exhaust stroke

British  

noun

1. another name for scavenge stroke

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Example Sentences

In order to obtain this result, the mixture-valve is opened before the end of the exhaust stroke of the piston and the closing of the exhaust-valve.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by Mathot, R. E.

However, on the exhaust stroke no spark is being generated in the magneto, hence none is produced at the spark-plug.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred

Some engineers, however, were concerned because this engine, on the completion of the exhaust stroke, had not entirely evacuated all of the products of combustion.

From The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology by Berkebile, Donald H.

In a four-cylinder, four-cycle engine, while one cylinder is on the power stroke the next is on the compression stroke, the third on the admission stroke, and the fourth on the exhaust stroke.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth

Because the piston no longer struck the exhaust valve, a short rod had to be screwed into the pistonhead; this pushed the valve shut at the completion of the exhaust stroke.

From The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology by Berkebile, Donald H.