Abstract: The apparatus is employed to fixedly position an internal combustion engine upon a frame. The engine is normally provided with a pair of oppositely positioned arms which are affixed to the engine and project outwardly for connection to a frame. A supporting structure intermediate the engine and the frame is connected to the arms extending from the engine at a first point and to the frame at a second point. This supporting structure comprises a first and second spaced apart generally U-shaped members which have sloping parallel sides provided with a resilient mass therebetween. The first member is provided with a cover plate which is affixed thereto, and thereby forms a hollow chamber with the first member. Within this hollow chamber is disposed another resilient mass that in turn is enclosed by an abutment positioned thereabove. The second member is likewise provided with still another resilient mass which is positioned on a surface beneath the first member.

Abstract: An engine is provided having a pair of cylinders, the cylinders being arranged in the shape of the letter V on the crankcase, whereby partially enclosed spaces are formed between the cylinders, and between the cylinders and the crankcase. Engine auxiliary components and fittings, including an air cleaner, a carburetor, a self-starter, an accelerator mechanism, an oil filter, an oil gauge and a lubricant orifice are mounted in said partially enclosed spaces to provide an engine assembly of minimum size in which the auxiliary components are relatively protected from damage.

Abstract: An arrangement of an air compressor which includes at least one piston connected with a crankshaft, at a piston internal combustion engine, particularly at a truck engine, in which the crankshaft of the air compressor is supported in the control housing adjoining the output side of the engine whereby the air compressor cylinder or cylinders are mounted on the control housing.

Abstract: An engine compartment has accommodated therein not only a transversely mounted engine but also accessories within a space available adjacent the engine and over a transmission. The accessories are driven by an accessory drive shaft which transmits torque from a crankshaft of the engine to the accessories. The accessory drive shaft is rotatably supported by the engine. The drive torque is transmitted from a front end of the crankshaft to the accessories through the accessory drive shaft.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving a pair of balancers disposed on both sides of an engine, parallel to the crankshaft, and driven rotationally in opposite directions at a speed twice the rotating speed of the crankshaft by the motive power of the crankshaft. An elongate endless member engages rotors, one fitted on each balancer, on a cam shaft, and on the crankshaft. The internal side of the endless member engages with the rotor on one of the balancers. The external side of the endless member engages with the rotor on the other balancer to drive the two balancers reversely to each other without employing any particular reversing mechanism.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprising a crankshaft mounted in a crankcase and connected with a piston through a connecting rod, an accessory drive shaft connected at one end with the crankshaft and support at the same end by the crankcase, a water pump including a rotatable element connected with the other end of the accessory drive shaft and a casing having an outlet port connected with a co-operating passage in the crankcase, said casing being secured to the crankcase at the outlet port portion so as to provide a rigid support for the drive shaft.

Abstract: An arrangement for mounting a fuel metering control pump on an internal combustion engine comprises the air intake system via which air is drawn into the engine, said system including a generally annular support element on which the control pump mounts. Means are provided for mounting the annular support element on the intake manifold of the engine with induction air passing through a central aperture defined by the inner periphery of the annular support element. The control pump is disposed adjacent this aperture and meters fuel via a suitable fuel distribution system into the induction air stream to form the combustible mixture for the engine. The control pump includes an inlet port which passes through an opening in the wall of the annular support element to provide for connection of a fuel supply line thereto exteriorly of the air intake system. A similar arrangement is provided for a return line to the fuel tank.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving at least a pair of balancers which are disposed on both sides of an engine substantially parallel to the crank shaft and so arranged as to rotate in opposite directions at a speed twice the rotating speed of the crank shaft, comprising a gear shaft for reversing one of the balancers and a driving mechanism for driving the other balancer and the camshaft by the crank shaft through a single timing belt or chain, provided in the front or rear part of the cylinder block, in order to dispense with the need of providing separate driving mechanisms for the camshaft and the balancers.

Abstract: A converter kit for use in converting a stock vehicle engine to drive the distributor assembly from the front rather than the rear end of the engine camshaft thereby to provide improved synchronization between the crank shaft and distributor, particularly at higher engine speeds. The kit includes a main body casting securable across the front end of the engine and having a drive connection extending through a stock camshaft cover into a drive coupling secured to the front end of the camshaft. The engine distributor is transferable directly from its original support housing into a vertically disposed receiving well of the converter casting. The support brackets for the converter casting include cooling fluid passages across the outer ends thereof adapted to be sandwiched between the stock cooling fluid pump flow passages and the engine cooling passages.

