Piston rods are preferably hardened on a horizontal machine independent of the machining condition of the end face. |
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Piston engines of the Second World War were of two types, air-cooled radial engines and liquid-cooled in-line engines. |
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Bernstein studied harmony and counterpoint with Walter Piston at Harvard. |
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Members of The Piston Rings youth motorcycle display team and Nuneaton Juggling Club gave a demonstration of their skills. |
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Piston With One Piston Pin And Two Circlips For Compressor To 1 Piston Elgi. |
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Set Consisting Of 2 Compression Piston Rings And 2 Oil Piston Rings To Rdso Specn. |
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Crosman is the exclusive world-wide licensee for Bushmaster airsoft, Marlin airguns and Marine Airsoft products and is the exclusive licensee of Nitro Piston Technology. |
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Cylinder Consists Of Piston, Piston Rod, Stuffing Box, Nut, Seal Kit. |
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Loaded with pellets ranging from BB all the way to 9s, Long Range shotshells utilize the Plower Piston wad for maximum efficiency and tighter patterns at longer ranges. |
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In a diesel engine a fuel air mixture is injected into a cylinder where it is compressed by a piston. |
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Barring the tyres and tubes, each part of his cycle, the valve, piston etc, was made of bamboo. |
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This type of powerplant was ideal for lower performance aircraft that could substitute their piston engines for the turboprop. |
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Heavy engine work on the jet, turboprops and piston aircraft is contracted out. |
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Before this he had built up lots of time in piston and turbine twins as well as owning a Pitts S2A and S2B which he thoroughly enjoyed. |
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Some buyers will be moving up from piston singles and twins, raising the question of pilot qualification. |
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Their target buyer was someone who would be moving up from either a high-end piston single or twin. |
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Approximately 20 CC of an extrudable dough-like material is placed in a cylinder, and a lever piston forces the material into a two-piece mold. |
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Common types of compressors are single-acting piston, double-acting piston, and centrifugal. |
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I could recognize the changes being made to the boilers and steam lines where they were intending to install secondary piston chambers. |
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The lever the operator holds controls a hydraulically actuated piston that connects to this sleeve gear. |
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As in a piston engine, overlap is the short circuit by which spent gasses invade the fuel-air charge. |
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Abrasive materials like ground botanicals and copper powders shorten the working life of a piston but are easier on a diaphragm pump. |
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A self-winding hose reel called ReelSmart lets you flip a switch to divert the water flow from the hose to a piston engine inside the drum. |
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Air compressed on the upstroke helps push the piston back down, minimizing energy loss. |
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Fuel is transformed into energy that pushes down on a piston that turns a crankshaft that turns a drive shaft. |
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One seemed to live and dream, aircraft and to this day I automatically crane skywards at the sound of a piston engine. |
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Variable displacement piston pumps are just icing on the cake of an already flourishing miniexcavator market. |
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To reduce friction the con-rod is axially restrained by the piston instead of the crankpins. |
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They replaced the old radial air-cooled and liquid-cooled engines with a high-compression piston engine. |
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The combination is a small, low-pressure steam boiler feeding a piston engine or turbine. |
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Down-hole cylinders are usually larger diameter than the rising main and they contain the foot valve and the piston. |
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Hitherto, helicopters had been powered by piston engines and this had brought many cooling problems. |
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An old generation piston engine is nowhere near as technically reliable as a new generation high tech turbine aircraft engine. |
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This enables the ball-screw spindle to accommodate small errors in alignment with the piston, without causing the piston to be pushed sideways. |
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Pushing the piston higher into the cylinder compresses the air-fuel charge more tightly and produces more efficient combustion. |
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The basic design of the aviation piston engine hasn't changed drastically in decades. |
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When a cylinder fires, the piston rod is at an angle and can immediately turn the crankshaft via the cam at the end of the pivoting arm. |
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A hydraulic hammer is basically a hydraulically powered reciprocating piston inside of a body. |
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These were made steam-tight with four packing rings, so greatly reducing the contact area between the walls and the piston. |
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In large part this was because their efficiency in converting fuel to useable energy was low compared to piston engines and steam turbines. |
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The engineer on the throttle slowly opened it up and the machine sniffed, then slowly the piston arm came down, up again. |
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A thin oscillating membrane of nickel-titanium moves fluid that in turn drives a piston. |
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These pressure distributions apply a side force to the hammer piston which strives to center the hammer piston in the guide. |
