A practical treatise on modern gas and oil engines (1902)
Grover, Frederick · Manchester, The Technical Publishing Co., Limited; [etc., etc.] · leaf 100
hamber C being filled atatmospheric pressure with an explosive mixture, the igniting SELF-STARTEES. t<) valve is opened, the mixture fires at the orifice, and theflame strikes back into the chamber 0. As the gas burnsdownwards it expands, driving a large portion of themixture yet unburnt through… … Fig. G4.—Clerk-Lanchester High-pressure Self-starter. violently, developing a maximum pressure of 190 lb. persquare inch, instead of 80 lb., as with the low-pressurestarters of Lanchester and Green. The self-starter shown in fig. 64 is known as the Clerk-Lanchester. It is, as will be seen, a…
Internal combustion engines
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