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1894 Article-Continental Gas Engine Co., Gas Engine |
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Proceedings of the American Gas Institute, V 10 #2, Apr 1894, Appendix pg. 41 |
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2/23/2014 7:36:19 PM |
Another of the early engines on the United States market is that known as the “Continental,” brought out by the Continental Gas Engine Co. (and made by the Delamater Iron Works Co.) of New York, in I883. Constructed under the “Gaume and other patents”, it was a cheap edition of the typical small horizontal compression (Otto cycle) engine. The combined admission and exhaust valve was a circular plate or disc, driven by cogs and bevel gear from the shaft, concentric with and located against the rear cylinder heads, having suitable apertures communicating at the proper point of revolution with the interior of the cylinder. A square water jacket encased the cylinder; the ignition was by flame.
The engine was made in sizes of ½, 1, and 1½ H. P., and a hundred or two possibly were used, chiefly in the vicinity of New York, for pumping and driving coffee mills, etc. Some are now in local junk shops. The operation was such that there was probably a loss of fresh gas through the exhaust, and the chances are that the rotary plate disc valve gave trouble. It has now long since been out of the market. Henry Davison, Jr., of 45 Broadway, New York, can give further information. |
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1894 Continental Gas Engine Co., Gas Engine
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