Patent ID: 9624825
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: F01B,F01P,F02B

Claim:
1. A combustible fluid-operated orbital engine, comprising: one or more cylinders in which each cylinder has a longitudinal axis and is carried on a pair of rotating cylinder carrier wheels for orbital motion, the one or more cylinders are capable of receiving a combustible fluid therein, the pair of rotating cylinder carrier wheels being rotatable about an axle along an first axis of rotation; one or more corresponding pistons carried on a pair of counter-rotating piston carrier wheels for opposite orbital motion, the pair of counter-rotating piston carrier wheels being rotatable about an axle along a second axis of rotation parallel to the first axis of rotation, each of the one or more pistons having a cooperating cylinder and having throughout its movement the same longitudinal axis as its cooperating cylinder to oppose and sequentially enter and completely withdraw from its cooperating cylinder on the same longitudinal axis; a first belt which mechanically links a first one of the pair of rotating cylinder carrier wheels to a first one of the pair of counter-rotating piston carrier wheels such that the first one of the pair of rotating cylinder carrier wheels rotates in a first direction when the first one of the pair of counter-rotating piston carrier wheels rotates in a second direction opposite the first direction; and a second belt which mechanically links a second one of the pair of rotating cylinder carrier wheels to a second one of the pair of counter-rotating piston carrier wheels such that the second one of the pair of rotating cylinder carrier wheels rotates in the first direction when the second one of the pair of counter-rotating piston carrier wheels rotates in the second direction opposite the first direction.