In a nutating engine (or more generally a rotary displacement device) the
cycling of combustion occurs between inner and outer spherical surfaces.
The combustion chambers are additionally defined only by the surfaces of
teeth of specially designed gears. These gears are the Rotator (2), two
consecutive of some number of free-planetary gears (3A-E), and the lobed
Nutating Member (1). The latter is enjoined to execute precessional
rotation relative to the former and maybe both affixed with
counterweights (11A,B; 12A,B) and subjected to reverse-English
transforming the precessional rotation to a stress-free mode in both the
Newtonian and Eulerian sense. The insertion of optional butterfly-shaped
plugs (4A-E, 5A-E, 8A-E) boosts the compression ratio. Truly, no past
engine possesses the characteristics of the instant invention.