Audels answers on automobiles, for owners, operators, repairmen ... including chapters on the storage battery, electric vehicles, motor cycles, overhauling the car, etc. Fully illustrated and indexed (1911)
Booth, Charles Edwin, b. 1849 · London, New York, T. Audel & co · leaf 201
r is kept in contact with the screw by aspring as shown, except at the time of the spark. A rolleris attached to the other end of the lever, directly belowwhich is a cam. When the nose of the cam engages withthe roller, the contact points quickly separate, thus break-ing the circuit and producing a… … Fig. 92.—A contact breaker. This device keeps the circuit closed at alltimes except during the brief interval necessary for passage of the spark atthe plug points. Used to advantage on engines running at very high speeds,as it allows time for the magnetic flux in the core of the coil to attain…
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