Practical hand book of gas, oil and steam engines, stationary, marine, traction; gas burners, oil burners, etc.; farm, traction, automobile, locomotive; a simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines (1916)
Rathbun, John B. [from old catalog] · Chicago, Charles C. Thompson co · leaf 123
single eccentric onthe horizontal lay-shaft shown running below and parallel tothe cylinders. The regulating valves which are controlled bythe action of the governor are perfectly balanced against thepressure in the cylinder which results in a very small resist-ance to the governor action,… … Fig. 27. End View of Mesta Engine. The chrome-vanadium piston rod carries the pistons float-ing free from the cylinder walls reducing the wear on the bore,while the piston rings maintain a gas tight contact with thecylinder walls. Each piston rod is made in two halves, thejoint between the sections…
Internal combustion engines · Traction-engines
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