Four-cycle internal-combustion engines having a rotating
shaft driven from the crank-shaft thereof and extending transverse to the axis of the working cylinder and clear across the engine, said shaft being provided with means, generally in the form of cams, for operating in the proper order one or more of the valves, the igniting device, or other element necessary for the continuous automatic operation of the engine, and mechanism including a rotating shaft located as above set forth and designed to operate the valves or other elements of the engine, but not shown in connection with all the elements necessary to form a complete and operative engine.
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84, for engines coming within the terms of this definition, except that the transverse shaft does not extend clear across the engine, the axis of such shaft lying in a plane passing through the axis of the working cylinder.