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Jet engines have supplanted piston engines in commercial aircraft due to more power, greater speed, and better all-around performance. |
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The central control circuit then sends a control signal to the driver's circuit for the accumulator piston. |
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The second combustion chamber has a reciprocating piston 15 mounted therein. |
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At the moment, the closest most engine analysts get is taking average readings from the piston crank and the oil sump. |
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More traditionally, wood gas has been used to drive internal combustion piston engines. |
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The downside is that tiny amounts of oil can force their way up past the piston ring into the combustion chamber. |
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To determine the compression ratio of an internal combustion engine, compare the greatest volume of the piston cylinder to the lowest volume. |
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Then, to compensate for the oversize valve reliefs, the piston dome is made taller to produce the advertised compression ratio. |
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But the piston restricts the amount the gate can open, so the gate is be propped open halfway by a bright orange traffic cone. |
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Modified piston valves were also fitted to counteract the high coal consumption as the originals became worn. |
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Adkins' solution was to affix his gas piston to the standard recoil spring plug. |
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If you run out of oil, the piston cannot move up and down freely in the cylinder, and the engine will seize. |
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Like in a car engine, the gas released from a manhole explosion could push on a piston and turn a crankshaft. |
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Regardless of the technology, hybrids still rely on the piston engine as a primary power source. |
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You need a piston, a manifold, then you need an engine block, a carburetor, a distributer, this that and the other thing. |
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Water doesn't compress and the piston in effect hits a wall, bending or breaking a con rod and possibly shattering the engine block. |
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Compress the spring on the exhaust valve and measure the movement required for the valve to contact the piston. |
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A piston engine would use too much fuel, so he thought of using a gas turbine. |
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The next thing we did was remove the cylinder head, which revealed a piston nicely seized in the barrel. |
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The research integrates seismic interpretation, sedimentology and biostratigraphy from previously collected seismic data and piston cores. |
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Once the piston hits the bottom of its stroke, the exhaust valve opens and the exhaust leaves the cylinder to go out the tail pipe. |
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A longitudinal wave is characterized by particle motion in the same direction as wave propagation, as from a piston source. |
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This was the end for piston engine airliners, as the new jets soon dominated the commercial airline industry. |
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A steam locomotive, for example, is a machine that converts the reciprocating motion of a piston into the rotation of its driving wheels. |
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Unlike a piston engine, where reciprocating parts move up and down, the twin rotors in the Mazda just spin around. |
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There was new wooden lagging on her right hand cylinder, but no jacketing, and the front head and piston had been removed. |
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These oscillating sound waves in the traveling-wave engine drive the piston of a linear alternator that generates electricity. |
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The swept volume is the amount of volume that the piston moves through as it moves up and down. |
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It calls for the top dead centre of the piston motion to be kept fixed, while the bottom dead centre is varied. |
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Random leak testing is also recommended because any cylinder leakage indicates a bent valve or a faulty piston ring. |
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However, the motor's flanged cylinder liners help provide 94 mm cylinder bores, creating a full 5.0 liters of piston displacement. |
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Four years were spent researching cylinder liner and piston materials that would match these varying requirements. |
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The back and forth movement of each piston was translated into rotary motion by a crank shaft. |
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Wankle rotary engines use the Otto cycle, but they do it in a very different way than four-stroke piston engines. |
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The pressure from this steam forced the piston upward once it was high enough to counteract the weight and atmospheric pressure on the cylinder. |
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The up and down motion of the piston in the cylinder is transmitted by the beam to the piston in the water pump. |
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This also means that the beam can be balanced since the piston does equal work on both motions. |
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The operation of the rotary engine means that it is not prone to backfiring on hydrogen, as conventional piston engines are. |
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The early rotary engines were well known for being thirsty and wearing out the seals on the rotary piston. |
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I always find it unnerving to throttle back large piston aero engines to idle in flight, and the Kestrel was no exception. |
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When the trigger is pulled, the compressed air expands and drives the piston forward. |
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The force of the resulting explosion pushes the piston down the cylinder for the exhaust stroke. |
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The resulting explosion pushes a piston, which is attached to a connecting rod. |
