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.
| 1868 Proc. 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. 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. Terms 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. |