Abstract:
The invention proposes a fluid handling device, which may be a pump, in which arrangements are provided to make the device able to handle high pressure of more than one thousand atmospheres and able to seal at such high pressure for a considerably long life time of the device. For the obtainment of such a performance, a piston shoe arrangement has a part-ball formed portion with an outer face which is guided on a cylindrical inner face, while the piston shoe at the same time pivots around a center which is located in the pistons-head. Sealing means are provided to faces of plates, membranes or pistons to reduce leakage or to reduce the negative effects of deformations under high pressures. In this relation a thrust body may be axially moveably provided in a thrust chamber and obtain thereby a novel and effective sealing of membranes and faces.
Abstract:
A pump has in a housing a revolvable shaft which drives a piston stroke guide body. Drive pistons are provided with piston shoes which run on the guide face of the piston stroke guide body and drive fluid supply pistons of smaller diameter. The pump preferably has a fluid separator between lubricating and non-lubricating fluid, like for example between oil and water, whereof one of the fluids flows through an inner chamber which is provided with inlet and outlet valves while the other fluid acts in an outer chamber which is open toward the cylinder wherein the fluid supply piston reciprocates. Dead space fillers are provided to prevent losses by compression of fluid and seal means are assembled to prevent leakage of fluid from one into the other of the chambers. The fluid separator may be compressible and expandable within the elasticaly deformable range of the material whereof it is made. The pump includes sophisticated tenchologies which necessiated more than half a decade of intensive research and testing but it is now capable of pumping fluid, including water, of several thousand atmospheres of pressure.
Abstract:
Pumps for nonlubricating fluid can use membranes for the separation of different fluids. Suitable membranes can be used for pressures up to several thousand atmospheres in the fluids. Such membranes are, however, subjected to difficult problems like stresses in the material of the membrane, compression of the material of the membrane and the like. These problems prevented long life of the membranes or it restricted the membranes to such short strokes that the deliveries of the pumps were small at a given size and weight. The present invention improves the life time and the delivery capacities of membranes by creating most suitable configurations of the membranes and of the adjacent parts. Pumps or compressors for relative big delivery quantities, and also for high pressures up to several thousand atmospheres in cases of pumps, are thereby obtained.
Abstract:
A combustion engine has a compressor, an expander and a combustion chamber for burning fuel in hot air. The fuel is preferred to be a prepared block of powdered, cleaned and compressed coal. The fuel blocks may consist of cleaned powder of coal which is after cleaning pressed to conveniently sized blocks of high density. The coal fuel blocks will then have a density much higher than the density of coal powder, whereby a high amount of heat value in the coal fuel blocks can be provided for use in a convenient fuel container. A transportation means is provided to transport the respective fuel block to a cutter or powderization device for re-transformation of the solid fuel blocks into fast burning small powder-like particles. The so repowdered coal fuel burns in the combustion chamber whereby the expander is driven, which drives the compressor and supplies the power out of the engine. One of the major features of the engine is, that the available coal requires only little preparation to be burned in the engine and the high-cost liquidification of coal into gasoline-like fuel can be spared. To prevent incomplete combustion which would occur if prefect mixing of fuel with air would not be secured, means are provided to supply respective amounts of fuel at respective times to respective local places of respective amounts of hot air.
Abstract:
The combustion engine of this invention is basically a two stroke engine at which each revolution of the crankshaft is subjected to a power stroke in each of the cylinders. However, this engine is chargable with turbo- or loader-pressure to increase its power considerably. For this purpose the engine has exhaust slots with an exhaust collection chamber on one end of the cylinders and the head cover on the other end of the respective cylinder. Each head cover is provided with at least one independent first inlet valve and a second independent inlet valve, while the passages to the inlet valves are completely separated from each other. Through the first inlet valve a flashing flow is passed to clean the cylinder from exhaust gases, while after closing of the first inlet valve, the second inlet valve is opened to pass a pre-compressed or loaded flow into the cylinder at a time when the exhaust slots are already closed. By obeying the details and the combination of the invention, any losses of charging flow or of fuel particles are reduced or prevented and the engine obtains an extremely high power output per unit of weight in combination with a performance almost equal to that of four-cycle engines.
