| US Patent: 661,599 
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| Oil Engine | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Joseph Day (exact or similar names) - Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset County,  England |  
 
 
 
 
| Manufacturer: |  | Not known to have been produced |  
 
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| Patent Dates: |  
| Applied: | Dec. 28, 1897 |  
| Granted: | Nov. 13, 1900 |  USPTO (New site tip)
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                        Joel Havens
 
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| Description: |  | Patented in Great Britain, 17 Aug., 1895, #15,514; in France, 13 Jul., 1896, #258,058; in Belgium, 13 Jul., 1896, #122,489; in Italy, 30 Sept., 1896, #42,729 and in Portugal, 16 Jul., 1897, #2,319. 
Claim:
 In a hydrocarbon-motor, an oil-reservoir, an air-compressing chamber, a passage connecting the two, means for checking backflow of air from the reservoir to the chamber, the piston-cylinder having oil and air feed ports respectively in communication with said oil-reservoir and air-compressing; chain ber, means controlling; ihe supply of oil to the cylinder, said oil-port proximate to, in line with and outwardly of said air-port, exhaust and air-intake ports in the cylinder practically opposite the aforesaid oil and air feed ports, said air-intake port adapted to bc placed in communication with the air-compressing chamber, the piston whose movements control all of the aforesaid ports and a suitable igniter. |  |