Cylinder Bank
Internal combustion piston engines (those with more than one cylinder) are usually arranged so that the cylinders are in lines parallel to the crankshaft. Where they are in a single line, this is referred to as an inline or straight engine.
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... ratio 0.851 - undersquare/long-stroke, 492.1 cc per cylinder, 88 millimetres (3.46 in) cylinder spacing, compression ratio 17.51, water-cooled alternator cylinder block crankcase compacted vermicular graphite cast ...
3.08 in × 3.40 in), stroke ratio 0.911 - undersquare/long-stroke, 416.0 cc per cylinder, compression ratio 18.51, up to 160 bars (2,320 psi) cylinder pressure ...
... In a radial engine, cylinders are arranged radially in a circle ... one circle) of cylinders ... Most radials are air-cooled with separate cylinders and so there are no banks as such ...
... The resulting design used 9 banks of 4 cylinders arranged around a central crankshaft with each cylinder bank at a 40° angle to each adjacent bank, to form a four-row radial engine ... Unlike most multi-row radials, which "spiral" the cylinders to allow cooling air to reach them, the R-7755 was water-cooled, and so each of the cylinder heads in a ... Contrast this with the 24-cylinder Junkers Jumo 222, which looked similar from the outside, as both engines used banks of four cylinders each, but ran on a V-style cycle instead of a radial and only ...
Famous quotes containing the words bank and/or cylinder:
“I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning, between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of sunlight from over the bank fell on the surface of the water, whole fields of white blossoms seemed to flash open before me, as I floated along, like the unfolding of a banner, so sensible is this flower to the influence of the sun’s rays.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)