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 236
as-generator (Fig.122) is composed of a receptacle having the shape of atank or basin containing water and located below aclosed cylindrical box. In this box a piston moves,which is provided at its lower end with a needle-valve. FEEDERS 237 The upper portion of the box communicates with… … Fig. 122,—Winterthur feeders. This apparatus—and all those based on the sameprinciple—presents the advantage of proportioning theamount of water to the work of the engine; but in viewof its rather sensitive operation it must be kept in per-fect repair and carefully watched. Obviously, shouldthe…
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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