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The Sunny Side of the Street
When looking at a book of photographs of Auckland in the 1950s and 1960s, an older friend commented: "This is how I remember it – when there was sunshine on Queen Street". The tall buildings have obliterated the direct sunlight that once reached the pavement, and much of the character of the shops at street level.
There aren't many buildings left on Queen Street with the character and history of 436-438, currently occupied by Real Groovy Records, but not for much longer. The building is about to be demolished for – guess – a huge apartment block, with some nasty looking little shops at its base. Rather than a warehouse full of vinyl, CDs, t-shirts and other ephemera of popular culture – some of it treasure, much of it landfill – the shops will now sell phone cards, heat-up meals, and the poison known as RTDs.
The building was originally Auckland's first large-scale cabaret, the Dixieland. It was built with extravagance and style by an extraordinary entrepreneur, Dr Frederick Rayner. With his wife Edith, an heiress, Rayner emigrated from Canada in 1900. He was a dentist, who made a fortune in Auckland with specialising in high-turnover "painless" tooth extraction, then supplying dentures. He was involved in early cinemas, milled vast tracts of kauri on the West Coast, and sub-divided Piha. His shingled mansion on the slopes of Mt Eden – visible from the motorway – is now owned by another entrepreneur and arts patron.
Rayner was keen to bring to Auckland the entertainment venues he had witnessed during his overseas travels with Edith. For the Dixieland's opening night, on 11 April 1922, he imported an Australian group, the Southern Dixieland Band. Each afternoon, the band performed for tea dances; at night, the smart set gathered in tuxes and ballgowns to enjoy the 3000 square foot dance floor, and the illegal shots of hard liquor. Tuition classes in the new styles of dance were also available.
The Dixieland popularised jazz in Auckland, said Vern Wilson, a local musician who joined the Southern Dixieland Band aged 18 when they arrived without a trumpeter. "The liquor brought a lot of people in, carrying sacks full of booze into their cubicles. It didn't cause any problems with the police, and it helped make jazz popular." Well, it did cause problems, and Rayner ended up in court.
You can read more about the Dixieland – and its ill-fated successor, in Point Chevalier – in Blue Smoke and in Georgina White's charming Light Fantastic: Dance Floor Courtship in New Zealand (HarperCollins, 2007).
But the departure of Real Groovy from its site pulls down the curtain on what was a vibrant musical precinct in Auckland. With the original Peter Pan on one boundary (on the corner of Rutland and Lorne, now a carpark) and its successor in the block before K Road (which later became Mainstreet), the area is rich in musical associations. For 40 years from the First World War, Walter Smith – the composer of 'Beneath the Maori Moon' – taught thousands of pupils the guitar, lap steel, mandolin, banjo and other stringed instruments from his home at 16 Turner Street. (Among his last pupils were Peter Posa and Bob Paris.) In the late 1970s, Rip It Up had one of its earliest offices on Airedale Street – followed in the late 1990s by NZ Musician – and across the road was Charley Gray's club the Island of Real.
Further up Queen Street were more clubs from the heyday of jazz and swing. The locations of these are often confused. For the record, The Trocadero Supper Lounge, which opened in August 1943 with Pat McMinn singing, was at 380-390 Queen Street. The Metropole was further up, at 506 Queen Street. Walking between the two you would pass Geddes denture company at 492 – a location rented by Real Groovy in the mid 1980s. The Geddes denture jingle ran on radio for even longer than Real Groovy has been on Queen Street, yet the musicians were only paid once.
Real estate has finally caught up with Real Groovy, and it's amazing it has taken so long. And so a stretch of Auckland's inner city that was once like walking through sunshine, even at night, will now be shadowed by another anonymous tower block. As Bill Withers sings on a record that might have been 50 cents during the great vinyl dump of the 1990s, and is probably $39.95 in the current fad for 180gm reissues, "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone".
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The 'Blue Smoke' story, written for Audioculture.
If there is a "big bang" moment in New Zealand's music history, it was made by the gentlest of melodies. For a delicate song, 'Blue Smoke' carries a lot of weight: it marks the real birth of New Zealand's indigenous record industry. It was the first song written by a New Zealander to be recorded and manufactured in New Zealand – and released on a New Zealand record label. Most importantly for a pop song, it was a hit, a massive hit. Local sales topped 50,000 copies, and Dean Martin and other luminaries recorded cover versions.
Pictured above: Jim Carter's band, 1949 – as the Ruru Karaitiana Quintette they recorded 'Blue Smoke' with Pixie Williams. From left, Noel Robertson, Jim Carter, Gerry Hall and George Attridge, with Ruru Karaitiana conducting. (Robertson was the regular bassist; on the recording, Johnny McNeely played bass.)
