Abstract: A composite rotor construction for a rotary engine in which the rotor gear has a self-centering spline connection to a steel sleeve having a tight fit in the rotor bore.

Abstract: A system and apparatus for controlling excessive vibration of a rotating shaft at critical speed or when a large imbalance suddenly occurs, comprising an emergency bearing having sufficient radial clearance that it does not normally engage the shaft, and located longitudinally at a portion of the shaft which is sensitive to excessive vibration, and where it will raise the critical speed of the shaft system when additional support is added at that position. The bearing is of inexpensive construction and of such design that it requires no lubrication during the period when the shaft is passing through the critical speed and the bearing is operative.

Abstract: A rotary combustion engine having two fuel nozzles for discharging fuel into each engine working chamber with fuel being discharged from only one of the nozzles during low power operation of the engine and being discharged from both nozzles during high power operation of the engine.

Abstract: The system and method of this invention is directed to effecting combustion of fuel in a rotary piston, internal combustion engine having a housing defining a trochoidal-shaped, multi-lobe cavity in which a rotor is mounted for planetary rotation and defines with the housing working chambers that successively expand and contract in volumetric size as the rotor orbits within the housing cavity. The system and method comprises a precombustion chamber which communicates with successive working chambers through an outlet port. When the outlet port is open to the working chamber at approximately the initiation of the expansion cycle of the working chamber, all the fuel for a particular engine operating condition of speed and load is mixed in the precombustion chamber with a relatively small quantity of air at a pressure substantially greater than the pressure in the working chamber to thereby cause ignition and flash of the fuel into the working chamber.

Abstract: An improved rotor and gear assembly for rotary mechanisms of the trochoidal type, in which a rotor having a central bore is mounted for rotation on a shaft, and an internally toothed ring gear is secured to a side face of the rotor for engagement with a stationary gear to maintain phasing between the rotor and its trochoidal housing during the planetary and rotary motion of the gear within the housing. The ring gear is mounted on the rotor by resilient tubular pins circumferentially disposed, the pins being angularly slanted with respect to the rotor axis in such a manner as to maintain concentricity of the rotor and gear while permitting differences in thermal expansion therebetween, restraining the gear from axial displacement, and providing resilience for intermittent circumferential shock loading of the gear without imposing undue stresses or causing distortion of the gear or the rotor.

Abstract: A rotary combustion engine designed for operation as a stratified charge engine in which a relatively lean fuel-air mixture is supplied to each engine working chamber through the main air intake port and in which just prior to combustion in each engine working chamber, a relatively-rich, high-pressure, fuel-air mixture is supplied to each working chamber through individual passages in the rotor for each working chamber.

Abstract: A die-cast peripheral housing for the rotor of rotary combustion engines, having cast-in passages for liquid cooling, the passages providing optimum wall thickness and coolant flow at the region of high heat input.

Abstract: An inexpensive rotor and cooperating sealing grid for trochoidal rotary engines, in which the gas seals at each side of the rotor are simple circular elements interlocking and coacting with the sealing elements at the rotor apexes, whereby the chambers of variable volume formed between the rotor working faces and the housing are isolated from each other and from axial leakage of gas, the circular gas seals also serving as oil seals between the rotor and the housing side walls.