Abstract: A reed valve for an internal combustion engine comprises an aperture closable by a resilient valve member composed of an epoxide resin laminate. The laminate preferably includes cotton.

Abstract: A reed valve assembly comprising a valve member having a valve opening therein, a resilient valve seat member having an end and an opening registering with the valve opening and defining a valve seat surrounding the valve opening, a reed valve having an end, and a screw securing the ends of the reed valve and of the valve seat member to the valve member with the valve seat member secured between the reed valve and the valve member and with the reed valve movable into and out of engagement with the valve seat member to respectively close and open the valve opening.

Abstract: A two-cycle engine with an intake port extending perpendicularly to a crankshaft, wherein the intake port is directed substantially parallel with a tangential line a crank web defines at its top point on the side of a cylinder. A cylinder skirt portion fronting an end opening of the intake port at the cylinder side has a part thereof cut, while keeping its length in the axial direction of the cylinder. The two-cycle engine further includes a rotary valve mechanism having a rotary valve cover covering a rotary disc, the rotary valve cover being formed with an intake hole, and an intake tube connecting the intake hole to a carburetor, and the intake tube is integrally jointed to the intake hole.

Abstract: A reed valve includes a reed member fixed to a valve body and a stopper member which is fixed at one end thereof to the valve body together with the reed member. The stopper member is constituted by a flat plate-shaped member which is curved outwardly from the one end to its free end, and a lump member which is secured to the surface of the flat plate-shaped member on the side thereof which is remote from the reed member. The lump member has a shape which is substantially coincident with the shape of a space which is formed on the downstream side of the reed valve and does not virtually take part in the flow of intake. The lump member is disposed within the space.

Abstract: In a two cycle internal combustion engine (2) wherein heavy fuel ends accumulate in lower portions of the crankcase (8), recirculation means (36, 38) are provided for variably recirculating the heavy fuel ends back into the crankcase only at higher engine speeds for subsequent combustion. The heavy fuel ends are collected in a reservoir (36), and held therein at idle, to minimize engine smoke. The heavy fuel ends are released from the reservoir at higher engine speed for recirculation through a delivery line (40) which is selectively exposed by a throttle valve (24) to crankcase vacuum only at higher engine speed, whereby the heavy fuel ends are sucked from the reservoir through the delivery line and carburetor throat (26) into the crankcase.

Abstract: This invention relates to a diesel engine with an effective compression ratio substantially equal to the geometrical compression ratio, the individual intake ducts of said engine being fitted with automatic non-return valves arranged to prevent air flowing to the outside, and disposed immediately upstream of and in series with the normal intake valves.

Abstract: A crank-case pre-compression type 2-cycle engine internal combustion has an intake opening formed in the wall of a crank case and provided with a reed valve therein, and a carburetor disposed at a rearward offset from the intake port. The carburetor is connected to the inlet port through a joint-pipe. The joint-pipe has a mixture passage formed therein, an intermediate contracted portion and a partition plate extending along the axis of the mixture passage. The portion of the mixture passage near the outlet opening thereof is curved to cross the intake port substantially at a right angle to the latter.

Abstract: A two-cycle internal combustion engine having reed valves in the fuel/air supply system is provided with an element in the flow path of the fuel/air into the reed valves, which element is shaped and positioned to promote uniformity of flow of the fuel/air mixture in the flow passage.

Abstract: An apertured shield is disclosed having spring tongues, pointing radially inwards, each of the tongues having two lateral limiting edges and a longitudinal extent terminating in an irregular edge all of which edges define together an aperture. Adjacent spring tongues are overlapped in an area on the limiting edges, and are connected together at the circumference of the shield by being flanged into a retainer ring. The apertured shield is disposed in close proximity to the injection valve to cause a turbulence with superimposed spin flow of the medium flowing into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a port-controlled two-stroke internal combustion engine in which the cross-sections of the intake and outlet are so constructed in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the cylinder that in the case of an upward or downward movement of the piston, the noise-generating intake and outlet pressure gradients and amplitudes are reduced by the gradual opening of the particular intake and outlet, the piston lower edge and intakes having special constructions.

Abstract: The invention provides an induction system for supplying air-fuel mixture to a two-cycle, crankcase compression engine (10). A single carburetor barrel (18) supplies mixture to each crankcase compartment (15) through a reed valve assembly having a plurality of reed valve members (29) arranged in a circular pattern. An axially symmetric passage leads from the carburetors (17) to the reed valves and has a generally conical flow modifying body (40) projecting forwardly from the reed valves.

Abstract: A two-cycle engine is disclosed which conventionally includes a piston that reciprocates between a closed combustion chamber and crankcase. The piston reciprocates through a connecting rod that is eccentrically connected to the crank discs of a crankshaft. The crankcase is partially circular in configuration, and the crankdiscs conform in shape to the crankcase. Each crank disc has an annular recess or pocket extending around its periphery for approximately 180.degree. and in opposition to the eccentric point of connection of the connecting rod. The pockets cyclically communicate with a fuel inlet port and carburetor, both of which are positioned below the crankshaft rotational axis on the downstroke side of the crankcase. Fuel transfer passages between the crankcase and combustion chamber are positioned to receive the fuel charge from each recess as it is thrown tangentially upward with rotation of the crank discs.

