US Patent: 666,838
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| Explosive-Engine
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Patentee:
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| Horace L. Arnold (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Apr. 02, 1898 |
| Granted: |
Jan. 29, 1901 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Abstract:
The object of this invention is to produce a gas or vapor engine better adapted for driving road-vehicles than those hitherto constructed which are up to the present time mainly operated on the Otto cycle and make three idle strokes to one working stroke, the one of the idle strokes, which compresses the charge requiring considerable stored-up energy from some source outside of the motor itself. Hence the gas or vapor engine, although very largely and successfully used for road-driving, because it is very simple and has no boiler, must be larger and heavier in its cylinders than if more of its strokes were effective and must also have a flywheel to store up the power for making the charge-compressing stroke of the piston. The gas or vapor engine as now used has also the fault of being too hot, and hence requiring the carriage of water for cooling certain parts which would otherwise become ingrievously heated.
Claim:
The combination of a vibrating cylinder and its piston, a pressure-supply pipe for said cylinder, and an open-ended cooling-chamber surrounding said supply-pipe. |
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