconnection duct 74 is connected between the transfer ducts 62 and 65 of the outer cylinders 33, 36, and the cross-connection duct 75 is connected between the transfer ducts 63, 64 of the intermediate cylinders 34, 35. It is apparent that all air compression chambers are connected to check valves 76 to 79, which are of known type and open into the compression chambers, with which the openings 58 to 61 communicate too.
  • check valves are shown only by way of example and may be replaced by positively controlled valves, which may be controlled, e.g., by the camshaft.
  • two cross-connecting ducts 74, 75 are provided. It will be understood that in a two-cylinder engine it will be sufficient to provide only one of the cross-connecting ducts 74 and 75 with suitable control means. For this reason, the invention is not limited to four-cylinder engines. It will also be understood that more cross-connecting ducts may be provided if the engine comprises more cylinders, which in the embodiment shown will be added in pairs of cylinders provided with respective pis tons.
  • the cross-connecting ducts 74, 75 are designed to have equal volumes. This is required for a uniform operation of the engine. For this reason, the cross connecting duct 75 has between its connections a larger cross-section than the cross-connecting duct 74. The difference in cross-section will depend on the ratio of the lengths of the two ducts.
  • the crossconnecting ducts 74, 75 extend on different levels.
  • the openings 58 to 61 are directly adjoined by portions of the transfer ducts 62 to 65. These portions, which extend as far as the opening of the respective crossconnecting duct 74 or 75, incorporate controlled valves 80 to 83, which are required in this embodiment if air which has been compressed in the compression chambers under, e.g., two pistons is forced into a cylinder chamber before the compression stroke or preferably before the exhaust stroke.
  • the piston 37 is about to begin its compression stroke so that the valve 62 is open and compressed air is supplied from the compression chamber under the piston 37 and through the cross-connecting duct 74 from the chamber under the piston 40.
  • valve 83 is closed to prevent a supply of compressed air into the chamber of cylinder 36.
  • An inverted control is effected between other cylinder chambers. If in this embodiment the supply of compressed air serves only to increase the power, this can be accomplished with a minimum number of additional elements.
  • the afterburning can be improved by a suitable additional valve assembly as shown in FIG. 1 if air which has been compressed under the cylinders 37 to 40 is discharged into the exhaust ports, for instance, through the cylinders.
  • This control to improve the afterbuming is highly significant.
  • the valves 80 to 83 may be controlled by being operatively connected to the camshaft 143 by means which correspond to the linkage 30 shown in FIG. 1 in connection with the valve 29. Depending on the nature of the desired control, this linkage may incorporate transmission.
  • FIGS. to 9 An embodiment of such rotary piston engine is shown in FIGS. to 9 by way of example. This embodiment is preferred because the teaching of the invention can be embodied therein without need for appreciable complicated control means.
  • the engine comprises a housing 84, which constitutes a stator and is provided on its inside in a substantial part of its length with a cylindrical bearing surface 85 for a rotor 86, which comprises the cylinder assembly.
  • a cylinder 87 is shown in section in different operating positions of the engine.
  • the stator housing 84 is provided with a fuel injection nozzle 88 and, if desired, with an igniting device.
  • the housing is also provided with an exhaust slot 89, which communicates with an exhaust port 90.
  • the intake port 91 succeeds the exhaust slot by such an angle that the trailing edge of the exhaust slot, considered in the direction of rotation, will still be exposed to the cylinder chamber when the inlet port begins to be exposed to said cylinder chamber.
  • the housing is mounted on a base 92, which contains an oil pan 93, which is not shown more fully.
  • the rotor 86 is guided on the cylindrical bearing surface and comprises the cylinder assembly, of which only the cylinder 87 is shown in FIGS. 5 to 8.
  • the cylinder 87 has an internal liner and is open at one end at 95 and closed at the other end by a bottom 96.
  • two openings 97, 98 communicating with transfer ducts 99, 100 are provided in the cylinder above the bottom.
  • the other openings 101, 102 of the transfer ducts 99, 100 are provided in the cylinder on such a level that, as shown in FIG. 6, these openings are exposed when the piston 103 moving in said cylinder is at that dead center position in which it is nearer to the bottom 96.
