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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 1977
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1975
Murray Berkowitz, Woodcliff Lake, NJ (US);
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Wood-Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A rotary trochoidal compressor comprising a rotor mounted for planetary motion within a housing and in which the periphery of the rotor is substantially a hypotrochoid and the peripheral inner surface of the housing is the outer envelope of the rotor and in which a radially movable or elastic seal means is provided in the housing at the hypotrochoid generating points and the intake and outlet ports are so disposed in the housing on opposite sides of each hypotrochoid generating point such that each working chamber closes to an intake port before it opens to an outlet port, the working chamber being formed between the seal means at the rotor nose portions or between seal means at a rotor nose portion and at a hypotrochoid generating point.