US Patent: 657,662
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| Controlling Means for Explosive-Engines
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Patentee:
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| Frederick A. La Roche (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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123/196R, 123/41R, 123/54.2, 123/594, 184/39.1, 200/4, 290/26, 290/35, 290/40R, 74/55, 74/569, 74/580, 74/6
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Mar. 14, 1900 |
| Granted: |
Sep. 11, 1900 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Claim:
My invention relates to gas-engines having multiple cylinders operated on the principle of what is generally known as the "Otto cycle" and using for their fuel a mixture of atmospheric air and an inflammable gas or some suitable hydrocarbon and ignited in the cylinders by an electrical igniting device and the object of amy invention is to effect a considerable reduction in the weight of such engines per horsepower of their capacity, to simplify the igniting device, and render it more efficacious and positive in its performance, while at the same time I have arranged said ignition device by my peculiar construction so as to cause ignition of the explosive mixture in the cylinders at a time best suited to the demands of load necessary to give the greatest torque on the crankshaft and to effect the greatest possible acceleration of the crankshaft under load by increasing the st artinig-torque as much per horsepower of the capacity of the engine as possible. It is also the object of my improvements in gas-engines to provide a ready and effective means for starting the engine automatically when at rest with a minimum of labor on the part of the operator and by a construction, which is both simple and effective and to devise a simpler and more effective means of governing engines of this class than any of which at the present time I am aware, as well as to provide a better, simpler, and more economical means of regulating the supply of fuel to the engine than that which has, to the best of my knowledge, been in vogue previous to my invention, all of which I attain by carrying out my improvements in the manner described in this specification and fully illustrated in the drawings forming part thereof. |
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