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Nutating spider crank reciprocating piston machine

US5027756A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 23, 1990
Grant dateJul 2, 1991
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Expiry dateFeb 23, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02B75/002
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A reciprocating piston machine in the form of a barrel engine has angularly-spaced pistons directly centrally linked by wrist pins to radially extending branches of a spider obliquely journalled for nonrotational nutation on a Z-crank portion of a rotational shaft. The pistons are double-acting pistons providing two piston surfaces per cylinder in rodless connections to a single spider.

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