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There's been a lot going on in the land of Blue Smoke.
Jim Carter played the first notes on New Zealand's first home-grown hit record. In October 1948 he coaxed the ethereal, slow-waltz introduction to 'Blue Smoke' out of his lap-steel guitar.
In 2015 Carter turned 96. Until his early 90s, he was playing lap-steel guitar every day, to keep his chops up and for his own amusement. He enjoys the luxury of watching famous steel-guitar virtuosos on YouTube, something unimaginable when he picked up the instrument nearly 80 years ago.
In February 2015 he was recruited for his first session in decades, perhaps even for over half a century. The request came not by phone but by email. Would he be prepared to play lap-steel guitar on a version of 'Blue Smoke' being recorded by Neil Finn? Carter was chuffed to be asked, but was reluctant. "I've given up the lap-steel," he said. "My fingers no longer have the energy to press the strings down. So I've taken up the ukulele."
Specks and spots
Left: Jamming with Auckland trumpet player Jim Warren on the ferry to Waiheke Island in the 1940s are Jim McAllum on guitar and Lloyd Sly on piano-accordion. They are on their way to Atwater's annual picnic. Sly's family founded the business Sly's Pianos in 1914, and it still exists today. A multi-instrumentalist, Sly was most proficient on piano, organ, oboe, flute and piano-accordion; before the war he was a member of Epi Shalfoon's band in Auckland.
l Blue Smoke was only possible thanks to the help and advice of two people: jazz archivist Dennis Huggard and trumpeter Jim Warren. I recently profiled Jim for Audioculture:
WITH A CAREER that spanned the 20th century, a natural ability to swing, and a great sense of humour, it's no wonder that trumpeter Jim Warren is one of the most popular and respected musicians in the Auckland jazz scene.
At his 80th birthday – 16 years ago – his wife Madeline gave him a new trumpet. These days he gives his "lip" a rest, and prefers to play Duke Ellington standards on his upright piano.
Warren has a phenomenal memory and can recall bands playing in Auckland in the late 1920s: brass bands, soon to be followed by some of the earliest jazz bands in New Zealand. By the late 1930s he was playing jazz professionally, and he heard a visiting swing band. It was a revelation. Sammy Lee and His Americanadians showed him exactly the feel and force with which jazz should be played. More here at Audioculture
Close Encounters
Originally published in the NZ Listener in November 2010.
ROCK MUSICIANS AND photographers are natural-born partners: show-offs need an audience, and a Nikon lens loves a show-off. For some photographers, like Auckland's Bruce Jarvis, the scent of the hunt has been a life-long quest. Shooting first as fans, many become professionals, and Jarvis's tenacity at capturing live shows secured him access that today's photographers can only envy.
Jarvis's work is the backbone of a large-format book Live: Gigs that Rocked New Zealand, that portrays the flamboyant visitors in our midst. From the first international rock'n'roll tour – Johnny Cash and Gene Vincent, in 1959 – to Lady Gaga's aerobic fashion-show earlier this year, the performers are freeze-framed at the peak of their careers. Some of the images – such as Jarvis's portraits of a satanic Frank Zappa, an exultant Bob Marley – belong in the rock photo hall of fame. But even more than the performers, it is the settings that resonate. In the background, a vanished New Zealand hovers like a vaguely remembered backdrop.
At the Beatles' civic reception outside Auckland's Town Hall in 1964 – how the councillors criticised Mayor Robbie for his generosity – one can glimpse the area now lost to Aotea Square. Out of sight are the 7000 fans who wagged school that morning. Instead, we spot the Market Hotel, one of many Edwardian corner pubs that are long since gone like the Vauxhall Velox seen cruising an almost empty street. Twenty years later, in the same area, a panoramic shot by Bryan Staff shows DD Smash's drummer Peter Warren surveying a calm, peaceful crowd of thousands. The "Thank God It's Friday" celebration to welcome the summer of 1984 will soon be renamed the Aotea Square riot.
The surprises often come from the unsung heroes who turn emotion into emulsion: the jobbing photographers rostered on for the day by a newspaper's picture editor. At the Turnbull Library, saved from destruction, are gems from the files of deceased papers such as the Evening Post. These go beyond the requisite Maori welcome parties, the gimmick poses and the bland equivalents of rock stars kissing babies. Among the treasure are action shots of the Who, smashing their equipment on the Wellington's Town Hall stage in 1968. Somehow, the Pretty Things' out-of-control drummer Viv Prince found time to sit for a formal portrait during the band's notorious tour in 1965. He wears a woman's leopard-skin hat, the coolest of rimless shades, chain bracelets of the style favoured by bodgies – and across his knuckles, a sticking plaster that testifies to his many scrapes while here.
