Fuel evaporation apparatus and method
OwnerGregory Earlinventor
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Abstract
This device relates to a novel system for supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine. The system includes a two-stage evaporator serially mounted within the fuel supply system of the internal combustion engine. The evaporator includes a first stage having fuel supply orifices to inject fuel at the top of a chamber in which are mounted a pair of spaced thermal discs. The evaporated fuel is then conducted to the second stage of the evaporator where it is further expanded in a spiral tube heated by, for example, exhaust gases and then conducted to a venturi stack via a fuel supply manifold to the intake manifold of the internal combustion engine. Use of the system results in increased gas mileage as the high degree of vaporization of the fuel results in a much greater efficiency in the burning thereof.
Claims11
An evaporator apparatus for use in the fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine, comprising:
- (a) housing means including an opening closed by removable cover means;
- (b) inlet means for admission of fuel to chamber means said inlet means comprising pore means provided at spaced locations about said chamber means;
- (c) thermal disc means mounted in said chamber means, said thermal disc means being controllably heated whereby fuel from said inlet means impinging upon said thermal disc means is vaporized;
- (d) outlet means for evacuating vaporized fuel from said chamber means;
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- (e) said cover means defining a trough having an inlet port connectable to a supply of fuel, said pore means communicating said trough with said chamber means.
A method of vaporizing fuel comprising the steps of:
- (a) conveying said fuel to a trough under pressure, said trough being located on a cover means removably attached to a housing defining chamber means, said cover means closing an opening in said housing;
- (b) atomizing said fuel by forcing said fuel through a plurality of pore means located in said trough;
- (c) impinging said atomized fuel onto a heated surface within said chamber means which at least partially vaporized said fuel;
- (d) conveying said fuel in heat exchange relationship with engine exhaust fumes;
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- (e) conveying said fuel to a carburetor of said engine in completely vaporized condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.