Abstract: A V-type automotive diesel engine having a high pressure fuel injection pump mounted between the cylinder heads and intake manifolds and above a tappet gallery cover that is integral with the intake manifolds. The pump is supported on the cylinder block by an extension through the gallery cover and the pump drive angles downwardly through the support to a compact bevel drive gear connection with the engine camshaft. The manifold and cover member includes a water crossover connection between the cylinder heads, and the intake manifolds in the cover are interconnected by a distribution fitting that extends over the injection pump and supports an air cleaner. The arrangement provides a compact engine construction capable of being interchanged in a vehicle with gasoline engines of similar general arrangement and piston displacement.

Abstract: A cylinder head for a compression-ignition (diesel) engine has a sector accommodating the upper part of a fuel injector between four valves, the sector being isolated from the tappet lubricating oil by a protecting casing on the upper part of the cylinder head. The casing may itself be sealed by a protective and sound-proofing cover.

Abstract: Air-cooled two stroke internal combustion engine having a cooling air blower driven by the engine and a lubricating oil pump for supplying lubricating oil to the engine, said lubricating oil pump being housed in the hub portion of the blower.

Abstract: Engine timing fluctuations and intermittent loss of synchronization between the distributor and the timing gear are eliminated by this distributor drive system in which the distributor is mounted on a timing gear cover at the front of the engine. The distributor is driven from the timing gear via a drive disc and an adaptor shaft that are relatively axially moveable so as to isolate the distributor from axial cam shaft movement.

Abstract: An air conditioning system for a Dasher or Audi-Fox automobile wherein a compressor is mounted on a bracket bolted to tapped holes in the right side of the engine block.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine, the static parts of which are formed as die castings. The engine includes a plurality of cylinders each closed at its upper end by an individual cylinder head casting. Each cylinder head casting has at least two tubular extensions thereon forming air intake and exhaust passageways and at least two valve stem guides. All of the cylinder head castings have flat horizontally extending upper faces all lying in a single plane and on which a valve train casing casting is seated. A single camshaft is journalled in the valve train casing and arranged to operate the intake and exhaust valves of all of the cylinders. The upper end of the valve trains casing is closed by a cover having a breather opening communicating with the interior of the valve train casing and also having air intake openings communicating with the air intake passageway of each cylinder. A shroud is mounted over the cover to define an air chamber which communicates with atmosphere through an air filter.

Abstract: A lubricating system for an internal combustion engine includes a crankcase within which are located the rotating shafts, one of which is the crankshaft, and the bearings for these shafts, the crankcase having disposed above it the cylinder block of the engine, and within its bottom portion the sump for the lubricating oil. The oil pump body is radially centered within a cylinder casing by peripheral engagement with a pump seat, formed within one of the end walls of the cylinder casing of the engine crankcase and the pump body serves as the end bearing for the rotating shaft of the engine, the extension of which constitutes the pump shaft.

Abstract: A hydraulic retarder for braking a shaft has a rotor comprising a rotor shell mounted on the shaft end and rotatively movable relative to a stator shell forming part of a stator enclosing the rotor. The shaft end projects from a housing upon which the stator is mounted by an apertured structure surrounding a driving pulley mounted on the shaft end. The apertured structure comprises lugs on the housing and a toothed ring on the stator, the teeth in the ring co-operating with the lugs so as to hold the stator centred on the axis of the shaft end irrespective of the angular position of the stator. Recesses between the teeth of the ring are disposed and dimensioned so that they provide the necessary openings for moving an endless belt into or out of the structure simply by moving the stator through an angle.

Abstract: In a bus or other vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine, a plurality of engine accessories are mounted on bosses provided on both sides of an upright, triangular, transversely mounted accessory drive casing which is resiliently mounted on the vehicle frame at one side of the engine.Three parallel accessory drive shafts are journaled, one within each apex of the casing, one of which, the power input shaft, is driven from the engine. The other two shafts are driven from the power input shaft. Both ends of each shaft project from the casing and the accessories are mounted on the casing in driven relation with such shaft end portions.