As glamorous as some of the stars appear – the Temptations, stepping out in the 1970s' finest flared suits; Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry, elegant in herringbone tweed – it is the species Kiwi Rock Fan that makes these photos special. Invading the Rolling Stones' stage in 1966 is an ecstatic fan, resplendent in homemade polka-dot mini skirt. Almost as gleeful are the navy-blue helmeted constables coming to Mick Jagger's rescue.
Parked ostentatiously before the muslin-clad crowd waiting for Rod Stewart at Western Springs stadium in 1977 is a Ford Falcon emblazoned with Radio Hauraki's logo. Beside it mooches a deejay in denim flares and manky long hair, while staff members or girlfriends attempt cool in satin jackets and bad posture. Their attitude: we are closer to the action than you.
The images also evoke the months of excitement that once came with the news that an overseas act was about to play "the Springs". Long before the mammoth 1980s shows by David Bowie and ZZ Top, the Auckland speedway amphitheatre had hosted Little Richard, Elton John and Neil Diamond. For the first time we can see the Rolling Stones' 1973 show in colour, thanks to a roll of film shot by Lloyd Godman. He didn't need a flash – they played on a sunny afternoon – and it turns out that Jagger's diamond-studded, low-cut, satin jumpsuit was turquoise.
Presented en masse, many of these shots have a "They walked this Earth" quality. They also answer the perennial question asked of visitors as they step off the plane: how do you find New Zealand? (It was apparently a wide-eyed Australian reporter who enquired "How many of you are there in your quartet, Mr Brubeck?").
The Beatles look jubilant, although reports later came back that they described New Zealand as being like Britain, before the war. The Rolling Stones – specifically, Keith Richards – said of Invercargill it was "the arsehole of the World". We remember these jibes, and almost more than the concerts we remember the interaction that these troubadours – grizzly or courteous – have with the locals.
Contrary to their surly reputation, in 1966 the Rolling Stones look cheerful, with their shirts off, enjoying the sun beside their Wellington motel swimming pool. The Guess Who play an après-gig jam at Tommy Adderley's speakeasy Grandpa's (sadly, no one was there to record the night in 1973 that Keith Richards turned up with a guitar and sundry other Rolling Stones).
Afterwards, when the litter has been cleared from the town halls and the paddocks that once hosted festivals, the anecdotes turn into urban legends. The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival of 1973 is now remembered more for Corban Simpson's nude performance than for headliners Black Sabbath headlining or the early appearance by Split Ends. Two years later, live on stage at the Te Rapa Racecourse, is Slade's gormless Dave Hill; he is resplendent in an early mullet, a glitter-pasted forehead, a silver frock coat and platform boots. The promoter of this 1975 one-day festival – the cape-wearing Byron de Lacey – sounds almost mythological.
An Auckland school teacher friend says that every year – for nearly four decades – some 15-year-old aspiring guitar heroes in his class ask him the same question. "Sir, have you heard the Led Zeppelin song Stairway to Heaven?" Yes, he replies. "In fact, I heard them play it live at Western Springs in 1972 – before many of us had heard it on record."
"Really?" they gasp. "Led Zeppelin played … here?"
The Viv Prince shot is from the Alexander Turnbull Library's collection of Evening Post negatives. The reference number is EP/1965/3179.
A truly sacred ring
Te Ara – the on-line encyclopedia of New Zealand – has just launched its last section, "Creative and Intellectual Life". So after 12 years' work, it will be updates only from now on. It's a magnificent work that covers every aspect of New Zealand life: history, economy, sport, leisure, religion, science. And finally, culture. I was honoured to be asked to write the entries on popular music. The main one, Popular Music, is 5000 words and covers from the Europeans' first encounter with Maori – it was a musical encounter – in the 17th century, to the success of Lorde last year. The other, smaller entries I've written are on jazz and dance bands, and folk, country and blues. The researchers at Te Ara sourced some wonderful photos, film and sound material. Thanks to Ross Somerville, who in 1998 commissioned from me a profile of the legendary broadcaster Arthur Pearce, which led to this kind of work including Blue Smoke.
Riding into the Sunset
Johnny Cooper passed away this week, aged 85, at home in Nae Nae.
