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Definition of Poppet valve
1. Noun. A mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines.
Definition of Poppet valve
1. Noun. (mechanics) A valve (as in an internal combustion engine) which consists of a sliding shaft with a disk on the end (the disk being shaped to alternately plug and unplug a matching port) and which is operated by springs and possibly cams interacting with the shaft. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Poppet Valve
Literary usage of Poppet valve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Valve Gears by Charles Horace Fessenden (1915)
"CHAPTER XIII poppet valve GEARS Poppet or Lift Valves.—The poppet or lift valve
has long been predominant in German stationary practice in the field where ..."
2. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Maintenance and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1915)
"This is increased in value until the maximum opening is reached, just as with a
poppet valve. The important point to observe, however, is that there is ..."
3. Valves and Valve Gears by Franklin De Ronde Furman (1915)
"A modified form of the poppet valve, as shown at F and E in Fig. ... The intake
is at D through the skeleton poppet valve F, which not only moves down ..."
4. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Maintenance and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1914)
"This is increased in value until the maximum opening is reached, just as with a
poppet valve. The important point to observe, however, is that there is ..."
5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1901)
"To the lower end of the poppet valve stem which passes through the piston-valve
stem, is attached a small piston W (Fig. 116), working in the cylinder V of ..."
6. Steam-engine Principles and Practice by Terrell William Croft (1922)
"Explain, with sketches, the operation of as many different poppet-valve operating
mechanisms as you can. 19. Take the sketch made in answering Question 8 ..."
7. Compressed Air Plant by Robert Peele (1910)
"Express" poppet valve, Riedler Compressor. very satisfactory, provided the piston
speed be slow; for highspeed compressors they do not work with sufficient ..."
8. Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide by Frank Duncan Graham (1921)
"... is never as great as with Corliss or piston valves, but is enough to make it
an object to prevent), the self-expanding poppet valve, was designed. ..."
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