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 56
rtical engines, especially since engines of VERTICAL KXGINES SI more than \o or i :^ Iiorsc-powcr have been extensivelyused for industrial purposes. The vertical type is usedfor I to 8 horse-power engines, with the cylinder in thelower part of the frame, and the shaft and its fly-wheelin the upper… … FiG. 36.—Vertical engine. larly, many manufacturers of high-power engines (50to 100 horse-power or more) prefer the vertical or steam-hammer arrangement, w^hich consists in plac-ing the cylinder in the upper part, and the shaft in thelower part of the frame as close to the ground as possi-ble…
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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