single-acting cylinder

Single-acting cylinders are found in most kinds of reciprocating engine.

It also followed contemporary advanced stationary engine practice in using single-acting cylinders.

Internal combustion engines soon switched to single-acting cylinders.

In contrast to steam engines, nearly all internal combustion engines have used single-acting cylinders.

This was named the Simplex, and was to be powered by four uniflow single-acting cylinders.

Single-acting cylinders are cylinders in which the steam expands on only one side of the piston.

Single-acting cylinders.

Later developments by a Catalan company, Creuat has devised a simpler system design based on single-acting cylinders.

Where engines were used for pumping, Woolf engines were also built with paired single-acting cylinders.

A single-acting cylinder in a reciprocating engine is a cylinder in which the working fluid acts on one side of the piston only.

A single-acting cylinder relies on the load, springs, other cylinders, or the momentum of a flywheel, to push the piston back in the other direction.

These were double- or triple-expansion compound engines, with the unusual features of single-acting cylinders and a central spindle valve shared between all cylinders.

Like the Willans engine it used single-acting cylinders and also used the Willans air-cushion trunk guide.

Single-acting cylinders (SAC) use the pressure imparted by compressed air to create a driving force in one direction (usually out), and a spring to return to the "home" position.

The engine was an ingenious three-crank tandem (or steeple) compound engine with three pairs of vertical single-acting cylinders arranged in such a way as to give a double-acting effect.

Interest in possible developments of the classic steam locomotive led Paget to design and build a 2-6-2 steam locomotive with many novel features (8 single-acting cylinders, rotary valves, etc.) at Derby.