Float for carburetors
AssigneeEnplas Corporation
InventorYouichi Takeuchi
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Abstract
A float of synthetic resin for carburetors includes a base having a mounting portion for mounting the float in a float chamber; two float parts arranged opposite to each other, swinging in accordance with an amount of fuel in the float chamber; and an arm portion connected to the base at one place in its longitudinal direction, connecting the two float parts to its ends. The arm portion is configure so that a sectional area perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is small in a region surrounded by the two float parts and is larger in an opposite region. In this way, the arm portion is not deformed in the region surrounded by the two float parts in the cooling process of molding fabrication, and a float for carburetors of predetermined shape can be manufactured at low cost.
Claims12
A float of synthetic resin for a carburetor having a float chamber, comprising:
- a base having a mounting portion for mounting said float in the float chamber;
- an arm portion connected to said base at a location along a longitudinal extent of said arm portion;
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- two float parts arranged opposite to each other and movable in accordance with an amount of fuel in the float chamber, said float parts being attached to opposite ends of said arm portion proximate one side of each of said float parts so that a substantial extent of each of said float parts extends generally toward one side of said arm portion;
- said arm portion being configured so that a cross-section thereof that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction has a first region on said one side of said arm portion and a second region on an opposite side of said arm portion, wherein the area of said second region is larger than the area of said first region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.