US Patent: 666,260
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| Gas Engine
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Patentee:
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| Leopold F. Burger (exact or similar names) - Anderson, Madison County, IN |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jul. 01, 1899 |
| Granted: |
Jan. 22, 1901 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Abstract:
This invention relates to a gas or similar to motive power engine, and particularly to the type of engine embodying a cylinder closed at both ends and having therein a piston, one end of which forms a pump and the opposite end a compressing device for the fuel Lor elements of combustion. Mu1ch difficulty has heretofore been experienced in regulating and maintaining an engine of the above mentioned construction at a uniform speed and also preventing the large amount of loss or waste of the motive fluid. Furthermore, owing to imperfections of the mixing and coin- pressing devices, the motive fluid has a tendency to separate into strata of different specific gravities, which results in a frequent failure to ignite and in other cases a premature explosion.
Claim:
A gas-engine comprising a cylinder, a passage communicating with the opposite eads thereof, a piston within said cylinder, a valve-casing at one end of said cylinder having at opposite sides of its center a feed-passage and an igniting device and provided with an intermediate inlet-opening communicating with said cylinder, a reciprocating valve in said casing adapted to alternately cut off the feed-passage and establish communication with the igniting device and the inlet opening, and means for automatically controlling the operation of said valve. |
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