New Zealand's rock'n'roll pioneer was a cowboy at heart. Although in rock histories Cooper is praised for making New Zealand's first rock'n'roll recording, a cover of 'Rock Around The Clock', his most significant release was a self-penned country song, 'Look What You've Done'.
Cooper had a busy, varied career. In the early 1950s, before he ever heard the words "rock'n'roll", he recorded several country 78s. He toured Korea three times as an entertainer for the New Zealand troops. He wrote what is regarded as the first original New Zealand rock and roll song to be recorded, 'Pie Cart Rock and Roll'.
The rest of my profile of Johnny Cooper is here at Audioculture.
And here is an audio tribute I put together for RNZ National.
I especially love this photo of Johnny having a singalong with Auckland pop vocalist Pat McMinn during their tour of Korea in 1955 entertaining New Zealand troops. It captures the woolshed party quality of his music, and also the transition between old school pop and rock'n'roll.


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Making the Most of Bed Rest provides a one-of-a-kind guide to turning recuperation into a productive and rewarding experience. Forced to spend months in bed during her first pregnancy and then again after a sustaining a bone fracture from a fall, author Barbara Edelston Peterson knows what it takes to survive-even triumph-over the challenge of a drawn-out confinement and prescribed bed rest. At the time of each medical emergency, she needed something that did not exist: a resource explaining how to best survive and be productive in such restrictive conditions. Towards the end of her first term of bed rest, Peterson knew she had to share her experiences, many discovered through trial and error in her and her husband's journey to pioneer through bed rest. Making the Most of Bed Rest is the companion to prescribed immobility-a book loaded with compassion and courage, practical tips, and reminders of how to reframe your attitude to be positive and productive.
Barbara Edelston Peterson is a world-class triathlete and spokesperson for XTERRA as well as an ambassador for the popular brand Lululemon. Barbara has given motivational presentations to Google, Wells Fargo, the US Ski Association and the US Ski Team. Also the author of The Bed Rest Survival Guide and a contributor to Ms. Fitness Magazine, Triathlete Magazine, Women's Health, and Her Sports, she lives in Berkeley, CA.
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LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh. Triple word score. The Miami Heat are gonna have Biscayne Boulevard locked up bumper to bumper. The Metrorail, bus, and Metromover are gonna be packed like sardine cans, the parking lot bums are gonna get paid better than we do, and the city's gonna be on fire. It's gonna be fuckin' awesome.
Better believe that deserves a tribute! A quick search on YouTube confirms that the fan-made songs and videos are already rolling out. The strongest offering so far is from Poe Boy Records, who put together a track called "We Already Won" with a hook from Desloc Piccalo, and raps from Flo Rida, Brisco, Brianna, Ball Greezy, and Billy Blue. Check it, and a couple other top YouTube choices, after the jump.
The video description for the following song reads, "THEME SONG FOR THE NEW LOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA SPORTS BY SOLO D."
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We are deeply saddened to learn that Michihiro Yamaki, founder and CEO of Sigma Corporation, has died. In addition to his numerous contributions to photography and his innumerable achievements as an industry leader, Mr. Yamaki was a true gentleman. He will be greatly missed and all of us at Werner Publishing want to express our condolences to the family and to the global community of Sigma Corporation.
RONKONKOMA, NY, Jan. 27, 2012 – With great sadness, Sigma Corporation of America today announced the passing of Sigma Corporation's founder and CEO Michihiro Yamaki. He died of liver cancer in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 18 at the age of 78."We are deeply saddened by this loss," said Mark Amir-Hamzeh, president of Sigma Corporation of America. "Mr. Yamaki was an industry visionary, and his leadership and enthusiasm has been the driving force behind our company's innovation for more than 50 years. We're sending our deepest condolences to the Yamaki family, and our entire Sigma family around the world, during this very difficult time."
