Home-farm power and lighting, a book of helpful instruction on the installation (1920)
Cincinnati, American automobile digest · leaf 28
Fig. 6. Piston, piston rings and piston pin.I Engine Construction.i The Crankshaft. 15 This is a horizontal steel shaft, carried in bear-ings inside of a crankcase, and is provided with anumber of offsets corresponding to the numberof cylinders. These offsets are termed crank- … Fig. 7. Crankshaft for a single-cylinder engine. pins and carry the large ends of the connectingrods. It also carries a fly-wheel, the functionof which will be explained later. Fig. 7 illus-trates a single-cylinder crankshaft, while Fig.8 illustrates a four-cylinder crankshaft andpiston assembly.…
Electricity in agriculture · Electric lighting · Internal combustion engines
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