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 257
air neces-sary to combustion. The supply of oil is controlled by thegovernor in the following way. The oil passes through avalve-box with two valves, one of which leads to the vapor-izer and the other leads to an overflow from which the oilcan flow back to the tank. If the speed rises beyond… … is compressed and some of it forced back into the hotvaporizer where the temperature is so high that ignition OIL AND PETROL ENGINES 237 occurs and a working stroke is therefore made by the piston.The vaporizer chamber can, of course, be taken out andcleaned when desired. It is found, however, that…
Internal combustion engines
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