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. Dealing with the various parts in detail and the various types of engines and also the use of different kinds of fuel.Rathbun, John B.
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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. Dealing with the various parts in detail and the various types of engines and also the use of different kinds of fuel.
Rathbun, John B.
Internal combustion engines; Traction-engines
Fig. 63 of the accompanying drawings is a sectional side elevation of
the engine, which, it will be seen, is similar in general disposition to
the usual arrangement of the rotating cylinder type. In this particular
case, however, the short end A of the stationary crankshaft is reduced
in diameter at B, and on this part are mounted ball bearings C carrying
the circular casing of a rotating centrifugal blower D. To the inner end
of the hub of this blower is attached a gear wheel E, the teeth of which
mesh with small intermediate pinions carried on a spider F attached to
the crankshaft. These pinions are in turn driven by an internally
toothed ring G attached to the hub of the crank case H. Thus the blower
D is driven in the opposite direction to the crank-case and at a higher
speed. In the interior of the blower casing radial blades K are
provided.
[Illustration:
Fig. 64. Farcot Fan Plates.
]
A hollow annular casing L is bolted to the cylinders, and communicates
with their interiors by means of inlet ports M covered and uncovered by
the pistons.
The blower casing D has on either side circumferentially flanged rings
N, which are a running fit in circular register slots provided in the
annular casing L and its cover plate P, in order to provide a gas-tight
joint between the opposite revolving casings D and L. Fan blades Q are
also provided in the casing L to accelerate still further the incoming
gas. The arrangement of the two sets of blades is made clear in the
sectional sketch (Fig. 64). It will be realized that by means of this
compound blower device a considerable pressure can be attained.
The crankshaft is drilled to provide a feed for the gasoline, which is
atomized by a device R in the large central opening of the blower casing
D by means of pressure fed from the annular casing L through suitable
leads S.
As each piston nears the bottom of its stroke, exhaust ports T, provided
with expansion cones for the purpose of increasing the velocity of the
exhaust gases, are opened. The inlet port M is then uncovered, and the
compressed charge rushes into the combustion chamber.
The general design of the engine is made plain by Fig. 63, but there is
one other point to which reference should be made, and that is the
provision of rings V, one on either side of the cylinders, to enhance
the strength of the construction.
Although the difficulty of compression appears to have been cleverly
tackled in this invention, the possibility of the compressed mixture in
the inlet casing and blower becoming ignited at the moment of admission
by a residue of exhaust gas in the combustion chamber still exists.
However, the effect of such a backfire should not prove quite so serious
as in some designs. Apart from other considerations, owing to the large
area of the blower intake, such an occurrence should merely have a more
or less elastic braking effect.
(60) Gnome Radial Two Stroke Motor.
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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. Dealing with the various parts in detail and the various types of engines and also the use of different kinds of fuel. — John Shaqi
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