Abstract: An internal combustion engine operating on a two-stroke cycle and including a piston 1 reciprocable in a cylinder 2 to drive a crank shaft and also to inhale and compress a volume of air is characterized by a second piston 15 working in a separate cylinder 13 co-axial with and opposed to the first cylinder 2, the piston 15 being synchronized with the first piston 1. The second piston 15 acts to introduce a compressed charge of mixture of air and fuel through a non-return valve 30 into a relatively small ignition chamber 34 including a sparking plug 35 and communicating with a combustion chamber 11 in the head of the cylinder 1. The piston 15 draws air/fuel mixture along an inlet passage 20, past a non-return reed valve 21 and into a crank case 22. On the return stroke of the piston 15 the mixture passes through passages 23 in the piston controlled by a non-return valve 24 and also along passages 14 and around the piston.

Abstract: A two-cycle internal combustion engine includes a power cylinder, a drive piston being positioned therein. A first transfer duct extends between an auxiliary cylinder, which is supplied with carburetted air and the power cylinder and opens thereinto via a carburetted air inlet port provided on the side wall of the power cylinder or its combustion chamber. A pump crankcase, which is supplied with pure air, is connected to the power cylinder via a second transfer duct which opens thereinto via a scavenging inlet port on the side wall of the power cylinder. An exhaust port is provided on the side wall of the power cylinder. The ports are operatively arranged so that the scavenging port starts to open after the exhaust port and before the carburetted air inlet port.

Abstract: The invention relates to internal combustion engines of the reciprocal type, and more particularly to such engines in which the pressure for Diesel operation can be attained, or in which the power output of an Otto-cycle engine can be increased.The present invention makes possible either a Diesel engine of approximately the same axial crank offset and overall dimensions as an Otto-engine of equal throughput, or an Otto-engine having a higher throughput with slightly increased overall size and axial crank offset.Gas supply pressures are maintained in pressure boosters by two pressure impellers which are synchronized to engine operation, a vertical pressure impeller receiving a fuel-air mixture and the inverted pressure impeller receiving air. A rotary metering pressure booster meters an amount of the fuel-air mixture and forces it under pressure into a pressure retaining chamber above the cylinder chamber ready to be released upon demand.

Abstract: The invention relates to internal combustion engines of the reciprocal type, and more particularly to such engines in which the pressure for Diesel operation can be attained, or in which the power output of an Otto-cycle engine can be increased.The present invention makes possible either a Diesel engine of approximately the same axial crank offset and overall dimensions as an Otto-engine of equal throughput, or an Otto-engine having a higher throughput with slightly increased overall size and axial crank offset.The said gas supplies are impelled by two pressure inpellers which are synchronized to engine operation, a vertical pressure impeller receives a fuel-air mixture and the inverted pressure impeller receives air, a rotary metering pressure booster meters an amount of the fuel-air mixture and forces it under pressure into a pressure retaining chamber above the cylinder chamber ready to be released upon demand.