  • the piston 103 is sealed and guided in the cylinder 87 by piston rings 104, 105, 106, 107.
  • the piston is provided intemally with a cam slot 108, in which a sliding block 109 is guided, in which the pin 110 of a crank is rotatably mounted.
  • the direction of rotation of the crank is indicated by the arrow 111 and is opposite to the direction of rotation 131 of the rotor 86.
  • the parts moving in opposite senses have the same speed.
  • the overflow ducts 99, 100 contain intake valves 112, 113, which consist, e.g., of inwardly opening check valves.
  • FIG. 5 shows the position at the time of ignition.
  • the crankpin 110 has then rotated through in the sense of the arrow 111 and the rotor 86 has also rotated through 90 in the sense of the arrow 131, the position shown in FIG. 6 has been reached.
  • the contents of the compression chamber 1 14 over the bottom 96 has been compressed when the piston was driven in its working stroke to the position shown in FIG. 6.
  • FIG. 6 shows the piston at its lower dead center, in which the openings 101, 102 of the transfer ducts 99, are exposed so that compressed air flows through the transfer ducts into the power chamber 115 to scavenge the same.
  • the open end of the cylinder communicates already with the exhaust slot 89.
  • FIG. 8 shows the operating position which is reached when both the crankpin 1 10 and the rotor 86 have been rotated through further 90'.
  • the power chamber has been filled during the intake stroke of the piston whereas the volume of the compression chamber 114 has been compressed.
  • compressed air flows through the transfer passages 99, 100 into the power chamber 115 so that the same is supercharged as described hereinbefore. It will be apparent that the intake port and exhaust slot are now closed because the compression chamber 114 is closed by the bottom 96.
  • FIG. 9 shows a piston 103. It is apparent that another piston 116, which is parallel to the piston 103, is guided in the cylinder 177 and moves in phase opposition to the piston 103.
  • the two pistons are operatively connected by Scotch yokes to a crankshaft 118, whose ends 1 19, are rotatably mounted in the rotor 86 by means of centrally disposed bearings 121, 122, 123.
  • the pistons 103, l 17 are each connected to a cam slot member such as 108, and the offset crankpins 125, 126 extend through sliding blocks 109, 124, which are guided in said cam slot members.
  • the crankshaft carries at its end a bevel gear 127, which is in mesh with, for instance, three planet pinions 128, 129 mounted in the stator. These planet pinions mesh also with an interval bevel gear 130, which is secured to the rotor assembly comprising the cylinders, In this way it is ensured that the crankshaft and rotor rotate in opposite senses.
  • An internal combustion engine comprising an axially extending cylinder having a head at one end and a bottom at the other, a piston arranged to reciprocate in said cylinder and to define with said cylinder, in combination with said head, a power chamber and, in combination with said bottom, an air compression chamber, said piston, as it reciprocates within said cylinder, has a lower dead center position adjacent the bottom end of said cylinder, a first intake port and an exhaust port each formed in the head end of said cylinder and communicating with the power chamber therein, means for supplying a fuel-air mixture to said first intake port for introduction into said power chamber, ignition means for initiating a combustion of the fuel-air mixture in said power chamber, means for controlling flow through said first intake port and said exhaust port, wherein the improvement comprises a partition forming a sealed closure for the bottom end of said cylinder, a second intake port connected to said cylinder below the lower dead center of said piston, means for controlling said second intake port, said piston arranged to perform a power stroke in said cylinder in response to the combustion of
  • valve control means are operatively connected to said valve for selectively directing the flow through said transfer duct, said valve control means comprises a linkage connected between said valve and said means for controlling flow through said intake port and said exhaust port.
  • said means for supplying a fuel-air mixture comprises a fuel injection nozzle arranged to communicate with said power chamber.
  • crankshaft housing is secured to and extends downwardly from said partition with said parti' tion sealing said cylinder from said crankshaft housing, a piston rod connected to said piston and said partition having a sealed passage communicating between said cylinder and said crankshaft housing through which said piston rod extends.

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