Abstract: A fixture for low-warp hardening of thin-walled annular sealing members of hardenable metallic materials, having a O-shaped cross section and capable of being charged in a tempering furnace or the like. The fixture consists of a plurality of stackable trays having an annular rim on top and, radially within the rim, an annular web to accommodate a sealing member. The height of the web is at least equal to that of the rim and is greater than the depth of the sealing member. The under-side of the next tray is flat in the neighborhood of the web and presses the sealing member down on the web.

Abstract: A rotary piston internal combustion engine of the trochoidal type with a housing. The engine includes at least one peripheral wall portion and at least two parallel side portions and has induction and exhaust ports. Each peripheral wall portion and two associated side portions define a cavity in which a multi-apex piston is rotatably mounted to define variable volume working chambers. The piston is provided with seal elements which are in sliding engagement with the inner surfaces of the housing. The seal elements are provided with a passage for lubricating the inner surfaces of the housing with the passage opening into the cavity in the neighborhood of each induction port in the region of that working chamber which is undergoing the induction phase. The passage is in communication with the atmosphere and has a lubricant feed pipe opening into it. A restriction is provided in the passage between its point of entry into the cavity and the point of entry of the lubricant feed pipe.

Abstract: A rotary combustion engine comprising a housing having an inner trochoidal surface and a rotor mounted within the housing and having apex portions having sealing cooperation with said trochoidal surface to form a plurality of working chambers therebetween and in which said trochoidal surface is modified at least in the region at the ends of its minor axis by displacing said surface outwardly in this region to avoid the usual crest in each of these regions and further in which the rotor periphery is modified so that it is substantially the inner envelope of this modified trochoidal surface.

Abstract: The invention concerns a reactor for afterburning of unburned constituents in the exhaust of an internal combustion engine, consisting of a jacketed heat-insulated reactor chamber into which at least one inlet pipe passing through the jacket and communicating with an outlet passage of the engine opens tangentially, being traversed by exhaust gases mixed with secondary air, and having an outlet pipe for escape of exhaust gases from the reactor chamber. The reactor chamber in cylindrical in shape and the inlet pipe opens into the reactor chamber tangentially and the outlet pipe is passed out of the reactor chamber tangentially from the inlet pipe in the direction offset of flow.

Abstract: A device for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy in a cycle process. A gaseous working medium is pushed from a hot space through a line containing a heater, regenerator and cooler through a cold space and thereafter pushed back through the same line into the hot space by a piston. The cold space is connected to a high pressure tank and a low pressure tank by two check valves operating in opposite directions. The pressure tanks are connected in turn to the inlet and the outlet respectively of an expansion engine.

Abstract: A piston of light metal for a rotary piston combustion engine of trochoid type is rotatably mounted on the eccentric of an eccentric shaft. A hollow steel gear is arranged coaxially with the axis of rotation of the piston and is in engagement with a stationary pinion fixed to the housing coaxially with the axis of rotation of the eccentric shaft.

Abstract: A combustion engine having at least one outlet passage for expulsion of the burned gases. The outlet passage terminates at the outer surface of the engine and communicates with an exhaust pipe connected to the outer surface by a flange and an intervening gasket. A tubular liner is arranged in the outlet passage and forms an annular cavity together with the wall of the passage. The liner extends free from the outlet passage through the gasket and the flange into the adjoining exhaust pipe.

Abstract: An ignition system for a four-stroke rotary piston combustion engine of the trochoid type. The casing of the engine has an inner chamber bounded by a jacket with dual arc inside contour through which an eccentric shaft with an eccentric passes. A triangular piston is rotatably mounted on said eccentric shaft. Two or more spark plugs are fitted in the jacket near the shaft and the spark plugs are connected to their own ignition generator in an ignition system. There are different ignition systems for the individual spark plugs.

Abstract: A housing for circular piston combustion engines of trochoid type is produced with at least one annular shell having an inner peripheral wall in the shape of a multi-arcuate trochoid, an outer peripheral wall, and end walls parallel to each other and adjoined to the ends of the shell, end pieces parallel to each other having end walls parallel to each other and an inner and an outer peripheral wall. In the case of a multiple engine at least one end piece constitutes a middle piece between neighboring shells.

