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 77
engine creates a vacuum in the cas-ing. The diaphragm bends, thereby actuating a valve. 78 GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCERS which cuts off the gas supply. During the three fol-lowing periods (compression, explosion, and exhaust)the gas, by reason of its pressure on the diaphragm,opens the valve and fills… … Fig. 46.—An anti-pulsator. pressure-regulators (Fig. 47). They consist of abell, floating in a reservoir containing water and gly-cerine (or mercury), and likewise actuate a valvewhich partially controls the flow of gas. This valvebeing balanced, its mechanical action is the more cer-tain. Such…
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