Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-23 | Page 5 | New Airplane Motor Tested at Houston, Tex.

I New Airplane Motor Tested At Houston Tex HOUSTON Tex Sept 22 APAn AP APAn An airplane motor based on a anew new nev internal two cycle principle was demonstrated In so- so cret here yesterday esterday by its inventors before Houston a as and newspaper newspaper news news- paper men A four cylinder model on n a st steel trIpod and with a re regulation air screw was demonstrated At its highest speed It made 1 revolutions per pel minute between eighty and ninety horsepower horsepower horse horse- I power The Tho Inventors II H. S. S L Lyons ons md and VIctor Toce told spectators that the company was amply financed and that tha t they had Wed filed sixteen clAIms for basic patents Witnesses to the demonstration saId the new four cylinder engine has thirteen working parts weighs pounds consumes between five and six gallons ot of gasoline an hour and displaced cubIc Inches It requires no preliminary warming uP functions either upright Or upside up- up side down without lOss of gasoline I. I or oil has no valves alves carburetor camshafts tappets valve springs nor rockIng arms and is air cooled Oas Gas is fed into the cylinders by aIr pressure first enterIng a a. tur tur- Where here It Is broken up into a gas as spray and mixed with air I