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Excerpt from Slide Valve Gears: An Explanation of the Action and Construction of Plain and Cut-Off Slide Valves
This work has been prepared to meet what the author considers a real want. It has been written with the aim of making it intelligible to any one who might be willing to make a serious effort to understand it. High authority exists for a mathematical treatment of the subject, but with this the author has no sympathy. Designing a valve gear is essentially a drawing board process, and a mathematical treatment of it is simply an uncalled for use of heavy artillery. The graphical treatment is therefore adopted throughout.
Acknowledgment is due to Mr. Hugo Bilgram for his courtesy in kindly permitting the use of his valve diagram. The author has all due respect for the Zeuner diagram, but that respect is not incompatible with the conviction that Mr. Bilgram's method is a marked improvement upon it. Valve diagrams are used for two purposes - to analyze existing valve motions and to design new ones. The Zeuner diagram fulfils the first purpose perfectly, but is unsatisfactory when applied to the second. The leading data that are given in designing a valve motion are the point of cut-off, the port opening, and the lead of the valve (not the lead angle of the crank, as is often conveniently assumed).
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