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1898 Article-Maxwell Wyeth & Co., Russ-Marine Motor |
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Gas, Gasoline and Oil Vapor Engines, 1898 pg 343 |
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10/27/2012 8:56:59 PM |
The Russ Motor
The motors built by Maxwell, Wyeth & Company, 65 Delavan Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., are of the two-cycle type, having a closed cylinder and stuffing-box around the piston-rod with guide-slides. The design is in the inverted vertical form and very compact, with a special view of its use for a marine motor. All the parts requiring adjustment are exposed and
easy to handle. The cylinder has an exhaust-port uncovered at the end of the impulse stroke; a charging port also in the cylinder opposite to the exhaust-port, and a supplementary charging port at the head of the cylinder with a self-acting valve in a communicating passage outside of the cylinder to the compression end, where also enters the charge of vapor and air from the mixer and governor-valve.
The downward stroke of the piston compressed the charge drawn in by its upward stroke; at the moment of the exhaust relief by the opening of the exhaust-port, by the descent of the piston, the compressed charge beneath the piston is instantly transferred through the side passage inlet port and supplementary valve at the cylinder head to the impulse end of the cylinder; is compressed by the return stroke and ignited by the electrode.
The governor is located in the fly-wheel and regulates the inlet charging valve by a rock shaft and connecting-rod to a rotary-valve in the single cylinder engines, and by push-rods and throttles in the duplex engines. The single cylinder engines are built in sizes from 3 to 15 H.-p.; the double cylinder engines in sizes from 10 to 25 H. P. |
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1898 Maxwell Wyeth & Co., Russ-Marine Motor
1898 Maxwell Wyeth & Co., Duplex Russ Motor
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