Pivoting wall type, four stroke, internal combustion, rotary engine

Patent · Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6928658

Beach, C

A four cycle rotary engine providing intake, compression, power, and exhaust phases of operation comprising: a housing defining a first chamber, the walls of the first chamber having the configuration of a wedge in cross-section, and a second chamber, the walls of the second chamber having the configuration of a segment of a circle in cross-section, the chambers being disposed adjacent one to the other; wall means pivotally mounted within said housing common to the first and second chambers for moving into and out of the chambers including a cam follower disposed within the second chamber; a rotatable drive shaft extending into the second chamber; an elongated rotor having a pair of opposed peripheral extensions mounted on said drive shaft within the second chamber; seal means mounted on the periphery of each of the extensions of said rotor for engaging adjacent wall portions of the second chamber; cam means defined by the external surface of said rotor for engaging the follower on said wall means for pivoting said wall means into and out of the first and second chambers as said drive shaft rotates said cam means permitting said wall means to open into the second chamber and place said first and second chambers in communication only during the exhaust phase of operation; means for admitting fuel to the first chamber, ignition means extending into the first chamber, and means for exhausting said chambers carried by said housing.

• Assignee: IFI; ERA-06-003892; EDB-81-001569
• Patent Number(s): US 4214557
• OSTI ID: 6928658
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 15 Aug 1978
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ROTARY ENGINES
DESIGN
COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
COMPRESSION
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
FUEL INJECTION SYSTEMS
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
ROTORS
SEALS
SHAFTS
SPARK IGNITION ENGINES
VALVES
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
EFFICIENCY
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
FLOW REGULATORS
FUEL SYSTEMS
HEAT ENGINES
MACHINE PARTS
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