Turbo-flywheel-powered vehicle

Claim 1

In a turbo-flywheel-powered vehicle which comprises: a gas driven turbine having a rotor; a combustion can for producing propellant fluid and delivering it to said turbine; a rotary air compressor mounted to rotate as a unit with said rotor and having conduit means for inducting air into said compressor and conducting compressed air to said combustion can; drive means for coupling said rotor to the rolling stock of said vehicle; and a flywheel operatively connected to receive energy from and to deliver energy to said rolling stock; the improvement in which said rotor has a radius of gyration at least as great as that of a solid cylinder and functions as said flywheel and is inside and concentric with a right cylindrical, smooth-surfaced stator and has a roughened outer right cylindrical surface apposed to the smooth concentric right cylindrical inner surface of said stator; in which a plurality of jet orifices are arranged about the periphery of said stator to direct jets of products into the space between said rotor and said stator; and in which the outermost elements of said jet orifices are tangential to said smooth surface of said stator and the lowermost elements of said orifices intercept the roughened surface, whereby a portion of the jet is jetted into the space between the apposed surfaces tangentially to said smooth surface and the balance impinges directly onto the roughened surface of said rotor.