Hydraulic Swash Plate Engine
- Made:
- 1910 in Newcastle upon Tyne
Hydraulic Swash Plate Engine, with Johnston's patent, 1908, valve gear. Partly sectioned in Museum and arranged for working. On mahogany base
This is a type of engine in which a shaft, having an oblique disc or swash- plate fixed to it, is caused to rotate by the successive pressures upon the disc of a number of pistons, working in cylinders arranged in a circle, with their axes parallel with the shaft. Such an engine may have a large number of cylinders compactly arranged and gives a very uniform, steady output.
Details
- Category:
- Motive Power
- Object Number:
- 1914-676
- Materials:
- mahogany
- type:
- engines
- credit:
- Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth and Co.
