Abstract:
The former art provides multi stroke hydrostatic motors, which perform at a single revolution of the rotor multiple inward and outward strokes of the pistons. A high torque was thereby obtained. The invention discovers, that the known multi stroke motors are still too heavy, obtain small overall efficiencies and their power per size and weight is limited because the known motors failed to provide means to carry the tangential loads by fluid pressure power. The invention increases the power and efficiency of multiple stroke motors by the provisions of control means to control the flow of fluid pressure into pockets open to the piston faces and cylinder walls, whereby the torque of the rotor is transferred from the pistons to the cylinder walls by pressure in fluid in the pockets. The invention also provides means to enlarge the stroke of the pistons in a given size and weight of the device. The fluid pressure pockets make high pressures possible and the angles of inclination of the guide faces can be increased. The torque of the device of a given size becomes multiplied and the efficiency of the device increases by the application of the provisons of the invention.
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 former art provides multi stroke hydrostatic motors, which perform at a single revolution of the rotor multiple inward and outward strokes of the pistons. A high torque was thereby obtained. The invention discovers, that the known multi stroke motors are still too heavy, obtain small overall efficiencies and their power per size and weight is limited because the known motors failed to provide means to carry the tangential loads by fluid pressure power. The invention increases the power and efficiency of multiple stroke motors by the provisions of control means to control the flow of fluid pressure into pockets open to the piston faces and cylinder walls, whereby the torque of the rotor is transferred from the pistons to the cylinder walls by pressure in fluid in the pockets. The torque for rotating the rotor is produced by the high pressure fluid pressing each piston outwardly against the multi lobed cam and the torque is transferred from the piston's roller to the wall of the cylinder by means of a fluid pressure pocket in the respective piston. The invention also provides means to enlarge the stroke of the pistons in a given size and weight of the device. The fluid pressure pockets make high pressures possible and the angles of inclination of the guide faces can be increased. The torque of the device of a given size becomes multiplied and the efficiency of the device increases by the application of the provisions of the invention.
Abstract:
A reciprocating combustion engine is improved by a cycle which applies outlet slots at the bottom of the cylinders, through which the exhaust gases exit to pass into a charger drive unit, while the charger drive unit drives a charger which delivers air or mixture over inlet valve means into the cylinder. The charging is also used to drive the exhaust gases out of the cylinder. Four cycle engines can thereby made up to two-stroke engines with super-charging. Outlet valves and heat on them as in typical four-stroke engines are spared. Flow areas into and out of the cylinder are increased and so is the power of the engine. A charger-arrangement provides a plurality of flow streams to super-charge the cylinders, to cool the valve head and to cool the valves. The head of the piston has a configuration relative to the valve head for preventing dead space and respective losses.
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.
Abstract:
A vehicle like an aircraft or ship uses multiple propeller pairs to drive the vehicle. One propeller of each pair is located on one side of the vehicle and the other propeller of the same propeller pair on the other side of the vehicle. The propellers of each pair may revolve in opposite directions. A hydraulic transmission transfers the power from the power plant to the propellers, which are driven by hydraulic fluid motors of the transmission. The transmission forces each propeller of the same pair of propellers to revolve with equal rotary velocity relatively to the other propeller of the same pair. Propellers of different pairs have different pitches or sizes. Thereby the propellers use different powers at different speeds of the vehicle. Since the power plant drives a common transmission, the power supply to one of the pairs varies compared to the power supply to the other pair, when the vehicle travels at another speed. The variation of the rate of power supplied to the different propeller pairs varies automatically in such a way that the vehicle runs at different speeds with good efficiency because each propeller pair receives a suitable portion of power at the respective speed of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A rotor having airfoil-section shaped blades is set into a fluid stream. Over a connection-or-transmission means a propeller is connected to the rotor. The fluid stream whereinto the rotor is set gives airflow energy to the rotor and revolves the rotor. The propeller is driven by the rotor over the connection-or transmission means. Since the propeller is revolved by the rotor in the fluid stream, the propeller provides a thrust. The thrust may be used to lift a weight or to drive a member. A suitable application of the arrangement is for example, to transform a multi-bladed helicopter into a gliding craft which descends under a gliding angle towards the surface of the earth, when the helicopter has a complete engine failure. Auto-rotation accidents can thereby become prevented. The device is also applicable to drive a vehicle or to lift a weight. Variable means can be applied to obtain variable thrusts in flying craft to improve their efficiencies or change from one flight-system to another flight system. In other embodiments several novel concepts for air-borne craft are provided which include emergency landing devices, retractable and extendable or relation-varifying devices for wings or propellers. Improvements are also proposed to engines and hydraulic devices to increase the power or efficiency, the lessen the weight per power output or to simplify the manufacturing and reduce the costs.
Abstract:
In a radial piston pump, motor, transmission the deep diving or entering piston shoe is utilized and swingably borne in the pivot-bed of the radially reciprocating piston.Since deep diving piston shoes have large piston strokes, the shoes pivot in the pistons in large angles.Thereby a considerable force-portion of the load on the piston is transfered to the wall between the piston and the cylinder, whereby heretofore short pistons produced occasionally welding and sticking between the cylinder wall and the piston wall.The piston therefore receives radially extending portions, which may extend beyond the medial portions of the piston show and may even enter into the ring groove of the piston stroke actuator ring. Thereby a very long guidance of the piston on cylinder wall portions is obtained, which makes the application of effective pressure balancing pockets at correct location between piston wall and cylinder wall possible. An extended piston guide and friction--less travel of the piston in the cylinder without wearing or sticking is assured.
Abstract:
A radial-piston machine has a rotor formed with a plurality of axially extending slots in each of whose bases is formed a piston-carrying radial cylinder. Each such piston is formed on its radially outer end with a part-spherical seat and a part-spherical portion of a respective piston shoe that rides on an eccentric cam in the housing is engageable in each seat. Each such piston shoe can move radially into and out of engagement with the respective piston. A pair of end members axially flank the piston shoes with play so that these shoes may also move axially relative to the rotor. The piston-engaging portions of the shoes are slightly narrower than the respective cross-slots so that angular free play is also present, and these portions are always engaged radially in the slots.
Abstract:
A fluid-operated radial piston machine has two rotors rotating at the same angular velocity, with a working rotor being formed with substantially radial working chambers having working fluid flowing therethrough and having pistons reciprocable in the working chambers. The other rotor is a bearing rotor. Connections members are interposed between the pistons and the bearings rotor and are pivotally seated in the bearing rotor as well as in the respective pistons. The bearing rotor has axially extending incompletely circular grooves receiving cylindrical heads on the connection members, and the inner ends of the connection members are formed with cylindrical or spherical bearing surfaces seating in the pistons. Fluid pressure chambers are formed on the various bearing surfaces to receive fluid under pressure to reduce friction.