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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. Its sustained maximum power was 120 bhp (89 kW); peak power was 155 bhp (116 kW) but could not be held due to insufficient steam flow.
The Pelland Sports formed the basis of the first Pelland steam car called "The Steam Cat" This was the same fibreglass monocoque chassis and used a twin-cylinder double-acting compound engine. The car was built to a contract with the South Australian Government in 1974. It currently is at the National Motor museum at Birdwood South Australia.
Typical horizontal steam engine with double-acting cylinder. A double-acting cylinder is a cylinder in which the working fluid acts alternately on both sides of the piston. . In order to connect the piston in a double-acting cylinder to an external mechanism, such as a crank shaft, a hole must be provided in one end of the cylinder for the piston rod, and this is fitted with a gland or ...
A late version of a Watt double-acting steam engine, built by D. Napier & Son (London) in 1832, now in the lobby of the Superior Technical School of Industrial Engineers of the UPM . Steam engines of this kind propelled the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and the world.
A double acting engine is an engine where steam is applied to both sides of the piston. Earlier steam engines applied steam in only one direction, allowing momentum or gravity to return the piston to its starting place, but a double acting engine uses steam to force the piston in both directions, thus increasing rotational speed and power. [50]
Mill engine, Queen Street Mill, Burnley. William Roberts horizontal tandem compound engine - 'Peace'. Marshall undertype steam engine. There are different patterns of stationary steam engines, distinguished by the layout of the cylinders and crankshaft: Beam engines have a rocking beam providing the connection between the vertical cylinder and ...
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The engine itself is of an unusual triple-expansion, three-crank rocker design, with pistons 13.7, 24.375, and 39 inches (348.0, 619.1, and 990.6 mm) in diameter and 6-foot (1.8 m) stroke. Each rocker is connected both to a crankshaft with a 15-foot (4.6 m) flywheel and to a double acting pump's plunger.