Liquid fuel vaporizer

Claim 1

AN APPARATUS FOR VAPORIZING LIQUID FUEL WHICH COMPRISES A HOLLOW CASING DEFINING AN INTERNAL VAPORIZING CHAMBER WHEREIN LIQUID FUEL IS VAPORIZED AND A PRESSURE REGULATING CHAMBER, AN INLET FUEL PASSAGE DISPOSED WITHIN THE CASING AND SERVING TO CONDUCT LIQUID FUEL FROM A SOURCE OF SUPPLY TO THE VAPORIZING CHAMBER, SAID INLET FUEL PASSAGE EXTENDING GENERALLY COEXTENSIVELY WITH AT LEAST A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF SAID VAPORIZING CHAMBER, A HEATING CHAMBER DISPOSED WITHIN THE CASING IN HEAT CONDUCTIVE RELATION WITH BOTH THE VAPORIZING CHAMBER AND THE INLET FUEL PASSAGE BUT REMOVED FROM THE PRESSURE REGULATING CHAMBER TO RETARD PASSAGE OF HEAT TO THE REGULATING CHAMBER AND SERVING TO CONDUCT A HEATED FLUID TO HEAT FUEL IN THE VAPORIZING CHAMBER AND TO ALSO INITIALLY HEAT FUEL AS THE SAME FLOWS WITHIN THE INLET FUEL PASSAGE TO THE VAPORIZING CHAMBER, AND DISCHARGE MEANS TO CARRY OFF VAPORIZED FUEL FROM SAID VAPORIZING CHAMBER TO THE PRESSURE REGULATING CHAMBER.