US Patent: 640,237 - Rotary Gas Engine


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US Patent: 640,237

Rotary Gas Engine

Patentee:

John Straszer (exact or similar names) - Manchester, St. Louis County, MO

USPTO Classifications:

123/228, 123/240, 415/147, 415/149.1, 415/90

Tool Categories:

propulsion and energy : internal combustion engines : gas and gasoline engines

propulsion and energy : internal combustion engines : rotary engines

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Feb. 09, 1899
Granted:	Jan. 02, 1900

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Description:

Claim:

In a rotary engine, a rotatable piston-disk, pockets formed along one face thereof and disposed along arcs of a series of concentric circles, a series of said pockets gradually tapering at one end, and having an abrupt or plane wall at the opposite end, a faceplate having a series of ports located in position to come opposite said pockets, and valves controlling said ports,and adapted to bear against the walls of the pockets during the rotation of the piston-disk, substantially as set forth.