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US 3,935,847 AGranted
Combined supercharger and carburetion system for internal combustion engine
AssigneeJoseph Gamell Industries, Incorporated
InventorJoseph A. Gamell
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AssigneeJoseph Gamell Industries, Incorporated
InventorJoseph A. Gamell
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An internal combustion engine, particularly for use with a vehicle, having a turbine driven supercharger for supplying air to the intake manifold. The turbine is driven by a pressurized liquid, specifically a combustible fuel such as gasoline. The fuel is stored within a conventional storage tank, such as is commonly associated with a vehicle, and is supplied, via a pump, to the turbine for rotatably driving same. In one embodiment, the fuel used to drive the turbine is collected in an intermediate storage compartment which, via an intermediate tube, communicates with a venturi located in the intake manifold for causing fuel to be drawn into and intermixed with the air in the intake manifold. In another embodiment, the pressurized fuel from the pump is supplied, via a separate conduit, to a fuel injection nozzle located upstream of the supercharger.
In a supercharger system for an internal combustion engine, comprising:
In an internal combustion engine having a housing defining a compartment, a piston slidably disposed within said compartment and cooperating with said housing for defining a combustion chamber, an intake manifold in communication with said combustion chamber for supplying a fuel-air mixture thereto, a centrifugal compressor having an outlet opening communicating with said intake manifold, a supply manifold communicating with an inlet opening associated with said compressor for supplying air thereto, a rotatable turbine disposed in a turbine compartment and connected to said centrifugal compressor for rotating same, and a storage tank for containing therein a substantially incompressible combustible fuel, the improvement comprising supply conduit means connected between said tank and said turbine and defining a passage for permitting flow of fuel from said tank to said turbine compartment, said supply conduit means terminating in nozzle means for discharging fuel against said turbine for rotatably driving same, pump means associated with said supply conduit means for pressurizing said fuel and for causing said pressurized fluid to be discharged through said nozzle means, and means for removing the fuel from said turbine compartment.
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