Internally propelled flywheel engine

Claim 1

A internal combustion rotary flywheel engine comprising a housing having an internal circular cavity with a circular rotor mounted therein having a transverse power shaft attached to the rotor center extending outward of the housing, said housing having bearing apertures aligned with said shaft, including equispaced transverse chambers in said rotor disposed along a circle with ducts communicating at one end with said chambers and at opposite ends with the rotor periphery, said housing having alternate sealing surfaces and exhaust ports adjacent to and encircling the rotor whereby rotation of said rotor causes the ducts to alternately contact the sealing surfaces and communicate with the ports, further including transverse fuel inlets equi spaced about a circle through the housing in intermittent alignment with the rotor chambers during rotor movement, in combination with spark plugs in the housing disposed between the inlet chambers whereby rotation of the rotor causes alternate alignment of each chamber with an inlet and spark plug, wherein said sealing surfaces and ports are so spaced that a duct is in contact with a sealing surface when an inlet is in alignment with the respective chamber whereby an exhaust port is in communication with a duct when the spark plug is aligned with a chamber.