US1239380A

US1239380A - Water-vaporizer for internal-combustion engines.

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Publication number: US1239380A
Application number: US15423717A
Authority: US
Inventors: William H Fox
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1917-03-12
Filing date: 1917-03-12
Publication date: 1917-09-04
Anticipated expiration: 1934-09-04

Description

W. H. FOX.

WATER VAPORIZER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12. 1917.

Patented Sept. 4, 1917.

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To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, Wnnmizuj citizen of the United States, Hollywood in the county or" w and State of California, have in and useful Improvements in izers for Internal-Combustion I which the following is a specilieat This invention relates to a particularly pertains to a devio supply aqueous vapor to the delivered to an internal comb It has been found by experi internal combustion engine will crate in a more eiiicient manner when a proportion of aqueous vapor has been added to the gaseous fuel exploded within its cylind it is object of this invention to pro ide simple means for delivering such a vapor to the intake manifold of the engine and insuring that it will be injected into the fuel mixture passing from the carourete i Another object of this invention is to provide simple means for preventin the over flow of the device and suits attendant thereto.

It is a further object of t to provide a vaporizer which is r construction, possesses no movahle parts, and, is not liable to become inoperative.

Other objects will appear he titer.

he invention is illustrated, by Way oi example, in the accompanying drawings in W iich Figure 1 is a fragmentary View of the for Ward end of a motor vehicle with parts broken away to disclose the operative sition of the vaporizer in relation to engine and its manifold.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view disassociated from its operatwe position upon an engine and with parts broken away to illustrate the interior construction of the vaporizing chamber.

eferring more particularly to the draW ings, 10 indicates an internal combustion engine which is here shown as mounted upon the frame of a motor vehicle. The engine is adapted to be cooled by the Water which cir culates through a radiator 11 at the front of the vehicle. The cylinders of the engine are supplied With a gaseous fuel formed Within a carburetor 12 and delivered to the engine through a manifold 13. .lt Will be understood that all of the foregoing parts the vaporizer are ofistock design and that the gresent into vaporizer adaoted a used in connection mtl.

volition relates The vaporizer is ervoir l5 Flllfill bottom of the vaporizing chaicr r med throu e plate l; porizing chamoer meat 19 to w ich "the reservoir or; ing 20 in the partition w out through d re in pigcompartn'ient. The r with Water le ir is so.

J n a tuoc or, un the radi stance and nuts air to pass into the res ervoir under favorable c ndit'ons.

Conununication is OSlZZI-DliS QCl between the vaporizing chamber 16 and the 'aeaniloll l3 by means of a con-e git secured one end Within vaporizing chamber and at the other end by a plug 25 within the neck of the manifold 13. A considerable length of this conduit is Wrapped around exhaust manifold 2'? of the engine so that the vaporizer to the superheated prior manifold.

In operation, the en ital re manifold will be to its ingection into the is set motion will produce suction thro theintake and the caroure r 'lifhc vaporizer will also he influenced supports a coni- 16 which is secured .s. ivoir. horizontal floor ii" is placed reservoir and the the Vapor passing from.

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