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The cylinders have to be right and their fit with the piston rings perfect. |
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Therefore I find it much more likely that the piston position in this case was dislodged by external force. |
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After the spark plug has fired and ignited the mixture, excess gases are pushed by the piston out of the cylinder towards the exhaust system. |
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Manure can be transferred to storage by gravity, piston pump, pneumatic pump, or centrifugal pump. |
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There are also modifications to the con rod and piston assembly aimed at reliability rather than outright performance. |
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Transfer manure and load the storage with a tractor-mounted front-end loader, elevator stacker, and solid piston pump. |
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This fortuitous design confined the damage to just the number six cylinder, piston, and connecting rod. |
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This is achieved if the top dead centre of the piston motion is kept fixed and the bottom dead centre is varied. |
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There is also a new connecting rod that is combined with a revised piston design. |
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Fire investigators found that a connecting rod had separated from a piston and broke through the outer engine casing. |
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The translational motion of the piston is then converted into rotational motion via the connecting rod and the crankshaft bearings. |
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The bottleneck effect appears in the situation where a piston in a chamber connected to a capillary abruptly puts a fluid in motion. |
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Stainless steel piston rods and external hydraulic pipes are fitted for maximum durability. |
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A common analogy of consolidation is that of a frictionless piston pushing against a spring in a cylinder full of water. |
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That change is equivalent to the piston movement in a car's engine which ultimately drives the wheels round. |
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Once the sucker is attached to an object, any force that pulls the sucker away from the surface tends to lift the piston. |
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As his target was approached, the left engine conked out again with the piston rod crashing through the block. |
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A typical rebuild is new pistons, rods, main and rod bearings, piston rings, and a valve job. |
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The lower line feeds the big end bearings and the upper line the main bearings and piston cooling jets. |
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Friction is also found in bearings, piston rings, transmission and rear-end gears, and a host of other car parts. |
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In the medical and pharmaceutical sectors, Amiloy 22 can be used to fabricate shaft bushings, bearings, piston rings, pump parts, and slide pads. |
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Meanwhile, hydrodynamic lubrication in plain bearings and piston rings can be analysed in seconds. |
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This overbalance is calculated as a function of the reciprocating mass of the piston, piston rod, cross-head, and front portion of the main rod. |
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They are going to do multi-cores off the aft deck and piston coring off the side A-frame. |
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On the downward stroke of the piston, the intake valve opens to release fuel into the combustion chamber, then closes. |
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During the filling stroke of the accumulator piston, the compressed fluid is drawn from the primary piston. |
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During the compression stroke, the piston moves up the cylinder, squeezing this fuel-air mix. |
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Each explosion would release enough force to push the piston. |
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The bore is often pitted and the gas piston is usually corroded. |
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The technology behind this superb aircraft was the turbojet engine, which produced more power than piston engines and created less drag than a propeller. |
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In one exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a pressurization cylinder, and a piston which is slidable within the cylinder to pressurize a gas. |
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Shelling is often done at primitive factories, sometimes using nothing more complicated than a hand-operated lever and piston arrangement resembling a gigantic garlic press. |
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Something was broken and Bill and I suspected he'd blown a piston ring. |
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A hydraulically actuated piston applies braking force via pads that operate on the outside and inside faces of each disc, providing four friction surfaces. |
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Paul stationed himself in the bedroom window, and I was in the garden and the boiler had reached working pressure so I flipped the piston to start it. |
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Each track is driven by a separate hydraulic circuit consisting of one variable-displacement piston pump connected by hose and couplings to a piston motor. |
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However, a piston liner in the main engine failed during the voyage north. |
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Irreparable damage had been caused to the A7 rocker gear, cylinder head, cylinder liner, piston, connecting rod, big end bearing and the trombone. |
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The British-built Napier Gazelle turboshaft engine produced 1,450-shaft horsepower at a reduced weight and fuel flow vis-a-vis a radial piston engine. |
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His engine did include a piston but he used a counterweight to extract it. |
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On the other hand, black wet glazed plug is caused by the burned oil leaking past the piston rings or valve guides as well as burning in the cylinder. |
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The four-stroke engine shows the cross-section of an engine complete with all functions such as fuel intake, ignition, piston compression, exhaust, and so on. |
