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 57
facturers 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 (Figs. 37 and 38). The problem of saving space,… … Fig. 37.—Section through an engine of the vertical or steam-hammer type. MERITS OF VERTICAL ENGINES 59 can be directly coupled up with the crank-shaft oi theengine, thus dispensing with a belt, which, at the least,
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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