T-head engine

The T- head engine was a construction of the valve control in a four -stroke engine. The valves were arranged on both sides of the cylinder, the cylinder head was thereby the shape of the letter "T". Ludwig Beck apple called it as " hammer - cylinder head ". Intake and exhaust valves were installed vertically on opposite sides next to the piston and are actuated by a camshaft in each case. The structural cost of two camshafts was offset by the advantage of the cross-flow purging.

The first motor with T- head valve control was built into Wilhelm Maybach Mercedes 35 HP of 1901. Other brands were Panhard et Levassor & Hotchkiss, Delahaye, Chadwick, Marquette, Packard (1906-1912), Società TAU or Stutz: the latter built to 1926 T- head engines. T- head engines talking commercial vehicles longer, they used American LaFrance until 1950. The T- head engine also came in a few single-track motor vehicles for use, such as at the American Pierce of 1909.

Through the further development of the engine technology and the advent of tighter fuel knock in the course of the last century T- head engines were cheaper and easier to be produced by the L- head engines ( both valves on the same page, only one camshaft required) displaced.