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The stroke is the distance that the piston moves up and down. |
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The piston is connected to the crank shaft by a connecting rod. |
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A Langevin piston was used to maintain the pressure at 1 atm. |
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Pressure was adjusted by changing the weight placed on the piston. |
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In cars, the ignition of the petrol-air mixture in the cylinder is caused by a spark, and the combustion reaction causes the piston to be pushed down. |
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Within seconds, my eyes were streaming and my gag reflex kicking in like a piston. |
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He had already increased the power of the Merlin piston engine by improving its supercharger. |
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The Bristol Aeroplane Company proposed to combine jet and piston engines but dropped the idea and concentrated on propellor turbines instead. |
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These engines offer high speed and greater fuel efficiency than piston and propeller aeroengines over long distances. |
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Sometimes an extra disc known as a balance piston has to be added inside the rotor. |
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The piston was then temporarily locked in the upper position by a spring catch engaging a notch in the rod. |
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The fire was then removed, allowing the cylinder to cool, which condensed steam back into water, thus creating a vacuum beneath the piston. |
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To the end of the piston rod was attached a cord passing over two pulleys and a weight hung down from the cord's end. |
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To start the engine, the regulator valve V was opened and steam admitted into the cylinder from the boiler, filling the space beneath the piston. |
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When a valve on the pipe was opened, the vacuum in the condenser would, in turn, evacuate that part of the cylinder below the piston. |
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The engine itself is simple, with only a boiler, a cylinder and piston and operating valves. |
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A double acting engine, in which the steam acted alternately on the two sides of the piston was one. |
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Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine was the first commercial true steam engine using a piston, and was used in 1712 for pumping in a mine. |
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It was an improvement over Savery's steam pump, using a piston as proposed by Papin. |
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It worked by creating a partial vacuum by condensing steam under a piston within a cylinder. |
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Each piston was raised by the steam pressure and returned to its original position by gravity. |
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Honda views hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as the long term replacement of piston cars, not battery cars. |
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If comparable bore to stroke ratios are employed, an engine with more cylinders will have a greater piston area and a shorter stroke. |
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Gas turbine engines operate efficiently at much higher altitudes, are more reliable than piston engines, and produce less vibration and noise. |
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It consisted of a piston and an air gun cylinder with flaps that could suck the air from any vessel that it was connected to. |
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The cylinders are double acting, with steam admitted to each side of the piston in turn. |
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Consequently, two deliveries of steam onto each piston face in two cylinders generates a full revolution of the driving wheel. |
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The engine ran at forty piston strokes a minute, with an unprecedented boiler pressure of 145 psi. |
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For smaller piston engined airplanes at smaller airfields without ILS equipment, things are very different though. |
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By the end of the war, turbojet engines were replacing piston engines as the means of propulsion, further increasing aircraft speed. |
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He was unable to successfully convert the piston motion into rotary motion and the steam could not produce enough pressure. |
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Some gliders, known as motor gliders, are designed for unpowered flight, but can deploy piston, rotary, jet or electric engines. |
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While smaller and less expensive helicopters still use piston engines, turboshaft engines are the preferred powerplant for helicopters today. |
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Turboshafts are also more reliable than piston engines, especially when producing the sustained high levels of power required by a helicopter. |
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It opens with a W.H. Auden poem that is read with the urgency and the rhythm of the piston on a steam engine. It sounds like proto-rap. |
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The walking beam, coupler and crank transform the linear movement of the piston into rotation of the output pulley. |
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Finally, the pulley rotation drives the flyball governor which controls the valve for the steam input to the piston cylinder. |
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Oscillating engines had the piston rods connected directly to the crankshaft, dispensing with the need for connecting rods. |
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The difference between atmospheric pressure above the piston and the partial vacuum below drove the piston down the cylinder. |
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At the bottom of each stroke, steam was allowed to enter the cylinder below the piston. |
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As the piston rose within the cylinder, drawn upward by a counterbalance, it drew in steam at atmospheric pressure. |
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The atmospheric pressure outside the engine was then greater than the pressure within the cylinder, thereby pushing the piston into the cylinder. |
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When the piston reached the top of the cylinder, the steam inlet valve closed and the valve controlling the passage to the condenser opened. |
