Abstract:
A lightweight crankless piston engine utilizes cam action to produce two piston strokes for one revolution of the engine output shaft, which shaft does not pierce the piston or the combustion chamber. Ease of assembly is enabled. One section of the cam is embodied in the cylinder liner and the opposing cam section is an extension of the output shaft housing. In its simplest mode, the engine is ported for fuel-air induction and exhaust. Cam induced piston rotation directly drives the output shaft while piston reciprocation is allowed without influencing such shaft.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an engine having opposed cylinders with a guided rotary and reciprocating piston which telescopes over an output shaft and transmits rotary motion directly to the output shaft without the need for a crankshaft. Guided rotary movement of the piston is afforded by rollers rotatably supported on a radial pin on the cylindrical wall of the piston. The rollers travel in an elliptical type groove on the inside surface of the cylinder to impart rotary motion to the piston as a result of rectilinear motion of the piston caused by combustion of fuel in the working chambers on opposite sides of the piston. The engine can also be operated by an external source of pressurized gas or operated as a pump. The rotary motion is transmitted to the output shaft by a rider block which has a square cross section and which is fixed to the output shaft and is complementary in shape to a square opening in the piston. The rider block is movable between end walls in the piston. Circular openings with cylindrical seals seal the output shaft to the piston.
Abstract:
An internal combustion engine adapted for use in automobiles and other devices capable of operation under high compression while effecting more complete combustion of its fuel. The engine is of the piston type with the piston mechanically arranged for both oscillatory and related vertical reciprocitory motion. The cylinder is double-headed the heads being oriented in such a manner with respect to the piston faces that maximum compression is effected on the firing stroke of the engine. The double head cylinder permits more complete combustion of the gasoline mixture.