Rotary internal combustion engine with uniformly rotating pistons cooperating with reaction elements having a varying speed of rotation and oscillating motion
An improved rotary internal combustion engine is described comprising in combination: a water-cooled housing having a cylindrical bore, exhaust and intake ports, water-cooling cavities and ignition means; a hollow cylindrical rotor rotatably disposed in the cylindrical bore, the rotor having two diametrically-opposed wedge-shaped pistons integral with the rotor, and axial, helical slots adjacent to the pistons, the rotor having axially spaced side walls with first and second hubs thereon for mounting snap-ring bearings, one of the hubs being constructed to receive adjustable locking means; a first side housing having water-cooling cavities and bolted to the water-cooled housing and supporting one of the snap-ring bearings; a second side housing water-cooling cavities and bolted to the water-cooled housing and supporting another of the snap-ring bearings; a primary shaft journaled in the first and second hubs, the shaft constructed to receive a spur gear fastened to one end; a reaction element comprising two radially-directed diametrically-opposed wedge-shaped members mounted on the primary shaft, constructed for movement in periodical coalescing relation to the pistons; a flywheel housing bolted to the second side housing; a flywheel disposed in the flywheel housing and journaled on one end of a drive shaft supported on roller bearings in the flywheel housing.
- Assignee:
- NOV; NOV-87-077450; EDB-87-163163
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4687427
- OSTI ID:
- 6254120
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 24 Apr 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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