Internal-combustion engines – Frame construction – Horizontal cylinder
Patent
1977-08-08
1978-10-24
Lazarus, Ronald H.
Internal-combustion engines
Frame construction
Horizontal cylinder
123195C, F02F 700
Patent
active
041215575
ABSTRACT:
In an engine having an elongated block terminating at one end in a flywheel housing, a flywheel with at least one timing mark on its periphery and rotatable within the housing, and spaced lifting eyes secured to the engine so that the engine may be lifted from a support, the improvement wherein the flywheel housing has an opening in its generally uppermost surface through which the timing mark may be viewed and one of the lifting eyes includes a base defining a closure for the opening. Bolts removably secure the base to the flywheel housing about the opening to (a) close the opening and (b) secure the lifting eye to the engine.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1332240 (1920-03-01), Ward
patent: 2432487 (1947-12-01), Paxman
Congram Sam R.
McClung Carl L.
Caterpillar Tractor Co.
Lazarus Ronald H.
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