Yorkshire Vertical Engine

[sbwhart]

The cold has kept me out of the shop for the last few days or so, to keep my sanity i've drawn up this engine. It a type that found a lot of uses as in the yourkshire woolen mills, but it can trace in origins back to the North East coals feilds where it was one of the earliest types of winding engine. It uses a parallel motion invented by Phineas Crowther in 1800 the Beamish Musium have a running engine, and the Northern Mill Engine Society allso have a Kenyon Engine that uses this type of mostion http://www.nmes.org/





I've drawn it up to use a 4" fly wheel and a 15mm dia cylinder withe 30mm stroke, it can be made as either a single or a twin cylinder.

Don't know when I will get round to making one.

Stew

[sbwhart]

Altered this a bit:- changes the cylinder sizes to reprecent a compounded engine, and fly wheel diameter to give a 1mm to the inch scale against the Kenyon engine, and got rid of the nasty dog leg in the valve rods. The fly wheel is now 6 1/2" diameter, giving it a look of an imposing engine: which it his, when you see it for real. Also sketched out a governor arangment.





Looks like I've got my next engine when i finish the Shimson and Shipton sorted.

Stew

[Rob.Wilson]

Stew ,,,,,,,,, do you sleep ? 

I really like the look of this engine 

Rob

[Stilldrillin]

Very nicely done Stew!   

I wish I'd thought to design something. Hopefully out of sight, out of mind........ 


Mrs. Drillin has got me clearing out the loft! Sheesh....... 

David D

[doubleboost]

Stew
Looks like being another great build
Pleased to see they are getting bigger
John