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The second improvement was the utilisation of steam expansion against the vacuum on the other side of the piston. |
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This was effective in engines that were used for pumping water, but the double action of the piston meant that it could push as well as pull. |
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To bridge the conflicting actions of the beam and the piston, Watt developed his parallel motion. |
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Reciprocating piston engines use cranks to convert the linear piston motion into rotational motion. |
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It was later expanded to include the output power of other types of piston engines, as well as turbines, electric motors and other machinery. |
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From this graph the amount of work performed during the piston stroke may be calculated. |
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The crosshead became part of the piston, and there was no longer any piston rod. |
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Their pistons are usually trunk pistons, where the gudgeon pin joint of the connecting rod is within the piston itself. |
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In a rotative beam engine, the piston is mounted vertically, and the piston rod drives the beam as before. |
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Bramah had designed a hydraulic press, but was having problems sealing both the piston and the piston rod where it fitted into the cylinder. |
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If a force was exerted on the smaller piston, this would be translated into a larger force on the larger piston. |
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As the piston rod moved backwards and forwards in a straight line, its linear motion would be converted into circular motion by the gear wheel. |
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Murray was the first to adopt the placing of the piston in a horizontal position in the steam engine. |
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Steam turbines ran at higher speed than reciprocating engines, not being limited by the allowable speed of a piston in a cylinder. |
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Thrust balance is achieved with a balance piston with labyrinths on the rotating part and abradable seals on the stationary part. |
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There are some wild cards like Wankel engines and rotary combustion engines or free piston engines both with integral electricity generation. |
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It can be integrated easily with any weighing machine, auger filler, volumetric or piston filler or a combination of many fillers. |
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Afterburners are for jet aircraft, not the World War II piston engine aircraft. |
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The piston named Bowl B is a Toroidal chamber The piston named Bowl C is a largely reentrant geometry. |
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Taunt suspension and a wide track ensured flat level cornering while the rotary engine spun more smoothly than any piston engine could. |
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The new Petropower Plus series will raise the benchmarking standards for the overall lubrication performance in trunk piston engines. |
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Because of DLC's low coefficient of friction it allows the elimination of bushings so that the piston, for example, can be smaller. |
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A piston in the die periodically injects a shot of melt between the two tubes as they exit the die, before going through dual corrugating molds. |
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The stroke of HC piston and the force generated by HC were measured synchronically by internal measurement system of the machine. |
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Models are available in a range of deck configurations with rotary electric or air-cushioned piston vibrator drives. |
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The provincial government purchased a total of four turbine conversion kits for its fleet of CL-215 piston engine amphibious aircraft. |
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Unlike a conventional piston engine, the Mazda RX-8's rotary engine has no cylinders, piston or valves. |
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What we have to look forward to is a paradigm shift similar to what the jet engine had over the piston engine. |
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Another possible method that helps eliminate some of these problems is the use of a piston ring or square ring. |
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Figure 13 shows the enmeshment of the piston with risers and gating system. |
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The unit fills from fractions of an ounce to up to 32 fluid ounces per piston. |
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Gravity and piston cores were analyzed for pore fluid chemistry, clay mineralogy, foraminiferal biostratigraphy, physical properties, and other variables. |
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From piston cores we know that periods of strong heat influx to the arctic realm are characterized by high foraminifer content in Norwegian Sea sediments. |
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The switches are actuated by a magnetic piston ring as the cylinder's piston moves up and down, and a programmable logic controller reads the open or closed condition. |
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Some of that fuel may even seep past the piston rings and into the oil. |
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The suspension resulted from both the natural disaster and the fact that the vehicle makers use unique piston rings, which Riken's and the clients' engineers jointly design. |
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The sensors work via a small, low voltage Hall Effect switch, which is actuated by a magnetic piston ring as the cylinder piston moves up and down. |
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The company controls about 50 percent of the domestic piston ring market. |
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Despite its diminutive size the single piston engine, developed by the university's School of Engineering, has more than 300 times the energy of an ordinary battery. |
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The Beta and Gamma type Stirling engines use a displacer piston to move the working gas back and forth between hot and cold heat exchangers in the same cylinder. |
