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 192
the initial compression inthe Elyria engine is performed by a differential piston whichacts in an enlarged portion of the cylinder bore. This con-struction increases the volumetric efficiency from 70 percent,in the case of the marine type, to well over 90 percent, and italso does away with the bad… … Fig. 78. Compressor Cylinder of Elyria Oil Engine. piston pin is carried by the differential piston which acts as across-head, taking all of the side thrust from the main piston.The working piston is easily taken from the cylinder by remov-ing the cylinder head and the four nuts that fasten it to…
Internal combustion engines · Traction-engines
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