A practical treatise on modern gas and oil engines (1902)
Grover, Frederick · Manchester, The Technical Publishing Co., Limited; [etc., etc.] · leaf 92
a aelf-starfcer is provided.This consists of a compressed air chamber tilled to a pressureof IGO lbs. per square inch, by means of an air pump drivenby hand or belt as and when desired. In order to start theengine, the ordinary exhaust cam is put out of action and asupplementary cam brought into… … air cylinder and the engine. Coujpressed air is admitted tothe engine cylinder through the controlling valve shown infig. 55. The large engines manufactured by the Westing-house Company are built with two or three cylinders and insuch cases one of the cylinders is used as an air motor forstarting,…
Internal combustion engines
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