Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – With safety device
Patent
1983-12-28
1985-09-10
Casaregola, Louis J.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
With safety device
F02G 300
Patent
active
045398097
ABSTRACT:
A novel drain system for venting excess fuel from the fuel pump of a jet engine, and particularly the augmenter pump of a jet engine afterburner, is described which comprises a drain line connected at a first end to the vent valve of the fuel pump and at a second end to the main fuel supply line for the engine, for draining the excess fuel from the pump to the main fuel line, a check valve in the drain line near the second end thereof for restricting fuel flow through the drain line in a direction from the first end to the second end, and a vent line having a restriction therein defining an orifice of predetermined size connecting the drain line to an overboard dump port open to ambient.
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Henry George R.
Stanley Richard L.
Casaregola Louis J.
Scearce Bobby D.
Singer Donald J.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
Thorpe Timothy S.
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