Rotary engine with fuel supply through rotor

Patent · Mon Mar 31 04:00:00 EDT 1975

OSTI ID:7195712

Roberts, T C

The design is given of a rotary combustion engine comprising: (1) an outer body having an internal cavity, the peripheral surface of which has a multilobe profile and also having an air intake port and a combustion gas exhaust port; (2) a shaft coaxial with the cavity, having a cylindrical eccentric portion inside the cavity; (3) working chambers which vary in volume; (4) a passage for supplying a relatively lean fuel-air mixture to the working chambers through the port; and (5) another passage for supplying a relatively fuel-rich charge to each working chamber after the lean mixture has been substantially compressed. Combustion is initiated in each working chamber in the region containing the relatively rich charge.

• Assignee: Curtiss-Wright Corp.
• Patent Number(s): US 3941098
• OSTI ID: 7195712
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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