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An internal combustion engine is provided in which a cylindrical power rotor is disposed within a cylindrical housing and carries a plurality of spaced, substantially radially reciprocable valve mechanisms in the form of paddle-like vanes. The housing presents a plurality of spaced-apart chambers arranged circumferentially about the rotor and adjacent the periphery thereof; alternate chambers defining a compression chamber and a power chamber. The valve mechanisms are arranged in a plurality of pairs, each of which present a compression valve and a power valve coupled with respective stationary cam members which serve as means for controlling the shifting of the vanes outwardly from the periphery of the rotor and into and out of selected chambers according to a predetermined sequence such that a fuel intake region is defined rearwardly of the compression valve vane and a fuel compression region is defined forwardly of the vane when the valve mechanism is disposed within a compression chamber, and a fuel combustion zone is defined rearwardly of the power valve vane with an exhaust region being defined forwardly of the vane when the valve mechanism is disposed in a power chamber. The reciprocating action of the respective vanes in and out of their corresponding chambers causes the rotor to function such as a "paddle wheel" deriving its rotational, motive power from the combustion of the fuel. Further, the arrangement of the chambers with their associated fuel inlets or exhaust outlets is such that while one compression valve mechanism is compressing the fuel it is also causing fuel to be drawn into the compression chamber for subsequent compression by a second compression valve mechanism; and the power valve mechanism, against which the combustive force of the burning fuel is applied, forces out, through an appropriately located exhaust outlet, the exhaust gases which remain in the power chamber from a previous combustion cycle.
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