Internal combustion engine

Claim 1

AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE UTILIZING A SWIRL INDUCED STRATIFIED CHARGE COMBUSTION PROCESS COMPRISING, A CYLINDER BORE SLIDABLY RECEIVING A PISTON THEREIN, A CYLINDER HEAD CLOSING SAID BORE AND TOGETHER WITH SAID PISTON AND THE WALLS OF SAID BORE DEFINING A COMBUSTION CHAMBER THEREBETWEEN, AN AIR INTAKE PASSAGE IN SAID HEAD MEMBER, AN AIR INTAKE PORT CONNECTED TO SAID PASSAGE AND OPENING INTO SAID CHAMBER AND CLOSED BY A RECIPROCABLE VALVE MEMBER MOVABLE INTO AND OUT THEREOF, SAID PORT BEING OFFSET TO ONE SIDE OF THE AXIS OF SAID BORE AND SYMMETRICALLY ARRANGED ON A CENTERLINE OF SAID BORE, SAID PASSAGE AND BORE HAVING CONFIGURATIONS SO CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED FOR COOPERATION WITH SAID VALVE TO PROVIDE THE FLOW OF A CHARGE OF AIR INTO SAID CHAMBER ESSENTIALLY TANGENTIAL TO SAID CENTERLINE AND WITH A GENERAL MOTION FROM ONE SIDE OF SAID CHAMBER TO THE OTHER ALONG THE HEAD SURFACE, THE FACING SURFACES OF SAID PISTON AND HEAD BEING ARCUATELY SHAPED SO AS TO TOGETHER WITH THE WALLS OF SAID BORE INDUCE A SWIRLING OF SAID CHARGE OF AIR AROUND AN AXIS ESSENTIALLY AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE BORE AXIS TO VAPORIZE ANY FUEL INJECTED THEREIN, A LIQUID FUEL INJECTOR POSITIONED TO INJECT FUEL AS A LIQUID AGAINST A SURFACE OF ONE OF SAID INTAKE PASSAGE AND SAID PORT AND SAID VALVE SO AS TO BE PICKED UP BY AN EDGE PORTION OF SAID AIR CHARGE AS IT FLOWS THEREPAST INTO SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBER TO PROVIDE A SIDE-BY-SIDE ARRANGEMENT OF AN ESSENTIALLY VERTICALLY DISPOSED FUEL IMPREGNATED EDGE AIR PORTION OF THE CHARGE AND A RESIDUAL AIR PORTION, AND SPARK IGNITION MEANS OFFSET FROM THE AXIS OF SAID BORE AND PROJECTING INTO SAID CHAMBER INTO SAID FUEL IMPREGNATED AIR PORTION FOR IGNITING SAID PORTION.