Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 292
air-pump E (Fig. 7) given a suffi-cient number of strokes to force gas from the tank through the outlet-pipe to the burner,where it is ignited and heats the retort. The naphtha-valve D also is opened, and from fiveto ten strokes given to the naphtha-pump F. This pumps naphtha from the tank in the… … Fig. 9.—Naphtha-engine—section. 2T2 ENGINES, GAS AND OIL. the burner, and hence the speed and pressure. The consumption for a 2-horse-power engineis -iven at from three quarts to one gallon {)er hour, and for a 4-horse-power engine at from° four to six (juarts pir hour. The vajior consumed is…
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