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1894 Article-Van Duzen Gas & Gasoline Engine Co., Vertical Gas Engine |
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Proceedings of the American Gas Institute, V 10 #2, Apr 1894, Appendix pgs. 51-52 |
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2/27/2014 4:30:32 PM |
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This is a Cincinnati engine, designed by Mr. B. C. Van Duzen, and first put on the market about '88 by the Van Duzen Gas and Gasoline Engine Co., now of 202 East 3d St., Cincinnati, Ohio. The early engine was of Otto cycle, vertical form, the piston working downwards into a dust proof crank chamber, containing a body of oil and water for lubrication, similar to the Pittsburg form, below. Flame ignition was used and a governor operated by belt regulated by reducing the amount of a constant gas mixture. Direct acting poppet valves were a good feature that required no lubrication. Sizes from 1 to 10 H. P. were made. In the later designs of the engine, horizontal forms are made in sizes from 2 to 30 H. P. and with tube ignition. Spring poppet valves, operated by cams, continue, but gear wheels replace the earlier belt for driving ball governor. The engine is especially pushed for the use of gasoline, and also, mounted on a wagon frame, as a portable farming machine. The makers claim to have put out “in the neighborhood of 1,000" of their various forms. Cassier’s Magazine for July, 1893, gives a detailed description of this make. |
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1894 Van Duzen Gas & Gasoline Engine Co., Vertical Gas Engine
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