Abstract: A rotary piston engine of the trochoid type is provided with a housing having two end pieces and a shell having a multi-arcuate interior surface in which the piston is rotatably mounted on the eccentric of an eccentric shaft. An internal seal for the piston includes at least one scraper ring arranged to be axially movable in a concentric annular groove in one face of the piston, revolving with the piston, and pressed by spring action against the adjacent end wall of the housing.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine possesses a reactor for afterburning of unburned constituents in the exhaust gas. The reactor includes a shell containing a heat-insulated, freely movable reactor chamber with at least one inlet nozzle extending freely through the shell and communicating with an outlet passage of the combustion engine. An outlet is also provided for escape of the exhaust gases from the reactor chamber.

Abstract: The improved ignition means for a rotary combustion engine of the type, having a rotor which planetates within a multi-lobed housing cavity which is partly defined by an inner peripheral wall surface, comprises a spark plug having an axis which extends substantially normal to the peripheral wall surface and has means forming a spark-gap disposed in an ante-chamber adjacent the inner peripheral wall surface. An ignition channel of small size in relation to the size of the ante-chamber extends from the ante-chamber through the peripheral wall surface and is disposed in offset substantially parallel relationship with the longitudinal axis of the spark plug.

Abstract: A rotary piston four-stroke internal combustion engine of trochoid type includes a housing composed of a shell and two parallel end parts together bounding an inner chamber in which a polygonal position is rotatably mounted. Inlet and outlet passages are provided in the housing for supply of air or fresh gas and for ejection of burned gases, respectively. The inlet passage is connected with an intake duct and the outlet passage with an exhaust gas reactor. A line containing a valve leads from the region of the inner chamber in which compression takes place to the exhaust gas reactor.

Abstract: An exhaust gas detoxication system for a motor vehicle combustion engine with external ignition includes an air pump driven by the engine to deliver secondary air into the exhaust system. The exhaust system contains a thermal reactor wherein final combustion of as yet unburned constituents of the exhaust gas takes place. Since as the speed of the engine increases, more air is delivered than required for final combustion, a blow-off valve is arranged in the delivery line of the air pump, limiting the flow of air supplied to the exhaust system and in general shutting it off completely at a certain engine speed. Exhaust gas detoxication systems to which the invention relates are provided with a means for shifting to retarded ignition during the warm-up phase of the reactor, whereby elevated temperatures of the exhaust gases and hence a faster response of the reactor are obtained.

Abstract: A trochoidal type rotary internal combustion engine wherein the intake port is controlled by the rotor, and variation in the fuel feed is provided by a slidable valve member in the intake pipe, which in closed position seats very close to the peripheral surface of the engine cavity to prevent entry of exhaust gas into the intake line at idling or low load conditions, the valve being controlled by a foot pedal or other conventional adjusting means.

Abstract: A water-cooled combustion engine has a pump-operated cooling water circuit passing through the cooler when the engine is hot. The cooler is rendered inoperative by a thermostat-controlled by-pass line when the engine is cold. The heating means for the intake system for the engine has a cooling water chamber whose supply line is fed with heated cooling water. The circuit of the heating means is arranged parallel with the cooling circuit through the by-pass line. This heating means is automatically switched off without additional aids as the engine temperature rises, when the by-pass line is shut off by the thermostat valve.

Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine of trochoidal type, having a fuel-air intake port in a side wall thereof, with a rotary valve disposed immediately adjacent to the port and serving as a throttling means as well as controlling the timing of port closing.

Abstract: The invention relates to an internal seal for rotary piston combustion engines of the trochoid type in which a housing consisting of two end pieces and a multiarcuate shell contains a polygonal piston rotatably mounted on an eccentric. At least one sealing ring conconcentric with the piston axis of rotation is disposed in a recess of the piston in each of its two end faces. The ring is pressed by spring means against the adjoining end piece and is sealingly and slidably engaged therewith to prevent passage of coolant or lubricant into the working chambers. The seal between the sealing ring and a wall of the recess in the end face of the piston is effected by an elastic ring.