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1916
1916 - 0103.PDF
FEBRUARY 3, 1916. thereon. The pump casing forms a part of the tube en closing the vertical shaft from the bevel box upwards. A third bevel at the top of the vertical shaft engages with a bevel on the camshaft, the latter also being enclosed in an oil-tight casing throughout its length. The casing itself is of bronze and carries six boxes that enclose the cams and rocker arms, each box (/yGHT not directly mounted on the camshaft, but on a separate hollow shaft through which it passes, the driving con nection between the two being by splines. This is to enable the camshaft to be given a longitudinal movement at will for an object to be detailed later, without at the same time disturbing the position of the bevel relative to the vertical driving shaft. A bronze sleeve bearing "Flight" Copyright. Photograph of the bronze tube enclosing the overhead camshaft of the Mercedes engine. One of the hollow spindles on which the rocker arms oscillate is shown partly driven out of its housing. being bolted to its corresponding cylinder head, by which arrangement further stiffness to the cylinders, considered as a unit, is obtained. In the bronze enclosing tube the camshaft is carried in three long bearings, each consisting of an aluminium sleeve, split longitudinally, and lined with phosphor bronze. The driving bevel is ® ® supports the hollow bevel shaft, this being retained in place in the tube by a flat-bottomed plug screwing into a suitably-shaped recess in the bearing; the latter is split longitudinally, the two halves being connected together by two dowel pins. (To be concluded?) ® ® 'THE DEADLY FOK.KER."—From a drawing by our tame inventor, after assimilating from the various ha'penny newspapers particulars of the wonderful versatility and achievements of this German "strafer." IO3
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