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|May 15, 1956
|Filing date
|Jun 15, 1953
|Priority date
|May 29, 1947
|Publication number
|Jr Albert H Winkler
|Original Assignee
|Bendix Aviat Corp
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (23), Classifications (14)
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MULTIPLE CYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Original Filed May 29, 1947 4 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOE flLBEBT H. V/lN/(LEE A 7' TOENE Y May 15, 1956 A. H. WINKLER, JR 2,745,391
MULTIPLE CYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Original Filed May 29, 1947 4 SheetsSheet 2 IN V5 N 7018 It: $225527 H M/w/(Lm ATTOENE Y M y 1956 A. H. WINKLER, JR
MULTIPLE CYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 Qriginal Filed May 29, 1947 INVENTOR 925097 fi WIN/(LEE 470% A TTO/P/VE Y May 15, 1956 A. H. WINKLER, JR
MULTIPLE CYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Original Filed May 29, 1947' A TTOENE Y MULTIPLE CYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGlNE Albert H. Winkler, In, Elmira, N. Y., assignor to Bendix Aviation Corporation, South Bend, Ind., a corporation of Delaware Original application May 29, 1947, Serial No. 751,282, now Patent No. 2,652,038, dated September 15, 1953. Divided and this application June 15, 1953, Serial No. 361,604
4 Claims. c1. 123-90 The present invention relates to internal combustion engines and more particularly to a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine in which less than the full number of cylinders may be used to deliver power during certain stages of engine operation. This case is a division of my copending application Serial No. 751,282, now Patent No. 2,652,038. 7
One of the principal objects of the present invention is to provide a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine in which the efiective number of power cylinders varies in accordance with engine power output requirements.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an internal combustion engine for giving high economy during certain stages of engine operation and for giving high power output in other stages of operation.
Another object is to provide a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine wherein less than the full number of cylinders may be employed during idling and cruising and the full number of cylinders employed for starting, during power pick-up and high power output.
' Another object of the invention is to provide an internal combustion engine which gives high economy for low power engine output. 1
Still another object is to provide in a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine a mechanism for rendering a portion of the cylinders inoperable during certain stages of engine operation and for rendering said, cylinders operable for other stages of engine operation.
Still another object of the present invention is to pro vide a mechanism for rendering a portion of a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine inoperable and simultaneously therewith decreasing the source of available fuel and air mixture for said engine.
A further object is to provide a mechanism for automatically cutting in or cutting out a portion of the cylinders of a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine as the requirements of the engine shift between low and high power operation. I
A further object is to provide a mechanism for rendering'a portion of the cylinders in a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine inoperable, which may be readily installed in or removed from standard automobile engrnes. A still further object of the present invention is to provide in the aforementioned multiple cylinder engines a mechanism for rendering a portion of the cylinders inoperative wherein the power loss through said inoperative cylinders is reduced to the minimum.
Additional objects and advantages will appear from the following description and accompanying drawings, wherein one specific embodiment of my invention is disclosed. The engine construction and control mechanism therefor comprising the subject matter of the present invention are not limited to the embodiment disclosed herein nor to any particular type of internal combustion engine, but are understood to be generally adaptable to any of the aforesaid engines having a plurality of cylinders with lifttype intake and exhaust valves. The invention; in its 2,745,391 Patented May 1 5, 1956 broadest aspects contemplates the use of a valve tappet construction and cooperating controlmechanism for a portion of the cylinders, which will render the valves for said cylinders and consequently said cylinders inoperable, except during starting, acceleration and high power output. The high economy of engine operation obtained by the present construction results not only from the use "ice of less than the full number of cylinders for low power requirements but also from the complete sealing of the inoperative cylinders by the closing of the intake and exhaust valve to prevent said cylinders from pumping air and thereby placing an undue drag on the operable cylin'-" ders. The construction and operation of one means for accomplishing this will be fully described hereinafter.
In the drawings,
Figure l is a side elevation of a multiple cylinder inter- 2 nal combustionengine showing schematically the several elements comprising the present invention, the position of said elements being rearranged to more advantageously show the functional relationship thereof;-
Figure 2 is an isometric partial cross-section through I the valve control mechanism for rendering a portion of the cylinders inoperative;
Figure 3 is an elevation of the actuating means for the valve control mechanism;
Figure 4 is a cross-section through a tappet showing said tappet in operative position when the valve operated thereby is closed; a
Figure 5 is a cross-section-through a tappet showing the tappet in operative position when the valve operated thereby is opened; 7
Figure 6 is a cross-section through a tappet showing the tappet in inoperative position;
Figure 7 is a cross-section of a valve tappet similar to Figure 6 showing the tappet in inoperative position when I the valve operated thereby would normally be opened; and
spark distributor, 12 a carburetor, 14 a spark advance mechanism, 16 a vacuum actuated switch for the split engine control, 18 a manually actuatedswitch for said control, 20 a speed responsive switch for said control and 22 a tappet'sassembly for controlling the operation of a portion of the cylinders, said tappet assembly being actuated by a solenoid mechanism 24 in response to the aforementioned control switches. The several switches are connected by leads to relays in box 25 which in turn control solenoid mechanism 24. With the exception of the mechanism for rendering a portion of the cylinders inoperable and the control system for said mechanism, the present engine is a conventional multiple cylinder internal combustion engine. The one shown in Figure 1 is a standard six cylinder, L head motor with lift-type valves. Of the six cylinders, three are part time operating cylinders. For convenience in description throughout the. specification and in the appended claims, the cylinders which remain in operation the entire time that the engine is running will be referred to as the normal cylinders and the cylinders which are operable only during starting acceleration and high power output will be referred to as the power cylinders. In the engine shown in the drawings, the normal cylinders are the front three and the power cylinders are the rear three, although any other suitable arrangement of the power and the normal cylinders may be used, as for example the cylinders of the two sets may be alternated. The tappets for the valvesof the power cylinders are shown schematically at numeral-g 22. The running of the engine on all six cylinders will be referred to as standard engine operation and the running of the engine on only the three front cylinders will be referred to as split engine operation.
