Wright aircraft engines; complete instructions for their installation, operation and maintenance; (1921)
Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Cautley, John R., ed · Paterson, N.J., Wright aeronautical corporation · leaf 36
The pump shaft passes right through the body butslightly eccentric to its bore. Through the shaft is aslot, and in this slot fit two bronze vanes or paddles, heldapart by small coil springs, which force the vanes outagainst the walls of the pump body. Owing to the eccen-tricity the vanes slide… … Model A Engine, showing magnetomounting peculiar to this model 14 WRIGHT AERONAUTICAL ENGINES sweeping over the walls wipe the oil from the suctionside and compress it into the delivery side. Very highpressures can be pumped provided the vanes are fittedaccurately. On the pressure side of the pump…
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