Errani and Anders Petroleum Engine, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1873
label: patent date
content: 1873-06-17
name: label: inventor
content: Anders, Richard
label: inventor
content: Errani, Louis Charles
notes: label: Description
content: This model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Office with application for Patent no. 140021, issued to Louis Charles Errani and Richard Anders, of Liege, Belgium, June 17, 1873.
label: Description
content: This is the first oil engine patented in the United States in which the fuel was vaporized within the cylinder. It is also the first to inject the oil into the cylinder in the form of a spray. It was provided with electric ignition.
label: Description
content: In construction the engine resembles a steam engine, including a horizontal single-acting cylinder in which is a reciprocating piston, a crank deriving its motion from the piston, a flywheel on the main shaft, and a valve gear for operating a main valve connected with the engine cylinder. It was actuated by the combustion of a mixture of sprayed petroleum and air during a portion of the stroke. The petroleum was sprayed by means of a jet of air from a rubber bulb, acted upon by a sliding plunger, in combination with a tube and nozzle rising from the oil reserve in the base of the engine, somewhat in the manner of a common household atomizer. The quantity of petroleum supplied to the cylinder was regulated by a bypass cock in the air line from the rubber bulb.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belgium
label: associated place
content: Belgium: Wallonia, Liège
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Bulletin 173
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.251283
label: catalog number
content: 251283
label: accession number
content: 48865
label: patent number
content: 140,021
objectType: label: Object Name
content: engine, internal combustion, model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, dynamic-machine
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 29.21 cm x 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: base, cat card: 11 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 8.89 cm