Abstract: A reverse Brayton cycle rotary vane cooling system having a compressor and an expander driven by a common shaft. The vanes which slide in slots in a rotor are actuated by cams and cam rollers. The vanes are constructed with high modulus of electricity fibers in an epoxy resin binder. The outer wear surface of the vanes contain a material with self lubricating properties.

Abstract: A dry rotary fluid pump or compressor includes a rotor eccentrically supported in a rotor chamber generally defined by a stator housing and two end heads. Two side plates each interposed between the housing and each of the end heads form end chambers between the respective side plates and end heads. The end chambers are supplied with a pressure higher than that of the rotor chamber so as to bring the side plates into close contact with opposite side faces of the rotor. The side plates are formed of a material having an abrasion resistance higher than that of at least the opposite side faces of the rotor.

Abstract: A reverse Brayton cycle rotary vane cooling system having a compressor and an expander driven by a common shaft. The cooling system includes a plurality of vanes made of a carbon epoxy plastic composite with bearing support inserts molded into the plastic composite. A bolt passes through the bearing support inserts and plastic composite. Oil is supplied to the vane slots with any oil passing into the cooling gas being removed by oil separators.

Abstract: The bar seal for use in a rotary mechanism and which is disposed for sliding movement in a groove and to sealingly engage a surface, has an elongated base structure of high wear resistance characteristic and a body portion of a material having a low coefficient of friction connected to the base structure to form a unitary assembly. The body portion is dimensioned to extend a substantial part of the length of the base structure and of a width to form opposite planar surfaces for contacting the walls of the groove.

Abstract: A heat pump unit comprising a compressor and an expansion machine for respectively compressing and re-expanding a medium which circulates in a heating or cooling circuit. The power used for compressing this medium is at least partly recovered in the expansion machine and is used for driving the compressor. The compressor and the expansion machine are inner axle, intermeshing rotary piston engines which are arranged directly adjacent to one another on a common shaft. The inner side walls of the rotary engines are adjacent to each other and have cavities and thermal insulating means interposed between them and, while being interconnected, are fixedly connected on the one hand to the shaft and on the other hand with outer rotors. The shaft is rotatably journalled in eccentrics of inner rotors, which eccentrics are rigidly connected with a stationary housing.

Abstract: A light weight fluid energy converting device utilizing a fluid motor as supporting drive hub for a wheel or other driving attachments; the motor being of the reverse positioned vane type comprising a cylindrical rotor means enclosing a fluid channeled cammed stator actuating means, all supported on a basic stationary spindle by frictionless bearing means; one large end of the spindle being adapted to cycle a powering fluid in and out of the motor with an exterior controlled generating source; the motor housing, power ring, vanes, seal plates and stator body being constructed of light weight strong plastic materials easily adaptable for rapid mass production by known injection molding processes; the use of tubular metal coring assembly inserts embedded in the plastic mass serving as fluid flow channels and as stress relief reinforcing elements.

Abstract: A compressor-expander for use in air conditioning including a chamber of generally elliptical cross section having a compressor side and an expander side each with inlet and outlet ports. Rotatable in the chamber is a vaned rotor defining enclosed compartments in which the air is positively compressed accompanied by an increase in temperature in the compressor side and is positively expanded with a decrease in temperature in the expander side, the elliptical eccentricity of the compressor side being less than 0.62 and the eccentricity on the expander side being less than the eccentricity of the compressor side in a ratio lying between 0.68 and 0.95. Pressure in the compartment at the point of discharge is substantially at atmospheric level, and the expander outlet port is so located that when a compartment on the expander side is centered on the major axis, the leading vane is at the threshold of discharge.

Abstract: The rotor, in the embodiment depicted, comprises a rotor blank having a hub with at least one radially extending tooth, the rotor being sheathed in plastic, excepting for the hub surface areas. Throughgoing bores formed in the blank receive plugs or dowels of the plastic to secure the sheathing in place. Additionally, the periphery of the blank has an inwardly-widening groove formed therein to fix plastic sheathing also on the periphery. The rotor is formed of steel, and the plastic sheathing has a coefficient of expansion which is the same as that of the steel.

Abstract: A rotary engine having a high surface to volume ratio including a housing having intake and exhaust ports and defining a chamber, a shaft journalled in the housing to extend therethrough and having an eccentric within the chamber, and a rotor on the eccentric within the chamber, the rotor having a body consisting essentially of a material having a low coefficient of thermal conductivity.

Abstract: A dry air rotary pump or compressor comprises a pair of flexible diaphragm type sealing plates which are clamped on the opposite ends of a stator housing by end heads to form a cylindrical pump cavity and to be pressedly contacted with the opposite end faces of a rotor driven within the pump cavity so as to provide the sealing between the suction and compression chambers of the pump or compressor. Each of the sealing plates is made of a composite consisting essentially, by weight, of 10.0 - 75.0% carbon and/or graphite, 0.1 - 60.0% molybdenum disulfide, 1.0 - 20.0% fluorine resin and the remainder, which is greater than 25.0% of the total composition by weight, being heat resistant synthetic resin without fluorine resin to have a coefficient of elasticity greater than 200 Kg/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: A housing structure for a rotary piston internal combustion engine comprises at least one peripheral casing having an epitrochoidal surface formed therein, and a pair of end walls connected to each other with the peripheral casing situated therebetween. Portions of the end walls and peripheral casing which are simultaneously exposed to one of the working chambers in which the expansion stroke is taking place, that is, the expansion chamber, has therein respective heat insulating layers so as to substantially avoid a possible reduction of the temperature of the exhaust gas staying within the expansion chamber.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment an apex seal for a rotary combustion engine is disclosed having a hollow, thin wall, tubular, metal core member embedded in an extruded composite metal-carbon matrix. The seal is adapted to slidably engage the slot of the rotor in which it rides, and to sealingly engage the rotor housing against which it is spring and gas pressure biased. The incorporation of the hollow tubular core in the extruded seal permits a reduction in weight with no significant loss in flexural strength or wear resistance. It also provides gas pressure balance, end to end.

Abstract: A rotary engine has a housing in which a rotor is driven by the combustion of fuel. The side wall of the housing extending around the rotor is composed of graphite throughout its thickness and preferably reinforced by a wrapping of graphite fiber tape.