US Patent: 634,509 - Gas Engine


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US Patent: 634,509

Gas Engine

Patentee:

Thomas J. Sturtevant (exact or similar names) - Framingham, Middlesex County, MA

USPTO Classifications:

123/334, 123/65VB, 123/74AA, 123/90.14

Tool Categories:

propulsion and energy : internal combustion engines : gas and gasoline engines

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Applied:	May 13, 1898
Granted:	Oct. 10, 1899

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Description:

Claim:

My invention relates to gas-engines in which the expansive properties of gas, commingled air and gas, or vaporized hydrocarbon are utilized to move the piston and drive the crankshaft of the engine, the particular type of engine to which my invention belongs being that class known as "explosive-engines", so called for the reason that the gas which is utilized to drive the piston is expanded by being exploded at predetermined times and under certain conditions, so as to produce a power-stroke of the' piston.