US Patent: 664,801 - Rotary Engine


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US Patent: 664,801

Rotary Engine

Patentee:

Win D. Williams (exact or similar names) - Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, VA

USPTO Classifications:

91/336, 91/493, 92/58

Tool Categories:

propulsion and energy : steam apparatus : rotary steam engines

Assignees:

Williams Reciprocating Rotary Engine Co. - Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Mar. 16, 1900
Granted:	Dec. 25, 1900

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Description:

Abstract:

This invention belongs to the class of engines of the rotary reciprocating type comprising independent disalined shafts, an engine mounted upon one of the shafts and having pairs of oppositely-disposed cylinders and cooperating pistons reciprocating therein in inv erse order, means for admitting a motive medium into the cylinders and exhausting it zo therefrom in alternation to compel a positive reciprocation of the pistons, and connecting means between opposite coacting pistons and the other shaft to transform the reciprocating movement of the pistons into rotary movement.

Claim:

In a rotary engine, two shafts arranged out of lime, pairs of cylinders having an angular disposition and mounted to rotate about one of the shafts, and pistons arranged to work in the said cylinders, a plate secured to the other shaft to rotate therewith, and separate connections joining the respective pairs of pistons and having independent sliding attachment with the said plate, and acting jointly therewith and with the pistons and cylinders to cause the engine and plate-carrying shaft to rotate together.