Abstract:
In a vehicle or device a fluid motor is employed to drive rotary members, such as wheels, propellers, tracks. The motor is provided with an arrangement which includes a control means and an axially moveable member. By utilizing the control means, for example, by a flow of fluid, the axially moveable member is used to apply an action, which is not common to the usual operation of fluid motors. The arrangement may be used to arrest the rotor of the motor from rotation when no pressure is in the driving fluid line. It may also be used to control the pitch of propellers with variable pitch arrangements. Also possible is to use the arrangement to automatically obtain an auto - rotation of rotor blades on vertical axes of vertically take off and landing vehicles, when the pressure in the fluid line to the motors for driving the motors drops below a predetermined minimum of pressure. The speciality of the preferred embodiment of the invention is to provide an upper structure of an airborne craft with a plurality of propellers with substantially vertical axes to carry pivotable on the mentioned structure a body of the craft below the mentioned structure, while the body contains the cabine and the power plant as well as the fluid flow supply means, the upper structure is pivotable in a limited extend relative to the body and the fluid under pressure is transferred from the fluid flow supply means in the body to the upper structure and to the fluid motors which drive the propellers of the upper structure.
Abstract:
In a light alloy piston each of the load-carrying skirt surfaces is divided by a depression into two load-carrying partial shaft surfaces.In order to reduce the friction losses and the consumption of lubricant the depth of the depression (8, 9) between the tapered portions of the curved generatrix (7) at the top and bottom ends of the skirt is approximately twice the peak-to-valley height of the machined surface of the skirt (1). The load-carrying partial skirt surfaces (10, 11, 12, 13) and the depression (8, 9) are at least as wide as the wear pattern area, and the axial extent of the depression (8, 9) is so selected that the depression will not protrude from the cylinder when the piston is at its lower dead center and in the cold engine the load-carrying partial skirt surfaces (10, 11, 12, 13) have between the upper limit of the depression and the lower limit of the tapered portion of the curved generatrix (7) at top end of the skirt an axially parallel portion in a height of 1.5 to 4.5 mm, preferably 1.5 to 2.5 mm.
Abstract:
In a pivot bar portion of a piston shoe in a radial piston device wherein the pivot portion is pivotably borne in a bed in the piston which extends normal to the longitudinal axis of the piston, recesses are provided parallel to the pivot axis whereby bearing lands are formed between the recesses. The bearing lands are tracting fluid out of the recesses along themselves and the bearing bed face of the piston, when the shoes pivot in the piston. A perfectly operational forced lubrication between the pivot portion and the piston is thereby assured which results in a long life and very high bearing capacity between the piston and the piston shoe.
Abstract:
In a vehicle or device a fluid motor is employed to drive rotary members, such as wheels, propellers, tracks. The motor is provided with an arrangement which includes a control means and an axially moveable member. By utilizing the control means, for example, by a flow of fluid, the axially moveable member is used to apply an action, which is not common to the usual operation of fluid motors. The arrangement may be used to arrest the rotor of the motor from rotation when no pressure is in the driving fluid line. It may also be used to control the pitch of propellers with variable pitch arrangements. Also possible is to use the arrangement to automatically obtain an auto-rotation of rotor blades on vertical axes of vertically take off and landing vehicles, when the pressure in the fluid line to the motors for driving the motors drops below a predetermined minimum of pressure. The specific detail of the present invention is to provide on the interior of the front portion of a fluid motor a wave-configuration with valleys and hills and to locate between the rotor and the wave configuration a partially complementary configurated plate which is subjected to a piston in the rotor while the piston in the rotor is subjected on one axial end to the force of a spring and on the other axial end to the pressure in the fluid in the motor whereby the mentioned plate arrests the rotor into the mentioned wave configuration when no pressure is in the fluid in the motor and disarrests the rotor when fluid under pressure acts in the rotor of the motor.
Abstract:
A rotary-type fluid compressor is disclosed. The compressor includes a housing having a vane groove therein which is fitted with a vane. The vane is comprised of a specific soft nitrided hardened steel material which includes 0.50 to 1.30% carbon by weight, 11.0 to 20.0% chromium by weight, with the balance being Fe. The hardened steel material can be further improved by the inclusion of one or both of 0.1 to 1.50% Mo and/or 0.07 to 0.15% by weight of V. Specific characteristics relating to the mating member over which the vane slides are also disclosed. Due to the particular material utilized for producing the vane and the characteristics of the mating member over which the vane slides, improved results are obtained with respect to wear resistance.
Abstract:
A built-up piston in which the piston top (11) and piston bottom part (13) are clamped together by two necked-down bolts (15) by means of nuts (16). The nuts include an extension (21) having an external thread (22), by means of which they are screwed into the piston bottom part (13). An oil scraper ring (14) is arranged between piston top (11) and piston bottom part (13) so that leakage oil out of the cooling oil channel of the piston is conducted back into the crankcase by way of the oil discharge channels of the annular groove of the oil scraper ring.
Abstract:
A piston arrangement with a metal shaft, a piston head that is attached to it with a shrink ring, and a member made of partially stabilized zirconium ozide. The top which demarcates the combustion chamber, of the piston head, consists entirely of the member made of partially stabilized zirconium oxide. The bottom of the zirconium-oxide member is a truncated cone and the top of the shaft is a truncated cone. They are surrounded by an annular component that is split into two sections parallel to the longitudinal axis of the piston. The annular ocmponent is secured with an outside shrink ring.
Abstract:
Improved heat insulating of a combustion chamber in an internal combustion engine is obtained by providing a heat-resistant body in at least one surface, which is intended to at least partly limit a combustion chamber. A support body supports the heat-resistant body, said bodies each having facing mantle surfaces. Between said bodies there is a heat-insulating element of a material having a lower coefficient of thermal expansion and a lower modulus of elasticity than the material in either one of said bodies. The bodies and the element are held together at the mantle surfaces by means of a shrink fit.
Abstract:
A multiple-layer wall is provided for a hollow body to sustain high thermal and mechanical loads and to afford adequate thermal insulation. The wall has, on the inside, a heat and/or wear resistant ceramic inner layer and, surrounding it, a preferably prestressed retaining layer of fiber reinforced plastic. An intermediate layer of a thermally insulating ceramic material can also be provided. The wall can also have a retaining layer of metal. At least the retaining layer is shrink-fitted. The retaining layer of metal and/or the intermediate layer moreover can be deposited by a sintering process. Prestressing is achieved also by the shrinkage resulting from the sintering process. As a result of prestressing, the inner layer, when under internal pressure, comes under substantially no circumferential tension or under circumferential compression only. The wall is used especially with precombustion chambers of Diesel engines or with cylinder barrels or internal combustion engines.
Abstract:
A bush assembly is inserted into the rotor hub around a cylindrical control body which is partially extending into the bush to fill the interior of the bush. In such devices, where fluid flows through the control body and the working chambers in the rotor of the machine, leakage escaped through the clearance between the control body and the rotor. Due to the novel bush assembly the respective high pressure is led through passages which extend half way around the bush into recesses diametrically located in the bush. There the pressure is utilized to press respective seal-portions towards the control body to at least partially seal the escape of leakage, while maintaining a radial pressure balance between the control body and the bush.