Corlissn.
/ˈkɔːlɪs/ Used attributively to designate (a) the valve gear invented by Corliss in 1849, or a modification of it, (b) an engine equipped with such a valve gear.
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Corliss1868
idling1936
1868 Inst. Mech. Engineers: Proc. 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.
1868 Inst. Mech. Engineers: Proc. July 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.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 624/2 Corliss-engine, a form of steam-engine having a variable and automatic cut-off of peculiar character.
1876 Engineering XXII. 12 The great Corliss beam engine.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 507/2 Corliss Valve-Gear, Spencer Inglis form.
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Corliss Valve.
1930 Engineering 5 Sept. 307/3 Two double-acting cylinders in tandem, with inlet and outlet valves of the Corliss type.
1958 Van 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.
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