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Simple elliptical straightedge ORBOX compressor engine

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Uploaded by on Jan 27, 2010

http://www.orbox.be a simple cheap compressor, pump or stirling engine

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  • A template/stencil is easily printed (even Powerpoint).

  • Example, take t=12, s=5, we have rotor-pivot distance=13, and area 169-(3.14*5*6) = 75.

    If you want a compression ratio of 10 and circular combustion chamber, the area should be 7.5 or a diameter of 1.5.

    A rotor thickness of 2 would now give a minimum volume of 15, and a maximum volume of 150. Scale as you like (x 1cm?).

  • You can almost completely fill the minimum volume for high compression. The max volume is approx. (t*t+s*s) - (pi*t*s)/2 times the thickness of the rotor. The maximum volume can be easily calculated considering the ellipse has a surface of pi*t*s, with t and s half the max and min diameter.

    The distance between rotor and pivot axis is sqrt(t*t+s*s), so the square as max expansion is 2(t*t+s*s). Substract the rotor surface, and divide by 2, to get the surface at only one side of the rotor.

  • a straightedge orbiting an ellipse describes a cirkel :

    (just google for Apollonius Fermat cirkel )

    so a rotating ellipse and a pivoting straightedge confine a variable volume

    as far as I can find nobody ever used this feature. Why not?

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  • ummm....seems like there would be alot of friction....

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