sleeve valve
an intake or exhaust valve for an engine, consisting of one or more sleeves reciprocating within a cylinder, so that ports in the cylinder and in the sleeves are opposed at regular intervals to open the valve.
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How to use sleeve valve in a sentence
In this respect it is much like the sleeve-valve motor, where the uncovering of the ports is absolutely positive.
Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred PagAll latest developments, such as high speed aluminum motors and multiple valve and sleeve-valve engines, are considered in detail.
Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred PagThe mechanism of a sleeve valve motor is slightly different from that of the poppet valve type.
The Gasoline Motor | Harold Whiting Slauson
British Dictionary definitions for sleeve valve
(in an internal-combustion engine) a valve in the form of a thin steel sleeve fitted between the cylinder and piston and having a reciprocating and rotary oscillation movement
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