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 which is shown in FIGS. 18, 19, 24 to 26 and 34 to 37 consists in the provision of a tail propeller, a main lift propeller and a rate of power varying means in the transmission between the power plant and the mentioned propellers. Thereby the tail propeller acts as forward driving propeller, while the main lift propeller may act with vertical or slightly inclined axis or it may be stopped to rest. The vehicle can thereby fly as a helicpoter or selectively as a gyrocopter and as an aircraft flying on wings if the wing assembly is assembled to the vehicle.
Abstract:
A multi-layered insulating piston cap for cast metal pistons having an insulating, perforated metal sheet layer. A piston cap is provided having a top sheet continuous layer made of a heat and corrosion resistant metal for protecting the piston cap, a second layer made of heat and corrosion resistant metal sheet having a plurality of spaced apart perforations for providing trapped air spaces, a third layer made of a heat and corrosion resistant metal foil for sealing the perforations, and a fourth layer or porous, heat and corrosion resistant metal for anchoring the piston cap to the piston. One coined geometry can be used when blanking various sized cross-sections of piston cap.
Abstract:
A cylinder in a fluid handling device in which high pressures and temperature vary in a periodic cycle. An outer chamber surrounding the cylinder in which a pressurized fluid is used to equalize the pressure inside and outside the cylinder wall to prevent breaking under high internal pressures. The pressurized fluid is also transferred from the outer chamber for use in the cylinder of the fluid handling device.
Abstract:
In an axial piston motor or pump the cylinder barrel is mounted on a medial shaft which has a shoulder which axially, bears against the front end of the rotor barrel. The rear end of the medial shaft is radially borne in a housing portion. The front portion of the medial shaft is provided with a bearing member of an axial thrust bearing for support on a respective axial thrust bearing member in the housing. On the rear end of the rotary barrel an axially selfthrusting control body is provided to seal the flow of fluid to and from the cylinders of the rotary barrel. The control body presses against the rotary barrel, the rotary barrel presses against the shoulder of the medial shaft and the thrust bearing member of the shaft bears on the thrust bearing member of the housing. As a result thereof the cylinders in the rotary barrel can be straight through bores. The manufacturing of the rotor barrel is thereby simplified and the flow acceleration losses of former bag bore type cylinders are prevented.
Abstract:
In a fluid pump or motor improvements are provided to the piston shoes therein to permit a higher pressure in the respective device. Other improvements are done to the hydrostatic bearings in radial piston or radial chamber type fluid motors and pumps. A further arrangement is, that plural pistons are applied to permit the use of two different fluids in the respective device. This leads also to the application of disc springs and their modification in a pump or motor to make the pumping of non-viscous fluids like water possible at very high pressure. Motors are provided with arrangements to permit them to drive and to carry simultaneously or to have hollow shafts, whereby improved and novel machines and vehicles are obtained.
Abstract:
An engine piston composed of a head and a body separately formed from the head. The head is of ceramic material and the body is light metal or light alloy. The head and the body are connected against axial movement by interengagement of inclined surfaces on the head and body by rotation of the head relative to the body, and the head and body are then fixed against relative rotation by an anti-turning device, this arrangement preventing development of excessive thermal stress. The piston is of reduced weight, can be mass-produced, and reduces fuel consumption.
Abstract:
An improved ignitor and ignition method for igniting a wide variety of fuels that may be used to power various types of engines, or for use with other applications requiring the efficient combustion of fuel. The fuel to be burned is mixed with air to form a relatively lean first fuel/air mixture. This first fuel/air mixture is then injected into the primary combustion chamber, such as the combustion zone of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or similar combustion chamber of other types of fuel-burning apparatus. The first fuel/air mixture is ignited with a stream of hot ionized gas that is jetted into the primary combustion chamber from a precombustion or plasma-generating chamber. The plasma-generating chamber is in close proximity to the primary combustion chamber, with a plasma guide or discharge tunnel connecting the two. A fuel line connects a source of pressurized fuel to the plasma-generating chamber. Interposed in this fuel line are a backflow restrictor and a fuel vaporizor, thereby ensuring that only vaporized fuel passes into (and not out of) the plasma-generating chamber through the fuel line.
Abstract:
The invention is a new linkage for connecting the piston and the piston actuator in a high pressure pump. All of the compression forces transmitted from the piston actuator to the piston by this linkage will be axial forces parallel to the axis of the piston since the linkage will not transmit forces to the piston which are transverse to its axis. This linkage allows the use of hard brittle materials such as ceramic materials in the piston because any misalignment between the axises of the piston actuator and the piston will not result in bending forces being applied to the piston which would cause it to break.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an internal combustion engine comprising a main combustion chamber and an auxiliary combustion chamber which are interconnected to each other via a connecting passage. The opening of the connecting passage is arranged to be directed to the central portion of the piston when the piston reaches the top dead center. The combustible mixture in the auxiliary combustion chamber is ignited. As a result, a burning jet is injected into the main combustion chamber. An additional auxiliary combustion chamber having no spark plug therein is formed in the piston. The additional auxiliary combustion chamber opens onto the central portion of the top face of the piston. The combustible mixture in the additional auxiliary combustion chamber is ignited into an explosion by the burning jet injected from the connecting passage.
Abstract:
A torch ignition type internal combustion engine with no intake valve in the auxiliary combustion chamber, the engine comprising: a cylinder; a cylinder head; a reciprocating piston received snugly in said cylinder; a main combustion chamber defined between said cylinder head and an end face of said reciprocating piston and equipped with intake and exhaust valves to control intake and exhaust ports in the cylinder head; an auxiliary combustion chamber provided in the head of said cylinder; a passage interconnecting said main and auxiliary combustion chambers; and an ignition plug having sparking electrodes located in said passage; said auxiliary combustion chamber having a volume of a ratio within the range of 0.0106:1 to 0.0137:1 with respect to the volume of displacement of said piston and said passage having a cross-sectional area of a ratio within the range of 0.009:1 to 0.023:1 with respect to the cross-sectional area of said end face of said piston.