Abstract: A geothermal energy transfer and utilization system makes use of thermal energy stored in hot solute-bearing well water to generate super-heated steam from an injected flow of clean water; the super-heated steam is then used for operating a turbine-driven pump at the well bottom for pumping the hot solute-bearing water at high pressure and in liquid state to the earth's surface, where it is used by transfer of its heat to a closed-loop boiler-turbine-alternator combination for the generation of electrical or other power. Residual concentrated solute-bearing water is pumped back into the earth. The clean cooled water is regenerated at the surface-located system and is returned to the deep well pumping system also for lubrication of a novel bearing arrangement supporting the turbine-driven pump system.

Abstract: The rotor of the expander has axially extending slots containing vanes which reciprocate generally radially as the rotor turns since the rotor is eccentrically mounted in a casing. Vapor distribution ports extend from the base of each slot to the surface of the rotor forward of the slot. Axial passages for admitting pressurized, high temperature vapor from the ends of the rotor intersect with the vapor distribution ports at a point between the ends of the ports.Annular bearing elements are contained in the endwalls and lubricating oil is provided directly to them.

Abstract: Structure providing improved cooling of the rotor of a rotary engine. The cooling structure includes flow passages for passing a portion of the bearing lubricant through the apices of the rotor. Radially extending portions of the flow passages may be provided in the end walls of the rotor. Delivery of the bearing lubricant to the rotor flow passages may be at one end of the bearing or at a mid-portion of the bearing as desired. The flow passages may include passages in the apices of the rotor extending between the end walls thereof and communicating at their opposite ends with radial passages in the end walls. In one form, the passages in the apices communicate at one end with a radial passage to a rotor cavity having an axial passage therefrom through the end wall at that end.

Abstract: An orbital device in which the effective roots of the internally extending teeth on an orbital member is equal to the radial dimension of the fluid ports. This is achieved by providing grooves in the surfaces of the orbital member adjacent the roots of the teeth. The shape of the ports is complimentary to that of the internal teeth on the orbital member.

Abstract: An improved assembly of the working cylinder and cylinder head in a casing of a diesel-type fuel injection pump is described. A lower portion of the cylinder head, which houses a discharge valve, is inserted into the upper portion of the cylinder. A piston reciprocable within the lower portion of the cylinder carries a flange on its lower end for supporting a spring, whose upper end bears, via an intermediate member, on the cylinder to urge the cylinder-cylinder head sub-assembly upward in the casing until a flange disposed intermediate the ends of the cylinder head abuts an upper, centrally apertured end plate of the casing. In the assembled position, an upper threaded end of the cylinder head extends outwardly from the aperture in the end plate to receive a conventional pressure fitting. Suitable facilities are provided for inhibiting rotation of the cylinder-cylinder head sub-assembly in the casing.

Abstract: An engine, pump or motor is disclosed of a type generally similar to the "Wankel" engine, except that the present invention is characterized by purely orbital motion of the piston to produce rotation of the output shaft. Preferably the shaft has two eccentric sections in radial alignment, the first eccentric axis being displaced from the main axis, one half the displacement of the second eccentric axis from the main axis. A pinion is rotatably mounted about the first eccentric axis. A fixed internal ring gear is fixed against rotation and mounted about the main axis so as to engage the pinion at a point in radial alignment with the two eccentric axes. An orbital ring gear is preferably identical to the fixed ring gear and rotatably mounted about the second eccentric axis so as to engage the pinion at a point on the pinion diametrically opposite the point of engagement of the pinion and the fixed ring gear. The piston is also rotatably mounted about the second eccentric axis and fixed to the orbital ring gear.

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: A yoke mechanism for supporting a plurality of orbitable vanes includes two pair of identical yoke members to which the vanes are pivotally connected for self adjustment of the vanes within the associated fluid chamber.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the combustion of high viscosity low grade liquid fuel (e.g., residual oil), in which the fuel is directed through an ejector into an impact chamber in which it impinges upon a baffle with the rebounding fuel particles being further pulverized by jets of air introduced into this chamber with an inclination to the axis of the burner. The resulting fuel-air mixture passes around the impingement baffle with a laminar flow of air passing axially along the wall of this chamber and preventing precipitation of fuel droplets thereon. Upon emergence from the chamber the fuel-air mixture encounters a flow of air passing along the exterior of the impact chamber and intercepted by a plurality of inwardly extending steps which furtherpromote pulverization and mixing.

Abstract: A screw pump includes a screw unit having a drive screw and two impeller screws arranged symmetrically around the drive screw. The screws are enclosed in a housing having mutually intersecting passages for accommodating the screws, and the unit is constructed so that the screws seal against each other and against the housing to form chambers in which liquid is carried from the suction side to the pressure side during rotation of the screws. On the pressure side in the passage accommodating one of the impeller screws there is formed a recess which extends from the pressure side and the length of which is such that each chamber is opened at separate time intervals with respect to the two impeller screws instead of simultaneously.

