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Humphrey's pump consists of a large U-shaped tube, filled with water. One end is sealed by a heavy cast iron, or steel, 'combustion head'. The combustion head contains the inlet and exhaust valves, the ignition source and withstands the pressure of the combustion chamber. Water enters the pump through sprung inlet valves below the combustion ...
English: Inlet valve section of Humphrey pump in flood chamber at Cobdogla, South Australia. This is one of three, complete but no longer operational. This is one of three, complete but no longer operational.
English: Internal view, inlet valve section of Humphrey pump at Cobdogla, South Australia. One of three pumps, this one is complete but no longer operational.
The Humphrey cycle is the thermodynamic cycle occurring detonation engines such as rotating detonation engines, the pulse detonation engines, and pulse compression detonation systems. It may be considered to be a modification of the Brayton cycle in which the constant-pressure heat addition process of the Brayton cycle is replaced by a constant ...
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There is a common legend that in 1713 a cock boy named Humphrey Potter, [13] whose duty it was to open and shut the valves of an engine he attended, made the engine self-acting by causing the beam itself to open and close the valves by suitable cords and catches [14] (known as the "potter cord"); [15] however the plug tree device (the first ...
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