Patents Examined by Carl Staurt Miller
  • Internal combustion engines
    Patent number: 4858573
    Abstract: An internal combustion reciprocating piston engine is provided with a single overhead camshaft which operates six valves associated with a single combustion chamber by desmodromic valve gear. As viewed in a direction along the camshaft, the valves are mutually divergent in the direction from the camshaft towards the combustion chamber and some valve pairs are more divergent than the other valve pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Inventor: Peter W. Bothwell