Self-propelled vehicles; a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles (1906)
Homans, James E. (James Edward), b. 1865 · New York, T. Audel & Company · leaf 228
tion, the working effects are that: Theclearance space beyond the terminal exhaust position of the pis-ton is so small that, practically, the products of combustion areentirely swept out of the cylinder during the exhaust stroke, sothat each incoming charge has the full explosive strength dueto the… … U . E.XPAMSIOH. {WORKIHG STROKt}„:-« ,.~ EXMAUST^^OlUSTfiOH£ )- Fig. 159.—Indicator Card for the Atkinson Variable Stroke Four-Part Two-Cycle Gas Engine. greatest possible pressure will be attained at the commencementof the expansion. The accompanying indicator card of an Atkinson engine, of18 I.…
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