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 146
141 Owing to the fact that the advancing or leading face of thecylinder is cooler than the trailing face, the cylinder bore isthrown out of line by the difference in expansion between thetwo sides. Because of this distortion of the bore, a specialform of piston ring is used, which, by its… … Fig. 54. Gnome Motor on Testing Stand. From Scientific American. to force the thin shell against the cylinder. In spitje of thisprecaution, the compression pressure is very low at the best,in the most of cases not over 45 pounds per square inch. Theexhaust valve screws into the end of the cylinder…
Internal combustion engines · Traction-engines
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