Abstract: An internal system for use in an internal combustion engine which includes a carburetor, a throttle valve and a check valve. A supplemental chamber is connected to an intake passage adapted to introduce therethrough air-fuel mixture from the throttle valve to a combustion chamber. The supplemental chamber is in communication with the intake passage at a position between the throttle valve and the check valve. The supplemental chamber is provided with an opening directed tangentially with respect to an inner cylindrical periphery of the intake passage. In another embodiment of the invention, a control passage is formed in communication between the supplemental chamber and the intake passage. A downstream end of the control passage is opened at a position adjacent to an initially opening position of the check valve.

Abstract: Two-cycle internal combustion engines are disclosed incorporating intake and transfer ports and passages, and including passages means in the cylinder wall interconnecting the intake tract and a transfer passage in a region above the piston when the piston is in bottom dead center position.

Abstract: Two stroke engine having an exhaust port provided with a rotary type timing control valve at the upper portion thereof. The control valve is connected with a centrifugal actuator which is responsive to the engine speed so that the exhaust port is wide open under a high speed engine operation but covered at the upper portion by said control valve under a low speed operation to change the exhaust port timing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for feeding the combustion chamber of a two-stroke engine, according to which the constituents of the combustible mixture are admitted into the combustion chamber via two intake devices at the bottom of the cylinder. Air without fuel is admitted through two ports, symmetrically disposed with respect to the vertical plane containing the axis of the exhaust port, directed towards the wall opposite the exhaust; the petrol-and-air mixture is admitted through at least one port remotest from the exhaust so that the stream of carburetted air is directed towards the cylinder head, the carburetted mixture thus being maintained towards the wall opposite the exhaust by the two streams of air without fuel until the ports are closed. The invention finds particular application in the field of automobile construction.

Abstract: A two-cycle internal combustion engine having reed-type intake valving, and especially configured and positioned intake and injector porting, with the porting constructed and arranged to improve various of the operating characteristics of the engine, and particularly adapted to increase the effectiveness of the injection through the injector porting.

Abstract: A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine having inlet porting and a fuel supply passage with valve means therein, the cross-sectional area lying within the outside passage walls being greater in the region of the valve means than in a region upstream of the valve means. Means are provided in the passage tending to equalize the velocity of the fuel flow through the supply passage in different regions thereof.

Abstract: A fuel scavenger for a two-cylinder, two-cycle horizontal upper and under type internal combustion engine. The engine has a crankcase with a revolving crankshaft which is turned by the reciprocating movement of a piston in each of the cylinders. A carburetor supplies air/fuel mixture to the crankcase via respective intake passages and reed valves. A fuel catcher is located in each crankcase, substantially shielded from the scouring action of air/fuel mixture impelled by the crankshaft, and the fuel catcher of each cylinder is connected to the intake passage of the other cylinder via a respective check valve.

Abstract: A single-cylinder two-stroke engine having a carburetor, an intake tube leading into the crankcase, and an intake valve between the intake tube and the crankcase has its carburetor flow axis essentially parallel to the crankshaft axis and has the intake valve and the downstream part of the intake tube arranged so that their axis forms an acute angle with the planes perpendicular to the crankcase axis.

Abstract: An intake gas distributor extending from one carburetor to a pair of two-cycle internal combustion cylinders. The cylinders are horizontal and arranged one above the other. The distributor is bifurcated, and its branches are proportioned and arranged so that air/fuel mixture in substantially equal quantity and density flows to both cylinders, despite the inherent tendency of fuel to settle out of the mixture, especially at low load conditions.

Abstract: A two-stroke piston engine and method in which oil-free air is mixed prior to ignition with oil-free fuel, by means of a venturi. The engine is lubricated by utilizing the pressure which the piston exerts in the crankcase to draw an air-oil mix into the crankcase and then to push the air and oil out while filtering the air with a rotary filter, to return the oil to a suitable reservoir, the oil-free air being sent to the venturi. Fuel enrichment, as for cold starting, is caused by placing air pressure on a fuel-containing bowl ahead of the venturi so as to increase the flow of fuel into the venturi, rather than by reducing the amount of air as is done with a conventional choke plate.

Abstract: The improvement in a reed valve for use between crankcase chambers of a two-stroke engine, comprising a flat, ring-shaped steel insert having a rubber coating on one side thereof and including a sealing lip on the I.D. thereof. One insert is secured on each side of a reed block between the block and the reeds with the rubber facing the reeds to cushion the contact between the reeds and the block, and the sealing lip provides a positive-contact seal against the crankshaft.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine has at least three cylinders and induction conduits opening into the lower portion of the cylinders or into the crankcase. The induction conduits are intended at least for combustion air, comprising at least one rotary disc valve rotatably driven by the crankshaft of the engine. The valve has the form of a disc whose rotation axis crosses or intersects the crankshaft of the engine and is arranged in a valve housing through which the induction conduits extend, said valve being designed to alternately open and close the passages of the induction conduits through the valve housing. Said valve housing has at least three induction conduit inlets and is driven at an rpm which is lower than the crankshaft rpm and has a number of sets of recesses corresponding to the rpm reduction for control of the induction.

Abstract: A two cycle engine is disclosed wherein a pair of pistons reciprocate within a common cylinder to operate a pair of crankshafts mounted at opposite ends of said cylinder. Intake mixtures for the cylinder are crankcase-pumped, and both the intake and output ports of each crankcase are valved. This valving prevents combustion within the crankcase and limits the compression volume in order to assure the highest compression of intake gases possible. A piston ring is included at the lower end of the skirt of each piston in order to further reduce the compressed volume.