US Patent: 660,338 - Petroleum or Like Internal-Combustion Engine


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US Patent: 660,338

Petroleum or Like Internal-Combustion Engine

Patentee:

George H. Rogers (exact or similar names) - Pretoria, South African Republic

USPTO Classifications:

123/145R, 123/347, 200/19.23, 73/494, 73/550

Tool Categories:

propulsion and energy : internal combustion engines

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Jul. 07, 1899
Granted:	Oct. 23, 1900

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Description:

Patented in Great Britain, 13 Dec., 1898, #26,311.

Claim:

In an internal-combustion engine, the combination of a cylinder, a piston therein, a combustion-chamber, an inlet-passage for liquid fuel, a passage communicating with the inlet in which the fuel is gasified, a passage leading therefrom to the combustion-chamber, a tortuous passage also extending therefrom to a safety or pressure-regulating outlet G', an exhaust-valve, a shaft, a loose cam thereon and a governor operating said cam and delaying closing of the exhaust-valve during a variable portion of the induction-stroke.