Abstract: A pump for use in a paint application apparatus which is so constructed that there is provided a clearance between an appropriate portion of an internal surface of a casing of the pump and an external periphery of protruded portions of a rotor of the pump, and there is provided another clearance between an internal periphery of the protruded portions of the rotor and an external periphery of a cylinder section of a grand box of the pump. Further, in the pump, an appropriate portion of the internal surface of the casing of the pump, the external and internal peripheries of the rotor of the pump and the external periphery each of the cylinder section of the grand boxes are made hard by quenching, applying thereto an extremely hard alloy or spraying thereonto a hard material such as molybdenum.

Abstract: An apparatus for the opening and closing control of a multicarburetor arrangement in which throttle valves of a plurality of carburetors are controlled to be opened and closed by a single common throttle valve operation member. A single drum shaft is inserted through respective carburetor casings and is connected by respective throttle shafts to the throttle valves. The drum shaft is rotatably supported in two bearings in two carburetor casings and the drum shaft is driven in rotation by the common operation member.

Abstract: A hydraulic fluid circuit comprises an engine-driven pump for communicating pressurized fluid through a combined unloading and relief valve and to an implement control circuit of a construction vehicle. Actuating means are provided for selectively opening the valve during engine start-up to reduce fluid pressure in the valve and implement control circuit to a first predetermined level. An override means is operatively connected to the actuating means for preventing the valve from opening when the fluid pressure exceeds a second predetermined and operating level which is higher than the first predetermined level.

Abstract: Bearing equipped mounting members for mounting a rotor within a rotor chamber of a rotary fluid pressure displacement device. The rotor chamber has axially spaced end walls, and a peripheral wall including a pair of diametrically opposed arcuate walls and a pair of circumferentially spaced radially inwardly opening recesses intermediate the arcuate walls. The rotor has a cylindrical surface of a diameter less than the diameter of the arcuate walls to provide greater than normal running clearance therebetween, and the mounting members are disposed within the recesses for running engagement with the rotor.

Abstract: A machine for energy conversion includes a working chamber defined by two relatively movable parts and provided with inlets and outlets for the working medium, both parts having members serving as pistons and abutments which sealingly engage with the walls of the working chamber. The members serving as pistons and abutments may pass through each other and consist of a number of juxtaposed elements which laterally seal against each other and against adjacent portions of the wall of the working compartment and have variable surface area to permit passage.

Abstract: An improved slant axis rotary mechanism including a housing defining a chamber, a shaft journalled in the housing and having an angular eccentric within the chamber and a rotor within the chamber and journalled on the eccentric. The eccentric includes a radially outwardly extending thrust collar located between the ends of the eccentric. The rotor includes a hub and a peripheral flange and is defined by a centerpiece including the flange and part of the hub and having a bearing pad embracing one side of the thrust collar. An intermediate piece is secured to the centerpiece on one side thereof and has a bearing pad embracing the other side of the thrust collar. A pair of covers each defining part of the hub, are respectively secured to the centerpiece and to the intermediate piece and partially cover the latter.

Abstract: The improved system for liquid cooling of a rotor of a rotary piston mechanism applies to those types having two housing walls spaced apart by a trochoidal shaped peripheral wall to define a multi-lobed cavity within which a multi-cornered rotor is eccentrically supported for planetary movement, and in which the rotor has a hub portion and peripheral wall portions defining therebetween cooling spaces which communicate with the area exteriorly of the rotor through an opening adjacent each end of the hub portion. The improved rotor cooling system comprises a cooling liquid discharge nozzle disposed in at least one of the housing walls and connecting the discharge nozzle to a source of pressurized cooling liquid. The discharge nozzle is positioned so as to direct emitted cooling liquid into the adjacent rotor opening and the cooling spaces in the rotor.

Abstract: An apparatus for melting and dispensing thermoplastic material comprising a hopper, a grid melter, a reservoir and a pump. The novelty of this application resides in a novel method and apparatus for forcing molten material into the pump inlet. The infeed is accomplished by a pair of counter-rotating shafts to which the molten material is supplied and from which it is sheared by a pair of inclined surfaces. In the process of being sheared from the counter-rotating shafts the molten material is forced into the pump inlet.

Abstract: A rotary piston machine of the type having a slant or precessing rotor or the type having a parallel axis rotor, such as a Wankel engine, having a rotor seal grid formed from peripheral and apex seals extending around surfaces of the rotor and together defining closed working chambers in a housing in which the rotor is rotatable, adjacent ends of the seals being connected together by connectors, often called bolts, located in sockets in the rotor. Each bolt has clearance laterally of its longitudinal axis from the peripheral wall of the socket to permit lateral movement of the bolt in the socket except in one direction laterally of the longitudinal axis of the bolt, in which direction, movement of the bolt is restrained by the bolt being held between fixed laterally opposite positions engaging its peripheral surface.

Abstract: A rotary piston expansible chamber device without phasing gears has a crankshaft whose axis is offset from the center of the closed curve defining the working chamber cross section and a rotary piston operatively connected to the crankshaft through a crankarm so that crankshaft and piston rotate together in a one-to-one ratio and the rotary piston is displaced as it revolves to maintain arcuately spaced apices thereon in continuous sliding and sealing engagement with the working chamber walls and vary first and second expansible chambers formed on opposite sides of the rotary piston from minimum to maximum and back to minimum during each revolution of the crankshaft.