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Abstract

An internal combustion engine of the rotary type in which a pair of axially spaced combustion chambers are provided and a common ratchet or control mechanism is positioned between the spaced combustion chambers. A pair of vanes are mounted in each combustion chamber with the vanes mounted on concentric shafts and free to rotate relative to each other. The ratchet mechanism positioned between the combustion chambers functions to resist counterclockwise movement of the vanes in one combustion chamber while allowing free clockwise movement thereof and to resist clockwise movement of the vanes in the other combustion chamber while allowing free counterclockwise movement thereof. The reaction forces generated in the ratchet mechanism from the two combustion chambers thus tend to cancel each other out. The central ratchet mechanism includes a housing which absorbs the reaction forces from both combustion chambers and which is free to rotate in the event that the reaction forces generated in the two combustion chambers become unbalanced.

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