. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Imperial Drills. Imperial drills exhibit an advanceover conventional designs. The cylin-ders revolve on a fixed crank pin inwliich there are two ports, one for ad-mission and one for exhaust. Thus, the. FIG. 1. ■IMPERIAI. MOTOR RUNNING AT 3,IK)0R. P. M. NO VIBRATION. crank itself, whicli is a steel forgingcase-hardened and ground, serves as .tvalve and there are no eccentrics. Themotor consists of three cylinders whichare cast of steel in a single cylinders are 120° apart andradiate


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Imperial Drills. Imperial drills exhibit an advanceover conventional designs. The cylin-ders revolve on a fixed crank pin inwliich there are two ports, one for ad-mission and one for exhaust. Thus, the. FIG. 1. ■IMPERIAI. MOTOR RUNNING AT 3,IK)0R. P. M. NO VIBRATION. crank itself, whicli is a steel forgingcase-hardened and ground, serves as .tvalve and there are no eccentrics. Themotor consists of three cylinders whichare cast of steel in a single cylinders are 120° apart andradiate from a central liub. Thecylinders, however, are not truly ra-dial, but are set off /i in. to Vzin., according to the size of the a result of this set ofl the connectingrods are practically perpendicular to thepiston head throughout the outward orworking stroke, thus minimizing thewear of the cylinders and pistons. The cylinders are hung between tri-angular-sliaped frames whicli revolve


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