Abstract:
An expansion chamber exhaust system operative to obtain high power output from two-cycle engines at more than one engine rpm range. The exhaust system includes automatic or manual means to change the effective range of engine rpm at which it is providing power increase. At least one valve member is provided, which is open in a low speed position, to permit substantially unrestricted passage of the exhaust gases and exhaust gas pressure waves past the valve member, and which closes at higher engine rpm to provide a pressure wave reflecting surface so positioned to reflect a positive pressure wave to arrive at the exhaust port of the two-cycle engine just before the port closes, at the desired higher rpm range of the engine. The exhaust systems can be made with a fixed positive wave reflecting surface downstream from the valve member, or they may open directly to atmosphere downstream from the valve member, and they may include a silencing muffler, is desired.
Abstract:
Two-cycle engine exhaust systems including a resonance chamber which has at least one change of direction or bend in the resonance chamber and which is used in combination with powered tools and vehicles, such as chain saws and snowmobiles. Bending the resonance chamber saves space and keeps the exhaust resonance chamber out of the way of an operator. The further improvement of including an additional silencing section located within the crook of the bend in the resonance chamber in combination with two-cycle engines, is also disclosed.
Abstract:
Two-cycle, crankcase compression engines, spark or compression ignition, carburetion or fuel injection types, with or without supercharging, having improved balancing of restrictions to flow of air or air-fuel fluids through the engine; having at least one crankcase inlet port(s) location in the cylinder wall on the same side of the cylinder as the exhaust port(s) and below the level of the exhaust ports, having a plurality of transfer ports, at least some of which are located on the opposite side of the cylinder with the flow therefrom directed toward the cylinder head plus other transfer port(s) located and shaped so as to direct flow in a plane more nearly at right angles to the cylinder axis and thence merging with flow from the oppositely located transfer port(s), along the cylinder wall in a direction away from the exhaust port(s); the height of the exhaust port(s) for optimum operational characteristics being more than approximately 35 percent of stroke; in a modified form, in addition to the inlet below the exhaust port, including another subsidiary inlet(s) into the crankcase located below the oppositely situated transfer port(s); in engine propelled vehicles such as snowmobiles, where operator position is such that the engine is between the legs and near his crotch, the improvement of having inlet (carburetor) and exhaust on the same side of engine and locating such slide away from crotch of operator, the side of the engine towards the operator being devoid of hot or vaporous engine protuberances. Improvements that, in some forms, the engine is combined with a resonant exhaust system; improvements in attachment of inlet and exhaust manifolds are provided to minimize and/or regulate heat transfer between exhaust manifold, cylinder and intake manifold, to minimize backflow of heat from the exhaust manifold to the cylinder and inlet manifold and to regulate temperature of various engine parts.