US Patent: 652,909
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Gas Motor
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Patentee:
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Charles L. Mayhew (exact or similar names) - Newark, Essex County, NJ |
Manufacturer: |
Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Applied: |
Jun. 16, 1899 |
Granted: |
Jul. 03, 1900 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
Claim:
In a compound gas-motor comprising two high-pressure cylinders and a low-pressure cylinder, located side by side, parallel to each other, with the low-pressure cylinder between the others, and in which the said high-pressure cylinders alternately exhaust into said low-pressure cylinder during the instrokes of the alternate full strokes of the respective pistons of said high-pressure cylinders, the combination with said several cylinders, of a single head common thereto to close the front or inward ends thereof and containing two explosion-chambers located therein respectively opposite to and in open communication with said high-pressure cylinders, two ports respectively leading divergently therein from inlet-apertures at their outward ends on the front side of said head above the central cylinder to said explosion-chambers, two ports respectively leading convergently therein from said outward ends of said inlet-ports to said low-pressure cylinder and respectively. Yio communicating with said inlet-ports by apertures which are respectively located opposedly to arnd registering with said inlet-aper-tu res, and two valve-seats respectively located in said communication- apertures between said ports, together with two valves respectively working to said valve-seats to control communication between the respective high-pressure cylinders and the low-pressure cylinder. |
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