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: Described is a camshaft drive for the outlet and inlet valves and for actuating the fuel-injection pump (6) of a diesel engine, the invention calling for the three actuation functions to be carried out by the same cam (2) indirectly via a rocker arm (3, 5) for each cylinder.

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: 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 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: 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 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: A single cylinder internal combustion engine has a piston which drives a crankshaft and flywheel through a connecting rod and has a counterweight arrangement which balances forces produced by the moving engine elements. The counterweight arrangement includes a weight on the crankshaft and two weights on the flywheel which fully balance the forces produced by rotating motion of the engine parts and partially balance the forces produced by reciprocal motion of the engine parts. Two balance shafts are provided which are parallel to and driven synchronously with the crankshaft. The balance shafts have respective first weights thereon which complete the balance of forces produced by the reciprocating motion of engine parts and have respective second weights thereon which balance the moment of the first weights with respect to the axis of the cylinder.

Abstract: A seal for use on a noise-deadening shroud encasing an internal combustion engine, particularly the portion thereof which encases the muffler. A gap is formed between the outlet pipe for the muffler and the wall of the opening in the enclosure for the muffler. A seal is provided for this gap and includes a closure member which surrounds the exhaust outlet pipe with very little clearance therebetween.

Abstract: A signal indicating device for an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine has a sound absorbing shell surrounding the engine body. An air intake pipe is mounted on the engine and an air intake filter is mounted on the inlet end of the air intake pipe. The signalling device is provided to indicate the degree of contamination of the air filter. The signaling device can be a visual signal or an audible signal.

Abstract: A sound absorbing arrangement for an internal combustion engine having sound absorbing panels encasing the internal combustion engine. Cooling air is drawn in through openings in the paneling to subject the external surface of the engine body to the cooling air. The panels are lined with a sound absorbing material. The sound emitted from the air filter is muffled by arranging the air intake thereto so that it passes first in and around the engine and then through an intake pipe from the chamber defined by the paneling into the air filter.