Abstract: A particularly reasonably priced cylinder liner (1) for combustion engines, especially for one-cylinder diesel engines with a cylinder (2) cast on the crankcase, is produced from steel by deep drawing or deformation by compression and inserted with a tight sliding fit into the cylinder bore (12).

Abstract: A one-cylinder diesel engine with one cylinder head (1) is manufactured as a one-piece die casting; its intake passage (4) for the combustion air comprises a swirl channel (12) which feeds into a swirl chamber (11) situated on the back side of the intake valve (13).

Abstract: The invention concerns an internal-combustion engine with fuel injection, in particular a single-cylinder diesel engine, in which the fuel-injection pump (3) is connected to the fuel pressure line (23) by a constant-pressure valve assembly comprising a feed valve (28) and a pressure-relief valve (29) mounted with its direction of flow opposite to the feed direction. Both valves (28, 29) are fitted next to each other and off the cylinder axis in a separate valve housing located directly on top of the pump cylinder (5).

Abstract: A reciprocating piston engine, in particular a single-cylinder Diesel engine (2), has an air filter (1) in the suction pipe (3). To service the same, a pressure gauge (13) is arranged downstream of the filter cartridge (7), in the direction of flow. A check valve is provided at the measurement site or in the measurement pipe (12) between the measurement site and the pressure gauge (13).

Abstract: A driver, used as a link between a piston of an injection pump and a drive element which rests freely against the end of the piston nearest the driver and moves with the piston, is attached to the drive element in such a way that, in order to establish the link between the piston and the drive element, the driver can be rotated over the widened face of a baseplate located at the end of the piston until it reaches a final position in which it is secured by the fact that it grips the piston.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for an internal combustion engine has at least one pump piston movably disposed in a piston sleeve in a pump housing. The piston includes a first arrangement operable during a stroke in a suction direction for drawing fuel from a suction side of the pump. The piston further includes a second arrangement operable during a stroke in a delivery direction for first cutting off a connection to the suction side of the pump and then initiating delivery from a working chamber into a pressure line. The piston and piston sleeve are provided with a control arrangement which divides the fuel injection into pre-injection and main injection phases. At least one pressure limiting arrangement is provided and is associated with the working chamber. The limiting arrangement is operable during the pre-injection phase when a predetermined engine speed is reached for maintaining the pressure in the working chamber and in the pressure line at a predetermined level.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a sound-proofing casing, and a silencer arranged in a separate chamber within the casing such that it does not touch the walls of the separate chamber. Fresh cooling air passes through an inlet opening from the interior of said casing into the separate chamber, and spent cooling air from said separate chamber passes back into the air flowing within the casing, whereby all of the spent air flows from the interior of the sound-proofing casing through an outlet opening of said casing to the outside.

Abstract: A safety device for preventing the loss of a container closure plug, comprising a retaining member disposed on, and preferably secured to, the container, and a spiral to which the closure plug is connected and which surrounds the said closure plug several times, the retaining member, spiral and closure plug or a part to which the spiral is attached and which is itself fastened to the closure plug being integrally made from a plastics material which allows resilient deformation of the spiral. The closure plug includes a piston portion which is received in the interior of the container to displace a selected quantity of fluid therein into an inlet opening to an induction manifold of an engine.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a casing which includes interconnected elements and is connected to an engine housing with interposed vibration-damping means. The engine also has a cooling air blower driven by an engine crankshaft which draws in cooling air through an inlet opening in said casing and conveys such cooling air through an interior space between the engine housing and the casing. Exhaust air from such interior space exits through an outlet opening in said casing, the inlet and outlet openings being disposed in a single element of the casing which element is a closed unit at a side of the engine remote from the blower and is equipped with at least one sound-damping layer. The sound-damping layer has casing element passages formed therein which are separate from one another and which communicate said interior space respectively with the inlet and outlet openings.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for an internal combustion engine includes at least one pump piston movably disposed in a piston sleeve which piston sleeve is fitted in a pump housing. A first arrangement associated with the piston draws fuel through suction ports into a working chamber of the pump during a piston suction stroke. A second arrangement associated with the piston cuts off a connection to a suction side of the pump and thereafter initiates a delivery from the working chamber to an injection nozzle, which delivery is divided into two phases. The second arrangement is operable during a piston delivery stroke. A third arrangement controls the phases and includes the suction ports and an inside edge of the piston sleeve. The inside edge of the piston sleeve is provided on a planar end face of a guide bore of the sleeve and faces the working chamber.

