Rotary fluid pressure device

Claim 1

IN A FLUID PRESSURE DEVICE, FLUID INLET MEANS AND AT LEAST TWO FLUID OUTLET MEANS, CASING MEANS, AN INTERNALLY TOOTHED RING MEMBER DEFINING THE OUTER WALL OF A CHAMBER, A COOPERATING EXTERNALLY TOOTHED STAR MEMBER HAVING FEWER TEETH THAN SAID RING MEMBER DISPOSED ECCENTRICALLY IN SAID CHAMBER, ONE OF SAID MEMBERS HAVING ORBITAL MOVEMENT ABOUT THE AXIS OF THE OTHER OF SAID MEMBERS AND ONE OF SAID MEMBERS HAVING ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT ABOUT ITS OWN AXIS, THE TEETH OF SAID MEMBERS INTERMESHING TO FORM EXPANDING CELLS ON ONE SIDE OF THE LINE OF ECCENTRICITY AND CONTRACTING CELLS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SAID LINE DURING RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID MEMBERS, VALVE MEANS INCLUDING A FIRST VALVE ELEMENT WHICH HAS A PLURALITY OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY ARRANGED FLUID PASSAGES COMMUNICATING WITH SAID CHAMBER WHICH PASSAGES CORRESPOND IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF TEETH OF ONE OF SAID MEMBERS, SAID VALVE MEANS INCLUDING A SECOND VALVE ELEMENT OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO ONE OF SAID MEMBERS WHICH HAS ROTATION ABOUT ITS OWN AXIS FOR ROTATION IN SYNCHRONISM WITH SAID ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT OF SAID MEMBER, SAID VALVE MEANS INCLUDING A THIRD VALVE ELEMENT WHICH SLIDABLY ENGAGES SAID SECOND VALVE ELEMENT AND IS ADJUSTABLY MOVEABLE RELATIVE TO SAID CASING MEANS, SAID SECOND VALVE ELEMENT HAVING FLUID SUPPLY PASSAGE MEANS FOR ADMITTING FLUID FROM SAID FLUID INLET MEANS TO SAID EXPANDING CELLS AND FLUID EXHAUST PASSAGE MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID THIRD VALVE ELEMENT TO SELECTIVELY EXHAUST ALL OF THE FLUID FROM SAID CONTRACTING CELLS TO ONLY ONE OF SAID FLUID OUTLET MEANS OR TO SIMULTANEOUSLY AND SEPARATELY EXHAUST FLUID FROM AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT CONTRACTING CELLS TO DIFFERENT ONES OF SAID FLUID OUTLET MEANS.