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 28
e is never fired at the exactmoment mentioned. These considerations lead to the conclusion that THE INCANDESCENT TUBE 29 motors in which the mixture is exploded by hot tubesprovided with an ignition-valve are preferable to valve-less tubes. By the use of a special valve, positivelycontrolled by the… … Figs. 9-10.—Valveless hot tubes. diately upon the opening of the valve, at the very mo-ment the cylinder gases come into contact with the in-candescent portion of the tube (Fig. 11). Many manu-facturers, however, do not employ the ignition-valve onmotors of less than 15 to 20 horse-power, chiefly…
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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