Patent ID: 6851400
Filing Date: 2005-02-08
Classification: F02B

Abstract:
1. An internal combustion engine comprising: a first piston, said first piston having an exterior and a center axis communicating between a face and a mounting end opposite said face; a second piston, said second piston having a center axis communicating between a face and a mounting end opposite said face; frame means to engage said mounting end of said first piston and said mounting end of said second piston, said frame means thereby holding said first piston and said second piston in a stationary position with their respected faces separated and center axis of said first piston substantially inline with said center axis of said second piston; a cylinder, said cylinder having a side wall, said sidewall having an interior surface defining an internal cavity and having an exterior surface; a divider engaged with said interior surface of said sidewall and separating said internal cavity into two cylinder chambers; said interior chambers dimensioned to cooperatively engage with an exterior surface of said first piston and said second piston thereby allowing said cylinder to translate upon said first piston and said second piston; means for induction of a fuel air mixture into said cylinder chambers through said face of said first piston and said second piston; means to ignite said fuel air mixture inducted into said cylinder chambers and thereby force said cylinder toward the opposite piston thereby translating said cylinder on said pistons between a compression position with said divider closest to one of said first piston and said second piston, to a translated position, with said divider closest to the opposite of said first or second piston; means to exhaust spent fuel and air mixture from said cylinder chambers through said face of said first piston and said second piston and to the atmosphere subsequent to ignition by said means to ignite; at least one rod having first and second ends, said first end rotationally engaged to said exterior surface of said cylinder sidewall; a wheel attached to an axle; said second end of said rod engaged with said wheel to thereby rotate said wheel when said rod is translated by said reciprocating cylinder; means to engage at least one of said wheel and said axle with a device requiring power; and whereby said cylinder will reciprocate between and engaged upon, said first and second pistons, when said fuel mixture is ignited sequentially, thereby causing said second end of said rod to translates and communicate power from said reciprocating cylinder to said device.