Thetappets or valve litters of assembly 22, which are shown in detail in Figures 2 and 4 to 6, inclusive, in various steps of operation are of the hydraulic type, and consist of a reciprocable sleeve 26 mounted in the bushing 28 and urged against the periphery of cam 32 on shaft 34 by spring 36, said housing being a hollow casting-which forms a conduit for supplyingjfluid to said tappet through orifices 38 and 40 of housing 30 and bushing 28. Sleeve 26 slips overa hollow piston, 41 and during split engine operation is adapted to move axially relative to said piston. Piston 41' butts against the lower end of a valve stem 42-and is. constantly urged into engagement therewith by a spring 44 reacting between the lower side of piston head 46'and the top end of bushing 28, said piston being prevented from rotating in sleeve 26 by arm 48 secured to piston head 46 and a guide pin 50 on which said arm is adapted to slide, During normal engine operatiompiston '41 moves in unison with sleeve .26 to actuate valve 52 mounted on the upper end of stem 42. The interior of housing 30 communicates with the interior of .sleeve 26 through orifices 38 and 40, annular recess 54in the. pe-
riphery of said sleeve and 'one or more ports 55 connecting-said recess with chamber 56. This chamber communicates with a second chamber 57 in said sleevethrotugh a fluid passageway. having a ball check valve 62 consisting of a small cylindrical chamber having a lower port 58 and an vupper port 60 and a freely movable-ball 62 adapted to seatover'port 58 toprevent backflow of fluid in chamber 57. In standard'operation, the volume of chamber57 will vary as the tappet automatically adjusts its length to that required to properly seat the respective valve.
The hollow interior of piston 41 forms a conduit for fluid flowing from chamber 57 back to the fluid source,
' the upper end of said piston communicating with the interior of the tappet chamber 63 (Figure 1) through one or more ports 64. In the lower end of piston 41, a conical valve 66 seats over orifice 68 of insert'70 and under certain operating conditions is adapted to retain the fluid cam 78 on shaft 813 actuating pivoted lever 82 which en-- gages the .upper end of stem 72 and urges said stemand valve 66 downwardly against the force of, spring 74, thus opening said valve to permit the fluid to flow from chamber 57. A separate cam is provided for the intake valve and one for the exhaust valve. The tappet controlled by cam. 78 actuates'an exhaust valve. The cam for controlling the tappet of the intake valve is shown at numeral 83 Y and is positioned: one quarter of a revolution ahead of the cam operating the exhaust valve;- With this arrangement, the exhaust valve is rendered inoperable after the intake 'valve so thatthe combustion products of the last explosion before the cylinders become inoperative will be ex pelled. This is important since, as'previously mentioned,
' the valves of the power cylinders are completely closed during split engine operation, and the entrapment of combustion products from an explosion'wouldcause' undue drag on-theengine during split engine operation; In the change from standard to split engine operation, cam 78, controlling the tappet shown in Figures 4 to 7, follows in sequence of time the one shownpartially in broken lines. The tappet shown in these figures, therefore, controls an exhaust valve; however, the construction and operation of the tappet for an intake valve are the same as-the construction and operation for exhaust valve so that the description. of the tappet shown in said figures is equally applicable to atappet for' an intake-waive? A erable" to operate on split engine unless the engine is cold as explained in the preceding" paragraph. A switch 340 is actuated by the closing movement of the throttle-valve" ment of the rod 92 to the right by solenoid causes shifter rod 34 to rotate clockwise degrees and to cause cam 78 to actuate lever 82 which opens valve 66, thus rendering the cylinders controlled by said tappets inoperative.
In the present embodiment of the invention, the intake manifold 10!) supplying the normal cylinders is function ally independent from intake manifold 102 supplyingpthe cylinders rendered inoperable during split engine operation. These two intake manifolds are preferably supplied with the fuel-air mixture from two independent carburetors or from a single carburetor having two separate induction passages with a main discharge nozzle, power enrichment jet and accelerating pump for each of said induction passages. A carburetor having two separate induction passages suitable for the present invention is disclosed in Patent 2,652,03 8.
