摘要 |
An external combustion engine for driving a power shaft, which includes a rotary combustion chamber having an eccentric rotor and a plurality of telescoping vanes extending from the rotor to the inner walls of the combustion chamber. The vanes divide the combustion chamber into individual compression and combustion cells. As the rotor rotates the cells become progressively smaller in volume compressing a flammable mixture of fuel and air. At the point of maximum compression the mixture is ignited. The expanding gasses are permitted to escape into an adjacent expansion chamber in which rides a reciprocating piston, driving the piston and producing work.
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