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National Meter Co.
New York, NY, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Steam and Gas Engines

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Patent Number	Date	Title	Name	City	Description
271,902	Feb. 06, 1883	Gas Engine	Lewis H. Nash	Brooklyn, NY
278,168	May. 22, 1883	Combined Gas Engine and Air Compressor	Lewis H. Nash	Brooklyn, NY
278,255	May. 22, 1883	Gas Engine	Lewis H. Nash	Brooklyn, NY
278,256	May. 22, 1883	Gas Engine	Lewis H. Nash	Brooklyn, NY
289,019	Nov. 27, 1883	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
289,691	Dec. 04, 1883	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
289,692	Dec. 04, 1883	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
289,693	Dec. 04, 1883	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
312,494	Feb. 17, 1885	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
312,496	Feb. 17, 1885	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
312,497	Feb. 17, 1885	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
312,498	Feb. 17, 1885	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
312,499	Feb. 17, 1885	Igniter for Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
331,078	Nov. 24, 1885	Explosive Vapor Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
331,079	Nov. 24, 1885	Explosive Vapor Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
331,080	Nov. 24, 1885	Method of Operating Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
331,210	Nov. 24, 1885	Explosive Vapor Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
334,039	Jan. 12, 1886	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
334,038	Jan. 12, 1886	Governor for Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
334,040	Jan. 12, 1886	Method of Feeding and Operating Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
334,041	Jan. 12, 1886	Method of Operating Explosive Vapor Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
341,934	May. 18, 1886	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
341,935	May. 18, 1886	Method of Operating Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
386,208	Jul. 17, 1888	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
386,210	Jul. 17, 1888	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
386,211	Jul. 17, 1888	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY	Application was renewed on 05 Oct, 1886 and again on 21 Jun, 1887.
386,212	Jul. 17, 1888	Ignitor for Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY	Application renewed 21 Jun 1887.
386,213	Jul. 17, 1888	Ignitor for Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY	Application renewed 14 Jul 1887.
386,214	Jul. 17, 1888	Method of Igniting the Charges in Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY	Application renewed 14 Jul, 1887.
386,215	Jul. 17, 1888	Ignitor for Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY	Application renewed 14 Jul, 1887.
386,216	Jul. 17, 1888	Ignitor and Supply Valve for Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY	Application renewed 14 Jul, 1887.
401,452	Apr. 16, 1889	Fuel Mixing Device for Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	Brooklyn, NY
401,453	Apr. 16, 1889	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	South Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT
418,418	Dec. 31, 1889	Method of Operating Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	South Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT	Claims: Having thus described an organized and operative engine in which the several features of novelty of my present invention are illustrated and are shown in combination, I specifically claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent the following: 1. The method substantially herein described of operating a gas-engine, which consists in compressing the charge by an independent compressor and controlling the speed of said compressor by means of the pressure of the charge so compressed. 2. The method substantially herein described of operating a gas-engine, which consists in compressing a charge into a reservoir and in controlling the speed of the engine by variations in the pressure of the said compressed charge. 3. The method substantially herein described of operating gas engines in series, which consists in compressing the charge by an independent engine, operating said engine by a portion of the charge so compressed, and operating one or more additional engines by the other portions of said charge. 4. The method substantially herein described of operating a gas engine, which consists in supplying a compressed charge, effecting the compression of the charge by the use of a part of said charge, and controlling the amount of such compression at an inverse ratio to and by the pressure of the charge. 5. The method substantially herein described of operating a gas-engine, which consists in compressing the charge by an independent compressor, controlling the speed of said compressor by closing the exhaust at various points in the back-stroke of the piston of the same, and determining such points of closing in accordance with the degree of compression of the charge. 6. The method substantially herein described of operating a gas-engine, which consists in compressing the charge by an independent compressor, controlling the speed of said compressor by closing the exhaust at various points in the back-stroke of the same, thus cushioning said back-stroke by the compression of the waste gas, and controlling the duration. of such closing or cut-off in a corresponding ratio to and by the pressure of such charge. 7. The method substantially herein described of operating a gas-engine, which consists in compressing the charge by an independent compressor, operating said compressor by a part of the compressed charge, controlling the speed of said compressor by cushioning the back-stroke of its piston by the waste gas, and controlling the force of such cushioning in a corresponding ratio to and by the pressure of the compressed charge. 8. The method of operating a gas-engine substantially herein described, which consists in opening and maintaining without interruption a free communication between the combustion chamber and a supplemental chamber during the first strokes of the piston at the starting of the engine, whereby to enlarge the compression and expansion area of said chamber, and subsequently closing and maintaining closed said communication while the engine is under way, substantially as described.
