Connecting rod arrangement

• US 3,176,542 A
• Filed: 11/17/1960
• Issued: 04/06/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Werner Monch
• Original Assignee: Werner Monch
• Inventors: WERNER MONCH
• Application Number:
  US04/069,857
• Time in Patent Office: 1,601 Days
• US Class Current: 74/580
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 21/34 with two or more connecting-rods to each crank or eccentric
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/18264 Crank and multiple pitmans
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/2143 Radial

Claims

1. IN A V-TYPE ENGINE HAVING PISTONS IN CYLINDERS ARRANGED IN PAIRS AT AN ANGLE OF NOT GREATER THAN 90*:

A CONNECTING ROD ARRANGEMENT FOR THE PISTONS OF EACH PAIR OF CYLINDERS, EACH SAID CONNECTING ROD ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING A MAIN CONNECTING ROD HAVING OPPOSITE ENDS ONE OF WHICH IS ADAPTED FOR BEING COUPLED TO ONE OF THE PISTONS OF THE ASSOCIATED PAIR, AN AUXILIARY CONNECTING ROD HAVING OPPOSITE ENDS ONE OF WHICH IS ADAPTED FOR BEING COUPLED TO THE OTHER OF THE PISTONS OF THE ASSOCIATED PAIR, SAID MAIN CONNECTING ROD INCLUDING A MAIN BODY, AN INTEGRAL FLANGE CONSTITUTING A FOOT AT THE END OF THE MAIN BODY REMOTE FROM THE ASSOCIATED PISTON, AN UPPER BEARING PART, A BEARING COVER, AND CONNECTION MEANS DETACHABLY CONNECTING TOGETHER THE FOOT, THE UPPER BEARING PART AND THE BEARING COVER IN THAT ORDER, SAID UPPER BEARING PART AND BEARING COVER HAVING OPENINGS WHICH DEFINE A CIRCULAR BORE WITH A CENTRAL AXIS WHEN THE BEARING PART AND COVER ARE CONNECTED TOGETHER, SAID BORE BEING ADAPTED FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF A CRANK-PIN EXTENDING COAXIALLY IN SAID BORE, SAID UPPER BEARING PART AND BEARING COVER HAVING SMOOTH FLAT SURFACES IN MATING ENGAGEMENT, SAID CONNECTION MEANS COMPRISING CONNECTING ROD BOLTS LOCATED ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID BORE, SAID BOLTS EACH HAVING AN AXIS, THE AXES OF THE BOLTS LYING IN A PLANE WHICH IS PERPENDICULAR TO THE AXIS OF SAID BORE, AND MEANS CONNECTING THE AUXILIARY CONNECTING ROD AT THE END THEREOF REMOTE FROM THE ASSOCIATED PISTON TO THE UPPER BEARING PART FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT ABOUT AN AXIS LOCATED ON A SIDE OF ONE OF THE CONNECTING ROD BOLT WHICH IS OPPOSITE THE BORE SUCH THAT THE LATTER CONNECTING ROD BOLT EXTENDS BETWEEN THE BORE AND THE SAID AXIS ABOUT WHICH THE AUXILIARY CONNECTING ROD IS PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE UPPER BEARING PART, WHEREBY WITH THE CONNECTING ROD BOLTS REMOVED, THE MAIN BODY IS FREE FROM THE REMAINDER OF THE MAIN CONNECTING ROD AND THE AUXILIARY CONNECTING ROD IS STILL CONNECTED TO THE UPPER BEARING PART FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT WHEREAS THE UPPER BEARING PART AND BEARING COVER ARE DISCONNECTED.