Device for improving gasoline fuel consumption
AssigneeWilliam Mouradian
InventorAlfred E. Watkins
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Abstract
A fuel system for supplying gasoline or like vaporizable fuel to the carburetor of an internal combustion engine as a mixture of liquid and vapor wherein the vapor predominates.
Claims18
A fuel system for gasoline combustion engines wherein a carburetor is employed to deliver a combustible mixture to the intake manifold of the engine comprising a gasoline source and means for delivering a mixture of predominantly vaporized gasoline to the intake chamber of the carburetor, said means comprising a vaporizing chamber for holding liquid fuel, means for heating the liquid fuel in the chamber to generate a vapor phase therein above the liquid phase, a first conductor connected at one end to the bottom of the chamber, a second conductor connected at one end to the top of the chamber, a third conductor connected at one end to the carburetor, a Y connecting the opposite ends of the first and second conductors to the third conductor, said Y functioning to transmit liquid fuel from the first conductor to the third conductor and from thence to the carburetor while the engine is cold and for transmitting vaporized fuel from the second conductor to the third conductor and from thence to the carburetor when the engine is hot and wherein the Y functions as a venturi such that the flow of the vaporized fuel through the Y entrains a small amount of liquid fuel.
A fuel system for gasoline combustion engines wherein a carburetor is employed to deliver a combustible mixture to the intake manifold of the engine comprising a gasoline source, a vapor chamber, means for delivering the liquid gasoline to the vapor chamber at a predetermined pressure, means for heating the liquid gasoline in the vapor chamber to a predetermined temperature, venturi means, means for conducting the vapor phase generated within the vapor chamber to the intake of the venturi means, means for connecting the output of the venturi to the intake chamber of the carburetor and means connecting the bottom of the vaporizing chamber to the throat of the venturi.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.