Abstract: A rewind or recoil starter for an internal combustion engine which is adapted to be coupled to the engine element to be started, and which is returned to its resting position by a rewind or recoil device after manual operation of its actuating structure and after the engine has started. A safety device in the starter is provided which, in the event of an unsuccessful starting operation and upon kick-back of the engine element against the starting direction, uncouples the actuating structure of the starter from the back-kicking engine element. The starter is equipped with a driven member rigidly seated on the engine element to be started, and with a driving member which, during starting, is driven by way of the actuating structure to drive the engine element in the starting direction.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for self-ignition internal combustion engines, comprising at least one pump piston which is movably arranged in a piston sleeve and, during its stroke, in one direction draws fuel from the suction side into the working chamber of the pump and in the other direction of travel first cuts off the connection to the suction side and then commences delivery, which is divided into pre-injection and main injection, from the working chamber to the injection nozzle.

Abstract: The present invention provides for an internal combuston engine having housing parts such as a cylinder, cylinder head and crankcase formed of a light metal. A plurality of tightening screws are provided for securing the above-mentioned parts so as to form an engine block, the screws having threaded ends which are received in the heads of steel tie rods which are integral with the crankcase and which extend substantially parallel to the cylinder axis. When the engine is in use, the tightening of the light metal housing parts by way of the steel tie rods, prevents undesired deformation of the crankcase.

Abstract: A starting handle for internal combustion engines. A hand crank and a starting shaft are connected to an appropriate element of the engine to be started. A driving mechanism is provided between the hand crank and the starting shaft, so that when the hand crank is turned in the starting direction, the hand crank drives the starting shaft and thereby the engine element. The driving mechanism is released in the event of kickback of the starting shaft and movement thereof in the direction opposite to the direction of starting. A weighted element is provided independent of the engine and is mounted coaxially with respect to the starting shaft. The weighted element is held by gravity in a vertical position and, in the event of kickback, is restrained from movement from the vertical to cause the driving mechanism between the hand crank and the starting shaft to be released.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder fuel injection engine has a respective fuel injector nozzle associated with each cylinder and has one injector pump which supplies fuel to all of the nozzles. The engine includes a rotatable drive element having a plurality of cams which correspond in number to the number of cylinders, which are uniformly angularly distributed thereon, and which successively act on a delivery element of the pump as the drive element is rotated. A shut-off member is associated with each injector nozzle and can close the fuel supply line to the nozzle's injection orifice, the shut-off member being controlled in dependence on a control criteria which determines the injection timing point. Fuel is thus supplied to all nozzles, but can only flow through a respective one of the nozzles which has its shut-off member moved in response to the control criteria to an open position.

Abstract: A decompression apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an adjustable eccentric decompression cam which pivotally supports a rocker arm which controls a valve. A switching member supported on and operable by the rocker arm during decompression causes the cam to move in progressive steps from a decompression position to a non-decompression position. The switching member is moved to an operative position at the start of decompression by one of two projections provided on the cam, and as the cam moves into its non-decompression position the other of the projections thereon moves the switching member to a non-operative position. A locking mechanism releasably holds the switching member in its non-operative position.

Abstract: A fuel injected internal combustion engine which drives a device such as a vehicle which is susceptible to sudden undesirable acceleration or deceleration is provided with injection pumps having fuel quantity control members which are coupled to an activator which in turn effects simultaneous adjustment of the control members under the control of an operator. At least one mass is coupled to the activator and prevents or compensates for undesired forces tending to effect movement of the control members as a result of accidental acceleration or deceleration of the device.

Abstract: A device for manually starting an internal combustion engine includes a rotatably supported shaft, a hand crank, and a safety mechanism operatively coupling the hand crank and shaft and adapted to interrupt the transmission of power therebetween in the event the engine produces a kickback of the shaft. The device includes a closed casing which is filled with a frost-proof lubricant such as lubricating grease, the safety mechanism being provided in the closed casing.

Abstract: A mechanism for actuating valves of an internal combustion engine includes a rotatably supported shaft having a cam surface thereon and a movably supported cam follower slidably engaging the cam surface at a first location. A second cam follower member slidably engages the cam surface at one of a second and a third location thereon when the shaft is respectively rotating in one of a first direction and a direction opposite thereto, the second and third locations being spaced from the first location in opposite directions by equal angular distances. The first and second cam follower members are each operatively coupled to a respective valve of the engine.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a sleeve in which the piston reciprocates during operation, as a result of which the sleeve is heated and tends to vibrate. The engine casing includes walls which define a space around the sleeve through which a liquid coolant is conveyed to cool the sleeve. A compressible member or medium is provided in such space or in the coolant therein and suppresses vibrations within the coolant, thereby minimizing the extent to which vibrations from the sleeve are transmitted through the coolant to the engine casing and produce noise in the region around the engine. In one preferred embodiment, the compressible medium is a plurality of gas bubbles distributed throughout the coolant. In another preferred embodiment, a compressible member is provided in the space adjacent the sleeve.