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Corliss|ˈkɔːlɪs|
The name of G. H. Corliss (1817–88) of Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., used attrib. to designate (a) the valve gear invented by him in 1849, or a modification of it, (b) an engine equipped with such a valve gear.
1868Proc. Inst. Mech. Engin. July 177 The Corliss engine introduced by Mr. Corliss in the United States about twenty years ago..embodies in the arrangement of the cylinder and valve-gear several principles that had previously been used separately. Ibid. 178 The arrangement and construction of the details in the mechanism employed, rather than the application of any new or untried principle,..constitute the special features of the Corliss valve-gear. 1876Engineering XXII. 12 The great Corliss beam engine. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 507/2 Corliss Valve-Gear, Spencer Inglis form. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Terms Mech. Engin., Corliss Valve. 1930Engineering 5 Sept. 307/3 Two double-acting cylinders in tandem, with inlet and outlet valves of the Corliss type. 1958Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 1756/2 Engines with oscillating valves derive their motivation from an eccentric on the crankshaft, but there is interposed between the eccentric rod and the valve a wrist plate and valve reach rods. The Corliss engine is like this. |