Figure 8 shows a circuit plan of an arrangement par ticularly adapted for shifting the operation between split. and standard engine throughout the operating range of the engine. The main circuit for energizing the two solenoids 88 and 90 of tappet control mechanism 22 includes a grounded storage battery 306 from which the current I flows from lead 308 to ignition switch 310, thence through lead 312 .to the winding of relay 314 to ground 316. Completion of this circuit by closing the ignition switch in the conventional manner energizes relay 314 which closesl switch 318 and completes a second circuit consisting of battery 306, lead 320, switch 318, lead 322,'double bolted.
switch 324, either solenoid 88 or 90, and the respective grounds therefor 326 and 328. The particular solenoid energized depends upon. the energization of one or more.
of the cooperating control circuits to be'presently described. I
In the control circuit for the main solenoid actuating; circuit, there are six separate control elements which co operate with one or more of the remaining control elements to shift the engine between standard and split engine operation. The mechanism for-shifting the operation between standard and split engine may be manually controlled by the operation of switch 330 which when open operationbefore the motor has reached normal operating,
temperatures, a'thermostatically controlled switch332 is placedirr'lead 334 through which the current flows to the remaining control elements. As the engine becomes warm, switch 332 closes and remains closed as longas'the temperature of the engine remains above a predetermined point. The thermostatically controlled switch is preferably located on the cylinderihead' or in ac'ond'juit carrying I' water from the jacket around the combustion chambers.
It is seen that this thermostatically controlled switch will".
prevent the engine from shifting to split engine operation while the engine is cold and thus prevents undue strain from being placed on the standard cylinders.
While the'engine is idling, i. e. when the throttle valve is in closed or substantially closed position, it is pref to close the" circuit consisting of battery 306, switches 310 and 330, lead 334, switch 332, lead 342, relay 344;
lead 346 and ground 348. When this circuit is closed, relay 344 becomes energized and closes switch 350 so that the current flows through leads 352 and 35 4, switch 356, lead 358 and relay 360 to ground 362, energizes relay 360 and completes the main circuit to solenoid 90, thus shifting the engine to split operation. While and throttle valve is closed or near closed, the intake manifold vacuum is relatively high. This lower pressure is transmitted through conduit 370 to chamber 372 of unit 16 and moves diaphragm 374 downwardly in opposition to spring 375, closing switch 37 6. The closing movement of switch 376 by manifold vacuum completes the circuit consisting of battery 306, switches 310 and 330, lead 334, switch 332, lead 342, relay 344, lead 378, switch 376, leads 380 and 382, relay 384, lead 390, relay 360 and ground 362. With the main conduit controlled by switches 340 and 376, it is seen that the split engine becomes operable by the closing movement of the throttle valve or by high manifold vacuum, and remains operable as long as the throttle valve is closed or the manifold vacuum remains above a predetermined value.
The operation of the solenoids is also controlled by engine speed. The speed controlled switch 20 is preferably regulated by a fly-ball governor driven from the drive shaft through the speedometer cable. During operation, when the engine reaches a predetermined speed, switch 20 closes, thus closing the circuit beginning with the connection 400 and consisting of lead 390, relay 384, lead 382, switch 402 and ground 404. This circuit Will not energize relay 384, however, unless the circuit controlled by switch 340 or the circuit controlled by switch 376 is first closed since the current for the circuit control by switch 402 flows from the circuit for energizing relay 360. After switch 402 has been closed by the governor while either switch 340 or 376 is closed, relay 360 for maintaining the engine on split operation remains energized until all three switches have been opened or until switch 356 has been opened, the latter switch being opened by overtravel of the throttle valve lever for manually shifting the engine to standard operation. The circuit for energizing relay 360 thereafter remains open and the engine remains on standard operation until the throttle valve is moved to closed position, closing switch 340 or until the manifold vacuum is sufficiently high to close switch 376. When the engine is on split operation with the throttle valve open, though not in the overtravel position,
and the manifold vacuum low, the engine remains on split operation as long as the speed remains above a certain predetermined value. When the speed decreases to a point below the predetermined rate, switch 402 is vopened and relay 360 is de-energized and the engine shifted to standard operation. The return of the speed to a point above a predetermined rate, however, does not again energize relay 360 unless either switch 340 or 376 has been closed.
