Abstract:
Light alloy articles comprising a body of light alloy having a composite fiber/light alloy layer, a sprayed heat-resistant alloy layer, and a sprayed ceramic base layer formed on the body in this sequence exhibit improved heat resistance and insulation and are very useful in the manufacture of internal combustion engine pistons. A method for producing such a coated light alloy article by spraying is also provided.
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 bearing 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 sack-bare bore type cylinders are prevented.
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 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:
The cylinder head of an internal combustion engine has a bore provided with an annular shoulder. A liner "U" shaped in cross section has an outward extending radial end flange which overlies the shoulder. A valve guide is insertable into the bore and has a second shoulder overlying the end flange. The end flange is clamped between seal rings by means of a nut acting through a Belleville spring encircling the valve guide. The liner defines an auxiliary combustion chamber therein and the liner has an opening in a wall thereof which forms a flame passage leading to a main combustion chamber.
Abstract:
An auxiliary combustion chamber at least partially embedded in the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine adjacent the intake valve of a main combustion chamber and having a spark plug positioned in the auxiliary chamber and unvalved inlet and outlet ports interconnecting the auxiliary chamber with the main chamber. The air/fuel mixture drawn into the main combustion chamber is deflected by the back surface of the intake valve into the inlet port of the auxiliary combustion chamber toward the spark plug. The auxiliary combustion chamber may include a shell positioned in a cavity in the cylinder head with devices for properly positioning the shell in the cavity and for retaining the shell and preventing it from rotating. A passage is provided for rich air/fuel mixture terminating at the rear surface of the valve, when closed, with refinements of the passage, shape of the inlet port, and main combustion chamber wall facilitating the flow of the rich mixture into the auxiliary combustion chamber by venturi action. The flow of fresh mixture into the auxiliary combustion chamber through suction scavenges the combustion gas remaining from the prior firing sequence.
Abstract:
An internal-combustion engine having a combustion chamber consisting of a main combustion chamber and a sub-combustion chamber, said main combustion chamber being defined by the inner surface of the cylinder head and the top surface of the piston in the cylinder, said sub-combustion chamber being formed in a sub-chamber element, said sub-chamber element being forcedly fitted into a recess arranged in said cylinder head, and the coefficient of thermal expansion of said cylinder head being 1.5 to 2.5 times that of said sub-chamber element.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for burning fuel in internal combustion engines. A series of mutually distinct burning loci are created. Heated gas streams and fuel streams flow into these burning loci. Substantially all, or at least most, of the fuel is injected during the down stroke of the engine piston.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an improvement in the internal combustion engine, particularly, internal combustion engines for automobiles. More specifically it relates to an improved cylinder head characterized by having the total area of the internal wall of the exhaust port constructed in two-piece fashion, one piece or part being a refractory part solidly enveloped with the other part which is the engine casting. The refractory part is shrinkfitted in the molten metal of the casting so that it can fully withstand repeated cycles of heating and cooling as well as mechanical vibrations.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR SEALING A PISTON CAVITY HAVING A COMBUSTIBLE COOLANT THEREIN BY FRICTIONALLY WELDING TWO COMPONENT PORTIONS OF A PISTON TOGETHER THEREBY AVOIDING ANY POSSIBILITY OF IGNITING THE COOLANT.