Abstract: A turbine generator with a rotor having magnets secured in a receptacle shaped portion and spinning about a stationary core to produce electricity. Jets of fluid impinge tangentially upon a circumferential roughened surface of the rotor and are spaced such that a fanning out of each of the impinging fluid streams is minimized by its adjacent upstream fluid stream to transfer a greater force to the rotor.

Abstract: A pressure fluid motor adapted to be operated by compressed air, steam, or hydraulically, comprising a cylindrical housing having a smooth inner surface and a concentric cylindrical rotor having a roughened surface provided with inlet means for introducing the pressure fluid into the space between the rotor and the housing and outlet means remote from the inlet means for venting spent pressure fluid whereby the pressure fluid is induced to flow through the motor in a vortex path. The clearance between the rotor and the housing is from about 0.0075 to about 0.03 inches.

Abstract: A turbo-flywheel-powered vehicle has as the flywheel the rotor of a gas driven drag turbine, which rotor has a mass distribution such that the radius of gyration is at least 0.7 times the radius of the rotor, a combustion can for producing propellant fluid and delivering it to the drag turbine, a rotary air compressor mounted to rotate as a unit with the rotor and having conduit means for conducting compressed air to the combustion can and drive means for coupling the motor to the rolling stock of the vehicle.

Abstract: The invention relates to an air compressing system in which ambient air is drawn through a turbine driven flow-thru compressor into the intake of a primary compressor, and the hot effluent from the primary compressor is utilized to provide superheated vapor to drive the turbine.

Abstract: A turbo-electric power plant comprising a drag turbine with a hollow rotor in which are mounted the elements of an electric generator. The drag turbine is operated with a low-temperature propellant and the spent propellant is led out of the drag turbine in heat exchange with the elements of the generator. The drag turbine is propelled by a plurality of jets which are supplied from a manifold encircling the turbine which continuously diminishes in cross-section throughout 360 degrees.

Abstract: A rotary motor which is propelled by a jet of high-pressure fluid comprising an annular rotor having a diameter much greater than its thickness and its width and a roughened annular surface, a housing having a smooth annular surface apposed to the roughened annular surface of the rotor, bearing means comprising apposed annular races separated by rolling means and united in freely rotating, inseparable relation one to the other and to the rolling means. The races have an inside diameter at least equal to the inside diameter of the annular rotor and one race is affixed to the housing and the other race is affixed to the rotor. A plurality of jet orifices for directing a jet of high-pressure fluid into the space between the apposed surfaces of the rotor and the housing are oriented so that at least a portion of the jet impinges on the roughened surface of the rotor at an acute angle. The apposed surfaces can be planar annuli or cylindrical annuli.

Abstract: A turbine-type internal combustion engine comprising a support having coaxially mounted bearings, and a rotor assembly having shaft members rotatably mounted in said bearings and comprising a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine all coaxially mounted and fixed with respect to each other, the compressor and the turbine each comprising a spiral web and a pair of radial plates affixed thereto, one on each side cooperating to define a spiral chamber, and a fuel supply having a fuel duct mounted at one end of said rotor and extending into said combustion chamber.

Abstract: A power generating system which includes a turbine and a radiant heat boiler for supplying motive fluid to the turbine. The turbine is provided with a stator having a cylindrical bore and a cylindrical rotor provided with a substantially uniformly rough lateral surface. The inner wall of the turbine stator is provided with a continuous oblique helical groove which serves as a passageway for the motive fluid. The lateral surface of the rotor has a relatively high drag coefficient and the rotor is actuated to a high rotational speed by the motive fluid flowing in the stator passageway and past the rotor lateral surface.

Abstract: Waste heat generated by an internal combustion engine is utilized by an apparatus comprising a supercharger, a turbine drivably engaging the supercharger, a vaporizer, a condenser and fluid injection duct means. The turbine, the vaporizer and the condenser form a closed loop within which a motive fluid is circulated. The vaporizer is intimately associated with the internal combustion engine, and the motive fluid within the vaporizer is converted to gaseous form by heat transfer from the engine. The vaporized fluid is then used to drive the turbine which, in turn, drives the supercharger, thereby increasing the efficiency of the engine. Spent motive fluid is recovered from the turbine, condensed, and recycled to the vaporizer. Additionally, a fluid injection duct introduces fluid preferably in the form of steam into the air which enters the engine.

Abstract: Waste heat generated by an internal combustion engine is utilized by an apparatus comprising a supercharger, a turbine drivably engaging the supercharger, a vaporizer, and a condenser. The turbine, the vaporizer and the condenser form a closed loop within which a motive fluid is circulated. The vaporizer is intimately associated with the internal combustion engine, and the motive fluid within the vaporizer is converted to gaseous form by heat transfer from the engine. The vaporized fluid is then used to drive the turbine which, in turn, drives the supercharger, thereby increasing the efficiency of the engine. Spent motive fluid is recovered from the turbine, condensed, and recycled to the vaporizer.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine, particularly for use with a vehicle, having a turbine driven supercharger for supplying air to the intake manifold. The turbine is driven by a pressurized liquid, specifically a combustible fuel such as gasoline. The fuel is stored within a conventional storage tank, such as is commonly associated with a vehicle, and is supplied, via a pump, to the turbine for rotatably driving same. In one embodiment, the fuel used to drive the turbine is collected in an intermediate storage compartment which, via an intermediate tube, communicates with a venturi located in the intake manifold for causing fuel to be drawn into and intermixed with the air in the intake manifold. In another embodiment, the pressurized fuel from the pump is supplied, via a separate conduit, to a fuel injection nozzle located upstream of the supercharger.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine, particularly for use with a vehicle having a turbine-driven supercharger for supplying air to the intake manifold. The turbine is continuously driven by a pressurized fluid, particularly water, which is continuously maintained in a liquid state. The water is stored within a tank and is supplied by a pump to the turbine for rotatably driving same. The pump also supplies the pressurized water to a further passage which communicates with the intake manifold to selectively permit injection of water into the fuel-air mixture supplied to the combustion chamber.