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Dara can equip the modular Dara SFL with an isolation barrier or restricted access barrier and a peristaltic pump or valve-less rotary piston pump. |
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On the chassis there are companion flanges, wheel hubs, rear axle casings, sector shaft OD's, steering rack OD's, universal joints, CV joints and shock absorber piston rods. |
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This high-pressure proportioner utilizes super-charged, high-pressure axial piston pumps for processing unfilled, nonabrasive, noncorrosive materials. |
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This means that an equal melt pressure on both ends will result in a net force driving the piston backward and closing off flow through the valve. |
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While a normal four-cycle piston engine needs four cycles to facilitate two turns of the crankshaft, rotary engines achieve all four cycles with only one turn of the rotor. |
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The jet engine replaced the piston or reciprocating engine that had powered propeller planes, enabling planes to fly at much higher altitudes and at greater speeds. |
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Company's 1300, 1350 and 1400 VMRR piston railcar vibrators can be handled without risking back injury owing to a customized Rhino Railcar Vibrator Lifter. |
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A big advantage of using Wankel engines in aviation is their small size in comparison with piston engines with similar power, also their quick response to throttle movements. |
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The scientists were also able to identify the protein components responsible for moving the nuclear piston, including actomyosin, vimentin and nesprin. |
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Check piston rod for scoring by skinning back protective rubber boot. |
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Yorkshire iron was used for shackles, hooks and piston rods for locomotives, colliery cages and other mining appliances where toughness was required. |
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The piston rod itself was kept working to a straight line while by a new type of linkage wherein two sets of pivoted bars guided the movements of the working bar. |
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A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod. |
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This uses both sides of the piston as working faces, the lower side of the piston acting as a piston compressor to compress the inlet charge ready for the next stroke. |
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This, in turn, has the advantage of allowing easy access to the bottom of the piston for lubricating oil, which also has an important cooling function. |
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This was for similar reasons to the internal combustion engine, as avoiding the piston rod and its seals allowed a more effective crankcase lubrication system. |
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Savery's engine had no piston, and no moving parts except from the taps. |
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Steam was passed through the jacket before being admitted below the piston, keeping the piston and cylinder warm to prevent condensation within it. |
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External atmospheric pressure then pushed the piston down the cylinder. |
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Steam was drawn from the boiler to the cylinder under the piston. |
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It employed a cylinder containing a movable piston connected by a chain to one end of a rocking beam that worked a mechanical lift pump from its opposite end. |
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The separate condenser, located external to the cylinder, condensed steam without cooling the piston and cylinder walls as did the internal spray in Newcomen's engine. |
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It enjoyed a technological advantage and had a monopoly in cast iron production, piston bellows, suspension bridge construction, printing, and the compass. |
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Periodically the weight of the piston was adjusted so that it remained heavier than the empty bucket, ensuring that the beam fell to start the cycle again. |
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Moreover, the pumping action of the exhaust has the counter effect of exerting back pressure on the side of the piston receiving steam, thus slightly reducing cylinder power. |
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The specification was therefore split in two, with the conventional piston design going to the eventual de Havilland Dove and Airspeed Ambassador. |
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The widely used reciprocating engine typically consisted of a cast iron cylinder, piston, connecting rod and beam or a crank and flywheel, and miscellaneous linkages. |
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Their engines were therefore arranged with the piston axis vertical. |
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They were powered by air pressure pushing a piston into the partial vacuum generated by condensing steam, instead of the pressure of expanding steam. |
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Like airbags, pretensioners are triggered by sensors in the car's body, and many pretensioners have used explosively expanding gas to drive a piston that retracts the belt. |
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The steam in the cylinder is condensed by injecting cold water and the vacuum beneath the piston pulls the inner end of the beam down and causes the pump to move. |
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This condensed the steam and created a partial vacuum under the piston. |
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The power piston was hung by chains from the end of a rocking beam. |
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Instead of the vacuum drawing in water, it drew down the piston. |
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For instance, in a book published in 2011 it is said that in a letter dated 1703 Hooke did suggest that Newcomen use condensing steam to drive the piston. |
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Aircraft engines are almost always either lightweight piston engines or gas turbines, except for small multicopter UAVs which are almost always electric aircraft. |
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In one such system, called a thermojet by Secondo Campini but more commonly, motorjet, the air was compressed by a fan driven by a conventional piston engine. |
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The principal difficulty was in machining the piston and cylinder. |
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