Abstract: An outlet valve for a gas compressor includes a valve seat 1 formed with several rows of apertures 16, a thin flat valve plate 2 having several spaced spring tongues overlapping the apertures, a limit plate 4 overlying the valve plate, and a pressure member 5 above the limit plate. To control and damp the movement and flutter of the valve plate it is frictionally gripped between the limit plate 4 and the valve seat, and springs 15 press the limit plate against the valve plate. Both the valve plate and limit plate can move towards and away from the pressure member 5, this movement being restricted to a fraction of a millimeter by spacer bushes 14 and spacer studs 7. The underside of the limit plate 4 is concavely curved to correspond to the natural bending curvature of the thin valve plate.

Abstract: The improved sealing grid for a rotary internal combustion engine of the Wankel type comprises a transfer passage means intermittently communicating the space between the inner and outer seals with the working chamber in the exhaust phase, to pass spent combustion gas from the latter to said space and thereby intermittently pressurize the space behind the inner seal and thereby urge the latter into sealing contact with the adjacent wall.

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.