Rotary reciprical combustion engines

Patent · Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:6801743

Blount, D H

This patent describes a rotary-reciprocal combustion engine having a cycle which includes the four strokes of intake, compression, expansion and exhaustion, the engine. It comprises: a housing formed with a peripheral wall with side walls, a rotor in the housing, the inner surface of the peripheral inner wall being cylindrical; a shaft; mounted in the center of the housing, passing through the rotor's hub and extending through the side walls of the housing, the hub having means to allow the rotor to reciprocate on the shaft while the shaft is rotating with the rotor; a reciprocal and rotary guide having means to guide the rotary and reciprocal motions of the rotor while keeping the rotor's piston in continuous sealing contact with the cylinder chamber walls and varying the volume of the cylinder chambers enabling a compression of a gaseous mixture to take place after aspirating a gaseous mixture; an ignition system having means for igniting compressed gaseous mixture and expansion of the cylinder chambers due to pressure of the combustion products.

• Assignee: NOV; EDB-93-038609; NOV-93-005112
• Patent Number(s): US 5156115; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-831792
• OSTI ID: 6801743
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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