418,419	Dec. 31, 1889	Igniter for Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	South Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT	Claims: 1. In a permanent lighter for gas-engines, a suitable device, substantially as described and shown, by means of which a permanent whirling flame for igniting the combustible charge is produced. 2. In a gas engine, a suitable device, substantially as described and shown, by means of which a permanent whirling flame for igniting the combustible charge is produced, combined with a chamber inclosing said flame. 3. In a gas-engine, a compression-chamber, a reservoir constantly in free communication I therewith, and a reservoir in valved communication therewith, combined with a lighter supplied from the combustible charge contained in said valved reservoir, substantially as described. 4 In an igniter device, the combination of a valve-chamber with a communicating ignition-chamber having an inclined relation to said valve-chamber, and a puppet-valve controlling the communication of said ignition chamber with a permanent lighter and with the cylinder charge, substantially as described. 5. In an igniter, device, the combination of a valve chamber, and all ignition-chamber with a suitable device, substantially as described by means of which a permanent whirling flame for igniting the combustible charge is maintained within said ignition chamber, said ignition-chamber being formed in the casing opening into the side of said valve-chamber, with a puppet-valve controlling the supply and exhaust ports of the valve-chamber and the said ignition-chamber. 6 The combination, in an igniter device for gas engines of a valve chamber with an ignition-chamber formed in the valve-casing opening into said valve-chamber and having one or more circumferential grooves, and a valve controlling the supply and exhaust ports of both chambers, substantially as de scribed. 7 In an igniter device for gas engines, the combination, with a valve for operating said device, of a valve-casing having a valve chamber open at one end, a permanent lighter chamber open at one end, and an ignition-chamber open at one end, the said chambers intersecting, substantially as described, for the purpose specified. 8. In combination, in an igniter device for gas-engines, a valve casing having a valve chamber open at its upper end, an ignition chamber opening into said valve-chamber at its side and a permanent-lighter chamber opening into the top of said valve-chamber, and a valve adapted to operate to close said valve and ignition chambers, substantially as described. 9; In an igniter device for gas engines a chamber containing a combustible charge, a suitable device, substantially as shown, by periodically opening communication between the chamber containing the intermittent lighter, the chamber containing the permanent lighter, and the charge. 10. In an igniter device for gas engines, a valve-containing casing having a permanent lighter chamber opening into the valve-chamber and having a tangential passage communicating with a source of supply, substantially as described, for the purpose specified. 11. In an ignition device for gas engines, a chamber containing a valve-containing casing having an ignition-chamber provided with a tangential passage leading into the cylinder supply passage, and a permanent-lighter chamber-having a, tangential passage leading to a constant source of supply, substantially as described. 12, In an igniter device for gas engines, a valve-containing casing having three intersecting chambers b, b', and d, the chambers b and d opening into the chamber b', combined with a valve adapted to control the chambers b and b' and the passage e, as herein set forth. 13. In an igniter device for gas engines, a valve containing casing having three intersecting chambers b, b', and d, the chamber b opening into the side of the chamber b', and the case part forming the chamber d extending into the open end of the chamber b'6, combined with a valve adapted to telescope with the said chamber forming case part d in closing the chambers b and d, substantially as described, for the purpose specified, 14. In an igniter device for gas engines, a valve-containing casing having three intersecting chambers; a valve-chamber, an ignition-chamber, and a permanent lighter chamber; the chamber d having a tangential supply passage d, and the chamber b having a tangential side opening intersecting a semicircular passage b4, having a tangential branch leading to the cylinder supply-passage, as herein set forth. 15. In an igniter device for gas engines, a valve-containing casing having three intersecting chambers, an enclosed permanent lighter chamber provided with a passage adapted to direct the supply of gas and flame in a whirling course therein, an ignition-chamber having a passage adapted to direct the supply of gas and flame therein in a whirling direction, and a valve-chamber within which the whirling flame-currents meet, combined with a valve for operating the igniter, substantially as described. 16. In an ignition device for gas engines, a permanent-lighter device consisting of a hollow cylinder having a tangential supply passage and opening into the valve-chamber, whereby under the pressure of the inflow of gas the flame is projected from said permanent lighter as the means of lighting the charge, substantially as described. 17. In an igniter device for gas engines, a valve-containing casing having an ignition chamber in perpetual communication with the supply-passage for the engine, in combination with a case part forming an enclosed permanent-lighter chamber having a constant supply entering said chamber tangentially, substantially as described. 18. In an igniter device for gas engines, a valve-containing casing having an ignition chamber intersecting the valve-chamber at an angle at one side of the latter and having the angle of such junction recessed or cut away, for the purpose stated. 19. In an igniter device for gas engines, the valve-casing having the valve-chamber b', opening into a top exhaust-passage d2, an ignition-chamber b, opening into the side of the valve-chamber, and having a hollow cylinder depending from the top of the casing into the said valve-chamber and having suitable supply-passages for said chambers, in combination with a valve adapted to operate the ports of said chambers, substantially as described. 20. In an igniter device for gas engines, a permanent lighter consisting of a hollow cylinder having a tangential supply-passage, said cylinder arranged to open into the valve chamber which is in communication with the outer air, substantially as described. 21. The combination, in an igniter device for gas engines, of a compressor for the gaseous mixture and a reservoir in valved communication therewith, with a valve-containing casing having an ignition-chamber and a permanent lighter chamber which is in communication with said reservoir, substantially as described. 22. A permanent igniter for gas engines, consisting of an enclosed chamber having a tangential inlet and a lighting-passage closed by a removable cap, substantially as described.
418,417	Dec. 31, 1889	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	South Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT
563,051	Jun. 30, 1896	Igniter for Gas Engines	Lewis Hallock Nash	South Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT
576,604	Feb. 09, 1897	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	South Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT
578,112	Mar. 02, 1897	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	South Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT
583,627	Jun. 01, 1897	Gas Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	South Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT
583,628	Jun. 01, 1897	Gas or Oil Engine	Lewis Hallock Nash	South Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT
658,858	Oct. 02, 1900	Gas Engine	Lewis H. Nash	South Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT	Claim: In a gas-engine a plurality of puppet-valves having parallel stems, rocking arms respectively pivoted to said stems at one end and to fixed bearings at the other, said rocking arms overlapping one another, and cams by means of which the said rocking arms and valve-stems are operated.