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1893 Article-Fuel Gas & Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh Vertical Gas Engine |
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Cassier's Magazine Oct 1893, pg. 438 & Proceedings of the American Gas Institute, V 10 #2, Apr 1894, Appendix pg. 79 |
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3/11/2014 1:10:27 PM |
This engine, designed by Messrs. Albert Schmidt and J. Chas. Beckfield, and now (1893) being put upon the market by the “Fuel Gas and Mfg. Co." of Pittsburg, Pa., at first glance at once suggests the well known form of Westinghouse steam engine, having the single acting twin cylinders, working downwards in an enclosed crank chamber", and the features of self-lubrication, provision for taking up wear, freedom from dust, etc., that are the distinguishing points of the Westinghouse engine. In cycle each cylinder is the Otto, the ignition is electric, the valves of the poppet form. The usual water jacket is used and in addition the water and oil that for lubrication become thoroughly churned up and splashed into every portion of the crank chambers, serve as a water cooling jacket to the pistons. A “ measuring piston valve " is used, to feed a constant explosive mixture to the two cylinders alternately. This in turn is regulated by a governor that adjusts the amount of such mixture as may be required. The engine is as yet too new to have accepted records of operation. The makers state that it will be made in sizes from ½ to 200 H.P.; that it will be especially pushed for the driving of dynamos coupled direct and that its strong points are “ compactness, efficiency, speed, regulation and mechanical construction."
The design calls for very few external moving parts or detail and seems in many ways attractive, and its work will doubtless be watched with interest. |
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1893 Fuel Gas & Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh Vertical Gas Engine
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