Two-stroke cycle internal-combustion engine

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Patented Feb. 7, 1950 2,496,623

UNITED STATES PATENT office

TWO-STROKE CYCLE INTERNA

COMBUSTON ENGINE

John E. Fragale, Wooster, Ohio

Application April 18, 1947, serial No. 742,220

The invention relates to engines and, Ore invention may be made of glass, or as shown in particularly to an engine employing, water to the drawing the tank may be made of steel or produce the power to Operate the engine. other suitable material lined with glass as indi It is an object of the invention to provide an cated at .

engine in combination with means for breaking . Upright tubes t2 and 3 are connected to, or water up into hydrogen and oxygen, removing formed integrally with the top wall foa of the the two gases separately, compressing the gases tank and may have the extensions 4 and 5 and injecting them into the cylinder of an engine respectively, connected to their upper ends and where they combine and explode producing power leading to the separate compressors shown dia to operate the engine. . 0 grammatically at 6 and 7 respectively. Another object is to provide such an apparatus A cathode 8 is located within the tube 2 and including a tank filled with a solution of water extends downward into the tank 0, and an anode (HaO) and sulphuric acid (HaSO4), said tank 9 is similarly located within the tube 3, extend having two spaced, upright tubes connected ing down into the tank. The cathode 8 and thereto, a cathode being located in one tube and 5 anode 9 are connected, by the wires 20 and 2 an anode in the other, connected to opposite sides respectively to the negative and positive sides of an electric battery or other suitable source of respectively of an electric battery 22 or equivalent electric energy, whereby the solution will be Source of electrical energy. broken up into Ha (hydrogen) and O2 (oxygen) The engine may comprise a cylinder as indi molecules which are separately carried off 20 cated at 23, or if desired a plurality of such through the tubes. cylinders, which may be formed of glass or other A further object is to provide an apparatus of Suitable material, or as shown in the drawing, the character referred to in which the solution may be lined with glass or the like as indicated level in the tank extends up into the two outlet at 24 in Fig. 1.

tubes whereby the hydrogen and oxygen will be 25 Tubes 25 and 26 respectively connect the com prevented from uniting before they are injected pressors 6 and 7 with the top of the cylinder with the engine cylinder. 23 through the identical ports 27, one of which is A still further object is to provide such an shown in Fig. 1 at the point of communication engine in which the piston is provided with a between the tube 26 and the top of the cylinder. ring which is longitudinally slotted or perforated 30 A valve 28 controls each inlet port and each to permit the water, formed by the combining of valve is arranged to be operated by an identical the hydrogen and oxygen, to pass down the walls rod 29, one of which is shown in Fig. 1. Within of the cylinder to lubricate the engine. the cylinder is located the piston 30 which may Another object of the invention is to provide be formed of glass and which is preferably of such an engine in which the lower portion of the 35 considerably less diameter than the bore of the internal walls of the cylinder are longitudinally cylinder, and provided at its upper end with the grooved to facilitate the discharge of the water reduced, Screw threaded extremity 3 upon which therefron. - ---. the ring 32 may be mounted as by the internally The above objects together with others which threaded, central aperture 33.

may be later referred to or which will be apparent 40 As shown in Figs. 1 and 3 the glass ring 32 may from the drawings and following description may be provided with the peripheral grooves 34, be attained by constructing and operating the through two of which the rods 29 may be accom apparatus in the manner hereinafter described in modated, or as shown in Fig. 4, the modified form detail and illustrated in the accompanying draw of ring 32d may be provided with apertures 34a ings in which: 45 through which the rods may operate. Figure 1 is a diagrammatic, vertical sectional The piston rod 35 connects the piston to a view of an apparatus embodying the invention; rocker shaft or other power take of means, Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same; preferably in the manner shown in Fig. 1, where Fig. 3 is a detached plan view of the piston ring; the lower end of the piston rod is pivotally con aad, 50 nected as at 36 to the rocker arm 37, which is Fig. 4 a similar view of a modified form of journalled to oscillate upon the axis 38. ring. Any conventional crank shaft or other power In carrying out the invention an apparatus is shaft may be operatively connected to the rocker provided such as shown in the drawing, and in shaft 3 for transmitting power from the engine cluding a tank O which for the purpose of the 55 to any device to be operated thereby, The piston

