ROTARY ENGINE

摘要

An internal combustion engine, designed to convert thermal energy into mechanical energy according to the same general principle employed in conventional reciprocating piston-and-cylinder combustion engines, wherein: (i) the equivalent of the cylinder of the conventional engine is replaced by two series of chambers, a first series and a second series, each series of chambers being separately disposed in a circumferential arrangement about a common axis and separated in space one from another; and (ii) wherein the conventional piston is replaced by one or more vanes, said vanes being adapted to form sealing contact with the chambers; and (iii) the two series of chambers being connected by one or more transfer ports; characterised in that air is compressed in one series of chambers and combustion gasses are exhausted by means of the other series of chambers.