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1898 Article-Economic Motor Co., Economic Gas Engine |
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Gas, Gasoline and Oil Vapor Engines, 1898 pg 131 |
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10/13/2012 5:02:40 PM |
Many of the engines of the Economic Gas Engine Company are still in use. We illustrate their design as being one of the earlier types in use in the United States. It is of the two-cycle non-compression type of Lenoir.
The operation is as follows: The piston sweeps the products of a previous combustion out at the exhaust port by the piston following to a point when the inlet ports in the piston are just past the inlet ports in the cylinder, when the exhaust port closes and the suction of a charge commences and is continued until the inlet ports are closed by the outward stroke of the piston. At this point the firing ports of cylinder and piston are in line and the explosion takes place with all the ports closed to the end of the impulse stroke, when the exhaust port opens by a cam and the products of combustion are again swept out with the exception of the clearance space within the shell of the piston.
This engine, like others of its type made in Europe, is not considered economical as compared with the later engines of the four-cycle compression type. The various designs as made by different makers consume from 80 to 50 cubic feet of illuminating gas per horse-power hour, the latter figure being the rate for the Economic as made ten years since. |
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