The internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers (1909)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, Van Nostrand · leaf 141
e. One piston operates directly onits crank and the other through return connecting rods onto another crank placed 180° from the former one. As willbe seen from the illustration (Fig. 31), the piston on the leftoverruns first the exhaust ports, thus enabling the explodedgases to leave the cylinder.… … THE GAS ENGINE 121 Then the right-hand piston in its further motion overrunsthe gas inlet ports and so a proper mixture is admitted,which, when the two pistons move in together, gets com-pressed for the next explosion. This gives an explosion forevery time the pistons separate, or an explosion…
Internal combustion engines
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