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A reciprocating piston engine having rotor and stator members and wherein each piston is driven through periodic power strokes in a cylinder in one member by combustion in the cylinder and is pivotally connected to a circular cam ring which surrounds the cylinder endwise and is rotatable about its c

A reciprocating piston engine having rotor and stator members and wherein each piston is driven through periodic power strokes in a cylinder in one member by combustion in the cylinder and is pivotally connected to a circular cam ring which surrounds the cylinder endwise and is rotatable about its center on the other member in eccentric relation to the rotation axis of the rotor member in a manner such that the combustion powered strokes of the piston drive the rotor member in rotation. The particular engine described is an opposed piston engine wherein each engine cylinder is on the stator and contains two opposed pistons connected to the rotor by two eccentric cam rings surrounding the cylinder with their axes located at opposite sides of the rotor axis. Air is supplied to the cylinder through an intake port controlled by one piston and combustion products are exhausted from the cylinder through an exhaust port controlled by the other piston.

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An internal combustion engine comprising: a first member including a cylinder, a second member, means supporting said members for relative rotation on a transverse axis of said cylinder, a piston in each cylinder having an outer end extending through one end of the cylinder and an opposite inner end

An internal combustion engine comprising: a first member including a cylinder, a second member, means supporting said members for relative rotation on a transverse axis of said cylinder, a piston in each cylinder having an outer end extending through one end of the cylinder and an opposite inner end, each piston being movable in its cylinder through inward compression and outward power strokes and each cylinder containing a combustion chamber at the inner end of the corresponding piston which undergoes contraction during the compression strokes and expansion during the power strokes of the piston, a circular cam ring surrounding each cylinder endwise with the central axis of the ring parallel to and spaced laterally from said member rotation axis, bearing means rotatably mounting each cam ring about its circumference on said second member for relative rotation of the ring and second member on the axis of the ring, means pivotally connecting the outer end of each piston to the corresponding cam ring on a pivot axis parallel to said member rotation axis and ring axis, whereby reciprocating motion of each piston in its cylinder produces a driving torque on said members tending to drive said members in relative rotation on said member rotation axis, and engine actuating means for supplying a combustible medium to said combustion chamber of each cylinder, effecting combustion of the medium in the chamber, and exhausting combustion products from the chamber in timed relation to the strokes of the corresponding piston to drive the latter through its power strokes.