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rod SS is preferably rigidly connected to the slidably located through the piston for opening piston to prevent any possibility of bumping the valves on each upstroke of the piston. against the cylinder during operation of the 2. An engine adapted to be operated by oxy engine. gen and hydrogen, said engine comprising a cyl If desired the lower, inner walls of the cylin inder closed at its upper end and Open at its der may be grooved, as shown at 3 in Fig. 1, to lower end, a glass surface on the interior of the cylinder, a spaced pair of inlet ports in the up facilitate drainage of water from the interior of the cylinder. per end of the cylinder, valves in said ports, a piston within the cylinder of considerably less

In the Operation of the apparatus, a solution of water (HaO) and sulphuric acid (HaSOA) is n diameter than the cylinder, a reduced threaded placed in the tank failing the same and extend upper end upon the piston, a glass ring of sub ing up for some distance into the tubes 2 and stantially the diameter of the cylinder mounted 3. The battery 22 supplies electrons to the upon Said threaded end of the piston, and means cathode 8, the current of the battery passing for opening the valves on each upstroke of the through the cathode into the solution in the s piston.

tank. The chemical reaction which takes place 3. An engine adapted to be operated by oxy causes the HaO to break up into Ha and O2, the geni and hydrogen, said engine comprising a sulphuric acid acting as a catalyst. cylinder closed at its upper end and open at its Ha atoms and molecules escape by way of the lower end, the lower end of the interior of the cathode 8, through the tube 2-4 to con 20 cylinder being longitudinally grooved, a glass pressor B, and O2 atoms and molecules escape surface on the interior of the cylinder, a spaced by way of the anode 9, through the tube 13-5 der, pair of inlet ports in the upper end of the cylin to the compressor 7. valves in said ports, a piston within the These compressors may be of any conven cylinder of considerably less diameter than the tional design, and compress the hydrogen and 25 cylinder, a reduced threaded upper end upon the piston, a glass ring of substantially the oxygen separately and discharge them separately through the tubes 25 and 26 from which they diameter of the cylinder mounted upon said are injected into the cylinder when the valves threaded end of the piston, and means for open 28 are opened on the upstroke of the piston and 30 ing4. the

valves on each upstroke of the piston.

engine adapted to be operated by oxy rods 29. gen and hydrogen, said engine comprising a As the hydrogen and oxygen come into con cylinder closed at its upper end and open at its tact in the upper portion of the cylinder they lower end, the lower end of the interior of the produce an explosion, driving the piston down cylinder being longitudinally grooved, a glass and operating the rocker shaft 8 and the power 35 Surface on the interior of the cylinder, a spaced take off means which may be connected thereto. pair of inlet ports in the upper end of the cyl At the time the hydrogen and oxygen unite inder, valves in Said ports, a piston within the in the top of the cylinder they form water (H2O) cylinder of considerably less diameter than the which will drain down through the grooves 3, or apertures 3a of the piston ring and out of 40 cylinder, a reduced threaded upper end upon the piston, a glass ring of substantially the the lower end of the cylinder, the grooves 39 diameter of the cylinder mounted upon said therein facilitating the escape of the water threaded end of the piston, and means including therefrom. push rods slidably located through said ring for The valves 28 close on the down stroke of the Opening the valves on each upstroke of the piston, and rods 29, and again upon the upstroke 45 piston.

the valves are opened, permitting the hydrogen OEN E, FRAGAE, and oxygen from the compressors to be again injected into the cylinder and repeating the op REFERENCES CITED eration as above described. The following references are of record in the If desired, rubber bumpers 40 may be pro SO vided upon the opposed ends of the valves 2 and file of this patent:

rods 29, to eliminate noise in the operation of UNITED STATES PATENTS the engine. Number Name Date claim: . 765,59 Aslakson ---------- July 19, 1904 1. An engine adapted to be operated by oxy 1,214,858 Wilkin ------------- Feb. 6, 1917 gen and hydrogen, Said engine comprising a 1214,859 Wilkin ------------- Feb. 6, 1917 cylinder closed at its upper end and open at its 1,690,321 Baker -------------- Nov. 6, 1928, lower end, the lower end of the interior of the i,731,228 Burtnett ----------- Oct. 8, 1929 cylinder being longitudinally grooved, a glass

Surface on the interior of the cylinder, a spaced FOREIGN PATENTS pair of inlet ports in the upper end of the cylin Number Country Date der, valves in said ports, a glass piston within 2,024 Great Britain ------ Jan. 28, 1896 the cylinder, and means including push rods