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Exhaust valve   /ɪgzˈɔst vælv/   Listen
Exhaust valve

noun
1.
A valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold.





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"Exhaust valve" Quotes from Famous Books



... is actuated by shafts, w and w1, rotated by toothed wheels as shown. Motion is communicated from the way-shafts, w and w1, by the eccentrics, and the eccentric rods, e1 e2 e3 e4, and the levers and rods belonging thereto, to the short steam valve rocking shafts levers, f1 f2 f3 f4, and the exhaust valve rocking shafts, k1 k2 k3 k4, the bearings of which are carried on brackets above the valve chests, which, being furnished with tappet levers, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various
... made of -in. wrought steel, and has a capacity of 30 liters. On opposite sides near the top are bored apertures, one for the exhaust valve for obtaining a partial vacuum (about 20 mm., mercury column) after the bomb has been charged, the other for inserting the plug through which passes the fuse wire for igniting the charge. The bomb is closed with a cap, by which the chamber may be made absolutely air-tight. ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 • Herbert M. Wilson


Words linked to "Exhaust valve" :   valve, exhaust, exhaust system


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