Gas-engines and producer-gas plants; a practice treatise setting forth the principles of gas-engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer-gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas-engines and producer-gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines (1905)
Mathot, Rodolphe Edgard, 1866- · New York N.W. Henley Pub. Co · leaf 23
ODUCERS jections which have been mentioned, has naturally ledto the adoption of the present valve. This valve is usedboth for the suction of the gas and of the air, as well asfor the exhaust, with the result that either of these twoessential phases in the operation of the motor can beindependently… … Fig. 6.—Modern valve mechanism. and need not, therefore, be lubricated. Their openingis controlled by levers provided with quick-actingcams; and their closure is efifected by coiled springsalmost instantaneous in their action (Fig. 7). Eachvalve, depending upon the purpose for which it is used,can…
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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