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1898 Article-Foos Gas Engine Co., Gas & Gasoline Engine |
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Gas, Gasoline and Oil Vapor Engines, 1898 pg 165 |
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10/22/2012 12:34:35 PM |
The Foos Gas and Gasoline Engine
The engines of the Foos Company are built in the horizontal and vertical style, and of 16 sizes from 2½ to 100 B. H. P.
They are all of the four-cycle compression type, with poppet valves. Fig. 97 represents the horizontal engine as connected for the use of gasoline.
The exhaust valve on the opposite side of the cylinder in the cut is lifted by a rock shaft and arms operated by a connecting-rod inside of the engine base, leading to a cam on the reducing-gear. The adjustable spring closes the exhaust valve. The regulation is made by mischarges of gas or gasoline by an interrupter device on the charge push-rod leading from a cam on the secondary gear. The governor L is of the horizontal centrifugal type, driven by a band from a pulley on the main shaft. The movement of the governor operates a lever, which makes a hit-or-miss contact between the push rod and the pump rod, as may be traced by inspection of the cut (Fig. 97).
When gas is used, the pump is removed and a lever attachment made in place of the pump rod, which operates a gas valve for intermittent discharges into the air-inlet pipe, in the same manner that the gasoline injection is made, and controlled in the same way. |
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1898 Foos Gas Engine Co. Gas & Gasoline Engine
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