| Author | Message | ||
     Midknyte |
http://boingboing.net/2014/07/15/new-kind-of-rotar y-engine-hy.html | ||
| Koz5150 |
That was cool! | ||
| Sifo |
Kind of neat, but it's very similar to the pump in my pressure washer. Some innovative twists though. I wonder how they achieve a good seal between the cylinder and the "head"? That seems obviously problematic. | ||
| Hootowl |
There's an existing thread on this, if you can find it. Pretty neat concept, and lot of good commentary and links in the other thread. | ||
| Aesquire |
Dukes been around a while. I'm not buying stock in the company. ( I could be wrong ) At least it isn't one of the million scotch yoke designs. It's a design used in pumps for a long time. I've yet to see a commercial success. Here's a site where the fellow not only makes pretty CAD drawings, he's built some of them. I don't see one that would work better than existing systems, and a few are horrible drag/wear problems waiting to happen, but clever. Here's one for the 2 stroke fans. http://www.pattakon.com/pattakonPatAT.htm | ||
| Hootowl |
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/unusualIC eng/axial-ICeng/axial-IC.htm Not a new concept. It may be the valve arrangement that is new. Haven't done any reading on this. | ||
| Aesquire |
Torpedoes! That's where I remember those from! |
