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1894 Article-Globe Gas Engine Co., "Union" Gas Engine |
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Proceedings of the American Gas Institute, V 10 #2, Apr 1894, Appendix pgs. 68-69 |
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3/9/2014 9:38:04 PM |
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The combination of the Pacific and Regan companies, already mentioned, gave birth to the Union engine, as the resulting standard form for stationary motor work. Designed by Messrs. Daly and Barrett in '92, it is of horizontal type from 6 to 25 H. P., using the Otto cycle and poppet valves. The electric ignition has a “wiping" action, operated not by a point on the piston, as in the Pacific, but by external cam driver rods and arms giving an oscillating motion to the electrodes to make and break contact. The governing in this engine and in the Pacific is by an action that closing the admission, opens the exhaust, allowing the engine to run on free atmospheric pressure in the cylinder, until the gradual return to speed, restores normal feed. This conduces to economy as the minimum friction thus obtained enables the longest running before a fresh charge of gas is required. This engine is handled by the Globe Gas Engine Company, in the East, of 22 South 15th St., Phila., and to summarize regarding this Company, it may be said that it now controls the Regan, the Pacific, and the Union forms of engines, under some 17 or more patents. The Regan form is no longer built. The “Pacific" covers-small vertical powers and boat propulsion; the Union, the horizontal form for stationary ordinary motor purposes. All these engines use gas or gasoline as necessary, and the claim of the makers is that they put out an engine in efficiency and mechanical workmanship, second to none. It is stated that a total of some 1,600 Of the several forms above have been placed, aggregating 10,000 H. P., mostly so far, in Pacific territory. The headquarters there are the Union Gas Engine Co., 221 First St., San Francisco. |
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1894 Globe Gas Engine Co., "Union" Gas Engine
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