Compression vapor engine

Abstract

A compression vapor engine which, being at its core a cylinder and piston, the latter attached to a rotary wheel, moves the piston to compress air, thereby heating it; introduces water to the compressed air, converting it from liquid to vapor, water to steam; and uses the expanding steam to move the piston reciprocally: all organized as a reciprocal cylinder-piston engine creating continuing rotary movement which can be made to do work.

What I claim is an engine comprising: 
     
         1 . A cylinder and piston, and appropriate auxiliary components, which can take air into the cylinder chamber and compress said air to a high pressure and a high temperature, which said temperature would be high enough to change an amount of water introduced into said cylinder chamber from a liquid to a gas, from water to steam, which said steam in expanding would exert force against said piston, putting said piston in motion within said cylinder of said engine.
 a. as the embodiment described herein, an engine structure comprising a said piston and a said cylinder main chamber, and an auxiliary chamber, into the latter of which during an intake stroke an amount of said water would be introduced into said auxiliary chamber and be held there through a compression stroke, and when an opening in the head of the said cylinder main chamber would allow said compressed and heated air to enter said auxiliary chamber, said air would induce a change of state in said water held in said auxiliary chamber, from liquid to gas, from water to steam, and said steam would expand into said cylinder main chamber and would press against said piston and would move said piston reciprocally within said cylinder main chamber, and such motion could be used by another machine to do useful work.   b. an embodiment wherein a structure of said engine, without a said auxiliary chamber, would provide for, just prior to a power stroke, an amount of said water being introduced into said cylinder chamber by an injector, and said compressed and heated air in said cylinder chamber would induce a change of state in said water injected into said cylinder chamber, a change from liquid to gas, from water to steam, and said steam would press against said piston and would move said piston reciprocally within said cylinder chamber, and such motion could be used by another machine to do useful work.