Method and apparatus for producing an air/fuel vapor mixture
OwnerWilliam D. Sparksinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for producing an air/fuel vapor mixture for use in the combustion chambers of an internal combustion chamber which includes an enclosure into which ambient air is introduced with a heater for heating the ambient air together with a fuel vaporizer for vaporizing fuel injected into the enclosure and for mixing with the heated air and another heater for heating the resulting air/fuel vapor mixture which is subsequently conducted out of the enclosure to the combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine.
Claims10
Apparatus for producing an air/fuel vapor mixture for an internal combustion engine or the like comprising, in combination, an enclosure having a side wall, a top wall and a bottom wall defining an interior, air inlet means on one of said enclosure walls for introducing ambient air into said enclosure interior, air heating means disposed within said enclosure interior for heating said ambient air, means for injecting liquid fuel into said enclosure interior, fuel vaporization means distinct from said air heating means disposed in said enclosure interior above said air heating means for vaporizing said injected fuel to provide a mxiture of vaporized fuel and additional heated ambient air, heating means disposed in said enclosure interior above said fuel vaporization means for heating said air/fuel vapor mixture and outlet means in one of said enclosure walls for conducting said heated air/fuel vapor mixture from said enclosure interior to a remotely located combustion zone for engine combustion.
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