Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Means for heating and controlling gases for motors
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 22 January 1884
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,428, Application filed August 31
Accession No.1327
- Abstract
"…for use in the class of motors which are driven by the expansion of compressed gas under high pressure, as carbonic-acid-gas engines and others of that class, and is especially intended for use in gas engines for torpedo-boats; also to details of construction of the devices used for such engines, especially the gas-supply therefore. The object of our invention is to produce a rapid expansion of the gas after it leaves the flask or holder, where it is held in a compressed or liquefied state, and before it enters the engine, and to prevent refrigeration, due to such expansion…"