Internal-combustion engines – Charge forming device – Heating of combustible mixture
Patent
1983-01-24
1984-05-15
Lazarus, Ronald H.
Internal-combustion engines
Charge forming device
Heating of combustible mixture
123525, 123523, F02M 3100
Patent
active
044481756
ABSTRACT:
Fuel apparatus including a fuel vaporizing portion, an air conveying portion, a heating portion and a flow control portion; the fuel vaporizing portion including an enclosed chamber, the chamber including a liquid reservoir section and a vapor expansion section, the vapor expansion section including a plurality of baffles providing a tortuous path through the expansion section, a liquid fuel inlet to the chamber and a vapor outlet from the chamber, a first vapor conduit connecting the chamber outlet with a carburetor of an engine, a second vapor conduit connecting the engine carburetor with the chamber adjacent the vapor expansion section thereof; the air conveying portion including an air intake section, a divider for air flowing through the air intake section, a first duct for conveying one part of the air flow to a point adjacent the liquid reservoir section of the enclosed chamber, a second duct for conveying a second part of the air flow to the first vapor conduit; the heating portion being disposed adjacent the enclosed chamber, the air ducts and a vapor conduit; the flow control portion including an adjustable damper located in the second air duct, the damper providing a more open path through the second air duct when the engine is idling or decelerating and providing a more closed path when the engine is accelerating.
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patent: 4350134 (1982-09-01), Sparks
patent: 4398523 (1983-08-01), Henson
Darvial Bruce L.
Heintz Phillip L.
Smith John S.
Walth Lee A.
Lazarus Ronald H.
Urban Arthur L.
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