Flying machines: practice and design. Their principles, construction and working (1909)
Kennedy, Rankin, d. 1917 · London [etc.] : The Technical Publishing Co., limited · leaf 134
anically-opened valve in the head opens after the lower port, in fact just after the piston begins its in-stroke ; by that time the temperature and pressure of the remaining exhaust have fallen very much. The engine which was finally patented, No. 22,390 (1905), is shown in diagrammatic figure 54… … FIG. 55. air enters by a hood on the top of the cylinder K. The cooling ribs are not circumferential, but helical, like screw threads, so that the cooling air circulates around the cylinder as it flows from K to M. The expansion chamber e silences the exhaust, which finally escapes by pipe F. The…
Flying-machines · Aeronautics
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