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Hello.
A new crank-less reciprocating engine is presented at www.pattakon.com
Thanks
Manolis Pattakos
A new crank-less reciprocating engine is presented at www.pattakon.com
Thanks
Manolis Pattakos
Still looks like it's got a crank to me.
editied to say: oops...was looking at the wrong bit of the site. There is indeed a crankless engine in the 'GRECO' section. I'll leave the 'trivia' bit of the first post though
...but in the midsts of trivia I've picked up, the con-rod & crank we're all familiar with was once patented, and whoever held the patent [can't remember who] wouldn't licence it, so other early builders of steam engines had come up with something else to convert linear motion to rotary, and came up with sun and planet gears. Quite neat, as the equivalent of the con rod isn't attached to the 'crank' at all, and the 'crank' does more revolutions than the piston reciprocates.
WB
>> Edited by WilliamBall on Thursday 6th November 17:36
editied to say: oops...was looking at the wrong bit of the site. There is indeed a crankless engine in the 'GRECO' section. I'll leave the 'trivia' bit of the first post though
...but in the midsts of trivia I've picked up, the con-rod & crank we're all familiar with was once patented, and whoever held the patent [can't remember who] wouldn't licence it, so other early builders of steam engines had come up with something else to convert linear motion to rotary, and came up with sun and planet gears. Quite neat, as the equivalent of the con rod isn't attached to the 'crank' at all, and the 'crank' does more revolutions than the piston reciprocates.
WB
>> Edited by WilliamBall on Thursday 6th November 17:36
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