Two-stroke engine having a central scavenging system

Claim 1

A two-stroke engine with a central scavenging system, having a cylinder and a piston reciprocating within the cylinder, characterized in that: said piston comprises: a skirt portion provided therethrough with a plurality of vents; and an upper portion including a combustion chamber in the interior thereof, said combustion chamber being surrounded by a top wall, a peripheral wall and a bottom wall, with a plurality of scavenging inlets being provided in said peripheral wall of said combustion chamber, and with a single scavenging port being provided in the central portion of said top wall of said combustion chamber; and that said cylinder comprises a crank case and a cylinder bore for receiving said piston and guiding the reciprocal movement of the latter, with a plurality of scavenging recesses being provided in the inner wall of said cylinder bore near said crank case, said scavenging recesses being of the same number and arranged at the same angular positions as said vents provided in said skirt, and with a plurality of exhaust ports being provided in the inner wall of said cylinder bore above said scavenging recesses; each scavenging recess communicating correspondingly with one of said vents and one of said scavenging inlets provided in said piston when said piston approaches its bottom-dead-center position; whereby scavenging passages, each comprising one of said vents, one of said scavenging recesses, one of said scavenging inlets and said single scavenging port, are formed; and compressed scavenging mixture in said crank case may be forced to pass through said scavenging passages and jet upwardly into the top portion of said cylinder bore in the form of a single stream during a scavenging stroke.