Air-cooled engine flywheel fan rotational debris inlet screen with radical clearance control ring and labyrinth rotational screen seal

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An air-cooled internal combustion engine having a rotating screen and a blower housing surrounding the screen. A ring is attached to the housing and positioned circumjacent the screen to define a precisely gauged radial clearance gap between the ring and the rotating screen. The ring provides a tortuous entry path for foreign matter entering through the air intake port between the ring and the screen. en. The ring includes a downwardly extending groove into which extends an upwardly turned lip of the rotating screen to form the tortuous path for foreign matter entering through the clearance gap between the inner periphery of the ring and the outer periphery of the main portion of the …