Internal combustion turbine engine

Claim 1

AN INTERNAL-COMBUSTION TURBINE ENGINE COMPRISING (I) STATOR MEANS INCLUDING (A) AXIALLY DISPOSED COMPRESSOR GUIDE VANES, AND (B) RADIALLY DISPOSED TURBINE GUIDE VANES; (II) AXIALLY DIRECTED IMPELLER MEANS INCLUDING (A) COMPRESSOR IMPELLER BLADES FORMING, TOGETHER WITH SAID COMPRESSOR GUIDE VANES, AN AXIAL-FLOW COMPRESSOR, AND (B) TURBINE IMPELLER BLADES FORMING, TOGETHER WITH SAID TURBINE GUIDE VANES, A RADIAL-FLOW TURBINE; (III) SAID STATOR MEANS AND SAID IMPELLER MEANS DEFINING THEREBETWEEN A SPACE ESSENTIALLY CONSISTING OF (A) AN AIR COMPRESSION CHAMBER COMMUNICATING AT ONE LOCATION THROUGH A CHECK VALVE WITH THE DISCHARGE SIDE OF SAID COMPRESSOR, AT A SECOND LOCATION THROUGH AN ADDITIONAL CHECK VALVE WITH AN ANNULAR COMBUSTION CHAMBER, AND A THIRD LOCATION THROUGH ANOTHER CHECK VALVE WITH DUCTS CONDUCTING AIR FROM FURTHER COMPRESSORS AND OTHER COMBUSTION GASES INTO SAID COMPRESSION CHAMBER, AND OF (B) NOZZLE MEANS FORMED BY A PORTION OF SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBER FOR DISCHARGING THE COMBUSTION GASES INTO SAID RADIAL-FLOW TURBINE.