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 93
freely to and fro. When pressure is established in the cylinder from the com-bustion, pressure is also exerted on the end of the piston tend-ing to force it out of the cylinder. The extent of this force isgoverned by the area of the end of the piston and also by thepressure of the gas. 87 38 GAS,… … Piston and Connecting Rod of the Sturtevant Aero Motor, Showing Three Piston Rings. and no less important function of the piston is to compress thecombustible gas in the upper end of the cylinder for ignition. 4. The CONNECTING ROD (Sometimes called the Pit-man) transmits the pressure on the piston…
Internal combustion engines · Traction-engines
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