 | American Gas Light Association - Gas - 1885 - 348 pages
...type of engine is one in which a mixture of gas and air is compressed, or introduced under compresion, into a cylinder, or space at the end of a cylinder,...forward, and the return stroke discharges the exhaust. Types one and three are explosive engines, the volume of the mixture remaining constant while the pressure... | |
 | Engineering - 1882 - 536 pages
...combustion. 3. An engine in which a mixture of VAN NOSTRAND'S ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. gas and air was compressed or introduced under compression into a...end of a cylinder, and then ignited while the volume remained constant and the pressure rose. Under this pressure the piston moved forward and the return... | |
 | William Macgregor (C.E.) - 1885 - 364 pages
...discharges the products of combustion. 2. An engine in which a mixture of gas and air is drawn into a pump, and is discharged by the return stroke into a reservoir...three methods are used. A thorough understanding of these, however, renders it possible, says Mr. Clerk, to judge the merits of any other. Types 1 and... | |
 | A. Mice - Indicators for steam-engines - 1888 - 200 pages
...discharges the products of combustion. (2) An engine in which a mixture of gas and air is drawn into a pump, and is discharged by the return stroke into a reservoir...forward, and the return stroke discharges the exhaust. Types 1 and 3 are explosion engines, the volume of the mixture remaining constant while theFIG. 107.... | |
 | Engineering - 1889 - 350 pages
...(3.) " An engine in which a mixture of gas and air is compressed or introduced under compression into a cylinder, and then ignited while the volume remains...forward, and the return stroke discharges the exhaust." Clerk then goes on to show the relative dynamic values of these three types as 21, 36 and 45 respectively,... | |
 | William Barnet Le Van - Indicators for steam-engines - 1889 - 524 pages
...Third: — An engine in which a mixture of gas and air is compressed, or introduced under pressure into a cylinder or space at the end of a cylinder,...and then ignited. While the volume remains constant the pressure increases. Under this increased pressure the piston moves forward, and on the return stroke... | |
 | Achille Auguste Cazin - Heat - 1897 - 302 pages
...the return stroke into a reservoir in a state of compression. From the reservoir the mixture enters a cylinder, being ignited as it enters without rise...forward, and the return stroke discharges the exhaust. Types i and 3 are explosion engines, the volume of the mixture remaining constant while the pressure... | |
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From the reservoir the mixture enters into a cylinder, being ignited as it enters, without rise in pressure, but simply increased in volume, and following the piston as it moves forward, the return stroke discharges the products of combustion. 3. An engine... 