Abstract:
An airborne craft with at least four propellers arranged in a front propeller pair and a rear propeller pair having substantial vertical or forwardly inclined axes has hydraulic motors which drive the propellers. A pumping device supplies two pairs of separated flows to the motors. One pair of the flows has fixed delivery and equal flow quantities per revolution of the pump while the other pair has variable flow-rates but the flow quantities of both flows of the variable flow pair are also equal relatively to each other. One of the flow pairs drives the front propellers at equal speeds and the other pair of flows drives the rear propellers with equal speeds. But the variability of the rates of flow of one of the pairs of flows is utilized to let one of the pairs run with a different rotary velocity of the propellers than the other pair. The so obtained difference of rotary speeds of the propeller pairs relatively to each other is utilized to incline the vehicle in a desired and controlable extent in the desired direction of flight to obtain and control the forward speed of the vehicle. The variable flow pair has a common control means which assures an equality of the rates of flows in the variable flow pair, whereby a straight forward flight path of the vehicle is assured and departures to the right or left of the desired flight path are prevented. The invention also makes it possible to set the arrangement to the most effective and fuel saving speed as well as to employ control means, which prevent too stiff descents or ascents. In the specific embodiment whereto the claims are directed, the invention is utilized to provide a vehicle with the lateral size of a passenger car to be able to run on the road and lift away from it to fly through the air, borne by eight propellers which are located and revolve in eight ducts.
Abstract:
An aircraft has a pair of wing portions with propellers of a propeller pair which are driven and synchronized by a fluid transmission between the power plant and the propellers. A fluid line structure keeps most components of the craft together and consists preferredly of three pipes which are also utilized to carry the driving fluid to and from the motors, to hold the motors and to hold the wings. The take over of a plurality of functions by the interior pipe structure reduces weight and secures safe and economic operation of the craft.The pipe structure can be pivoted in respective bearings to effect the pivotal movement of the propellers and wing portions for either vertical take off and landing or horizontal flight. The pipe structure is built by pipes without bends in order to make the cleaning of the interiors of the pipes from dirt and remainders of weldings possible. Ribs and holding portions are provided on the structure for assembly and/or disassembly of the wing portions to the pipe structure.
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 device, 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 control arrangement to control the flow of fluid through pumps, motors, transmission, engines has an eccentric shoulder assembled into a respective thrust chamber in a portion of the housing to be pressed against the rotary seal face of the rotor of the device. Such arrangements are known from some of my earlier patents and have served satisfactorily, but with the desire to improve the pressures further, it has been found, that arrangements are required to prevent the control body from slight rotation, under which it otherwise would stick. The arrangement provides the means to prevent the rotation and sticking by defining a relationship between eccentricities and gravity centers in order to reduce the tendency to stick. Pins and pins with eccentric and adjustable portions are also used to prevent the tendency to stick and so are pluralities of eccentrically arranged individual thrust chambers and control body portions. A specific feature of the embodiment which is claimed consists in a control body with only two seats for reversible directions of flow of fluid and for high performance of operation with low friction an small leakage.
Abstract:
A combustion engine has a combustion chamber separated from the compression and expansion chamber(s). Passages are provided between the combustion chamber and the compression chamber(s) and the combustion chamber and the expansion chamber(s) with respective valves in the passages and inlet and exhaust valves provided in the combustion and expansion chamber. The combustion chamber maintains the combustion after passing fuel into the compressed air received from the compression chamber. The valves and piston heads are formed to prevent dead space in the cylinders in order to obtain a good efficiency by full discharge of the compressed air into the combustion chamber. Fuel cleaning means like, for example, a rotary separator and pure gas collector are provided in the combustion chamber to separate unclean fuel particles, as, for example, ash or sand in coal, from the burned gases and collect the unclean particles in separated collection spaces. The engine can thereby burn unclean fuels, as for example coal powder or coal sludge and the like. The valves can be timed for different styles of combustion cycles if so desired. The engine may use conventional four stroke or two stroke engine arrangements and provide them with combustion chambers, pistons and cylinder heads of the invention to modify them from gasoline combustion to coal combustion or other cheaper and more available fuels for the combustion in the compressed air.