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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 42

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cylinders overhang the frame through-out the entire length, by reason of the joining of their FAULTS OF SINGLE-ACTING ENGINES 43 front portions with the frames. Although such a con-struction is attended with no serious consequences insmall engines, nevertheless in large engines it is ex-ceedingly… … FiG. 24.—Single-acting engines. action of the motive effort on the piston is, therefore,taken up entirely by the thrust of the cylinder, whichis also vertical (Fig. 24). This thrust, acting againstan unsupported part, may cause fractures; at anv rate,it entails a rapid deterioration of the cvlinder…

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