KARL J BEA
Engineers in Syracuse, NY

4043209, Aug 23, 1977

Jun 23, 1976

5/698837

Karl J. Bea - Syracuse NY

F16H 2300, F04B 114

74 60

A hydrostatic bearing lubrication system for a swash plate compressor or engine in which the compressor or engine has at least one reciprocating piston assembly mounted in a cylinder and connected to and reciprocating with a stator in which a rotating and oscillating rotor is mounted. At least one hydrostatic bearing shoe is mounted within the stator in a bearing relationship with the side of the rotor subject to the highest loads in the operation of the compressor or engine. In such a compressor or engine the invention comprises means for continuously varying the pressure of the lubricating fluid delivered to the bearing shoe directly with the load on the bearing shoe. That means comprises a closed cylinder with a free piston carried therein. One end of the closed cylinder on one side of the free piston is interposed in the lubricating fluid pressure line from a constant pressure lubricating fluid pump to the bearing shoe. The other end of the closed cylinder on the other side of the free piston is connected by a fluid pressure line into the head end of the compressor or engine cylinder so that as pressure in the compressor or engine cylinder varies, that pressure is directly applied to the free piston which in turn directly correspondingly varies the lubricating fluid pressure in the lubricating fluid flowing to the bearing shoe.

4008006, Feb 15, 1977

Apr 24, 1975

5/571395

Karl J. Bea - Syracuse NY

F04B 110

417271

A wind machine comprising a fixed or controlled pitch blade assembly to drive a variable displacement or variable clearance fluid compressor. Means which may be mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic or electrical interconnect the blade assembly and the compressor to vary the fluid displacement or clearance volume of the compressor as a function of the drag or lift forces of the wind on the blade assembly.