Fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine

A fuel supply system for a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine having an intake manifold, comprising:

• a source of liquid gasoline;
• a source of air;
• a gasoline treatment vessel having an inner chamber and an outer chamber;
• a lower perforate baffle member mounted within a lower portion of said inner chamber of said vessel;
• an upper perforate baffle member mounted within an upper portion of said inner chamber of said baffle member;
• a needle valve member carried by said vessel, said needle valve member having an inlet communicating with said source of liquid gasoline, and having an outlet disposed within said inner chamber above said upper baffle member, gasoline directed during operation of said system to said needle valve member from said source and being sprayed from said outlet of said needle valve member toward said upper baffle member;
• means connected to said source of air for introducing streams of air from said source into said inner chamber and into said outer chamber of said vessel during operation of said system;
• a plurality of pellets within each of said chambers of said vessel, said pellets within said outer chamber being propelled by said air streams into engagement with walls of said chambers during operation of said system and generating frictional heat, thereby transforming at least part of the liquid gasoline within said inner chamber into relatively dry gasoline vapor;
• a holding tank for said gasoline vapor;
• means interconnecting said treatment vessel and said holding tank for conducting said gasoline vapor from said inner chamber of said vessel to said holding tank at desired times;
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• means for conducting said gasoline vapor from said holding tank to said intake manifold of said engine at desired times.