Life — October 5, 1911 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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rly, § rk- ers | ats nd ble 10- ths ger ar; ade edo ger Fc Sem And a Six-Cylinder “Stoddard-Dayton-Knight,” 70 hp. $5000 Combining the Six-Cylinder and Silent Knight principles for the first and two important widely-commended innovations—left-han 36 x S-inch tires; Q. D. demountable rims; mohair top and boot; windshield, rain vision; tire ck; Hartford shock absorbers; speedometer; big electric horn; electric- wheel-base 133 inches; six-cylinder, 4} 3 holders; foot-throttle; robe-rail; foot-rest; lighting outfit (including dynamo, motor lies in the substitution of new means for governing the admission of fresh gas to the cylinders, and its exhaustion after explosion. "Te superiority of the ‘Silent Knight'’ In the usual poppet valve motor the i gas is admitted and emitted through Difference Is Yiives placed either ia the head of sides of the cylinders. ‘These valves set in metal seats, and are opened by rods driven from an inde- pendent shaft fitted with cams, and are closed by coil springs. These cams are governed by gears. The disarrangement of gears or fods, the wearing of valve seats or valves result in loss of power. The wear is great, and constant adjustment fs necessary. Nolse is inevitable when this wear takes place What the In the “Knight” motor there are only the silent, tremorless, sliding sleeves working away perfectly without care or attention, They make no noise, for they strike nothing. They cause no vibration. They merely slide up and down in perfect lubrication, and silently, The timing is positive and mechanical, and cannot be deranged by neglect or wear. In fact, itcan never become deranged. What this Sleeve Take in your hands two smooth rsa py pieces of metal, oil them, then Action is Like Eide them one upon the other— this is the nimple, noiseless, vibrationless, silent action of the sleeves in the “Stoddard-Dayton-Knight.” Fite ting the enizine cylinder closely, one within the other, with a film of oil between, are these two sliding cylin: ders, and within the inner one slides the piston, Each sleeve has two slots in it, onconeach side. When slot Yin the outer sleevecomes opposite slot X in the inner sleeve, and opposite the intake portC, a charge of gas is drawn into the cylinder. After the explosion has taken place, the sliding of the sleeves brings the slot B in the inner sleeve opposite slot A ia the outer sleeve, and right opposite the exhaust port E, allowing the burnt cas to escape through the exhaust manifold. Write for Detail Division of UNITED STATES seat covers; trunk orage battery and electric lamps); running-board tool-boxes; bulb horn; ja Furnished also with seven-passenger Limousine, four-passenger Torpedo and two-passenger Roadster bodies. (All price of Satisfied Owners’ Free Inspection Service, and Catalog of all Models. DAYTON MOTOR CAR CO. ?7 est $1! 5+ NEW YORK MOTOR COMPANY drive and centre control. Why Greater The walve openings are larger thae is possible with any other style o Power valve, so that greater power is se- cured through admittance of a fuller charge of gas. as. also because of a more complete scavenging of the cylinder chamber after the explosion. Loss of co: pression through leakage at the sliding sleeves is impossible. Complete water jacketing encirctes the cylinders. cylinder heads, circulation areas enclosing the spark plugs, and also the gas ways, so that a uniform heat is maintained the entire length of the piston travel. ‘The magneto and pump drive shaft, as also the valve shaft, are driven by silent chains, ‘Today the silent chain fs used on scores of foreign cars to drive the cam shafts, Its Wonderful The lubrication, of the “Stoddard. ili ayton-Knight” motor is what is Oiling System jpcwnas the "movabledam” sys- tem. Located transversely beneath the six connect: ing rods are six oil troughs hinged ona shaft con- nected with the throttle. With the opening and closing of the throttle these troughs are automati- cally raised and lowered. When the throttle ix opencd, which raises the troughs, the ends of the connecting rods dip deep into the oil and create a splashing of oil on the lower ends of the ing sleeves. When the motor js throttled down, which low- ers the troughs, the rods barely touch the oil and a corresponding less amount of oil is splashed. Tests of 750 miles of running on a single gallon of off have been many. ‘The engine runs with equal smoothness at $0 miles or 15. g It accelerates and xet away under load with remarkable case changing from Sto $0 miles, if desired, with- out slipping the clutch or changing cars. A"Silent Knight motor in a five-seated caf, in which were two passengers, has accelerated from a standing start on hig gear to more than 35 miles an hour in 30 Seconds. Surely this is an indication of remarkable low-speed je torque. time in any car made in America— Seven-passenger fore-door ‘Touring Car with ck; all tools, $5000. re f.o.b, Dayton.) Nothing short of an actu sibly convey any adeq terist! engine, and its great the great deligh 1 trial of the car can pos: appreciation of its charac- . the peculiar light feeling of the serve power constitute one of $ in driving this car. comicbooks.com