While in the present electrical system'the closing of 7 either switch 340 or 376 will energize relay 360 and thus shift the engine to split engine operation, it may be desirable to so arrange the system that the vacuum actuated switch 37 6 cannot alone close the circuit to energize relay 360. One way of accomplishing this is to provide relays at 344, 360 and 384 which have electrical characteristics such that the voltage required to operate two or more in series would be greater than the maximum line potential of the electrical system. By this arrangement, the vacuum actuated switch would be unable to energize the circuit for split engine operation unless either switch 356 or 402 were first closed.
Some of the controls included in the present system are optional and may be omitted without seriously aflecting the operation and control of the engine. For example, the circuit controlled by the throttle switch 340 for shifting the engine to split operation could be omitted since the manifold vacuum is usually sufliciently high when the throttle is closed to actuate switch 376 and shift the engine to split operation. Further, omission of the speed controlled switch would not seriously afiect' the operation of the control system since the degree of manifold pressure in general follows the speed of the In starting the present engine, the operator closes the ignition switch 310 which automatically places a coldengine in position for standard operation, that is, with all six cylinders being operable. After the engine begins to run on its own power, it operates on all six cylinders regardless of speed, manifold vacuum or throttle position until the engine becomes warm enough to close the .thermostatically controlled switch 332. While the engine is on standard operation, a fluid such as oil flows from housing 30 through orifices 38 and 40 into chamber 56 and thence through ball check valve 42 into chamber 57 below valve 66, said latter valve being held in closed position during standard operation by spring 74. It is thus seen that the fluid in chamber 57 is prevented from flowing in either direction by the two valves 42 and 66. With the fluid entrapped in chamber 57, sleeve 26 is unable to move relative to piston 41 so that as cam 32 rotates, said sleeve and piston move in unison to operate the inlet or exhaust valve of the engine. Throughout the time valve 66 remains closed, the tappets operate in the conventional manner to open and close the valves for their respective cylinders. This operation is illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 of the drawings.
In the change from standard to split operation, solenoid 90 causes rod to rotate clockwise one-half of a revolution, moving cams 78 and 83 from the position shown in Figures 4 and 5 to the position shown in Figures 6 and 7, in the drawings. Cam 78 rotates lever 82, forcing rod 72 downwardly and opening valve 66 to permit the fluid entrapped in chamber 57 to escape through orifice 68 upwardly through the center of piston 41 and thence through ports 64. Thereafter, as sleeve 26 is lifted by cam 32, it moves axially over piston 41 and consequently is unable to open the exhaust valve. It is thus seen that during split engine operation, the movement of the tappet is confined to sleeve 26.
In the change from split to standard engine operation, solenoid 88 rotates rod 80 counterclockwise for one-half of a revolution, moving earns 78 and 83 from the position shown in Figures 6 and 7 to the position shown in Figures 4 and 5, thus permitting spring 74 to close valve 66 and entrap fluid in chamber 57 to obtain full operation of the tappet.
Although only one embodiment of the invention has been illustrated and described, various changes in the form and relative arrangements of the parts may be made to suit requirements.
I claim:
1. A valve actuating mechanism for an internal combustion engine comprising a stationary cylinder, a fluid inlet port in the side wall of said cylinder, a hollow reciprocable cylinder in said stationary cylinder, an annular recess in the periphery of said reciprocable cylinder adapted to register with said port, a hollow piston in said last mentioned cylinder forming an enclosed chamber therein, a fluid inlet passage connecting the recess with said chamber, a check valve in said passage, a fluid outlet passage for said chamber disposed in said piston, a control valve in said piston, a spring urging said control valve toward closed position, a lever pivoted on said piston and adapted to reciprocate therewith for opening said control valve, and a nonrotatable guide member adapted to be carried by said piston.
2. A valve actuating mechanism for an internal combustion engine comprising a stationary cylinder, a fluid 7 inletiimit imtlieside wall of said cylinder, a hollow reciprocablecylinder in said stationary cylinder, a hollow pistonin saidreciprocable' cylinder forming an enclosed chamber therein, a fluid inlet passage for said chamber,
a fluid outlet passage for said chamber in said piston, a coritrolwalve in 'said passage, a spring urging said control valve toward closed position, a lever for opening said control valve, and a member adapted to be slideably 4. A valive actuating. mechanism for an internal com bustion engine comprising, a hollow reciprocablecylinder, a piston in said cylinder forming an enclosed chatn-, v ber therein, a fluid inlet passage for said chamber, a fluid outlet passage for said chamber in said piston, a control valve in said outlet passage, resilient means urging said valve toward closed position and means for opening said valve. V
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|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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